Tiffany Trenda is a video installation performance artist based out of Malibu, CA. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and her MFA from UCLA Design and Media Arts. She has exhibited at Robert Berman, Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Korean Cultural Center, Highways, and Track 16. In 2009, she created an artist installation for Photo Los Angeles and performed live. Later that year she performed “Entropy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London Creative Awards in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, she performed at the World Fair, Shanghai, China. Most recently, she performed at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and displayed new media works at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles.
Her process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche. Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable remarking on our techno-obsessed identity culture. In retrospect, the viewer associates the screen as being human. The work is primarily centered around our relationship to body and media. She questions how far can this loss of the human body be substituted until it loses all human connectivity. In Trenda’s work the viewer is physically and visually immersed in how the psyche evolves to relate and survive with the machine. As these objects continually become apart of our daily lives, we relate to these devices as if they are part of our skin. She states that we are not only dealing with issues of machine-implemented bodies but our identities and human connection is through a screen. She questions the authenticity of this relationship as being a perpetual state of sensualism and repetitive nature. This will change how we see others and ourselves with the assemblage of the human body with new technology.
Education
1997 - 1998 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1998 - 2002 BFA in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Photography Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
2009 - 2011 MFA in Design and Media Arts University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Experience, Presentations, and Lectures
2011
Spring 2011 UCLA Art and Design and Media Arts, DESMA 199, Created a collaborative studio workshop class that combined UCLA Art and UCLA Design and Media Art Departments
4/22/2011 UCLA Art and Design and Media Arts Departments, Created and presented a lecture titled, "Interaction / Intervention", showing a parallel history and concepts of interaction and intervention art.
4/16/2011 Cal Mart, Los Angeles, Community Colleges Fashion Symposium, Presentation of work
2/17/2011 UCLA Art and Science DESMA 9 Lecture on Body, Pain, & Performance
2010
6/10/2010 - 6/14/2010 EARTS, Shanghai, China Headed Lectures and Workshops on Body and Media to University of Shanghai students
6/14/2010 EARTS, Shanghai, China Lectured on Body and Media to University of Shanghai students
2009
11/20/2009 UCLA Desma 10, Perloff Hall, Presentation of my work.
Special Awards and Recognitions
2009
Winner of the London International Creative Competition
2008
"Artist of the Year" Winner of the London International Creative Competition
Solo Exhibitions
2009
11/7/2009 - 01/17/2010 "Specular" Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005
9/16/2005 Farmani Gallery Beverly Hills, CA “Electric” Solo Exhibit showing lightbox documentation pieces
2004
5/2004 Gallery 4016 Los Angeles, CA “Plastic Rape” performance
Selected Exhibitions
2012
01/12/2012 - 01/16/2012 Photo Los Angeles, Urban Devotion Performance, Santa Monica, CA
2011
10/29/2011 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA
10/06/2011 A&D Museum, Eames Exhibit, Video Mapping Project with LAAC, Los Angeles, CA
08/04/2011 LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Urban Devotion performance, Los Angeles, CA
07/23/2011 - 08/25/2011 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergomot Station, Santa Monica, CA
07/09/2011 - 11/10/2011 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) performance & Installation, Los Angeles, CA
06/21/2011 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Benefit at GUESS? Clothing Store Santa Monica, CA
05/12/2011 - 05/23/2011 UCLA Design and Media Arts, Broad Art Center, Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
