B I O G R A P H Y

 

 

 

b: Los Angeles, lives and works in San Francisco

Margaret Tedesco works across performance, installation, photography, sculpture, and video. Selected exhibitions /performance includes: Bay Area Now 4; New Langton Arts; SFAI Walter and McBean Galleries; SFMOMA /Open Space; Artists’ Television Access (ATA); The Luggage Store; SF Arts Commission Gallery & Market Street Art in Transit Program (24 kiosks); SF Camerawork; SF Cinematheque; The LAB; Southern Exposure; 667Shotwell; Eleanor Harwood; Blackbird Space; TART; CCA Playspace; Right Window; Little Tree; David Cunningham Projects; NOMA Gallery; RADAR; and Small Press Traffic, in San Francisco; City Limits; New Reading Series, Blank Space and Oakland Art Gallery in Oakland; Spiral Gallery; Crazy Space; and Oaks Lodge/Cal Arts, in Los Angeles; Disjecta, Portland; White Columns, NY; Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Germany; Nippon Performance Festival, Japan; Performance Festival Odense, Denmark; and in Mexico City, Leipzig, Marseille, and Czech Republic. She received the Bay Area Award for Performance (New Langton Arts, 1999) and a SF Bay Guardian Goldie (2008). Selected publications: TRY; SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA, No.2 (TART); “Good Times: Bad Trips” a companion  publication (Scott Hewicker and Cliff Hengst’s G16 exhibition); “THING” and “Box of Books, Vol. II” artist editions with Darin Klein & Friends; “Mirage #4 Period(ical) #91”, edited by Kevin Killian/Dodie Bellamy, 2000; Plazm Magazine #16: Anyone Can Color insert, with drawings by Zoey Kroll (1997), among others.

Tedesco has presented and collaborated with visual and performance artists, writers, choreographers, and filmmakers since the mid-80s. From 1999–2006, she was a curatorial member for performance and visual art at the now historic New Langton Arts, and has guest curated Et al. etc, NIAD, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Queen’s Nails Annex, The LAB, Oakland Art Gallery, SF Arts Commission Gallery, Visual AIDS, and Add-art.org as well as coproduced the roving Moving Target Series in San Francisco. In 2007, 2nd floor projects an artist-run exhibition and publishing space was established and received the Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Award. Programming includes invitations to commission writers to produce limited editions in the form of essays, personal narrative, interviews, poetry, mixed genre in the form of broad sheets or chapbooks. 2nd floor projects has participated in Printed Matter’s New York, Los Angeles Art Book Fairs, San Francisco Art Book Fairs, and Berlin Art Book Fairs, since 2009.