CV
Born 1976. Nassau, The Bahamas
EDUCATION
2007 MFA Glass (with honors). Rhode Island School of Design- providence RI
2004 BFASculpture (with honors). School of Design at Alfred University – Alfred NY
2002 Metalsmithing . Savannah College of Art and Design- Savannah GA
2000 Associates of Fine Arts, Painting. College of the Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas
1995 Metallurgy. The Industrial Training College, Nassau Bahamas
INSTALLATIONS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Identities – Pierogi 2000 – Brooklyn, NY
2014 Pierogi 20th anniversary group show- Brooklyn ,NY
2007 RISD Museum Exhibition- Providence, RI
2006 RISD Glass triennial - Woods Gerry Gallery, providence RI,
2005 Aftershock – union street installation, Providence RI
2004 The end of matter is where man begins- Binns Merrill pavilion, Alfred NY,
2003 Materializing Perception- The Sculpture Annex, Alfred NY,
2001 Stains- The Pro Gallery, The College of The Bahamas,
2000 Visual Dialogue- traveling exhibition, Nassau Bahamas,
STUDIO PROJECTS
2017 “I am” Desert X, Palm springs, Ca
2015 “How to Make Someone Invisible,” Fergus McCaffery Gallery, St Barthelemy
“Seeing Is Forgetting The Thing That You Saw,” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013 ”Polar Eclipse” Bahamas Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2012 “Tavares Strachan: Here and Now,” Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Isreal
2011 “Tavares Strachan: Seen/ Unseen,” Undisclosed Location, New York, NY
“Sometimes Lies are Prettier,” Rossi & Rossi, London, England
2010 “Other Than Beauty,” Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY
“The Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such A Bad Idea If I Never Went Home," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
“The Orthostatic Tolerance: Launching into an Infinite Distance,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2009 “The Orthostatic Tolerance: You Can Do Whatever You Like,” ICA, Philadelphia, PA
2008 “Inner and Outer Space,” Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
"Tavares Strachan", Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
“A Hundred Years,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 "Tavares Strachan", Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
"Tavares Strachan" , Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Where We Are Is Always Miles Away,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
“The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want,”Albury Sayle Primary School, Nassau, Bahamas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://bombmagazine.org/article/7266/faces-of-the-biennale
ARTIST'S WRITINGS
Encyclopedia of Invisibility, Isolated Labs Press, New York, NY, 2017
The Devil’s Dictionary, Grand Arts Press, Kanas City, MO, 2015
Pastarsius Volume 1, Henry Christophe, Blurb Press, New York, NY, 2014
RESEARCH
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Brown University, Providence, RI
Tulane University historical department, New Orleans, LA
Sterling Library ,Yale University, New Haven, CT
The National Archives of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
The Monastery of The Capuchin, Church of San Donnino, Pisa, Italy.
The Bahamas Humane society, Nassau, Bahamas
Museo de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Scholes Library, Alfred, NY
Ministry of Culture, Nassau, Bahamas
B.E.R.C., Stanyard Cay, Bahamas