Tanja Geis (American, 20th century), "Anonymous White Thing #1", 2021, acrylic gouache on paper and plastic flotsam found on shoreline of San Francisco Bay, signed verso of frame, sheet: 30"h x 22"w, overall (with frame): 33.25"h x 25"w. Exhibition: Surface Tension, solo show, A. Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA; Circulate, solo show, Nov. 2022- Jan. 2023 re. riddle, San Francisco, CA Artist bio: Tanja Geis makes site-based paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos that invite intimacy with human-disturbed marine and coastal ecosystems through queering, drawing close to and staying with the impacts of humans on the liveliness of non-humans. Geis holds a M.F.A. from University of California, Berkeley, a M.R.M. in Marine Management from the University of Akureyri and a B.A. from Yale University. She has exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and venues in Iceland, Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and Japan. Geis's awards include Graduate and Affiliate Fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, and a Graduate Arts Grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Her residencies include Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Blue Mountain Center, and Kala Art Institute.

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