04/2011 - 05/2011 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
04/20/2011 Trenda performed in Luigi Ontani's AmenHammerAmeno, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
03/05/2011 Body Study 1 premiere Young Director's Night Los Angels County Museum of Art, LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA
2010
10/30/2010 "Urban Devotion" performance Los Angels County Museum of Art, LACMA MUSE, Los Angeles, CA
10/14/2010 – 10/20/2010 I Am Here Now, UCLA, The New Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
09/16/2010 Nine Show, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA
09/09/2010 "Feed_Back" performance, Digital Art LA and Downtown LA Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
07/30/2010 "Terrarium" performance, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Perform Now, Los Angeles, CA
07/08/2010 - 07/24/2010 "Feed_Back" Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
06/17/2010 Shanghai World Expo, UK Pavilion, Shanghai, China, "Face Me" performance
04/03/2010 Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA), Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
01/14 - 01/17/2010 Photo Los Angeles, Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009
09/17/2009 Autumn Lights LA, Pershing Square
08/28/2009 Malibu Annual Contemporary Art Fair "Entropy" performance
08/13 - 08/15/2009 Digital Art LA apart of the Los Angeles Film Festival "Entropy" performance
05/30/2009 Los County Museum of Art, LACMA MUSE, curated by Philip Blaine, Los Angeles, CA "Entropy" performance
04/18/2009 - 04/19/2009 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
01/08/2009 - 01/11/2009 Photo Los Angeles, Artist Installation for Art Fairs Inc. 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, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
07/10/2008 - 07/31/2008 Where The Girls Are, 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 Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2/2007-03/2007 LACDA (Los Angeles Center For Digital Art) Los Angeles, CA
1/19/2007 – 1/21/2007 Photo Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
2006
4/21- 5/13/2006 Berman/Turner Projects, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
3/4/2006- 4/4/2006 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2/4/2006 Lick’s Private Gallery Show, Weird Fix, curated and exhibited, Los Angeles, CA
2005
12/31/2005 Sea of Dreams at Los Angeles Theatre Los Angeles, CA "A Written Dream" performance
12/14/2005 Pool Trade Show Private Event Los Feliz, CA "A Written Dream" performance
12/08/2005 FAR (Fine Art Resources) Los Angeles, CA "A Written Dream" performance
12/03/2005 Homeless Benefit, “Dark Holiday,” curated and exhibited, Los Angeles, CA
11/19/2005 Bergamot Station Track 16 Los Angeles, CA "A Condemned Opera" performance
9/24/2005 Lightspace Gallery Los Angeles, CA
7/22/2005 Photo San Francisco, Brown Bag Contemp. San Francisco, CA
"I Can't Predict the Future of a Past I Never Lived" performance
6/11/2005 Bluespace Hollywood, CA "I Can't Predict the Future of a Past I Never Lived" performance
02/05/2005 Bluespace Hollywood, CA
2004
12/4/2004 Artist Bound at Soho Gallery Studio City, CA "Stressed dessertS" performance
8/2004 Tom of Finland Foundation Art Fair West Hollywood, CA
7/2004 Beau Damon Richard’s Gallery San Pedro, CA
6/2004 Lifestyles Convention 2004 & Xart Gallery Los Angeles, CA
6/2004 Erotic Museum LA Xposed Los Angeles, CA
4/2004 Tom of Finland Foundation Art Fair Silver Lake, CA
4/2004 Artist Bound Private Exhibit Redondo Beach, CA “RAWWAR” performance
1/16/04 Hanger 1018, Cannibal Flower Los Angeles, CA “RAWWAR” performance
2003
12/7/03 Artist Bound at Soho Gallery Studio City, CA “Breathe of Life” performance
9/2003 Brewery Art Walk Los Angeles, CA
8/2003 Fine Artist’s Factory “Skin” Show Pasadena, CA
8/2003 Lifestyles Convention 2003 & Xart Gallery Las Vegas, NV
7/14/03 Outfest Film Festival, Platinum Oasis Event Hollywood, CA “Atomic Dreams” performance
2002
12/17/2002 Highways Santa Monica, CA “Silent Nightmare” collaborative performance with Peter Schroff
12/2002 Artist Bound, Winter Fling Event Los Angeles, CA
7/14/2002 Outfest Film Festival, Platinum Oasis Hollywood, CA “A Salo Symphony” performance
2001
6/27/01 Bergamot Station, Track 16 Santa Monica, CA “Dancing on a Rainbow” collaborative performance with Peter Schroff
