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TARA CRONIN | KONA, HAWAII

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

MUSEO DE LA CIUDAD [MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF QUERÉTARO], QUERÉTARO, MEXICO

"SANGRE DE ARBOL, SANGRE DE MI," Solo Exhibition Curated by Azucena German

2010

ICP-BARD; LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

“Flight: From, To and Within,” Solo Thesis Exhibition.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

CENTER SANTA FE

"DIRECTOR's CHOICE AWARD - 2nd PLACE" Juror: Monica Allende

DAB ART

"STORIES" Curated by Yessica Torres

THAD HIGA & SONTAG SHOGUN

"it billows up" Release of Multimedia Project at Printed Matter, Inc.

2018

DAB ART / H GALLERY

"EMPIRE OF DIRT" Curated by Yessica Torres

DONKEY MILL ART CENTER

Portrait project exhibited in conjunction w/ the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Finalist for FRESH 2018

ART ELEVATED

"Public Banners Artwork Project”

BARRETT ART CENTER

"New Directions"

BRYAN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL

"Art Ability"

POLITICO POP, NEW ORLEANS, LA

"Politico Pop Up3”

BG GALLERY / GESTALT PROJECTS, SANTA MONICA, CA

"Spectrum 5”

GALLERY 114, PORTLAND, OR

"Everything We Do is Music”

MINNY LEE FINE ART, HONOLULU, HI

"International Center of Photography & Minny Lee Fine Art - Bookmaking Masterclass”

GALLERIE RENEE MARIE, BENICIA, CA

"Art of the Book”

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR"

KAHILU THEATRE, WAIMEA/KAMUELA, HI

"Intersections: Considering Imbalance”

2017

HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART SCHOOL, HONOLULU, HI

“HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS” Artist's Print & Book Fair

CENTER FOR PHOTGRAPHIC ART, CARMEL, CA

"INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION" Juried by Philip Brookman

EAST HAWAI'I CULTURAL CENTER, HILO, HI

"HAWAI'I CONTEMPORARY ARTS EXHIBIT," Invited Artist

ITHACA COLLEGE, ITHACA, NY

“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks

EAST HAWAI'I CULTURAL CENTER, HILO, HI

"ISOLATION," Curated by Linda Connor

PHOTOESPAÑA / PHE, MADRID, SPAIN

"PHOTOESPANA Photo Festival"

MAGNUM FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, NY

“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks

BENAKI MUSEUM, ATHENS, GREECE

"Athens Photo Festival 2015 PERMANENT ARCHIVE: Photobook Show"

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR"

CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PA

“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks

2016

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK, NY

"ICP SPOTLIGHTS"

CENTER, SANTA FE, NM

"REVIEW SANTA FE"

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR"

PHOTOVILLE, BROOKLYN, NY

"THE FUTURE PERFECT"

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK, NY

"THE FUTURE PERFECT"

GALLERY TANTO TEMPO, KOBE, JAPAN

"MT. ROKKO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL"

FOLEY GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY

"PDN's THE CURATOR”

FOTOFEST, HOUSTON, TX

"FOTOFEST”

2015

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

PHOTOALLIANCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

"OUR WORLD PORTFOLIO REVIEW”

BENAKI MUSEUM, ATHENS, GREECE

"THE PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITION"ATHENS PHOTOFESTIVAL

THE SCI ART CENTER, NEW YORK, NY

"THE NEW UNCONSCIOUS," Curated by Danielle Kalamaras

2014

CENTER, SANTA FE, NM

"REVIEW SANTA FE”

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

2013

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK, NY

“I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: NAVIGATING INTERACTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE,” Curated by the Scrapped Team

AAAS - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C.

"THE ART OF SCIENCE POLICY,” Curated by Olga Francois

AHL FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, NY

Work Included in Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Auction, and Gala

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

2012

DUPONT CIRCLE GREEN WEEK, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Work Included in Exhibition/Silent Auction

SPACEWOMB GALLERY, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"REFLECTION”

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

NEXUS GALLERY SPACE, NEW YORK, NY

"A VALUATION,” 7-Person Exhibition Curated by Alexander Clark & Friends

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, LOS ANGELES, CA

Work Included with Pictura Gallery

CAMERA CLUB OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NY. 2009 THROUGH 2012

“CCNY ZINE AND SELF-PUBLISHED PHOTO BOOK FAIR”

2011

AHL FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, NY

Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Auction, and Gala

AHL FOUNDATION, BROOKLYN, NY

“SIGNATURE TUNES," 3-Person Exhibition Curated Liz Kwon

ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION, FRONT SPACE GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY

“NATURE WITHIN,” Group Exhibition Curated by Minny Lee

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS NYC 2011, NEW YORK, NY

3-Person Open Studio

MADISON AVENUE GALLERY WALK AT SOCIETY CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY

