James Tantum
www.jamestantum.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008
Some Parts of the Whole, Space 47, San Jose, CA, September 2007
Scrapbook, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2005
6,831 Days, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Unbelievable! The Artworks of James Tantum, A Space, Philadelphia, PA, 2001

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
The 60 Second Southern Video Festival, Harmony Landing Artists’ Residency, Pegram, TN
2006
A San Francisco le Gusta el Video Arte, Area, Caguas, Puerto Rico
More or Less 3,480 Seconds, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Elusive Materials, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
Books Showcase, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA
A la Carta, El Pobre Diablo, Quito, Ecuador
Curated by María Del Carmen Carrión
Let’s Start a Fire, Building 239A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Form/Reform, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New California Masters, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
Curated by Megan Hochstetler, Berin Golonu, and Brooke Jones
Hands-on the Hands-off, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Pitch, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Fog Food, de Young Art Center, San Francisco, CA
2004
Emerge, Old Mint Building, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Paule Anglim, Martha Angus, Squeak Carnwath, John S. Weber
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Curated by Courtney Fink, Rene de Guzman, Steve Seid
Element of the Temporary 5, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The “How To” Intensive, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
As Time Goes By, The Diego Rivera Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Flaws, Kallen Nishimoto’s Salon, Oakland, CA
Third Street Hard Knox Fat Famous Dog Patch Show, Fat’s Famous & Dog Patch Saloon,
San Francisco, CA
2003
Landing, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Man Ray Hsu
Strictly Ballroom: The SFAI at Stanford, CCRMA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Day of Design, San Francisco Design Museum, San Francisco, CA
Curated by San Francisco Design Museum Staff
21ST Century Video Art, ATA, San Francisco, CA
1995
A Year in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by George Kraus

AWARDS

Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, 2004

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Spikol, Liz, “As Time Goes By”, Arts & Entertainment Feature, Philadelphia Weekly,
December 19, 2001

EDUCATION

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts, New Genres, 2005

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, 1990