Tama Hochbaum 728 Gimghoul Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 (919) 265-4513
e-mail: tamahochbaum19@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1979-1981 Queens College Graduate School of Art, CUNY, Flushing, NY,
MFA in Painting
1971-1975 Brandeis University, Waltham MA, BA with Honors in Fine Arts
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
Sep 2018 Finalist, Critical Mass/Photolucida International Photography Award
Sep 2015 Finalist, Critical Mass/Photolucida International Photography Award
Apr 2015 Juror’s Choice, Kathleen Clark, juror, Regarding Beauty, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO
Feb 2014 2nd Place, B E R S E R K, Chris Vitiello, juror, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Jun 2008 Finalist, North Carolina Arts Council Award
Feb 2006 Juror's Choice Award, The Women's Center Juried Exhibition, Chapel Hill, NC
1975-1976 Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship for study in Paris at Atelier 17
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Oct ’08 – ‘18 Represented by George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, Los Angeles, CA
Mar ‘05 – ‘10 Represented by GalleryKayafas, Boston MA
Oct ‘02 – ‘09 Represented by Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Nov ’97– ‘10 Craven-Allen Gallery, Durham, NC
MONOGRAPH
Apr 2015 SILVER SCREEN published by Daylight Books
Apr 2015 New York City launch of SILVER SCREEN
May 2015 Los Angeles launch of SILVER SCREEN
ART FAIRS
Feb 2019 Photo LA, solo booth, through George Lawson Gallery
Feb 2014 Photo LA, through George Lawson Gallery
Dec 2014 Miami/Basel, George Lawson Gallery
Dec 2012 Miami/Basel, George Lawson Gallery
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES and INSTALLATIONS
Jun 2021 Created Installation Video of “Marking/Time”, Mixed Media work by Susan Finer and Rachele Riley;
Music by Allen Anderson
Mar 2021 Created Installation Video of “Now, Where Were We?”, Paintings by Jon Rollins;
Music by Allen Anderson
Jan 2021 Created Installation Video of “Tertiary Measurements”, installation work of Mark Allen Soderstrom
Music by Allen Anderson
Oct 2019 Celluloids and Light Voids; Block Gallery, Raleigh
Jun 2018 Over/Time; Imaging Landscape, CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
Spr 2018-19 Installation of 8 large pieces, including two large landscapes, 3 Bi squares, 2 Silver Screen: Dancers grids and 2 large Nicholas Brothers grids at Womble Bond Dickinson, Raleigh, NC
Sep 2017 From the Bi Series, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spr 2017 Installation of 5 large pieces - lintels, crosses and bi series, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2017 Time Passing: SILVER SCREEN and Legacy, Guilford College
Feb 2016 Silver Screen, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Oct 2015 Installation at University Place of 6 mural-size composites of SILVER SCREEN images, for the opening of Silver Spot Cinema
Feb 2015 SILVER SCREEN: Dancers; George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
July 2014 “SILVER SCREEN” Daylight Digital Project Space
Mar 2013 “re:turn radius” performance and screening of “Graffito” at The Water of Life event; FedEx Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Feb 2012 “It Takes a Train”, George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2011 Moving Pictures, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
Nov 2010 “Night Rides and Other Moving Pictures” Cary Town Hall, Cary, NC
May 2010 "Y A R D", Craven Allen Gallery
Mar 2010 "Down the Rabbit Hole", Gallery Room 100, Golden Belt Studios, Durham, NC
Feb 2010 "Graffito" Digital performance piece with composer Allen Anderson, Memorial Hall, UNC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS; INSTALLATIONS; PERFORMANCES
Jan 2021 - Gallery Oneoneone, Main Gallery
Jun 2021 https://www.oneoneone.gallery
Fall 2020 Gallery Oneoneone; Lobby Gallery; DCI Occidens
https://www.oneoneone.gallery/dci-occidens
Fall 2020 “Out of Darkness”, Block Gallery Exhibition by Raleigh Arts
https://raleighnc.gov/SupportPages/out-darkness
Jan 2021 https://indyweek.com/events/out-of-darkness-block-gallery/
Fall 2020 The Fence
https://fence.photoville.com/over-time-imaging-home/
Feb 2020 “Into the Immense Design of Things”; George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Dec 2019 Performance of “Crankie” Show; Horse & Buggy Press, Durham, NC
Oct 2019 Performance of “Crankie” Show; PS 118 Gallery, Durham, NC
Sep 2019 “Multiverse”; George Lawson Gallery
Jun 2019 Installation of 3 Bi Squares at Credit Suisse, Research Triangle Park
Jan-Feb 2019 TRIBE, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel California
Jan - May 2018 TRIBE, Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire, England
Mar 2017 Screening of “Graffito”, multimedia piece for Sonolumen
Dec 2015 LIGHT:Art + Design, METAL V
Dec 2015 ‘Actual Size’; Exhibition of Contact Prints, Cassilhaus; Durham, NC
Nov. 7, 2015 The Ephemerals; Chapel Hill
Oct 2015 THE SCANNERS, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
Oct 2015 ‘Private Portals’ Exhibition at Kontek; collection of Frank Konhaus and Ellen Cassilly
Oct 2015 Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Durham, NC
May 2015 LIGHT: Art + Design, Women in Photography
Sep 2011 George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Grand Opening Exhibition
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May 2021 Asked to join organizing committee for the BEAS at CAM Raleigh,
https://camraleigh.org/the-betty-eichenberger-adams-society-2/ to create a collaborative work of art around the theme of “What have I lost; what have I gained” in this pandemic year.
