Tama Hochbaum 728 Gimghoul Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 (919) 265-4513
e-mail: tamahochbaum19@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1979-1981 Queens College Graduate School of Art, CUNY, Flushing, NY,
MFA in Painting
1971-1975 Brandeis University, Waltham MA, BA with Honors in Fine Arts
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
Sep 2018 Finalist, Critical Mass/Photolucida International Photography Award
Sep 2015 Finalist, Critical Mass/Photolucida International Photography Award
Apr 2015 Juror’s Choice, Kathleen Clark, juror, Regarding Beauty, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO
Feb 2014 2nd Place, B E R S E R K, Chris Vitiello, juror, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Jun 2008 Finalist, North Carolina Arts Council Award
Feb 2006 Juror's Choice Award, The Women's Center Juried Exhibition, Chapel Hill, NC
1975-1976 Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship for study in Paris at Atelier 17
COMMISSIONS
Nov. 2021 Bank Headquarters through Hodges Taylor Contemporary Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Two 60” X 60” composites on aluminum; one 48” x 48” composite on aluminum for a new Bank
Headquarters
Oct. 2015 6 mural-sized compositions commissioned for University Place in Chapel Hill, from images from SILVER
SCREEN, monograph published by Daylight Books
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Oct ’08 – ‘18 Represented by George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, Los Angeles, CA
Mar ‘05 – ‘10 Represented by GalleryKayafas, Boston MA
Oct ‘02 – ‘09 Represented by Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Nov ’97– ‘10 Craven-Allen Gallery, Durham, NC
MONOGRAPH
Apr 2015 SILVER SCREEN published by Daylight Books
Apr 2015 New York City launch of SILVER SCREEN
May 2015 Los Angeles launch of SILVER SCREEN
ART FAIRS
Feb 2019 Photo LA, solo booth, through George Lawson Gallery
Feb 2014 Photo LA, through George Lawson Gallery
Dec 2014 Miami/Basel, George Lawson Gallery
Dec 2012 Miami/Basel, George Lawson Gallery
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES and INSTALLATIONS
Oct 2023 "As If A Mirror"; Solo exhibition of self-portraits at the Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Apr 2022 Performance of Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) Raleigh with 90+
videos that I created
Aug 2020 Greenbridge/Gallery Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, NC
Oct 2019 Celluloids and Light Voids; Block Gallery, Raleigh
Jun 2018 Over/Time; Imaging Landscape, CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
2018-19 Installation of 8 large pieces, including two large landscapes, 3 Bi squares, 2 Silver Screen: Dancers grids and
2 large Nicholas Brothers grids at Womble Bond Dickinson, Raleigh, NC
Sep 2017 From the Bi Series, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spr 2017 Installation of 5 large pieces - lintels, crosses and bi series, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2017 Time Passing: SILVER SCREEN and Legacy, Guilford College
Feb 2016 Silver Screen, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Oct 2015 Installation at University Place of 6 mural-size composites of SILVER SCREEN images, for the
opening of Silver Spot Cinema, Chapel Hill
Feb 2015 SILVER SCREEN: Dancers; George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
July 2014. “SILVER SCREEN” Daylight Digital Project Space
Mar 2013. “re:turn radius” performance and screening of “Graffito” at The Water of Life event; FedEx
Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Feb 2012 “It Takes a Train”, George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2011 Moving Pictures, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
Nov 2010. “Night Rides and Other Moving Pictures” Cary Town Hall, Cary, NC
May 2010 "Y A R D", Craven Allen Gallery
Mar 2010 "Down the Rabbit Hole", Gallery Room 100, Golden Belt Studios, Durham, NC
Feb 2010 "Graffito" Digital performance piece with composer Allen Anderson, Memorial Hall, UNC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS; INSTALLATIONS; PERFORMANCES
Sep 2023 Work chosen for the North Carolina Artists Exhibition at CAM Raleigh; Valerie Hillings, juror, Director, NCMA
Paul Baker, juror, Director CAM Raleigh
Nov 2020 “Out of Darkness”; Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Oct 2020 The Fence, Durham, NC
Feb 2020 “Into the Immense Design of Things”; George Lawson Gallery
Dec 2019 Performance of “Crankie” Show; Horse & Buggy Press, Durham, NC
Oct 2019 Performance of “Crankie” Show; PS 118 Gallery, Durham, NC
Sep 2019. “Multiverse”; George Lawson Gallery
Jun 2019 Installation of 3 Bi Squares at Credit Suisse, Research Triangle Park
Jan-Feb
2019 TRIBE, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel California
Jan - May
2018 TRIBE, Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire, England
Mar 2017 Screening of “Graffito”, multimedia piece for Sonolumen
Dec 2015 LIGHT:Art + Design, METAL V
