Tiffany Danielle Elliott is a curator and artist who works in participatory and performative enactment, text(ile), and digital objects. In both her art and curatorial practice, she is focused on creating nuanced conversations around all the things we think we shouldn’t say. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MA in Theology & Culture, Imagination & The Arts from The Seattle School and a BA in Studio Art from UNC Wilmington. With a deep interest in collaborative creativity, she also works on several projects with other fantastic artists including: the seattle residency project, Woolf Collective, and Interloper.
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 I promise I won’t scream, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 I promise I won’t scream, Calico Salon, Seattle, WA
2018-19 Access, Gallery A, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018 Sin Eater, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2018 An Untitled Installation in collaboration with True Harrigan, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2016 Restored Behavior with Rachel Telian, The Seattle School Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Sexual Slavery, The Wright House, Greensboro, NC
SELECTED GROUP & JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Interfacing with Missed Connections, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO
2020 The Shape of Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2020 Please Stay Home, online exhibition, theseattleresidencyproject.com
2019 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018 Performance Art, The Ritual of our Bodies, with Jun Li, Cave Detroit, Detroit, MI
2018 Disqualified, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018 Betwixt the Aftermath, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2017 Performance of Place, Shoreline Hall Gallery, Shoreline, WA
2017 Open Studio 31, On the Boards, Seattle, WA
2016 Framed: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Incarnate, The Seattle School Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Ballard Works Artists, Ballard Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 The Artist Residency, The Seattle School Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Senior Thesis Exhibition, DeLoach Gallery, Wilmington, NC
CURATORIAL WORK
2021 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, Interloper, Seattle, WA
2021 THIS LAND IS MY LAND, Interloper, Seattle, WA
2021 THIS IS(NT) FOR YOU, Interloper, Seattle, WA
2021 Zambo Mulato Criolo Cafuzo (co-curated with Anna Parisi), Das Schaufenster, Seattle, WA
2019 Object Performance, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018 Performing Space, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2018 Performance Art Initiative Group Exhibition: Acceleration, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
PUBLICATIONS
2015 With Bodies Broken
AWARDS & HONORS
2021 Jack Straw New Media Gallery Program Award
2019 Mercedes Benz New Beginnings Award
2019 Mercedes Benz 2019 Emerging Artist Nomination
2018 Gallery A Award
2018 Merit Scholarship Cranbrook Academy of Art
2017 Jaymes B. Leahy CAA’90 Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2022 Intersecting Spirituality: Spring Residency, the seattle residency project, Indianola, WA
2021 Jack Straw New Media Gallery Residency, Seattle, WA
2020 The Peanut Factory, Edenton, NC
2020 Artist-in-Residence, the seattle residency project, Seattle, WA
2019-20 Artist-in-Residence, Ravenna Collaboratory, Seattle, WA
2019 Periplus project, Athens Design Festival, Greece
2013 Winter Artist Residency, TSS Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
2019 MFA in Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2015 MA in Theology & Culture, Imagination & The Arts, The Seattle School
2006 BA in Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Wilmington