Catherine Tafur

Born Lima, Peru 1976

Catherine Tafur was born in Lima, Peru in 1976 to a Peruvian father and a Japanese mother. After spending the first part of her childhood in Peru and the latter part in Wilmington, Delaware, she moved to New York City to study at the Cooper Union School of Art where she earned her BFA. The artist has since shown her work at venues throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. Tafurs work uses the image of the body as a way to explore ideas of gender deconstruction, confrontational sexuality, disillusionment and loss of innocence. She transforms personal experiences into allegorical works of poetic representational symbolism, often through painful disfigurements, idealized androgyny, and mutilation. She now lives and works in New York City and is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Artists Gym.

Education:

BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Art, 1998.

Exhibitions:
2008 Kindergarten: A Conceptual Playground for Artists, World Culture Opencenter Gallery, New York City, curated by Aegi Changsuk Park.
Indifference and Apocrypha, The FUEL Collection, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Katerina Lydon-Warner.
2007 Crooked Mirror, Envoy Gallery, New York City.
Underbelly, BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
BAG Gallery Presents Catherine Tafur, Mac Support Store, Brooklyn New York.
Plus One, BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Body Parts, Luna Lounge, Williamsburg, New York.
Open Ground Classic, Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival, Brooklyn New York.
2006 Exhibition 19, 14th Street Painters, New York City.
Fable, The Naked Duck Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
2005 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City.
Exhibition 18, 14th Street Painters, New York City.
Postcards From the Edge Visual AIDS Benefit, Robert Miller Gallery, New York City.
Secret Affinities: Encountering the Communion of the Other, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, curated by James Pinney.
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