BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) Minnesota State University 2005
MFA (Master of Fine Art) University of South Florida 2010
Short Bio
Carmen Tiffany was born in the rural western United States in 1982. Her work deals with the fantastical artifice and promise of children’s media and contaminates it with life’s, often visceral, realities. Exploiting the societal underbelly of the rural American west she creates lineage between pathetic entropies and the promise in the modern version of childhood. Carmen received her BFA from Minnesota State University in 2005, and her MFA from the University of South Florida in 2010. Working in several mediums, including installation and video, Carmen has exhibited in the United States and Europe.
Selected Exhibitions
2011
Jim -1, New Capital, Chicago, IL (June 2011)
Sickly Sweet, Project Space, Tampa, FL
2X4, The Landromat, Brooklyn, NY
Broward College Adjunct Faculty Show, Fine Arts Gallery BC, Davie, FL
2010
#rank Miami, Seven Art Fair-Ed/Winkleman Gallery, Miami Art Basel, Miami
Miami Art Salon, 810 Projects, Miami FL
Wanna Pickle?,Tempest Projects, Tampa, FL
Misc! Animation and Video, New York Studio Gallery, NY, NY
ROUSE, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
SITEfest 2010, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Stills Show, 700 IS Film and Video Festival, 5 Venue Tour including CIA Center of Icelandic Art, Iceland
2009
Digi-A-Go Go!, Wynwood Arts District, Art Basel Miami 2009
You Become Your Thoughts, PUNCH Gallery, Seattle, WA
10X10, Lake Worth Storage, Lake Worth, FL
5X5 Works on Paper, [5] Art Gallery, Tampa, FL
Florida Consortium of Art Schools 2009 Juried Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, Juror: Libby Lumpkin (catalogue)
Showtel, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL (catalogue)
33rd Annual Student Juried Show, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL *Best In Show*
Blow Up!, Shiftspace Gallery, Wichita, KS
Dirty Show, Bert’s Warehouse Theatre, Detroit, MI
Peanut Got Squished Too Hard, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL (solo)
2008
Gentrification…and Other Notes on Trailer Trash, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
Covered in Blood, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
Paris Exhibition, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
32nd Annual Student Juried Show, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (Juried by Anne Pasternak)
What a Dick!!, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2006
Children in the Sun, Hawthorne Artwalk, Portland, OR (solo)
Recent Works: Carmen Tiffany and Andrew Nigon, Bohio Studios, Portland OR
2005
Group Show, Richmond- American International University, Florence, Italy
2004
Juried Show, Springfield Public Library, Springfield, MN (merit award)
A Collection of Ladies, Smitten Kitten, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Summer Juried Show, 410 Project, Mankato, MN
Tossed Salad, Effie Conkling Gallery, Mankato, MN
BFA Thesis, Effie Conkling Gallery, Mankato, MN