About
Tara Holmes is a lens-based artist whose practice intersects spatial, technological, and behavioral actions. Her research uses the metaphor of the body as a territorial lens for understanding technological conditioning, dynamics and tensions with human behavior.
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Education
2022 MFA - Photography & Lens-Based Media, University at Albany, Albany, NY
2020 MA - Photography, University at Albany, Albany, NY
2008 BA - Sociology, University at Albany, Albany, NY
2006 AS - Visual Merchandising, Newbury College, Brookline, Massachusetts
Selected Exhibitions
Free, For All, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY, February 22-March 23, 2025
Artsy Fartsy Collective Exhibition, Fish Market Project by Arts Center of Capital Region, Troy, NY, August 7 - September 29, 2024
Correspondence, Baxter Street Gallery, New York, NY, May 11 - June 21, 2024
Photography Regional Select Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY, October 17 - November 4, 2023
Artsy Fartsy Collective Exhibition: Therapeutic Play, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY, September 29 - October 30, 2023
Photography Regional Select Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY, October 17 - November 4, 2023
45th Annual Photography Regional, Albany Center Gallery, September 22 - October 7, 2023
Incubator: Leaks, Arts Letters & Numbers, August 17 - September 3, 2023, Collaboration with Grace Rawden
Axis of Relating, Matèria Galley, Rome, Italy, March 11 - June 1, 2023
Chancellor's Gallery, SUNY Art System, Albany, NY, 2023
MFA Thesis Exhibition, UAM, Albany, NY, April 26 – May 15, 2022
Fotographia Exhibition, Emerge Gallery, April 17 – May 30, 2021
Efflorescence Exhibition, UAM, Albany, NY, May 1 - 17, 2020
Female in Focus, Center of Fine Art Photography, May 13 - August 22, 2020
Regional Art Exhibit, Saratoga Arts, Saratoga, NY, 2020
Built, Historical Albany Foundation, Albany, NY, 2019
Awards/Grants
2021 Daniel and Wendy J. L. Keyser Teaching Excellence Award- Nomination
2020 SUNY PACC Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation Grant- Finalist
Certification
2022 Lumen Learning- Active Learning Teaching fellowship and certification
Collective
2023 Artsy Fartsy Collective, Founding member
Updated February 2024