• Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters

    Upcoming exhibition 2023
    Location: Gallery 360
    Northeastern University Gallery 360, Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, USA

  • Unnatural Processes

    Unnatural Processes

    “Throwing light onto the unnatural, reflecting on and exploring new connections with non-human systems.”

    This group show is curated by Valérie Hallier at Westbeth Gallery, NYC. Unnatural Processes is an exhibition that asks the questions: What is “Nature”? What is “Natural”?

    Artists: Aston Philip, Christina Massey, Jean Foos, Katherine Bennett, Linda Loh, Roxane Revon, Tessa Grundon and Valérie Haller.

    "Nature is an all encompassing entity that exists without humans. Yet, it is impossible to think of humanity as an entity that could exist without nature. Seeing humanity and all its actions as part of nature is more reasonable. French anthropologist, Philippe Descola, observes 4 ways of “being” in the world as humans: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism. If we agree that our thought processes are firmly welded into Western philosophy, prizing the rational, scientific, and logical, we can then agree that we embody naturalism. Yet as artists we are open to other ways of being, thinking, and seeing. The work of the eight international artists featured in this show revisits our contemporary relationship with the non-human. A great variety of mediums and processes are all centered around new ways to visualize and interact with our environment: virtual, real, or re-created."

  • NYU Gallatin: Artist in Residence

    NYU Gallatin: Artist in Residence

    NYU Gallatin Artist in Residence. 2021-2022
    Gallatin WetLab, Governors Island, NYC

    The NYU Gal­latin Wet­Lab on Governors Island is an exper­i­men­tal art-sci­ence lab­o­ra­to­ry for stu­dents, artists, and researchers to cre­ate, devel­op, and dis­play col­lab­o­ra­tive projects across the envi­ron­men­tal arts and sci­ences.

  • Urban Soil Institute: Artist in Residence

    Urban Soil Institute: Artist in Residence

    Urban Soil Institute, Artist in Residence, 2020-2023.
    Governors Island, NYC

    The Urban Soil Institute is headquartered on Governors Island, where they host scientist-artist residencies and curate public programs, and work on a landfill-turned-National Park, where they conduct research, lab-work and offer courses.

    USI maintains a residency space in the Urban Soils Room at Swale House, on Governors Island fostering collaboration between artists and soil scientists and featuring public engagement.

  • Swale: Artist in Residence

    Swale: Artist in Residence

    Swale: Artist in Residence 2020- 2023
    Residency at Swale House on Governors Island.
    2021- Creator of a dye and fiber garden within Mary Mattingly's food forest.

    About Swale: "Swale is a floating food forest built atop a barge that travels to public piers in New York City welcoming visitors to harvest herbs, fruits and vegetables for free.

    Swale strives to enhance the quality and responsible use of public waterways and land; works to encourage New Yorkers to reconsider our relationships with environmental ecosystems; and change perceptions and policies to increase the presence of edible perennial landscapes.

    From 2016 - 2020 the first version of Swale circumnavigated New York’s harbor. The floating food forest closed during the pandemic; its new iteration is being designed as a more permanent structure called Lotic Shoal. Lotic Shoal is being co-designed with Pratt Architecture students and the guidance of many practitioners including engineer Rik Van Hemmen. It will launch in the summer of 2024."

  • Artists Space, Teaching Artist

    Artists Space, Teaching Artist

    Artists Space, Teaching Artist 2022-2023
    Expanded Art Ideas Program with PS 140.

    Projects worked on include "The Sound of Water" and "What We Do When A Door Opens."

    Artists Space is a nonprofit art organization and gallery in downtown NYC.

    "Founded in 1972 in downtown Manhattan, Artists Space fosters the artistic and cultural life of New York City as a primary venue for artists' work in all forms. An affinity with emerging ideas and artists is central to our institution, as is attentiveness to the social and intellectual concerns which actively inform artistic practice. We strive for exemplary conditions in which to produce, experience, and understand art, to be a locus of critical discourse and education, and to advocate for the capacity of artistic work to significantly define and reflect our understanding of ourselves."

    "Expanded Art Ideas Programs, Artists Space’s arts education program, was founded in 2001 with the mission of encouraging mainstream and special education students in New York City’s public schools to develop a personal artistic voice and to utilize their individual creative capacities. It does this by providing students with the skills to communicate, document, and publicly exhibit their work. Expanded Art Ideas equally widens Artists Space’s commitment to contemporary artists by providing the opportunity for artists to work and collaborate with different communities in an educational setting."

