TIFFANY TRENDA

Tiffany Trenda is a new media performance artist based out of Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and her MFA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Design and Media Arts program. Artist of the Year winner at the London International Creative Competition Awards in 2008, she went on to exhibit "Entropy" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was invited to present "Face Me" at the World's Expo, in Shanghai, China in 2010 at the British Pavilion (designed by Heatherwick Studio). She has performed at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco, Italian Cultural Institute, A+D Museum, Scope Art Fair (Basel and New York), Boulder Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions (LACE), and Miami CONTEXT, where she graced the cover of the Miami Herald for the first image of Art Basel 2012. Trenda was included in the performance program for the Metamorphoses of the Virtual – 100 Years of Art and Freedom during the 55th annual Venice Biennale. Recently, Trenda was the highlight for Art Silicon Valley, Art Hamptons, and Palm Springs Fine Art Fair.

Trenda's performances and installations explore the relationship of the human body, particularly the female body, to technology. She interchanges her identity and her physical body with screens to represent how we conceal and reveal ourselves through our devices (smart phones, computers, etc.). The performance is created using screens and imaging technologies that conceptually focuses on the digital environment and how it affects our social behaviors. As technological devices become an integral part of our daily lives, we relate to them as if they are part of our skin and part of our identities. This will change how we see others and ourselves with the integration of the human body with new technology.


Education

2009 – 2011 Master of Fine Arts, UCLA, Design and Media Arts, Los Angeles, California
1998 – 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California


Recognitions

2014 Highlight for Art Silicon Valley, Art Hamptons, Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair, and Palm Springs Fine Art Fair,
2012 Cover of the Miami Herald for Art Basel
2012 Feature for Art Miami Context during Art Basel, Miami, FL
2009 Highlight for Artist Installation at Photo Los Angeles, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
Winner of the London International Creative Competition "Artist of the Year" London, UK
2005 Highlight for Art Fair Photo San Francisco


Teaching, Presentations, and Lectures

09/25/2014 Symposium, Wearable Technology: Redefining the Future of Fashion, Social Media Week LA, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2011 Created a collaborative studio workshop class that combined UCLA Art with UCLA Design and Media Art Departments at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Art and Design and Media Arts Department, DESMA 199
4/22/2011 Created and presented a lecture titled, "Interaction / Intervention", showing a parallel history and concepts of interaction and intervention art at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Art and Design and Media Arts Departments, Los Angeles, CA
4/16/2011 Presentation of work for Community Colleges Fashion Symposium at Cal Mart, Los Angeles, CA
2/17/2011 Lecture on Body, Pain, & Performance at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Art and Science DESMA 9, Los Angeles, CA
6/10/2010 - 6/14/2010 Created and managed workshops on Body and Media at EARTS, Shanghai, China
6/14/2010 Body and Media in Performance Art at EARTS, Shanghai, China
11/20/2009 UCLA Desma 10, Perloff Hall, presentation of work.


Solo Exhibitions
03/13/2014 - 04/05/2014 Body Code performance and exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
11/17/2009 – 01/02/2010 Specular performance and exhibition at Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
9/16/2005 Electric exhibition at Farmani Gallery Beverly Hills, CA
05/2004 Plastic Rape performance and exhibition at Gallery 4016 Los Angeles, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2015
9/10 - 12t/2015 3D Print Show Los Angeles
6/20/15- 20th Proximity Cinema performance at Zhulong Gallery Dallas, Texas
6/18 - 7/18/2015 Moving Images at The McLoughlin Gallery
5/31 - 6/8/2015 8th Auto Body at the Faena Art Center Buenos Aires (FAC)
2/14/2015 Proximity Cinéma at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2/12 – 2/15/2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
1/15 – 1/18/2015 Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
1/14-1/18/2015 Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

2014
12/4 – 12/7/2014 Auto Body during Art Basel, Project by Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
10/16 - 12/17/2014 Private! Come In! Exhibition, Spare Change Artist Space, San Francisco, CA
10/09 - 10/12/2014 Art Silicon Valley for The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
09/25/2014 Wearable Technology: Redefining the Future of Fashion, Social Media Week LA, Los Angeles, CA
09/17 - 09/21/2014 New York Art, Antiques, and Jewelry Show at the Armory for The McLoughlin Gallery, New York, NY
07/23- 7/24/2014 Code, Canvas, Chow Pop-Up for The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
07/10 - 4/13/2014 Proximity Cinema and Body Code at Art Hamptons Art Fair for The McLoughlin Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
06/31/2014 Zero Down at 1019 West Studios Inglewood, CA
04/25/2014 Body Code at Photo Independent, Los Angeles, CA
04/10 - 4/13/2014 Proximity Cinéma at Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair, San Jose, CA
03/06 -03/09/2014 Scope Art Fair New York for Licht Feld Gallery, New York, CA
02/13-16/2014 Proximity Cinéma at Palm Springs Fine Art Fair for The McLoughlin Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
01/21 - 4/19/2014 La Petit Mort et la Grande Hystéri, London, England, Curated by Gabriella Daris, London, UK

2013
12/2 - 12/7/2013 Proximity Cinéma at CONTEXT Art Miami for Licht Feld Gallery, Miami, FL
11/7-10/2013 Proximity Cinéma at Boulder Contemporary Art Museum for Medialive festival, Boulder, CO
06/26/2013 Proximity Cinéma for Codame Fashion Tech + Music in San Francisco, CA
06/10-16/2013 Scope Art Fair in Basel Switzerland for Licht Feld Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
05/27/2013 - 10/31/2013 Proximity Cinéma premiered for The Metamorphoses of the Virtual: 100 Years of Art and Freedom, during the 55th Annual Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
05/11/2013 Body Code Performance at A+D Museum Annual Gala, Los Angeles, CA
04/23-24/2013 Body Code Performance at Design West, San Jose, CA
03/09/2013 Body Code Performance at Times Square, New York, NY
03/6-10/3013 Body Code Performance at Scope Art Fair for Licht Feld Gallery, New York, NY
02/14 -18/2013 Body Code Performance at Wynwood Art Fair for Licht Feld Gallery, Miami, FL
01/17/2013 Body Code Performance at Photo Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
01/05/2013 Body Code Performance at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Orange County, CA