Dec 2015 ‘Actual Size’; Exhibition of Contact Prints, Cassilhaus; Durham, NC
Nov. 7,
2015 The Ephemerals; Chapel Hill
Oct 2015 THE SCANNERS, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
Oct 2015 ‘Private Portals’ Exhibition at Kontek; collection of Frank Konhaus and Ellen Cassilly
Oct 2015 Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Durham, NC
May 2015 LIGHT: Art + Design, Women in Photography
Sep 2011. George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Grand Opening Exhibition
Nov 2009 Winter Show, Greenhill Center, Greensboro, NC
Sep 2009 Gallery Artists of George Lawson Gallery, Shasta College, Redding, CA
Jun 2009 "Bed", Umbrella Arts, New York, New York, Harvey Stein, Juror
Jun 2008 "New and Improved", Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, L.A., CA
Apr 2008 "Top 40", Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, L.A., CA
Apr 2008 "Heroes", Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, elin o'Hara slavick, curator - created first multi-media work
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feb 2021 Spoke to Aline Smithson’s on line class about my work, with a focus on Landscape
Apr 2016-22 Presentation of “My Camera Is Just a Tool”, and “OVER/TIME”, talks about my work over the last 40+ years
to Professor Mimi Solomon’s Pleyel Class, UNC Chapel Hill
Nov 2016-19 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Landscape”, a talk about my work over the last 40+ years to
Leah Sobsey’s Advanced Photography students at UNC Greensboro
Apr 2020 Asked to give presentation of my work at FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill
Feb 2020 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Landscape” with Hanns Zischler for a group of
art/music/German academics
Mar 2020 Asked to participate in roundtable discussion on Music and Time at UNC Chapel Hill with
Nicholas DiEugenio, Lee Weisert and Gabriel Stephen
Nov 2019 Spoke about “A Certain Uncertainty; Selections from the Cassilhaus Collection” to UNC Chapel Hill
Photography class
Nov 2019 Juror for Leah Sobsey’s Advanced Photography students’ work for their Society for Photographic
Education (SPE) portfolios
Oct 2019 Spoke about “A Certain Uncertainty; Selections from the Cassilhaus Collection” to Duke Center for
Documentary Studies class
Oct 2019 Curated “A Certain Uncertainty; Selections from the Cassilhaus Collection” at the
Horace Williams House
Sep 2019 Presentation of “Over/Time: Imaging Landscape”, a talk about my work at The Gregg Museum,
NC State University, Raleigh NC; at the request of Roger Manley, Director
Nov 2018 Juror for Leah Sobsey’s Advanced Photography students’ work for their Society for Photographic
Education (SPE) portfolios
Mar 2017 Presentation of “Time Passing”, to the public, and to Darkroom and Artistry in Film students
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Oct 2016 Co-led, with Jeff Bell, a tour of Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, the exhibition at 21C
Museum/Hotel, Durham, NC
Nov 2015 Juror for the UNC Undergraduate Art Awards
Oct 2015 Spoke about my work to Jina Valentine’s UNC Art Department class at my University Place
installation
Sep 2015 Spoke about my work to Amy White’s UNC Art Department class at my home/studio
Nov 2013 Evgenia Arbugaeva Response Invitational at The Carrack, Durham
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jan 2010-
present. Co-Chair of Horace Williams House Art Program, Preservation Chapel Hill
2008 - Fine Art Printer
1996 - Fine Art Photographer
1981 - Graphic Designer - Established HighTree Design
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/tama-hochbaum-as-if-a-mirror/
http://lenscratch.com/2019/11/a-certain-uncertainty-at-cassilhaus/
http://lenscratch.com/2018/07/tama-hochbaum/
http://lenscratch.com/2018/06/tribe-at-the-fox-talbot-museum-in-lacock-abbey-uk/
https://www.artsy.net/show/george-lawson-gallery-tama-hochbaum-silver-screen-dancers
http://lenscratch.com/2015/06/tama-hochbaum-silver-screen/
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Gallery-reviews-Sculptures-that-nose-their-way-6105730.php
Kenneth Baker’s review of my show at George Lawson Gallery in February, 2015
MUSEUM AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut
Credit Suisse
Financial Headquarters, Charlotte, NC
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
David Reeve, Chapel Hill, NC
Margaret Rich, Chapel Hill, NC
David and Kathy Martin, Chapel Hill, NC
Chris and Jane Heaton, Chapel Hill, NC
George Lawson, Staatsburgh, NY
Diego Cortez, New Orleans/Saxapahaw
Joel Herm, Susan Hochbaum, Rhinebeck, NY
Frank Konhaus, Ellen Cassilly, Durham
Lori Vrba, Chapel Hill, NC
Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Chapel Hill, NC
Chieko Murasugi, Chapel Hill, NC
Laura and David Frankstone, Chapel Hill, NC
Elaine Carpenter, San Francisco, CA
William and Victoria Goodman, San Francisco, CA
Ross Dryer, Larkspur, CA
Susan Landau, Los Angeles, California
Susan and Armando Lopez, Cerritos, CA