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Tameka Norris
email: tameka@ucla.edu
Education
2012 Masters of Fine Art (MFA), Yale University, CT
2010 Bachelor of Art (BA), University of California Los Angeles, CA
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MA
Residency
2013 Hermitage Artist Retreat, Sarasota, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
Midnight Salon, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Eyes Off the Flag, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan
Gifted and Talented, Third Streaming Gallery, curator Clifford Owens, NY, NY
MFA Painting Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011
Prospect 2 New Orleans Biennial, curator Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA Queer Sexing, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA Prospect New Orleans Benefit Auction, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA 3x6x3 #2, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) LA, CA Pulp, Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, AL
2010 Prospect 1.5 New Orleans Biennial Good Children Gallery, curator Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA “not just a shelter” Oxnard College, McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA For Your Pleasure, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA To the Window to the Wall, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, LA, CA Lube, Jaus Gallery, curator Martin Durazo, LA, CA
2009 Party at Chris’s House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, curator Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY UCLA Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, LA, CA, WWWD (What Would Wayne Do?) The Best Rapper Alive Art Exhibition, Bushwick Star, Brooklyn, NY UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, curator, Mark Allen (Machine Project), New Wight Gallery LA, CA Entitled, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Show, Senior Show New Wight Gallery, LA, CA Open Projector Night, Hammer Museum, LA, CA True Diva Biennale, Skowhegan, ME
2008
UCLA Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, LA, CA
UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, curator, Ali Subotnick (Hammer Museum), New Wight Gallery, LA, CA
Dissent! 1968 to Now, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, LA, CA
2007
Theories, Moralities and Goals Dripping from Teeth and Nails in Grand Moonlight, UCLA Undergraduate Gallery, LA, CA
2006
Women of Color Explore Homeland, Lucy Florence Gallery, LA, CA
Academic Awards/Honors
2013
Modern Painter Magazine, 25 Emerging Artists List, Dec 2012/ Jan 2013 (nominated by Byron Kim)
2012
Blair Dickinson Scholarship, Yale School of Art
Schlosberg Prize, Yale School of Art
Modern Painter Magazine, 100 Emerging Artists List, Dec 2011/ Jan 2012 (nominated by Wangechi Mutu)
2009
School of Arts and Architecture Dean’s Scholarship (merit based) UCLA
Robert and Marion Wilson Award (financial based) UCLA
Emma B. Keller Award (faculty nomination) UCLA
Jo Downing Scholarship, (academic merit and moral character) UCLA
Women’s Faculty Scholarship (merit and need based) UCLA
Lillian Levinson Scholarship (“In recognition of artistic and academic promise,” for “demonstrating superior achievement") UCLA
2008
Aubrey Penny Award (faculty nomination) UCLA
John Densmore Award (rock band, The Door’s drummer award for African American music and art majors) UCLA
Robert and Marion Wilson (financial based) UCLA
Art Council Undergraduate Project Award (travel grant) UCLA
Emma B. Keller Award (faculty nomination) UCLA
Jo Downing Scholarship (academic merit and moral character) UCLA
2007
UCLA Scholarship Recognition Award (stellar academic achievement)
Publications
Tameka Norris and Hamilton, Kori. 2009. "Finding Meaning in College Bound Words Through Visual Art," in Arts=Education, Connecting Learning Communities in Los Angeles, Amy Shimshon-Santo and Lauren Salazar (eds.), Lulu.
Community Service
2009 RECOVERING KATRINA: A Retrospection and Call for Action. The African Diaspora Theme Community and the Academic Advancement Program donate for the New Orleans Read and Rise Program, UCLA, LA, CA (Presenter and Panelist)
2008 Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love,
Francis Alys: Politics of Rehearsal,
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collections of Ricky Jay,
…And Then Again: Printed Series, 1500-2007, Hammer Museum LA, CA (Docent /Student Educator)
2008 June Cross, “Secret Daughter: A mixed race daughter and the mother who gave her away” Hammer Book Club Conversation, Hammer Museum, LA, CA (Moderator)
2008 UCLA + URBAN SCHOOLS + COMMUNITIES IGNITING CORE SYNERGIES: Artsbridge 2nd Annual Symposium, Shared lessons learned from arts education community partnerships in South and Central Los Angeles. The annual gathering shares successful teaching and learning strategies in the arts and urban schooling, and celebrates both individual and social transformation. (Presenter)
Research/ Teaching
2012 Teaching Assistant, Animation, Yale School of Art
2011 Teaching Assistant, Digital Video, Yale School of Art
2010 Teaching Assistant, Drawing, UCLA Summer Art Institute
2009 GMP Graduate Mentoring Program Brown Bag Lunch Series “A Rap Music Video as Institutional Critique?” screening and discussion Licker (Presenter) UCLA, Los Angeles CA
2008 “Finding Meaning in College Bound Words Through Visual Art,” Jordan Starr High
School, Watts, CA, 11th grade English class. Integrated SAT College Preparation vocabulary with visual art, promoting ownership and personal meaning of these words, students made several paintings with exhibition and critique.
2007-2009 ARTS- IN Scholar, Research and Follow up in New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast, Post Katrina Photographic Journal. Included three trips to the area traveling through to document the change or lack of change in particular neighborhoods and observe the particular needs of the community.
