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Tesia Blackburn was born in Shreveport,
Louisiana and went to elementary school in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho,
and Oregon. She attended high school in New Mexico and then moved to San
Francisco.
Tesia has been a working artist in the San Francisco Bay
Area for over 20 years. In 2002 NextMonet Inc., signed Tesia to produce
prints of several of her paintings. In 2000 she was hired by Golden Artist
Colors, as the Golden Working Artist in San Francisco. Her work is collected
both locally and internationally with patrons as far away as Tokyo.
She received her BFA from the Academy
of Art in 1984, studied lithography at the San Francisco Art Institute in
1990 and received her Masters of Art in 1992 at John F. Kennedy University
in Orinda, California. Tesia has taught at the Mendocino Art Center, Palo
Alto Art Center, San Francisco City College, Santa Fe NM Community College,
the Randall Museum in San Francisco, Walnut Creek Civic Arts and other facilities.
Tesia is currently represented
by Marion Meyer Gallery in Laguna
Beach, California.
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REPRESENTATION
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2005-present
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Marion Meyer, Laguna Beach, CA
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2001-04
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
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1999-2000
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Picassos Piccolo, Madrid, NM
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1999
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Alpha Group Art, Canyon Road, Santa
Fe, NM
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1994-96
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Stage Interiors, San Francisco, CA
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1989-91
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Gallery Six Oh One San Francisco, CA
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1988-89
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Accurate Art Gallery Sacramento, CA
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1987-89
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Alonso/Sullivan Gallery Seattle, WA
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COLLECTIONS
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Brigham Young University, Rexburg ID
Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento CA
Bellevue Towers, Bellevue WA |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2008
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Bedford Gallery - Walnut Creek CA -
Civic Arts Faculty Show
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2005
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Saint Johns College Santa Fe, NM
Blackburn/Klabunde/Zavada
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2003
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Thoreau Center San Francisco Tesia
Blackburn World Mountain House (One person show)
Blair Carnahan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Invitational Monoprint Show;
Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS Tesia Blackburn - Art in
the Heartland - (One person show)
525 Market, San Francisco, CA (Two Person Show);
Mad River Post, San Francisco CA.
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2000
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Starbucks on the Plaza Santa Fe, NM
(One person show)
Picassos Piccolo, Madrid, NM (One person show)
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1999
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Alpha Group Art Tesia Blackburn - Image
and Energy: Recent Work (One person show);
SITE Santa Fe, Monomarathon Gala Opening
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1998
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Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley CA Small
Works
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1997
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Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Women's Celebration
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1996
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San Jose, CA Tapestry in Talent Berkeley,
CA Live Oak;
Artistes Gallerie, Sacramento, CA Introductions: Letizell/Blackburn,
(Two person show)
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1992
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John F. Kennedy University, Orinda,
CA Annual Open House;
Back Room Gallery, Sacramento, CA Private Obsessions
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1991
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I Gallery, Sacramento, CA Three Bad
A's: Aids, Apartheid, Armament
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1990
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Two Penny Gallery Sacramento, CA Lost
Angels
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1989
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Garden Silks Sacramento, CA Faces No
Names;
Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Collectors Exhibition;
John Beggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hospitality House Fourth
Annual Auction
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1988
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Alonso/Sullivan Gallery Seattle, WA
Newell/Blackburn (Two person show);
Seattle, WA Visual Artists Against Aids
Hospitality House, San Francisco, CA Perspectives;
Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Just When Things Don't Figure;
Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Women Artists 1988
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1987
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Alonso/Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA
18/200 Small Formats;
Arts Council of San Mateo Belmont, CA Bay Arts-Eighth Annual Juried
Exhibition;
Alonso/Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA Eroticism: West Coast Expression
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1986
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Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts, San Francisco,
CA Benefit Auction
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1984
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San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco,
CA Celebration of Form
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LECTURES/TEACHING
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2003-08
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San Francisco City College,
Walnut Creek Civic Arts,
Northbay Artworks,
San Luis Obispo Art Center
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2002
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Amsterdam Art- Berkeley, CA;
Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM;
ArtJuice Studios, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA;
Civic Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA ;
Art and Clay, Santa Fe, NM
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2001
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Amsterdam Art- Berkeley CA;
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA;
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA;
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS;
Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM ;
Art and Clay, Santa Fe NM;
Randall Museum, San Francisco, CA
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2000
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Art and Clay (Children) Santa Fe,
NM Printmaking Summer Camp;
Community College of Santa Fe, NM -
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1999
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Richmond Art Center (Children), San
Francisco, CA ;
Community College of Santa Fe, NM - Mixed Media and Monotype ;
Art and Clay (Children) - Santa Fe, NM - Printmaking Summer Camp;
City College of San Francisco, CA, Printmaking without a Press
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1993-5
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Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA,Printmaking
without a Press
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1992
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Bayview Senior Center, Instructor, San
Francisco, CA
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1991
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Letterman Army Hospital, Oncology Ward,
Instructor, San Francisco, CA
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1988
1987
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San Jose Mercury News, interview and
video.
Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, with photograph.
San Luis Obispo Tribune with photograph
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, April 2004, interview with photograph.
Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kansas, June 10, 2002 with photograph.
Art of Northern California, - Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, artist profile.
Albuquerque Journal, June 18, 1999 with photograph.
Twentieth Annual Open Studios, catalogue, San Francisco, CA.
Annual Art Auction, KTEH Public Television, San Jose, CA.
Mendocino Art Center Catalogue, cover illustration.
San Francisco Bay Times Newspaper, illustration and article.
Nineteenth Annual Open Studios, catalogue, San Francisco, CA.
Eighteenth Annual Open Studios, catalogue, San Francisco, CA.
Seventeenth Annual Open Studios, catalogue, San Francisco, CA.
Sixteenth Annual Open Studios, catalogue, San Francisco, CA.
CA Art Review, American References, Chicago, Il, artist profile.
San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, June, 1988, "Artists Find
Gems In Tenderloin Grime", by Jesse Hamlin.
SGN Seattle, WA, May 13, 1988, Page 22, "Alonso Sullivan display
Newell and Blackburn".
Top Story, KING-TV Broadcasting, Channel 5, Seattle, WA "Mainstreaming
of Eroticism", August 1987.
Outstanding Young Women of America, Montgomery, AL.
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EDUCATION
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1998
1992
1990
1986
1984
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Post Graduate Study, Pacifica Graduate
Institute (Depth Psychology and Mythology)
Masters of Arts and Consciousness, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda CA
San Francisco Art Institute, Lithography
Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco (Alp Ozberker, Etching)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art, San Francisco
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ART RELATED ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
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2000-present
1999
1994-9
1993
1992-3
1989
1984-5
1982-3
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Golden Artist Colors, Designated Working
Artist, San Francisco and Northern California
College of Santa Fe, Invited Participant 13th Annual Monothon
Shipyard Print Guild, Member.
Graphic Arts Workshop, Member.
Director of Publicity, Artists' Guild of San Francisco.
Director, Gallery Six Oh One San Francisco, CA.
Artist in Residence Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, MA.
Director, Magenta Women Artists San Francisco, CA.
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