James Tantum

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
4th Dimensions: 1997 - 2009, Department of Safety, Ana Cortes, WA, 2009
Time Matters, Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008
Some Parts of the Whole, Space 47, San Jose, CA, 2007
Scrapbook, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2005
6,831 Days, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Tantum Ergo: A Retrospective of James Tantum, A Space, Philadelphia, PA, 2001
 
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Chain Reaction 11, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
     Selected by Pablo Guardiola
 
2009
Tomorrow (Project organizer involving 40 artists), Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
East Meets West, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
    Curated by Christine Ancalmo
The 60 Second Southern Video Festival, Harmony Landing Artists' Residency, Pegram, TN
Retractions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2008
Dream On!, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
You Know How I Feel, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
re: group, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA

2007
The 60 Second Southern Video Festival, Harmony Landing Artists' Residency, Pegram, TN

2006
A San Francisco le Gusta el Video Arte, Area, Caguas, Puerto Rico
More or Less 3,480 Seconds, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Elusive Materials, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2005
Books Showcase, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA
A la Carta, El Pobre Diablo, Quito, Ecuador
    Curated by Mar�a Del Carmen Carri�n
Let's Start a Fire, Building 239A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Form/Reform, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New California Masters, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
    Curated by Megan Hochstetler, Berin Golonu, and Brooke Jones
Hands-on the Hands-off, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Pitch, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Fog Food, de Young Art Center, San Francisco, CA

2004
Emerge, Old Mint Building, San Francisco, CA
    Curated by Paule Anglim, Martha Angus, Squeak Carnwath, John S. Weber
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, SF Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA
    Curated by Courtney Fink, Rene de Guzman, Steve Seid
Element of the Temporary 5, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The "How To" Intensive, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
As Time Goes By, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Flaws, Kallen Nishimoto's Salon, Oakland, CA

2003
Landing, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Curated by Man Ray Hsu
Strictly Ballroom: The SFAI at Stanford, CCRMA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Day of Design, San Francisco Design Museum, San Francisco, CA
    Curated by San Francisco Design Museum Staff
21ST Century Video Art, ATA, San Francisco, CA  

1995
A Year in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
    Curated by George Kraus

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jolene Torr, "Journey of the Everyman," Artslant.com, February 28, 2008
Sarah Lockhart, "Form/Reform at the OAG," Stretcher.org, August 2005
Spikol, Liz, "As Time Goes By," Arts & Entertainment Feature, Philadelphia Weekly, Dec. 19, 2001


AWARDS
Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, 2004
Merit Scholarships, incl. 75% tuition grant first year, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002 - 2005

 

ARTIST TALKS / VISITS / PANELS / PUBLICATIONS
The Conceptual Line, California College of Art, 2010
New Genres class, San Francisco Art Institute, 2009
DairyRiver.com, James Tantum's February 2009 
Satellite, "The Strawberry Flimflam" (essay), 2008
Book It! Panelist, New Langton Arts, 2008
Collage Class, Dept. of Art, Stanford University, 2007
Photography Class, California College of Art, 2006
New Genres Class, San Francisco Art Institute, 2006

 

EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts, New Genres

Aram Aghazarian - B&W Printing
Elkins Park, PA

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy