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TAVARES STRACHAN B IO G RAPHY 1979 Born Nassau, The Bahamas EDUCATIO N 2004-06 MFA. Yale University, New Haven, CT 2003 BFA, Glass. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI 2002 Liberal Arts Studies. Brown University, Providence RI 1999 Associates of Fine Arts, Painting. College of the Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS 2008 Tiffany Foundation Grant 2007 Grand Arts Residency Fellowship 2006 Alice B. Kimball Fellowship 2003 Distinguished Student Award, RISD Glass 2000 Roots Junkanoo Group, Member 2000 Queen Elizabeth Arts/Poetry Award 1998 Governor’s Award, The Governor General of the Bahamas 1996 National Seal of the Bahamas, Stamp Design SO LO EXH IB ITIO NS 2010 THE O RTHO STATIC TO LERANCE: IT MIG HT NO T BE SUCH A BAD IDEA IF I NEVER WENT HO ME, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

THE O RTHO STATIC TO LERANCE: LAUNCHING INTO INF INITE DISTANCE, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2009 TAVARES STRACHAN: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE WANT ( ARCTIC ICE PRO JECT) , Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY YO U CAN DO WHATEVER YO U LIKE ( THE O RTHO STATIC TO LERANCE) , ICA, Philadelphia, PA 2008 INNER AND O UTER SPACE, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA TAVARES STRACHAN, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany A HUNDRED YEARS, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 TAVARES STRACHAN, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY TAVARES STRACHAN, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY WHERE WE ARE IS ALWAYS MILES AWAY, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA 2006 THE DISTANCE BETWEEN WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE WANT, Nassau Bahamas, Albury Sayle Primary School (Installation of the Arctic Ice Project). Traveled to Miami, FL in expanded form, including a separate film element, and the artists’ flag as planted in Alaska and the Bahamas 2001 SYNERG ISM, Pro Gallery, Nassau Bahamas 1999 REACTIO NS, Central Bank Gallery, Nassau Bahamas

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G RO UP EXH IB ITIO NS 2010 DO UBLE UP DO UB LE UP, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA CO NTEMPO RARY CO LLECTO RS XXV, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2009 B LACK&WHITEWO RKS, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY INAUG URAL EXH IB ITIO N, The Boiler (Pierogi), Brooklyn, NY TAVARES STRACHAN, ADAA Art Show, New York, NY 2008 DRAWING REVIEW: 37 YEARS O F WO RKS O N PAPER, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY P IERO G I ET AL, Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA INNERO UTERSPACE, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA 2007 20TH ANNIVERSARY: IN THE FULLNESS O F TIME, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA FRO M THE FAT O F THE LAND: ALCHEMIES, ECO LO G IES, ATTRACTIO NS, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO BLO CK PARTY II: AN EXH IB ITIO N O F DRAWING S, Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA ( UN) NATURAL SELECTIO N, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY CO NNECTICUT CO NTEMPO RARY, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT 2007 NEW YO RK: STATE O F MIND, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Shaheen Merali. Traveled to the Queens Museum 2006 SURVEILLANCES AND O BSERVATIO NS, PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany FACTITIO US, PIEROGI Brooklyn, New York and Leipzig SCHO O L DAYS, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY 2005 SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Joe Amrhein and Petur Arason 2004 NO TH ING CO MPARED TO TH IS , CAC Museum, Cincinnati, OH 2003 O NE O N O NE, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY MINE, Lombard Fried Fine arts, New York, NY 2002 MEIO SIS , Sol Gallery, Providence RI PERSPECTIVES, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI CARIBBEAN B IENNIAL, Museum of Modern Art, Santa Domingo 2001 SYNERG ISM, Pro Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas 2000 G LASS TRIENNIAL, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI SHATTERED FRACTIO NS, College Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas O N THE EDG E O F TIME, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, Washington DC 1999 V ISUAL DIALO G UE, Group of works traveling through the Bahamas PO ST INDEPENDENT ART, Central Bank Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas 1998 FLO YD'S FURY, Pro Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas SELECTED B IBLIO G RAPHY 2010 Smee, Sebastian. “Universe of Possibilities,” The Boston Globe, May 28. <www.boston.com> 2009 Rosenberg, Karen. “An Art Project of the Coolest Kind,” The New York Times, Arts Beat, May 1. Cotter, Holland. “Yoon Lee, Jonathan Schipper, Tavares Strachan,” The New York Times, April 16. Saltz, Jerry. “Energy to Burn,” New York Magazine, March 22. Russo, Peter J. “Tavares Strachan at The Boiler,” ArtCat, March 10. Smith, Roberta. “Rewards and Clarity in a Show of Restraint,” The New York Times, February 19. 2008 Müller, Dominikus. “Rundgang in der Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig: Wie verabschiedet man sich von Neo Rauch?” artnet, May 6. 2007 Hromack, Sarah. “Tavares Strachan,” Art Papers, March / April. P.71. (Illus.) Helfand, Glen. “Tavares Strachan,” Artforum, February 2007. P.300. (Illus.) Volk, Gregory. “Tavares Strachan,” Art In America, February 2007. P.__ (Illus.) 2006 Heller, Maxwell. “Tavares Strachan: Hermetically Sealed,” The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 06/Jan 07, P.57. (Illus.)

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Smith, Roberta. “More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami,” The New York Times, December 9, 2006. Pp. B7, 11. Baker, Kenneth. “A Whole Lot of Nothing Worthy of Contemplation,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2006. (Illus.) Huston, Johnny Ray. “Where We Are Is Always Miles Away,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 15-21, 2006. Leaverton, Michael. “Earth Moving,” SF Weekly, November 15-21, 2006. 2006 Kraft, Jessica. “New York,” Contemporary Magazine, No. 86, 2006. P. 18. (Illus.) Dembo, Wendy. “Tavares Strachan: Where We Are Is Always Miles Away,” CoolHunting.com, November 14. …, Painting the Town–"Ice Breaker,” Time Out New York, Issue No.565, July 27– August 2, 2006. Pg. 74. Deleveaux, Yolanda. The Miami Herald Tribune (Nassau, Bahamas Edition), The Arts Section, Weds. August 16, 2006. Pg. 3C. Zeitz, Lisa. “Über den Wunsch, mehr als nur eine Sache zu sein: Die erstaunlichen Erfindungen des Tavares Strachan,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Aktuell) online ed., August 7, 2006. O’Leary, Mary E. “Yale artist taking the city to California,” New Haven Register, January 21, 2006. Anand, Easha. “Chunk of New Haven Street Goes West,” Yale Daily News, Jan 31, 2006. P. 1, 4. SELECTED PUBLICATIO NS 2009 Shanken, Edward A. Art and Electronic Media. New York, NY: Phaidon Press, 2009, pp. 76, 288. New Glass Review 30. Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2009, pp. 67, 77, 79. 2006 Hobbs, Robert. The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want. New York, NY: Pierogi Gallery and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 2006. PUBLIC CO LLECTIO NS Central Bank, Nassau Bahamas Inter American Development Bank, Washington, DC Museo de Arte Moderno, Santa Domingo Nassau International Airport (Public Sculpture)

Governor General’s Office, New Providence Bahamas Sir Linden Pindling’s Unity House, Nassau Bahamas