Tanya Wischerath lives and works in San Francisco California.
Solo Shows
2024: The Modern Queer Tarot, Bona Vada, San Francisco CA 2023:Seeing You Here, STRUT, San Francisco, CA 2022: Broad Daylight, Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA 2016: Future Aquaintence, Blackbird Bar, San Francisco, CA
2013: Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
2010: Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
2010: Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009: Luscious Garage, San Francisco, CA
2009: A Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Shows
2024: The Queer Agenda, Clay Clubhouse, Oakland CA 2024: Resonantly Me, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA 2024: Outlandish, A group of perfectly small paintings, Wave Collective Space, San Francisco, CA
2023: Small Works Show, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY 2023: De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2023: Multimedia Show, Wilson Arts Center, Wilson, NC 2023: Celebrating Street and Mural Artists of San Francisco, The Academy, San Francisco, CA 2023: Pride Pop Up, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA 2023: Shapeshifters; Myth and Magic of the North. Think Round Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022: Art and Community, Diving Swallow Tattoo, Oakland, CA 2022: Trans Aware, State of California Building, San Francisco, CA 2022: Queers don’t cry, Clay Clubhouse, Oakland, CA 2022: Small Works Show, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY 2022: The City Canvas, A Paint The Void Retrospective, Pier 70, San Francisco, CA
2021: The Red Wood, Online Exhibition curated by Julia Westerbeke, www.theredwood.show 2021: We are Everywhere, Clay Clubhouse, Oakland, CA 2021: Women in Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Selected artist. Laguna, CA 2021: Small Works, Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, KS
2019: Tiny Gallery, The Tiny Gallery, featured artist. Santa Rosa, CA
2016: Everyday, co-hosted by Visual-Aids. La Mama Galleria. New York, NY
2014: BP Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, selected artist
*National Portrait Gallery of London, London, England
*Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland, England
*Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013-2023: Clarion Alley Mural participant, San Francisco, CA
2009: A trip down (false) memory lane. Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
2008: Art Mart, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Publication
2021: Beyond Queer Words Literary Magazine, 2nd Edition, Cover Artist 2018: January issue, L-Mag Das Magazin für Lesben. 3-page feature on queer portraiture. Berlin, Germany. 2016: July/August issue.: Art21 magazine, Article contributor. “An Imposing Figure: Thoughts on Activism and Commodification” Online
2013: No Definition Magazine, Front Cover Artist. Cambridge, England
2006-2007: Prosper Financial Magazine, Illustrator. Sacramento, CA
2002: Pride Sunday official pamphlet, Cover artist. San Francisco, CA
Awards
2022: Honorable Mention, Small Works show, Main street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY 2016: SF Bay Guardian’s Best Of The Bay, Best Tattoo Artist, San Francisco, CA
2015: SF Bay Guardian’s Best Of The Bay, Best Tattoo Artist, San Francisco, CA
2014: SF Bay Guardian’s Best Of The Bay, Best Tattoo Artist, San Francisco, CA
014: Silver Legacy Hotel, Dolly Parton Look-Alike Contest, 1st Place Reno, CA
Education
2015-18: Florence Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2014-15: Atelier School of Classical Realism, Oakland CA
2005 –07: California College of Art, Focus in Painting, Oakland CA
2003 –05: Moore College of Art and Design, focus in Painting and Printmaking, Philadelphia PA
Press
National Portrait Gallery – Exhibitor Profile
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS
SFist – Mural Honoring Trans Activists Unveiled on Clarion Alley