Tanya Aguiñiga
Born 1978, San Diego
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2005 Rhode Island School of Design, MFA
2003 San Diego State University, BA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Mothering the Form, Volume Gallery, Chicago
2014 Fiber Elements, Reform Gallery, Los Angeles
Sea Change, Laguna Art Museum
2013 The Driftless Zone, Volume Gallery, Chicago
2011 Crossing the Line, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2008 wrapped welded woven, Reform Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Interior Active, San Diego State Everett Gee Jackson Gallery
2002 Sola Show, the Farm, San Diego
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Sight Unseen Site Specific: L.A., Austere, Los Angeles
FiberLicous, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
California Handmade: State of the Art, Maloof Foundation, Los Angeles
2015 A Long Engagement: Wendy Maruyama and Her Students, University Gallery, San Diego State University
Gentle Abstractions, Loomis Gallery, Mansfield University, PA
Bananas, Gallery Diet, Miami
Creative Cultivation, dublab’s 2015 Fundraiser Salon, JF Chen, Los Angeles
Five to Life: A Very Serious Reenactment, Volume Gallery, Chicago
Loving After Lifetimes of All This, Kansas City
2014 Future Tropes, Design Miami, Volume Gallery, Miami
superPac, presented by Design Milk, West Edge Design Fair, Santa Monica
IN/SITU, Volume Gallery, Chicago
The Art of Geometry, collaboration with Mashup Contemporary Dance Company, New York and Los Angeles
LA x Milano at Blanco Milano, Salone del Mobile, Milan
Home Away, Pasadena Armory Center For the Arts
2013 SUR Biennial, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
Re-Store LA, Hammer Museum Pop-Up, Los Angeles
Shag Curves, Kasthall Booth: International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York
East, Meet West, Design Milk, Bobby Berk Home, New York
Felt Suit, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Call of the Wild, LA Mart, Los Angeles
2012 All Good Things Become Wild and Free, Carthage College, WI
Salon #9, Works 270-300, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
Les Femmes, Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum
Shared Thread, California African American Museum, Los Angeles
Hotel California, Standard Hotel for ICFF, New York
SCALE: Presented by Architizer, Dwell and Cool Hunting, Standard Hotel for ICFF, New York
Entwined Affairs, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles
Fresh Start, Barkar Hangar Santa Monica, CA
2011 NAFTA Artists, San Diego Art Fair
Come In!, Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum
Textiles Tieton: Gimme Shelter, Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA
Inaugural NOHO Design District with Sight Unseen, Great Jones Lumber, New York
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Inaugural Gala Festivities Design, Los Angeles
Source LA, LA Mart Design Center
Xanadu, Specific Merchandise, Los Angeles
California Design Biennial, Pasadena Museum of CA Design
2010 Lineas: New Modes of Contemporary Urbanism: Recent Work by Tanya Aguiñiga and Teddy Cruz, MACLA, San Jose
FourSite: 4 Materials | 4 Artists | 4 Sites, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design
Studio Furniture: The Next Generation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis
Fresh Start, Santa Monica Art Studios
Tanya Aguiniga: Pop Up Shop!, Mor York, Los Angeles
Natural Selections, 5th Floor Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Latin American Design Exhibition, Design Miami
Green Furniture Design, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee
Furniture City, Goodwood Design Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Expanded Studio: Product, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage
ICFF Group Show, Furniture Society Booth, New York
Tanya Aguiniga: The Alaska Works II, Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK
Fresh Start, Santa Monica Art Studios
Inspired, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Hairstylists Make Furniture, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington
Estacion Tijuana
Design Miami, Art Basel
Texture Forest, New Children’s Museum, San Diego
The Seat, Seoul
Lineation, Tinlark Gallery. Los Angeles
Searchlight Artists, American Craft Council in Baltimore
2007 Design Miami, Design Performances, Miami
Subjects and Thrones, Adapta Project, San Diego
Tanya Aguiniga: The Alaska Works, Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK
Fine Arts Faculty Show, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
Women in Design, Design Within Reach, Newport Beach, CA
2006 Local Forms that Function, Design Within Reach, San Diego
Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Faculty Selects, Furniture Society Conference, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis
Input/Output : Experimental Design form the Rhode Island School of Design, International Contemporary Furniture Fair Exhibition, New York
2005 The Maruyama School, SDSU Alumni and Student Show, San Diego State University
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence
5IVE, RISD Furniture Design MFA Thesis Show, Providence
Selected MFA Works, Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery, RISD, Providence
Living Spaces, curated ICFF exhibition, Brooklyn
Joined and Woven, Providence Art Club
Design Within Reach, Providence
Emerging Perspectives, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore
2004 Providence Fine Furnishings Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Milan Furniture Fair, RISD Traces clothing design, Salon Satellite
2003 California Gift Show, Los Angeles
2002 Art Defends: Border Realities XIII, Southwestern College, San Diego
Farm, San Diego
Aria, San Diego
Body per Mile, Otay, US/Mexico Border
2001 Dia del Migrante Art, Otay, US/Mexico Border
Mesa College Student Show, Furniture Department, San Diego
2000 Death Toll, Senate Building Mexico City; Federal Cultural Center, Tijuana; National Council de la Raza, San Diego; Federal Courthouse, San Diego and National MECHA Conference, San Diego
Alto a Guardian, Tijuana Cultural Center, CECUT
Two Schools of Thought, Devon Gallery, La Jolla, CA
City College, San Diego
Modest Behavior, BLK MKT, San Diego
Six Artists, UNUN, San Diego
Women's History, Southwestern College, San Diego
National Community Colleges Art Competition, San Diego Community College District
1999 City College, San Diego
Mesa College, San Diego
Mural for Cross Project, Tijuana
Southwestern College, San Diego
Selected Collections and Institutions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art