2012
12/02/2012 – 12/9/2012 Body Code Performance for Licht Feld Gallery at CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami, Florida
11/09 - 01/13/2012 Body Code Performance at the Performance Art Institute along with the Zero1 Biennial, The Future Imagined What's Next? San Francisco, CA
09/22/2012 Body Code Performance at Autumn Lights, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, CA
08/18/2012 Body Code Performance at the LA Mobile Arts Festival, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA
07/21/2012 Body Code Performance at the 4th Annual Perform Chinatown, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
07/12/2012 Body Code Performance at the New Media Art Festival, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
06/17/2012 Body Code Performance at the at Scope Art Fair for Licht Feld Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
06/16/2012 Specular Performance at Filter 4 in Basel, Switzerland
04/28/2012 Camera Obscure Performance at Create Fixate, Los Angeles, CA
04/14/2012 Religious Mantis Performance at the Insitituto Italiano di Cultura with UCLA's Department of Italian, Los Angeles, CA
04/07/2012 Urban Devotion Performance at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) Orange County, CA
03/31/2012 Camera Obscure Performance at Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA), Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
01/12/2012 - 01/16/2012 Urban Devotion Performance at Photo Los Angeles in Santa Monica, CA

2011
10/29/2011 LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
10/06/2011 Video Mapping Project with the Los Angeles Art Collective (LAAC), A+D Museum, Eames Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
08/04/2011 Urban Devotion Performance at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
07/23/2011 - 08/25/2011 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
07/09/2011 - 9/02/2011 Urban Devotion Performance at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA
06/21/2011 Urban Devotion Performance for Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)'s benefit at GUESS? Clothing Store, Santa Monica, CA
05/12/2011 - 05/23/2011 The New Wright Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
04/2011 - 05/2011 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
04/20/2011 Trenda performed in Luigi Ontani's Amen performance at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
03/05/2011 LACMA MUSE's Young Director's Night at the A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2010
10/30/2010 Urban Devotion Performance at Los Angels County Museum of Art's LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA
10/14/2010 – 10/20/2010 I Am Here Now, The New Wright Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
09/16/2010 Nine Show, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA
09/09/2010 Feed_Back collaborative Performance at the Digital Art LA for Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
07/30/2010 Terrarium Performance for Perform Now at Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
07/08/2010 - 07/24/2010 Feed_Back collaborative performance at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
06/17/2010 Face Me Performance at the World Expo, UK Pavilion, Shanghai, China
04/03/2010 Entropy Performance at Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA), Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
01/15/2010 – 01/18/2010 Photo Los Angeles, Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009
08/28/2009 Entropy Performance at the Malibu Annual Contemporary Art Fair, Malibu, CA
08/13/2009 - 08/15/2009 Entropy Performance at Digital Art LA apart of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
05/30/2009 Entropy Performance at the Los County Museum of Art, LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA
04/18/2009 - 04/19/2009 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
01/08/2009 - 01/11/2009 Commissioned Artist Installation and Performance for Photo Los Angeles, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA

2008
11/01/2008 - 11/02/2008 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
09/20/2008 - 10/04/2008 The Museum of Hyperreal Art, Malibu, CA
08/14/2008 - 08/16/2008 Digital Art LA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
07/10/2008 - 07/31/2008 Death of an Icon Performance for Where The Girls Are at the Continental Building, Los Angeles, CA
04/05/2008 - 04/06/08 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA

2007
11/22/2007 - 23/2007 The Museum of Hyperreal Art, Malibu, CA
10/05/2007 Hopelessly Unconscious Performance for Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2/2007-03/2007 Connectivity Across: Time, Across Earth, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA
1/19/2007 – 1/21/2007 Photo Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

2006
4/21/2006- 5/13/2006 Queen of the Night Group Show, Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica, CA
3/4/2006- 4/4/2006 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
12/31/2005 Written Dream Performance for the Sea of Dreams Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
12/14/2005 Written Dream Performance for the Pool Trade Show, Los Feliz, CA
12/08/2005 Written Dream Performance for the Fine Art Resources (FAR), Continental Building, Los Angeles, CA
11/19/2005 Condemned Opera Performance for Irrational Exhibitions at Track 16, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
7/22/2005 I Can't Predict the Future of a Past I Never Lived for Brown Bag Contemporary Gallery, Photo San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2004
12/4/2004 Artist Bound at Soho Gallery, Studio City, CA
7/2004 Beau Damon Richard's Gallery, San Pedro, CA
1/16/04 RAW WAR Performance for Cannibal Flower at Hanger 1018, Los Angeles, CA

2003
12/7/03 Breathe of Life Performance for Artist Bound at Soho Gallery Studio City, CA
9/2003 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
8/2003 Skin Show, Fine Artist's Factory, Pasadena, CA
7/14/2003 Performance for HBO Sponsored Event Platinum Oasis for Outfest Film Festival, Hollywood, CA

2002
12/17/2002 Performance at Highways, Santa Monica, CA
7/14/2002 Performance at HBO Sponsored Event Platinum Oasis for Outfest Film Festival, Hollywood, CA

2001
6/27/2001 Performance at Irrational Exhibitions at Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

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