Tara De La Garza

Tara de la Garza was born in Ireland and grew up in Australia. She now lives and works in New York City. She studied Film and Television, winning a Young Filmmaker award, and established an award-winning graphic design agency. She studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in Western Australia.

Tara's conceptual work involves a combination of design, curatorial practice, photography, installation and painting. Her solo projects include building a giant collaborative clubhouse and a photographic project where she photographs people BY THE LIGHT of their cell phones. Currently she is working on creating new narratives using an interplay of film and painting.

In her practice, Tara wrestles with the desire to be authentic versus the impulse to be a complete charlatan; her work often represents a mixture of the two.

Tara works extensively with the public arts initiative No Longer Empty and currently runs her own art space 2|ONE|TWO|PROJECTS where she initiates art projects with other NYC artists. She is also the instigator of a global mail/art collaborative.

Tara is interested in the serendipity that occurs when one is open to change.

Curtin University, Perth, AU, Fine Art,

2014 Solo show 'Embracing Failure' at The Lodge Gallery NYC
2013 2 person show, ‘Cinderscape’ Aggregate Art Space, Oakland SF, CA
2012 Group Show, 'Dia de los Muertos', Arts Council of Princeton, NJ
2012 Collaboration with Amanda Browder, 'What Could You Do Here?', Chashama, NYC
2011 Group Show 'Town & Country' 320 Studios, NYC
2011 Group Show 'ArtJam' , Homefront ArtSpace, Princeton NJ
2011 MASS MOCA 'An Exchange with Sol LeWitt' North Adams, Massachusetts
2011 Group Show 'Art for Soul' A Gallery, NYC
2011 Book Launch'RIPE:conception and perception' Allegra LaViola Gallery NYC
2010 Fremantle Arts Festival 'Drawn Together' Moores Building of Contemporary Art, Australia
2010 2 Person show 'RIPE:conception and perception' Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2010 Group Show 'Exquisite Salvage 'incomplete. 210 Clinton St,NYC- 2ONETWO
2010 Group Show 'the possibility of a painting, Gallery Suite, Chelsea Hotel NYC
2009 Solo Show 'By the Light' 223 East Broadway, NYC
2009 Group Show 'No Longer Empty' storefronts at Chelsea Hotel, NYC
2009 Group Show 'Figment' Governor's Island NYC
2009 'good morning' intervention, streets of NYC
2009 Group Show 'World Of Imagination Vol.2', APW Gallery, NYC
2008 Open Studio, Performance "Life ...