Artist: Tiffany Tang
Tiffany Tang, RHODE ISLAND
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My work in ceramics is heavily influenced by my Chinese American heritage, revolving primarily around cultural identity and the homogenization of different Asian American experiences. I am drawn to the traditional forms and methods I witnessed throughout my travels in Asia, but my goal is to contemporize the surface using patterns. My work takes the 2-D language of textiles and transposes it into 3-D forms to create a new language through my own interpretation. Throughout my patterns, the viewer can see a common theme of an isolated element, most often a single red element amongst a sea of blue. I am injecting myself into the pattern through the single red element as my own experience as a Chinese American. In doing so, I am in turn expressing my experience in this history of pattern. I believe both the viewer and myself will benefit by bringing forth the contradictions in our societal views of what it is to be Asian American, even through an object as intimate as the cup.
EDUCATION
2016 - 2016 University of Montana, School of Art, MFA (one semester)
2012 - 2015 San Francisco State University, BA Studio Art & Art History
AWARDS
2017 Studio Potter Merit Award, NCECA NSJSE, Future Flux, Portland OR
2016 Juror’s Award, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington (Given by Sandy Simon)
2016 Purchase Award, Gallery of Fine Arts, University of Montana
2016 Critical Theory Award, Gallery of Fine Arts, University of Montana
2016 The Leonard Stach Scholarship in Graduate Ceramics, University of Montana
2016 The Fell-Oskins Scholarship, University of Montana
2014 Excellence in Mixed Media, 27th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, SFSU
2014 Martin Wong Scholarship for Ceramics 1st Place, San Francisco State University
EXHIBITION
2017 Spring 2017 yunomi Invitational, ClayAkar, Iowa City, IA
2017 NCECA National Student Juried Show - Future Flux, Portland, OR
2017 Archie Bray's Ninth Annual Beyond the Brickyard Juried Exhibition, Helena, Montana
2016 Half Empty Half Full: Annual Three Wheel Studio Ceramic Show, Providence, RI
2016 22nd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, University of Montana
2016 Good Things...come in small packages, Flower City Arts, Rochester, New York
2016 UnWedged, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington
2016 Cup: The Intimate Object XII, Charlie Cummings Gallery, North Carolina
2016 College Collective, Genesee Center for the Arts & Education, Rochester, New York
2016 28th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, SFSU Show
2016 Purposeful Pottery, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2016 2016 California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA
2016 MWSU Clay Guild - National Ceramics Exhibition 2016
2016 MWSU Clay Guild - Twin Cups: National Ceramics Exhibition 2016
2016 International Cup 2016, The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
2015 Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2015 UniqueSF, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2015 Sexism: A Touchy Subject, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 KC Clay Guild Teabowl National, Kansas City, MO
2015 27th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art SFSU Show
2015 Senior Art Exhibition, The Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2015 Purposeful Pottery, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2014 Square Makers Market, Square Inc. Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
2014 Adobe Makers Market, San Francisco, CA
2014 Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco, For Mason, San Francisco, CA
2014 27th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, SFSU
2014 5 Ceramicists, Delta Gallery of the Arts, Brentwood, CA
2014 SFSU Art Department Scholarship Award Exhibition, Martin Wong Gallery, SFSU
2014 Senior Art Expo, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2014 26th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art SFSU Show
2013 26th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, SFSU
2013 25th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art SFSU Show
RESIDENCY
2016 GPS Residency, Holualoa, Big Island, Hawaii - Resident Artist
2014 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine - Summer Resident
COLLECTIONS
Permanent Collection, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
2014 Conversations in Clay, ArtPot Studio, Niumalu, Kauai, Hawaii
ORGANIZATIONS
Asian American Women Artist Association, Artist Member
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Artist Member
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2016 Teaching Assistant, Printmaking: Relief 1, University of Montana
2013 - 2015 Lead Undergraduate Assistant and Studio Manager, Ceramics, SFSU
2013 - 2015 SFSU Ceramics Guild, Vice President
2013 - 2016 Glaze Assistant to Artist, David Kuraoka
2014 Demo Assistant to Jennifer Brazelton, 26th Annual CCACA, Davis, CA
2014 Glaze Mixer, Ruby’s Clay Studio & Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Raku Festival Volunteer, The Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2012 Gallery Attendant, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
2012 Gallery Assistant, Louie-meager Art Gallery, Fremont, CA