Tamara Rosenblum
Art, Media and Technology (BFA) and First-Year Curriculum
Office Location
P - 45 Rue Saint-Roch
Profile
Tamara Rosenblum is a Paris based artist working in video, performance, installation, and photography. She received her MFA in Photography and New Media from the California Institute of the Arts and her BA in Latin American History from Amherst College.
Rosenblum explores the weight of political, social, and economic forces on the family unit. Absurdist theater texts are key to her process as characters are subject to mechanisms outside of the home and doomed to repetition.
She has taught courses in photography and video at ArtWorxLA, the Oakwood School, the California State Summer School for the Arts, and the International Center for Photography in New York City. Most recently she was a professor in the Film Arts program at the Paris College of Art.
“My challenge, as a professor of Art and Theory, is to ensure that I am teaching my students how to question and play with their practice. Class discussion and critiques are tailored towards understanding what the student is trying to express, not what they feel they should express, and guiding them towards the right tools for that task.”
Rosenblum has exhibited her work at La Mama New York City, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, The Echo Park Film Center, Highways Performance Space, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. Her work has been published by Powerhouse Press and The Village Voice.
She has been the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant and the Center for Cultural Innovation grant as well as a finalist for the Cisneros-Fontanales Emerging Artist grant. In the summer of 2021, Rosenblum was an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.