Tema Stauffer



Born: 1973 Durham, NC

Lives and Works: New York, NY


Solo Exhibitions:

Tyler School of Art, Elkins Hall Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Selected Works, 2008
Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, American Stills, 2004
AvroKO/PUBLIC Gallery, New York, New York, Photo installation in project space, 2004
Minnesota Center for Photography at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Un. of MN, Minneapolis, MN, Heart Land, 2004
Minnesota Center for Photography at Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Dog Show, 2004
The Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, American Stills, Emerging Artist Series, 2004
Central Lakes College Gallery, Brainerd, MN, Seven Scenes, 2004


Group Exhibitions:

Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C., 8: Eight Photographers, 2008
Dean Jenson Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Big, Big Bangs/ Small, Small Bucks, 2008
Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
* The Girl’s Room: By The Drier Project, 2006
* Meditations in an Emergency, 2006
* Best Midwestern: Photography from the Heartland, 2004
* The Pin-up Show, 2004
* Home (for the Holidays), 2004
* 8.5 x 11: Perspectives on the Everyday, 2003

* Inaugural Exhibition, 2003
The School of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Faculty Exhibition: About This, 2007, Faculty Exhibition, 2006
G2 Gallery of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, You’re in my space, 2007
Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, HIV Law Project Benefit Exhibition, 2007 and 2008
Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, CA, The Art of Photography Show, 2007
Gallery at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, Strange Instrument, 2006
David Allen Gallery, New York, NY, Nymphoto: Filtered, 2004
Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, A Great Midwestern, 2004
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Exhibition of American Art: People In Motion, 2004
Icebox Gallery Minneapolis, MN, SKIN 2003, 2003
Warren St. Loft, New York, NY, Nymphoto: Women’s Collective Art Show, 2002
Cowles Conservatory, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Collaboration of digital photographic imagery, drawing and sound with visual artist, David Hamlow, and minimalist music ensemble, Smattering, 2003 
Midwest Warehouse, Minneapolis, MN, Warehouse: A Decade of work/Work, 2002
Chicago-Ashland Space, Chicago, IL, Curious Terrors, 2002
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, You Are Here: Chicago in the year 2000, (City 2000), 2000
Joymore Gallery, Chicago, IL, Heavy Petting, 2000
The Butcher Shop Gallery, Chicago, IL, On the Prowl, 2000
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Homegrown: annual exhibition of faculty and student artwork, 1999, 2000, 2005-2007
Musee Departemental d’ Art Contemporain de Rouchechoart, France, Propositions II, 1998
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL, 1998: New Artists in Chicago: exhibition of 39 selected Chicago-area graduate students, 1998
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, MFA exhibition of 23 color photographs, 1998


Grants, Awards, Collections:

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Midwest Photographers Project, fifteen images selected for project in 2005
McKnight Photography Fellowship, MN, Finalist, 2005
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Myron James Czarniecki III Photography Collection
The Comer Archive of Chicago in the Year 2000, Chicago, IL
Documentary photographer for photographic archive of Chicago in the year 2000 – photographed scenes from ride-alongs with Chicago police officers, 2000
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Honorable Mention, “Exhibition of American Art: People in Motion”, 2004
Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL, CAAP grants for Dog Show Photography Project, 1999 and 2000
The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Robert Stiegler Award – annual scholarship given to a graduate student in photography, 1998
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Second Prize Winner of the national 1997 Visions of Excellence Photography Contest
Battle Creek Art Museum, Battle Creek, MI, People’s Choice Award, “Focus ‘94”, 1994


Education:

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Master of Fine Arts in Photography, 1998
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Bachelor of Arts, May 1995
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Color photography, film and advanced independent study in photography, winter semester, 1994