Visiting Artist Lecture: Tara Tamaribuchi

Tara Tamaribuchi (b. 1975, California) investigates human life experience in an organic, unfolding art practice. She enters artmaking from a Buddhist and diasporic perspective, with interests in impermanence and connecting the past and present to new futures. Tamaribuchi earned a BA in Journalism from George Washington University, a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and an MFA from Lesley Art and Design. In the last few years, the artist has participated in exhibitions at Tlaxcala3 (Mexico City), Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Fair (Vestibule Gallery), UW Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Method Gallery, Seattle University Hedreen Gallery, Eastover Contemporary Arts (Lenox, MA), and Galpão (São Paulo, Brazil). She recently curated the group exhibition, Eight Years: Finding Resistance and Belonging in the Historic Immigration Building, at ARTS at King Street Station. She founded the nonprofit Friends of Inscape to save the art studios at the Inscape Arts, Seattle’s former immigration and detention building, and reimagine it as an arts and culture center that centers immigrant communities. Tamaribuchi currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.