Artist Bio Ami Tallman






About
Ami Tallman

Exhibitions
2009
Booth 1812, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica

2008
Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles
Against the Grain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
When the sun shines, it does not need proof (solo), See Line Gallery, Santa Monica
Free Love Gods, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland

2007
Compound Objects from the Spy who Loves You, The Confederacy of Creative Ephemera at Circus Gallery, Los Angeles
Don’t Torture the Rotten Ducklings, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Le Flaneur, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles
No Jerks, Rental Gallery, New York
Timeline, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica
Juvenilia, Koo's Art Center, Long Beach
Rainbow Goblins, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles
Memoriam for our Gentle Friends, (solo) Trudi Gallery, Los Angeles
Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
ReDraw, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York

2006
Braveland, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles
Naïve Set Theory, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Chainletter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
Super/Sonic, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Boat Show, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
Stately Fellows, MFA Thesis Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

2005
Urban Birds 2, Hang, San Francisco
Bedwetter Show, Paxico Gallery, Los Angeles

2004
Dark Side of the Sun, Wight Gallery, UCLA (Wight Biennial)
Pulp: Works of Paper, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
Urban Birds, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco

1999
Screening, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco

1998
17 artists, 35 works, 500 guests, 976 Valencia, San Francisco

Press
2008
Frieze Magazine, "Against the Grain," review, Nov 2008
BlackBook Magazine, "Against the Grain @ LACE," review, September 15, 2008
Willamette Week, "History Versus Nostalgia," review, Issue # 34.40, August 2008
Los Angeles Times, "A show's artists in a state of unrest," review, August 8, 2008
Don't Panic, "Child's Play, The Art of Ami Tallman," interview, The Hope Issue, July 2008
Art Forum Online, "Against the Grain," review (critics' picks), July 2008
Saatchi Online, "Catherine Taft's Round-Up Of The Best Shows In LA," review, July 2008
Art Ltd, “Ami Tallman,” profile, May 2008 (special issue on young artists)

2007
The Umbrella Journal, “Artists’ Book Reviews,” review, Volume 30. No. 2, Jun 2007
Artweek, “Braveland,” review, March 2007
Artweek, “Naïve Set Theory,” review, February 2007

2006
ArtUs, “Boat Show,” review, Issue 14, July-September 2006
I Heart Darkness, interview, 2nd Cannons Publications

2004
Mission Arts Monthly, “Urban Birds at Balazo Gallery,” review, September 2004
Artweek, “Urban Birds,” review, Volume 35, Issue 8

Publications
2008
Box of Books, edition of 100, curated by Darin Klein
The Yellow Book, inclusion in reader as supplement to a show called Yellow, curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, at The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2007
There Weren't Many Girls Around, So We Dated Ideologies. This
Left Us Always on the Brink of War. We Often Discussed That a Likely Result of Battle Would Have Been More Girls to Go Around
Amongst the Survivors, but We Quibbled Rather Than Acted, &
Slept Alone in Our Cold Beds Dreaming of Glory. artist’s book, 2nd Cannons Publications

2005
After Such an Outburst of Emotion as is Represented by these Landscape, er, Renderings, We May Find it Necessary to Avoid all
Future Contact with You (for the sake of some semblance of
dignity) artist's publication with Christopher Russell
Portfolio #3, limited edition folio from Analogue Press

2004
Bedwetter Magazine, artwork contributions to Issues 7-11

2001
Tirana Biennale 1, “Nathan Weber,” catalog essay
Flash Art Magazine, “The NY Decency Panel,” Vol. 34, Issue 218, news story
Flash Art Magazine, “Aperto San Francisco,” Vol. 34, Issue 217, region profile
Flash Art Magazine, “Ultrabaroque,” Vol. 34, Issue 215, review

Residencies
2006
Atlantic Center For the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

2003
Painting’s Edge, Full Scholarship, Idyllwild, California

Education
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California
MFA Fine Art, April 2006

New School for Social Research,
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
New York, New York
Graduate Philosophy Department, 1999-2000

The San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
BFA Interdisciplinary Fine Art (emphasis: new genres), May 1999

Born 1979 California
Lives and works in Los Angeles