Feb 2021 Presentation of “OVER/TIME”, a talk about the arc of my artistic career, to Aline Smithson’s
online photography seminar
Feb 2021 Presentation of “OVER/TIME”, a talk about my own work and the work I do with Professor Mimi Solomon’s group of young musicians, MYCO, to her Pleyel class at UNC Chapel Hill
Oct 2020 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Home”, a talk about my work included in the
2020 Fence Exhibition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp_rM_rhCfU
(I begin at around 19:00)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CON’T.
Sep 2019 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Landscape”, a talk about my work at The Gregg Museum,
NC State University, Raleigh NC
Spr 2016-19 Presentation of “My Camera Is Just a Tool”, a talk about my work over the last 40+ years to
Professor Mimi Solomon’s Pleyel Class, UNC Chapel Hill
Nov 2016-19 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Landscape”, a talk about my work over the last 40+ years to
Leah Sobsey’s Advanced Photography students at UNC Greensboro
Nov 2018 Juror for Leah Sobsey’s Advanced Photography students’ work for their Society for Photographic
Education (SPE) portfolios
Mar 2017 Presentation of “Time Passing”, to the public, and to Darkroom and Artistry in Film students
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Apr 2017 Presentation of “My Camera Is Just a Tool” to Mimi Solomon’s Pleyel class, UNC Chapel Hill
Oct 2016 Co-led, with Jeff Bell, a tour of Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, the exhibition at 21C Museum/Hotel, Durham, NC
Nov 2015 Juror for the UNC Undergraduate Art Awards
Oct 2015 Spoke about my work to Jina Valentine’s UNC Art Department class at my University Place
installation
Sep 2015 Spoke about my work to Amy White’s UNC Art Department class at my home/studio
Nov 2013 Evgenia Arbugaeva Response Invitational at The Carrack, Durham
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jan 2010- Co-Chair of Horace Williams House Art Program, Preservation Chapel Hill
2008 - Fine Art Printer
1996 - Fine Art Photographer
1981 - Graphic Designer - Established HighTree Design
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPqwC2pl7gN/
https://fence.photoville.com/over-time-imaging-home/
https://raleighnc.gov/SupportPages/out-darkness
https://indyweek.com/events/out-of-darkness-block-gallery/
http://lenscratch.com/2018/07/tama-hochbaum/
http://lenscratch.com/2018/06/tribe-at-the-fox-talbot-museum-in-lacock-abbey-uk/
https://www.artsy.net/show/george-lawson-gallery-tama-hochbaum-silver-screen-dancers
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS CON’T.
http://lenscratch.com/2015/06/tama-hochbaum-silver-screen/
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Gallery-reviews-Sculptures-that-nose-their-way-6105730.php
Kenneth Baker’s review of my show at George Lawson Gallery in February, 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-bush/this-artweekla-april-23_b_1449644.html
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/021011.html
Tama Hochbaum: Road Grids, Composite Trees; introduction by George Lawson, essay by Amy White
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/im-so-glad-it-happened/Event?oid=1446287
http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/tama-hochbaum/
http://qarrtsiluni.com/2010/05/11/mad-hatters-tea-party/
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/30/412773/alice-reimagined.html
http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/documents/TakeatumbleDowntheRabbitHolewithTamaHochbaum3-10-10.pdf
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/family-photos-inspired-by-lewis-carrolls-work/Content?oid=1358227
http://www.cfsnc.org/page.cfm?p=502&newsid=231
http://carolannfitz.tumblr.com/post/189793402
http://carolannfitz.tumblr.com/post/189759414
http://cincy-artsnob.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
http://millsdigimagingfall08.blogspot.com/2008/12/tama-hochbaum-room-for-painting-room.html
The Herald Sun, May 8, 2009, "A Visual Banquet at Durham Art Guild" by Blue Greenberg
Visual Culture Visits: http://viscultvis.blogspot.com/2008/10/openings-sf-october-2-2008.html
Tama Hochbaum: Composite Trees; introduction by George Lawson, essay by Amy White
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Trick of the Light, by Denis Kiel
The Independent, week of July 18, 2007, "Tama Hochbaum's World and Welcome To It: Views from Home",
review by Amy White
https://indyweek.com/culture/art/tama-hochbaum-s-world-welcome/
The Boston Phoenix, December 23, 2005, "10 Best of the Rest", Jeffrey Gantz
The Boston Phoenix, March 11, 2005, "Understated Dramas"
The Chapel Hill News, Sunday, November 7, 2004, Deborah Meyers
The Chapel Hill News, May 26, 2000; "Artist's Sanctuary", Nancy Oates
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Credit Suisse, Research Triangle Park, NC, 3 pieces in June of 2019
Credit Suisse, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1 piece in December of 2020
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Chieko Murasugi, Chapel Hill, NC
Stacy Bloom-Rexrode, Durham, NC
Susan Hochbaum, Rhinebeck NY
Eric Gaard, Raleigh, NC
Frank Konhaus, Ellen Cassilly, Durham
Lori Vrba, Chapel Hill, NC
Laura and David Frankstone, Chapel Hill, NC
Elaine Carpenter, San Francisco, CA
William and Victoria Goodman, San Francisco, CA
Ross Dryer, Larkspur, CA
Catherine Anderson, Berkeley, California
Susan Landau, Los Angeles, California
Susan and Armando Lopez, Cerritos, CA