I was born in San Antonio Texas and now live in Berkeley, Ca. I left a career in television in the late 1990s to start another as a photographer. My work is in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Oakland Museum of California. Currently, my RUNNING project is being exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in Indiana and it moves on to the Klomp Ching Gallery in New York City on July 25.
T A B I T H A S O R E N www.tabithasoren.com c: 510-919-2211
EDUCATION
2002 California College of the Arts, Photo Department, Oakland CA
Stanford University, Communications Department, Stanford, CA
New York University, College of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Running: The Natural World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana June/July
2011 Dreamtime Branch Gallery, Oakland
Tabitha Soren Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA August/September/October
2006 Life in the Minors Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Recalling Democracy Photolab Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Discrete Matters Zinc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 MEGA Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Woman As Photographer Minneapolis Photo Center,
Curator: Christina Chang, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Wide Open Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
Curator: Nathan Trotman, Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum of Art
Moments of Being Wallspace Gallery Santa Barbara, CA, Curator: David Bram
Perceive and Place Berkeley Art Center, CA Curator: Suzanne Tan
Fraction: Three Years in the Making, RAYKO Gallery, San Francisco
2010 The Curve Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Curators: Laura Valenti & Chris Bennett
Art Masterminds Project One, San Francisco, CA, SF Weekly
24th International Juried Show Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Juror: Susan Kismaric, Curator, MOMA
Childhood Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX
2009 An Idea Of Home The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Ersatz SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2008 Way Down In New Orleans Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC
2007 Katrina Exposed New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2006 South Gallery Showcase Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Mayhem Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA Juror: Julie Joyce
Currents Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Contemporary Photography: New Acquisitions Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
AWARDS, LECTURES & SELECTED ARTICLES
2012 2 Running Portfolios in McSweeney’s Quarterly No. 39, Dave Eggers, Publisher
2012 Murphy, Heather, Slate Magazine, Brow Beat, May 16, “Running for The Camera”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/16/tabitha_soren_s_photos_of_people_running.html
2012 Sixth Finch, Running Portfolio, Spring 2012, http://sixthfinch.com/soren.html
2012 Quinn, Bryony, It’s Nice That, Review London, http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tabitha-soren
2011 Pollack, Jennifer, Arts & Culture 7x7, April
http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/tabitha-soren
2011 Cheng, Dewitt, “Dreamtime” East Bay Express, March,
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/dreamtime/Event?oid=2475144
2011 Rodrigue, Wendy, “Uprooted: An Interview with Tabitha Soren,” Best of New Orleans, January,
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2011/01/12/tabitha-sorenuprooted/
2010 Director’s Choice Award, Review Santa Fe, Laura Valenti, Program Director and Chris Bennett,
Director at the Newspace Center for Photography
2010 Photography Prize awarded by Curator Susan Kismaric, MOMA for the Visual Arts Center of NJ
2010 PDN’s Photo Series of the Day, Under Your Skin
2009 Finalist, Critical Mass 2009, Photo Lucida
2009 Contender for Jen Beckman’s 20 x 200 Hey Hot Shots
2007 Photo Alliance Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute: New Orleans with Chris Jordan & Brice Bischoff
2007 Selected AI+ AP Best of American Photography Collection