2004-06 MFA. Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003 BFA, Glass. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
2002 Liberal Arts Studies. Brown University, Providence RI
1999 Associates of Fine Arts, Painting. College of the Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas
Solo Exhibitions
2015
“How to Make Someone Invisible,” Fergus McCaffery Gallery, St Barthelemy
“Seeing Is Forgetting The Thing That You Saw,” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012
“Tavares Strachan: Here and Now,” Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Isreal
2011
“Tavares Strachan: Seen/ Unseen,” Undisclosed Location, New York, NY
“Sometimes Lies are Prettier,” Rossi & Rossi, London, England
2010
“Other Than Beauty,” Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY (June 1–July 30)
“The Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such A Bad Idea If I Never Went Home,”
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (7 May–1 July)
“The Orthostatic Tolerance: Launching into an Infinite Distance,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
(5 February–3 April)
2009
“The Orthostatic Tolerance: You Can Do Whatever You Like,” ICA, Philadelphia, PA
2008
“Inner and Outer Space,” Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Tavares Strachan, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
“A Hundred Years,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Tavares Strachan, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Tavares Strachan, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Where We Are Is Always Miles Away,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
“The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want,” Nassau Bahamas,
Albury Sayle Primary School (Installation of the Arctic Ice Project)
Traveled to Miami, FL in expanded form, including a separate film element,
and the artists’ flag as planted in Alaska and the Bahamas
2001
“Synergism,” Pro Gallery, Nassau Bahamas
1999
“Reactions,” Central Bank Gallery, Nassau Bahamas
Group Exhibitions
2016
“False Narratives,” Pierogi Gallery, Manhattan, NY
“Winter 2015: Collected Works,” Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
2014
“Prospect. 3,” New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA
2013
Bahamas National Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2010
“Roundabout,” Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
“Fokus Lodz Biennale 2010,” Lodz Biennale, Lodz
“Instructions not Included,” Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Double Up Double Up,” Quint Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2009
“BLACK & WHITE HORSE,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, The Boiler (Pierogi), Brooklyn, NY
2008
“Pierogi et al,” Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007
“20th Anniversary: In the Fullness of Time,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
“From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
“Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings,” Daniel Weinberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“(Un)Natural Selection,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“Connecticut Contemporary,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
“New York: State of Mind,” The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Shaheen Merali. Traveled to the Queens Museum
2006
“Surveillances and Observations,” PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany
“Factitious,” PIEROGI Brooklyn, New York and Leipzig
“School Days,“ Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2005
SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Joe Amrhein and Petur Arason
2004
“Nothing Compared to This,” CAC Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2003
“One on One,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“Mine,” Lombard Fried Fine arts, New York, NY
2002
“Meiosis,” Sol Gallery, Providence RI
“Perspectives,” Woods Gerrry Gallery, Providence RI
“Caribbean Biennial,” Museum of Modern Art, Santa Domingo
2001
“Synergism,” Pro Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2000
Glass Triennial, Woods Gerrry Gallery, Providence, RI
“Shattered Fractions,” College Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
“On The Edge of Time,” Contemporary Art from the Carribbean, Washington DC
1999
“Visual Dialogue,” Group of works traveling through the Bahamas
“Post Independent Art,” Central Bank Gallery, Nassau Bahamas
1998
“Floyd’s Fury,” Pro Gallery, Nassau Bahamas
Awards
2009-10
MIT Artist-in-Residence
2008
Tiffany Foundation Grant
2007
Grand Arts Residency Fellowship
2006
Alice B. Kimball Fellowship
2003
Distinguished Student Award, RISD Glass
2000
Roots Junkanoo Group, Member
Queen Elizabeth Arts/Poetry Award
1998
Governor’s Award, The Governor General of the Bahamas
1996
National Seal of the Bahamas, Stamp Design
Bibliography
2010
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Smee, Sebastian. “Universe of Possibilities,” Boston Globe, May 28
2009
Cotter, Holland. “Yoon Lee, Jonathan Schipper, Tavares Strachan,” The New York Times, April 16
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2008
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2007
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2006
Heller, Maxwell. “Tavares Strachan: Hermetically Sealed,” The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 06/Jan 07.
P.57 (Illus.)
Smith, Roberta. “More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami,” The New York Times,
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Publications
Hobbs, Robert. The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, New York, NY: Pierogi Gallery and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 2006
Artist’s Writings
2007
“The Chickcharney | Mission.” Printed Project 7, June 2007. Pp. 101-07
Public Collections
Central Bank, Nassau Bahamas
Inter American Development Bank, Washington, DC
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santa Domingo
Nassau International Airport (Public Sculpture)
Governor General’s Office, New Providence Bahamas
Sir Linden Pindling’s Unity House, Nassau Bahamas