Tessa Teixeira

Tessa Teixeira completed a Bachelor’s in Primary Education, majoring in Art, in 1991 through the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa and her self-portrait was kept by the Arts Department.
In her twenties and thirties, she was extensively involved in projects addressing access to housing in lower Income sectors, she started an NGO and raised the money to build two schools for primary school children who were receiving tuition under trees, and worked for The Mineworkers Development Agency, the development wing of The National Union of Mineworkers, addressing rural development, economic needs in South Africa.
In 2006 she started actively focusing on her Art practice, and embarked on various short Art development programs in San Francisco in the USA and London in 2010 and 2011.
She returned to Johannesburg at the end of 2011 and has been developing her practice and work focused on Existential Philosophy and Ecology – Climate narratives, aligned to Mixed Media, Painting, Installation, and Printmaking.
Since 2012, she has exhibited, auctioned, and sold work for private collections, in Local and International group shows, and some exhibitions include: ‘1.5 Degrees’ in Berlin, Germany (2021),‘Optimism’ Endle...

A. Tertiary – Formal Education
• 1987 - Matriculated – Ermelo High School, South
Africa
• 1991 - Bprim Ed – University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa (Art major)
2006 - Honours Bcomm – University of Southern
Africa
• 2010
*Spring Semester MFA – San Francisco Academy
of Arts (Chiaruscuro,
Renaissance Art History, Early Philosophy)
*Post Bacc - Art programme – University of
California – Berkeley Extension
(Color Theory, Fundamentals in Drawing &
Painting)
• 2011
*Central St Martins College of Art & Design –
London.
Mixed Media & Expressive painting
*Princes Drawing School – London. Still - Life
Drawing
*Heatherlys School of Art – London. Still - life
painting

B. Institutional Short Courses & Non-Formal
Professional Practice Development Courses

2009 – 2019 – Various Professional Practice Development workshops/ courses:
• Crown Point Press in San Francisco – Aquatint
Etching
• London print studio - Photopolymer & Silkscreen
• Artist Proof Studios - ...

2023
o Victoria Yards – Johannesburg, SA – Open Air Art Fair Curated by Tammy Stewart & Team
o Manhattan Arts International, New York, USA – ‘Healing power of art, inspired by nature’ – Online Group show. Curated by Renee Phillips
2022
o WEAD, USA – Online platform – Magazine feature, Issue 13 – Art of Empathy, featured in Photo Gallery. Curated by Susan Leibovitz
o GalleryONE11, Cape Town, SA - ‘Otherwise Healthy’ - Group show.Curated by Kyle Solms.
o Roaring Artist Gallery, United States - ‘Awakening and Furor’ Online group show. Curated by Katie Bradshaw and Bernadine Franco
o Carbon-borders-voices, United Kingdom - Online group show.Curated by Jill Howitt, Kevin Parker & Matt Fratson.
o What’s next for earth - ‘Thinking in systems’ - Stanford University, USA. Online group show. Curated by Michele Guieu.
o Eco Art Project, New York, USA. Featured in January Newsletter. Online platform. Curated by Pino Fortunato & Team
2021
o 1.5 Degrees - Berlin, Germany Curated by Tom Albrecht & Maria Korporal
o Latitudes, Johannesburg, SA. Online platform ...