TAMA HOCHBAUM
b. New York City 1953
Tama Hochbaum graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 where she studied drawing and printmaking, and was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study printmaking in Paris. She returned home to study at Queens College in New York where she received her MFA in 1981. She worked for many years as a painter in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1991, during a four-month stay in Italy, an old interest in photography that had begun during her time in Paris re-emerged. In 1996, she and her family moved to North Carolina.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 George Lawson Gallery, Moving Pictures, San Francisco
2010 Cary Town Hall, Night Rides and Other Moving PicturesGallery Nested, Carrboro, NC, Just for the Ride
Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC
Golden Belt, Durham, NC, Down The Rabbit Hole
Memorial Hall, UNC Chapel Hill, Graffito (with Allen Anderson)
2009 room for painting room for paper, San Francisco
Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2008 George Lawson Galley, San Francisco
Man Bites Dog Theater, Durham, NC
2007 Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2006 The Lodge at Sea Ranch, Gualala, CA
Red Hat, Raleigh, NC
2005 Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2004 Hugh Mangum Photography Museum, Durham, NC
The Chapel HIll Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2003 The Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2002 Sizl Gallery, Chapel HIll, NC
Series 1 Gallery, Carrboro, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Barn Gallery, I'm So Glad It Happened
2009 The Greenhill Center, Greensboro, NC, Winter Show
2008 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, New and Improved ; Top 40
Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Heroes
Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Investigating the Corporeal
2007 Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Trick of the Light
Somerhill Gallery, Somerhill, NC, Shapes of White
2006 Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, Outside the Box, Photography Without a Camera
Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, Aquatica
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, Forest For The Trees
2005 Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC, Winter Show
Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Photography Annual
Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, The Big Picture
William Benton Museum, Storrs, CT, Cultural Vignettes: Expressions of Times and Places
2004 Frank Konhaus Gallery, Friends of the Nasher
Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, Toy Cameras
2003 The Chapel Hill Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, The Coker Arboretum, The First Hundred Years
Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA, Group Show
2001 Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain, Prints and Photography
William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, The Poetics of Portraiture
Bronwyn Merritt Gallery, Carrboro, NC, Instant Gratification
2000 Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Taking Notes on Ourselves
Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA, Out and About
Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Group Show
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tama Hochbaum: Road Grids, Composite Trees; introduction by George Lawson, essay by Amy White
The Herald Sun, May 8, 2009, "A Visual Banquet at Durham Art Guild" by Blue Greenberg
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, "Looking Through the Glass" catalog
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Trick of the Light, by Denis Kiel
The Independent, July 18, 2007, "Tama Hochbaum's World and Welcome To It: Views from Home"
The Chapel Hill News, March 7, 2007, WHY?
The Herald Sun, December 16, "Chapel Hill Town Hall Opens Corridors to Artists"
Boom Magazine, August, 2006, "Aquatica at Somerhill"
The Boston Phoenix, December 23, 2005, "10 Best of the Rest", Jeffrey Gantz
The Boston Phoenix, March 11, 2005, "Understated Dramas"
Carolina Alumni Review, January-February 2005
The Chapel Hill News, Sunday, November 7, 2004, Deborah Meyers