Bio
Tava Tedesco currently resides and works in Long Beach, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and her Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. Her work explores an investigation of locations through a blend of documentation and play. She utilizes digital fabrication, printmaking, photography, and drawing to represent and question landscapes, examining our unavoidable interactions with the natural world and how these moments can shape our understanding and responses to the landscapes we encounter. By engaging with various documentation systems, she distills the collected research through different media and visual approaches, embedding personal perspectives and choices into the work. As a mother of a young daughter, Tedesco is often fascinated by youthful exploration.
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EDUCATION
2011 - 2014 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts in Printmaking, California State University of Long Beach - Long Beach, CA, USA
2006 - 2010 Bachelor of Arts, University of Hawaii at Manoa - Honolulu, HI, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2025 De Los Arboles, Para los Arboles portfolio exchange, SGCI Puerto Rico, Spring 2025
2024. 2-person show - Pressed, Pulled, Printed, Palos Verdes Arts Center, CA, Winter 2024
Experience and Connections Exchange, MAPC, Kansas part of the permanent collection at Kansas State University
Group show - LA to LB, Munzon Gallery x LAPS, Long Beach, CA
Group show - Ink and Clay Art and Science Collide, Cal Poly Pomona, CA
Communities West IV Portfolio Exchange
Echoes of Print, Themed portfolio Organizer, SGCI
Residency - Directangle Press, Bethlehem, NH
Listen to the Earth portfolio exchange, University of Colorado Boulder collection
2023 Portfolio Exchange with Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum
Findings, RMPA portfolio exchange
Residency at Peace Lily Press Micro Farm - June-October
Multiple Intersections, The Long Beach Creative Group, CA
2022. Sustain, Portfolio Exchange MAPC 2022 Conference
Shown at MAPC 2022: Kent State University, Kent Ohio,
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton Missouri
2020. Vie Du Pacifique III Pacific Perimeter, International Print Exchange
Shown at Perimeter Print Exchange, Printopia in Auckland New Zealand,
Migaloo Press hosted at Brisbane Gallery,
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery in Queensland, Australia,
Commons Gallery at University of Hawaii, Manoa
2016 Vie Du Pacifique II Pacific Perimeter, International Print Exchange
Shown at Gatakers Artspace Maryborough Queensland Australia,
Print Council of Australia’s “50 Years of Print”
2014 She and Her at The Art Exchange, Long Beach, CA
Thesis Exhibition - The Magic Hour, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Group show - Then and Now, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
2013 Solo Show - Fields, Maxine Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Group show - Insights, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Group show - Come On In, We’re Open, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group show - Little Games Show, Art Exchange, Long Beach, CA
2012 Fine Arts Round Table Group Show: Secret Santa Exhibition, Gatov Gallery Cal State Long Beach, CA
Fraction of the Matter, Maxine Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2010 University of Hawaii, Manoa 2010 Faculty and Student Group Show Manoa, HI
82nd Annual Honolulu Printmakers Show, Honolulu, HI
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2024 Fieldnotes 6th Issue, PHA’s:Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
2013 Daily 49er, Graduate Students Showcase Art, Atmosphere, September 30, 2013
Publication for the Come On In, We’re Open exhibition
Long Beach Gazette, “Little Games” Plays Up Art
2012 SFMOMA, Micro Hubs
2010 TinFish Press 12th Issue, Cover artist
Rising Undergraduate Award, awarded by the Honolulu Printmakers Association
HIGHLIGHTS
2024 LACMA: L.A. Print: Edition 13, Beyond the Press: Material Innovations in Printmaking, panel participant
42nd Annual Auction Anderson Ranch Arts Center, artist donation
2023 Visiting artist lecture, Artists in Their Own Words, at California State University of Long Beach
Total Landscaping reading group member, hosted by X-tra art publication
2022 Visiting artist at Orange Coast Community College
2014 SiteSpace collaboration with She and Her collective during the month of July, The Art Exchange, Long Beach, CA
SiteSpace host fundraiser: A collective of artist displaying and selling works
2012 SiteSpace host collaboration with artist Rob Brown, The Long Beach SoundWalk 2013, Long Beach,CA
SiteSpace host collaboration with artist Erynn Richardson, Site Space Collections, Big Sur, CA
Served on the committee for the The Workshop program, presented by CSULB, Fine Art Round Table, 2013-2014
Vice President of Fine Art Roundtable, CSULB, serving on the committee for GLAMFA preparations 2013-2014
SiteSpace host collaboration with artist Cynthia Herrera, You Are Here Project, 2012-2013, Bell, CA & Los Angeles, CA
2011 Served on the committee for Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition preparations, jury and installations
2010 SiteSpace Host collaboration with artist Christian Ward, Movin’ Around
Launch of SiteSpace, a mobile residency program