Tobias Tovera

Tobias Tovera is an American visual artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, art, and consciousness. Tovera was born in Sacramento, California and studied at the California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and Europe and is part of numerous private, public, and corporate collections. Using the concept of time as a foundation, Tovera’s studio practice seeks to reveal energy systems, finding new dimensions in his materials as they metamorphose from one form to the next. The conception of his work was inspired by alchemy, medicine, and the primordial formations of living matter. From the chemistry of water reacting with minerals to a magic that reaches beyond science, Tovera’s work examines opposing elements such as nature and artifice, chaos and order, to reveal how they interact, transform, or propel each other. Tovera states, “I want my art to spark connection with nature and through process and alchemy, create a visual form that liberates both an intimate as well as an unknown aspect of the cosmos.” During the course of his career Tovera has developed two bodies of work in painting and a series of sculptures. His new work...

2011, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Painting

2002, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture

2018, Morphē, SJCC Gallery, San Jose, CA

2018, Permutation, Bank of America Tower, San Francisco, CA

2017, Oceanus, JCOs Art Haus, Los Gatos, CA

2016, Uncharted Terrain, Local Language Art, Oakland, CA

2016, Morphosis, Peralta Studios, Oakland, CA

2014, Hermetica, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA

2013, Transmutation, PAI Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013, Life Forms, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009, Transmutation Unfolding, 555 California St. Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005, The Medicine of Space, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003, New Work, Akimbo Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2001, Substance, North Gallery, Oakland, CA

2000, Deliverance, Ortiz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999, Soul Impressions, CCA, Tecoah and Thomas Galleries, San Francisco, CA

1999, Façade, Installation and Performance, Midtown Mosaic, Sacramento, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2020, AAF, Spring Art Fair, JCOs Art Haus, Los Gatos, CA

2020, eARTh, Bankhead Gallery, Livermore, CA

2019, AVVAAF, Fall Art Fair, JCOs Art Haus, Los Gatos, CA

2019, Portal, Collaborative site-specific installation, artist talk, NES, Skagaströnd , Iceland

2019, Altered States, Marin Community Foundati...