tamara suarez porras (they/she) is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY, and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working across photography, filmmaking, and writing. tamara examines dynamics of seeing, remembering, forgetting, and how photography attempts to know the unknowable. Often beginning with collected and family archives, their work explores how memory and self-knowledge can be unraveled through layers of a photograph.

tamara has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, School at the International Center of Photography, En Foco Touring Gallery, Filter Photo, Houston Center for Photography, Bedford Gallery, fusedspace, Root Division, California Institute for Integral Studies, Your Mood Gallery, and the Kala Art Institute. They have published artist books with Sming Sming Books, Deep Time Press, and National Monument Press. tamara has written criticism and exhibitions reviews for The Brooklyn Rail, 48Hills, Art Practical, and contemptorary, and published essays with Saint Lucy Books, SFMOMA’s Open Space, and CCA Wattis Institute / Sternberg Press.

tamara is a Lecturer in Photography at Stanford University, and adjunct faculty in photography and art history at colleges throughout the Bay Area. they are currently an artist-member of the Curatorial Council of Southern Exposure. Previously, tamara was the Manager of Teacher Engagement at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Director of Brand Photography at Teach for America. tamara is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography + Imaging and California College of the Arts with an MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual & Critical Studies.

Send a note at tamaraporras@gmail.com.