  • Emergent Strata

    Emergent Strata

    EMERGENT STRATA
    Two person exhibition with Tessa Grundon and Gene Kiegel.
    On view week­ends through July 31, 2022 at New York Vir­tu­al Vol­cano Obser­va­to­ry, Colonels Row Build­ing 410A, Governors Island, NYC

    "Pic­ture a cross-sec­­tion of earth, lay­ered with the uncon­for­mi­ties and frac­tures of geo­log­ic time. In Emer­gent Stra­ta, Tes­sa Grun­don and Gene Kiegel uncov­er these lay­ers, their ves­tiges and sed­i­ments, in land­scapes: along the con­tour lines of a river­bank, through the intri­cate archi­tec­ture of bees and their waxy walls, and in the neg­a­tive space of indus­tri­al ruins. Col­ors pour forth from geo­log­i­cal folds, seams, and for­ma­tions; this work allows us to see these com­pressed worlds, cross-cut­t­ing and over­lap­ping the rel­a­tive time of humans and non­hu­mans in the earth-record."

  • The Dream: Saturnia Film Festival, Italy

    The Dream: Saturnia Film Festival, Italy

    THE DREAM environmental art exhibition at Saturnia Film Festival with SHIM Eco group.
    Location: Fortezza Orsini, Toscany, Saturnia, Italy
    June 6, 2022- August 2, 2022

    "THE DREAM will take place in a castle called Fortezza Orsini. The exhibit will be a sustainable, low carbon footprint art event aligned to the Saturnia Film Festival. The participants will seek to avoid any air freight for art objects. It emphasizes group participation and artists who practice focus on interactive, performative and video related actions. The visual objects will focus on themes that are curated by concepts of Air, Water, and Fire. All art will be archived on the SHIM Artsy page to allow for sales unrelated to work that would normally be shipped. This is the future — responsible and enjoyable; low cost and low stress.

    "The Saturnia Film Festival is a benchmark in international emerging filmmakers and the audience is made up of professionals and film enthusiasts. The focus of the artistic committee, will be directed to select works that address universal themes that are personal and authentic."

  • Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters

    Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters

    Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters Exhibition
    Location:NYU Gallatin Galleries, 1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003
    July 22 – August 17, 2022

    Featured Artists: Farah Al Qasimi, Beatriz Cortez, micha cárdenas, Tessa Grundon, Joiri Minaya, Ada M. Patterson, Himali Singh Soin, and Alexis Rider

    "Historically, colonial enterprises have violently linked land- and water-scapes with the bodies of women and femmes, queer people, and people of color in order to dehumanize them. By becoming dirt and water, such bodies have been equated with “natural” resources, made vulnerable to exploitation, extraction, and land theft justified along lines of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet such linkages, particularly in recent years, have been meaningfully appropriated by artists as acts of resistance that articulate new futures and magnify marginalized histories. Presenting the work of Farah Al Qasimi, Beatriz Cortez, micha cárdenas, Tessa Grundon, Joiri Minaya, Ada M. Patterson, Himali Singh Soin, and Alexis Rider, Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters engages with complex questions around impermanence, belonging, transformation, and erasure as they relate to human (and non-human) lives and the earth itself. The works of these artists are ecologically conscious, while their self-reflective, collaborative artistic practices emphasize notions of kinship as central to their counter-historical work."

  • Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats

    Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats

    Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats will be on view at the
    Williamsburg Art & Historical Center May 7—June 4, 2022, including over fifty artists who are members of Ecoartspace.

    "The exhibition’s title, 'Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats,' found inspiration in the show's largest artwork, Claire McConaughy’s painting Fragile Rainbow (2021). In her words, McConaughy’s sanguine waterscape addresses “interconnection, loss, transformation, and hope.” Her title is especially relevant for this heterogeneous exhibition of artworks by ecoartspace members based in the New York City region whose paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations evoke “connection, loss, transformation, and hope.” These artists are especially conscious of our indebtedness to living beings in our midst and human beings’ obligation to appreciate and protect organic and inorganic matter alike. 


    In recent history, the unsustainable environmental dynamics of Western cultures have intensified with the creation of contemporary cities and urban life. As a result, people have grown increasingly distanced from the land, leaving some 75% of Earth’s terrain substantially degraded. For this exhibition, we invite visitors to acknowledge their relationship with the land in a manner that aims to be more aligned with longstanding Indigenous perspectives that consider the earth, plants and animals family, even within urban settings. When experienced collectively, these artworks can remind us that we are embedded in and must be conscious of our contributions to our habitat. When we walk in the woods, we become part of the forest, yet when we walk on the sidewalk, we are no less walking on land."

