Studio- Main Arm
Tamara Mendels received a MFA (Painting) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2011. In 2008 she became a co-founder and director of the Jon Frum Art Foundation New York & Los Angeles . Mendels was the co-organiser and curator of Sydney’s 2020 Art Shows in 20 days (2011-2012). Mendels has exhibited in solo and group shows in Sydney at Vandal Gallery , Damien Minton Annex Space, M-Contemporary, East Sydney Doctors, Peloton, James Dorahy Project Space, The Lost Bear Gallery. 2015 Mendels exhibited solo at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery in her first museum show. In 2018 Mendels installed her first public art installation seen at the Broadway Shopping Centre, Ultimo, Sydney.
Internationally Mendels has exhibited in New York, Miami, Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles through Catinca Tabacaru Gallery and The Jon Frum Art Foundation in both solo and group shows including art fairs SCOPE Miami, The Fountain Art Fair Miami and New York, the Beethoven Festival Chicago and the Dallas Art Fair. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, England and the United States.
Tamara Mendels (B. 1982)
Education
2009 – 2011 Masters of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia
2000 – 2004 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1), Sydney College of the Arts
Museum Shows
2015 White Out (solo), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, Australia
Public Art
2018 Art For All Artist Columns: Tamara Mendels Multi Pour Drip-Down
Broadway Shopping Centre, Ultimo
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Alchemical Spills, Vandal Gallery, Redfern
2015 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2014 Flow, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
2012 Tamara Mendels New Work, East Sydney Doctors, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2012 Tamara Mendels New Work, Lost Bear Gallery, Leura, Blue Mountains
2011 Tamara Mendels, 2020 art shows 2011, Damien Minton Annex Space, Redfern
2010 Tamara Mendels New Work, FX Art and Framing, Redfern, Sydney
2009 Gestural Minimalism, FX Art and Framing, Redfern, Sydney
2007 Tamara Mendels New Work, James Dorahy Project Space, Potts Point, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Modern Art Projects R.N.P.G show, Katoomba Falls Kiosk
2016 Art Southampton, New York, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Texas, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
2013 Miami Art Fair, Scope, Tinca Arts, Florida
2013 Fountain Art Fair Tinca Arts, New York
2012 Beethoven Festival, Tinca Arts, Chicago
2012 Tamara Mendels & Paula Garrard, Damien Minton Annex Space, Redfern
2012 Visions Did Appear, Project Space, Manhattan, New York
2012 Fountain Art Fair, Tinca Arts, Manhattan, New York
2010 Just Art 2010, New York Civil Liberties Union New York
2010 Postcard Show Air Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
2010 Plastic People, Jon Frum Art Foundation, Los Angeles
2009 Jon Frum Art foundation, Fountain Art Fair, Miami, Florida
2009 Art Walk L.A, Spring Street Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles
2009 Orgy of Frum, Jon Frum Art Foundation, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Somethingorother Jon Frum Art Foundation, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Rookie Show Deloitte, George Street, Sydney, City
2007 The Christmas show, James Dorahy Project Space, Potts Point, Sydney
2007 For The Hate Of Paint, Pelaton Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney
2006 The Strongest of the Strange, G&A Studios, Surry Hills, Sydney
Awards
2008 Fauvette Loureiro Traveling Scholarship, The Sydney College of The Arts
2007 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prize, Lane Cove, Sydney