tamara suarez porras

tamara suarez porras (they/she) is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY, and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

tamara’s work examines experiences of knowing, remembering, and forgetting, working across photography, writing, installation, filmmaking, and performance. tamara has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, School at the International Center of Photography, Center for Book Arts, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as Root Division, Kala Art Institute Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco Center for the Book, Your Mood Projects, fusedspace, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in the San Francisco Bay Area. tamara’s writing has been published on The Brooklyn Rail, Art Practical, and 48hills.

tamara is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography+Imaging and Journalism and of California College of the Arts with a dual MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies. tamara is a Lecturer in the Art Practice department at Stanford University, and has also taught at colleges and universities across the Bay Area. tamara is a member of Black Hole Collective Film Lab and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure.

Send a note at tamaraporras@gmail.com.

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