“EMERGING LANDSCAPE,” Curated by Anna di Stasi

PICTURA GALLERY, BLOOMINGTON, IN

2-Person Exhibition Curated by Mia Dalglish

ESTUARY GALLERY, BEACON, NY

“LOVE IS A RIVER,” Curated by Marla Leigh Caplan

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, NEW YORK, NY

Work Included with Pictura Gallery

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

2010

MOMA/PS1, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

"NY ART BOOK FAIR”

25 CPW GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY

“NATURE WITHIN,” Curated by Minny Lee

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK, NY

“EXQUISITE LANDSCAPE,” Curated by Marla Leigh Caplan

FIREPROOF, BROOKLYN, NY

“COLLECTIVE SHOWING I” Curated Film/Video Festival

25 CPW, NEW YORK, NY

“BLOOMSDAY,” Curated by Lori Grinker

ICP-BARD COLLEGE, NEW YORK, NY

MFA Group Thesis Exhibition Curated by Joshua Lutz

ICP-BARD COLLEGE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

Open Studios Year 2

2009

ICP-BARD COLLEGE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

Open Studios Year 1

2008

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK, NY

“REFLECT,” 1-Year Program Final Group Exhibition Curated by Robert Blake

2007

LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Group Exhibition

TARA CRONIN

Tara Cronin is an artist working in various mediums focusing on alternative photographic methods, works on paper, installation and book-arts. She has pursued an art career that has both helped her solve problems in her own internal space as well as in the space she finds herself situated externally. Tara received a BA in Writing from New School University, and an MFA in Photography from Bard College and the ICP-Bard Program, and has Twice-earned the ICP Director’s Fellowship Award.

During her graduate and post-graduate work, Tara explored this interface between the material and the individual by making photographically-based work involving images or prints combined with materials such as reconstituted hemoglobin and chlorophyllin as well as with dust and with liquid metals. She holds various co-patents with partner and scientist Ed Chen including one on a unique polymer made from those materials used in her artwork, which after scientific research demonstrated itself to be the first synthetic membrane able to remove CO2 directly from air and convert it into useful liquids. This resulted in a solo show in the Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro, Mexico in 2012, and later an invitation to be a guest-speaker and exhibition participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC. Having exhibited throughout New York City, North America and Internationally, Tara's most recent exhibitions include participation in the MT. ROKKO PHOTO FESTIVAL in Kobe, Japan, and a 6-person exhibition with PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS at Foley Gallery in New York, NY.

Through working with the methods she does, Tara also works entrepreneurially and hopes to promote the idea of Science and Art as being symbiotic. Tara has worked on multiple startups with partner and scientist Ed Chen attempting to transform traditional skepticism of climate change through their technologies, while also promoting the relevance of Art and Science. Tara and Ed recently embarked on piloting their agricultural technology on the oldest certified Organic coffee farm in Kona Hawai'i in Summer 2015 and Tara is proud to be two years into her experience as a junior-master-roaster. You can find their farm and coffee at Rooster Farms. In Fall 2014 Tara released the books of three artists co-published with Schilt Publishing and with Magical Thinking Publications, an arts-publication and education organization she co-founded with business partner and artist Joshua Lutz.

Tara also hosted her co-founded project of the "Fred Talks - Ted Talks with Friends" for a number of years; a monthly lecture series amongst neighbors and peers that includes discussions on the arts, sciences, and any topic in between. She is happy and grateful to have joined the Board of Directors at SKEA, Society for Kona's Education & Art, in 2016 in Kona, HI.

Tara is nomadic, working primarily between New York City, New Jersey, and Hawaii in the United States.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I AM SEARCHING

There are places we know that are part of what we call Home. Sometimes these place are a When, sometimes a memory. We all have visited these Places; they surround our daily lives, daily environments & psyches. If I walked through such a place that is here and yet nowhere, I would find that, in the end, it is a Place that has been with me the entire time, and one that I will also never truly find.

EDUCATION

MFA, BARD COLLEGE, ICP-BARD PROGRAM; NEW YORK, NY

Completed 2010

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, GENERAL STUDIES PROGRAM; NEW YORK, NY

Completed 2008

BA, WRITING, NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY; NEW YORK, NY

Completed 2005

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2017 LenScratch; Interviewee, Author and Project Editor for 'The States Project" Hawaii

LenScratch; Interviewer, Author, for interview with artist Christa Blackwood

2016

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK, NY

Presentation with the NY Photo Salon

2013 "THE ART OF SCIENCE POLICY," AAAS [ American Association for the Advancement of Science ], Washington, D.C. - Article; Guest Speaker with Ed Chen for the 40th Anniversary of the S&T Policy Fellowship Program; Event in conjunction with Group Exhibition

2011