In my artwork, I am interested in discovering transmuted spaces, places where energy shifts, changes, or renews itself. Through an exploration of the interstices between opposing elements, such as nature and artifice or chaos and order, I wish to explore entropic systems where healing may occur. I want my audience to be left with question and confronted by a raw sense of what it means to be human.

 

Tobias Tovera

Born in Sacramento, California
Lives in San Francisco, California

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2009, Transmutation Unfolding, 555 California Plaza Gallery, San Francisco, California

2005, The Medicine of Space, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, California

2003, New Work, Akimbo Gallery, Sacramento, California

2001, Substance, North Gallery, Oakland, California

2000, Deliverance, Ortiz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1999, Soul Impressions, California College of Arts and Crafts, Tecoah and Thomas Galleries, San Francisco, California

1999, Façade, Installation and Performance, Midtown Mosaic, Sacramento, California

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011, Corporate Showroom Exhibit, Conde House, San Francisco, CA

2010, Japan Benefit, Arttitud, San Francisco, CA

2010, Versace Launch Event, Roche Bobois, San Francisco, CA

2010, 3rd Annual Art Opening, Barber Lounge, San Francisco, CA

2009, SFS Benefit for the De Young Museum of San Francisco, CA

2009, Fortuitous Moments, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008, Bridge Art Fair, Catalina Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

2008, Compass!, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007, Art Fair Now, Claremont Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

2007, Salon d'Ete 2007, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006, Raw Egg, Videography / Performance - Nature Theatre, Yugen Presents, San Francisco, California

2006, Moksha, Videography / Performance - Nature Theatre, The Milk Bar International Film Festival, Oakland, California

2006, Breaking Point, Videography / Performance - Nature Theatre, SOMarts, San Francisco, California

2005, Nova Express, Videography - Nature Theatre, Counterpulse, San Francisco, California

2004, How Can You Resist, 9th Biennial Festival of New Media, presented by LA Freewaves

2004, Uncharted Terrain, Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California

2004, 3rd Annual Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, California

2002, Delirium, A Symposium of Film and Video Art, W Hotel, San Francisco, California

 

Bibliography:

2012, Studio Visit Magazine, Drew Katz, Volume Sixteen, (Jan. 2012 p.208)

2005, The Medicine of Space, Leigh Markopoulos, Catalog Review, (Nov.27 p.1-2)

2002, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dolcinea Gonzales, Art, (Oct.23-30 p. 86)

2001, The Oakland Tribune, Frosene Philips, Art and Entertainment, (Sept.9-10 p.34)

2000, SF Weekly, Anne Marie Mastandrea, San Francisco Art Review (Mar.20-25, p.104)

 

Education:

MFA, New Media, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, 2011-Present

BFA, Sculpture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, May 2002

Interior Architecture, San Diego Design Institute, San Diego, California, 1997-1999

Art History, American River College, Sacramento, California, 1995-1997

 

Selected Collections :

Mark A. Hagopian, San Francisco, CA

Amy Thorne, San Francisco, CA

Jennifer Trahan, San Franciso, CA

Jonathan Deason, San Francisco, CA

Mirsada Kurtovic, San Francisco, CA

Markus Hawkins, San Francisco, CA

Genevieve Palogan and Jack Burrows, San Francisco, CA

Shay Gilmore and Mark de La Rosa, San Francisco, CA

Dalton Robertson & Associates, Los Angeles, CA

Mike Swager, Sacramento, CA

Lorraine Blanco, Sacramento, CA

Amber Brewer, Sacramento, CA

Charles Mcnair, New York, NY

 

 

 

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