  • Occupy #3

    Occupy #3

    Occupy #3 with Shim Eco, Exhibition at Greek Consulate & French Embassy NYC. 2022
    Occupy #3 ~ Networks will be on view from February 17 through March 17, 2022 at The Consulate General of France New York, 934 Fifth Avenue, between 74th/75th Streets, NY

    "Occupy Networks, a collective of over 100 independent artists and curators, was invited to ‘occupy’ the Consulate General of France in New York. The artists and curators of this exhibition have all lived or worked in France.

    The pieces of art are curated taking into account the daily interaction between the exhibit and the work of Consulate’s staff. They respond to socio-political changes, adopt an activist approach or aim to reverse hierarchies and provide a better representation for artistic minorities (immigrant artists, artists in reintegration, parents, etc.).

    Occupy Art Project #3 was initiated by Eirini Linardaki, who invited fifteen curatorial projects to occupy Consulates in New York."

  • Contretemps Exhibition

    Contretemps Exhibition

    Contretemps NYU Gallatin WetLab Exhibition.
    September 11 – October 31, 2021,
    Gallatin WetLab, 403 Colonels Row, Governors Island, NYC

    Simon Benjamin, Keith Edmier, Tessa Grundon, Jemila MacEwan, and Hanae Utamura

    With work by WetLab students Rhea Barve, Jesse McLaughlin, and Kris Waymire

    Curated by Eugenia Kisin and Karen Holmberg

    "A shrine propitiating fungi ancestors, a jellyfish adorned with microplastic regalia, an apothecary of healing tinctures made from disappearing landscapes – these and other restorative structures inhabit the layered timescales of this place as ruin. Working against time, the artists in Contretemps ask us to engage with collective loss through care, feeding, and reverence. Refusing to remain in the moment of mishap, they hold in common signs of quiet emergence and flourishing after disaster. These slow processes materialize in a geologic sigh caught in glass; wound in a tangle of willow branches, drawing out heavy metals from contaminated soil; in cores of coastline and diasporic detritus; and in the crown of a prehistoric cycad bloom, cradled in basalt.

    Together, these artists encounter living matter in a state of ambivalence. Suspended between sadness, wonder, and repair, their works bear witness to post-human and posthumous emergence in the wake of human-made destruction. They show us that catastrophe renders nature historical, revealing the impact of human activity on non-human processes. Stepping out of historical time risks dissolving the effects of human action in the stream of geological duration, in which our world-historical mistake, our catastrophic contretemps, turns out, after all, to have been a well-timed error, a fortunate fall.

    Is the (re)turn to non-human time, then, a cover-up of our complicity in planetary violence, both slow and rapid? Or do we turn against time not to escape history but to mark rupture? Not to elude blame, but to retrace fault lines between our disconnected present and our interconnected past, between humanity and its extended family, its long-lost kin? The works and beings in Contretemps counter human time to counteract its effects – to fulfill, in artist Jemila MacEwan’s words, “the utopic desire to reverse the inevitable process of extinction,” to recover lost ancestors and lost memories. To recover lost time by uncovering its loss.

    A project space of the NYU Gallatin WetLab, this exhibition will also be lived with and animated by students through art-writing, performance, and environmental science."

  • Works on Water & Underwater New York: Artist in Residence

    Works on Water & Underwater New York: Artist in Residence

    The Works on Water Studio Residency and Incubator Program 2019-2020, Governors Island, NYC

    "The Works on Water Studio Residency provides an incubator space for diverse investigations of water in the urban environment. Works on Water, in partnership with Underwater New York, has brought together scientists, policy-makers, and visual, performance-based and literary artists working on, in and with the water since 2018. Through open studios, performances, monthly conversations, and other exhibitions of work in progress, WoW has invited institutions, organizations, and the public into a dialogue about the emerging field of Water Art. Please join us as we work to strengthen the community of artists and practitioners working in water-based planning, science, policy, and art to define the future of our waterways."

  • GroundWork Gallery Article Feature

    GroundWork Gallery Article Feature

    Ground Work Gallery Feature in Article:Nature, art and the doorstep environment

    Article written by Veronica Sekules, July 2020

    Location: GroundWork Gallery
    17 Purfleet Street, King’s Lynn, PE30 1ER, Norfolk,UK

    "Time For Reflection

    Plenty of time for reflection is what a lot of people were experiencing. Tessa Grundon – @tessa.grundon – spent the lockdown period away from her studio in New York. Thrown back on her childhood home in London, she made highly symbolic images, loaded with memories and associations.

    Her pictures of night-time wanderings, incorporated personal memories. Reflections in windows and mirrors enabled her to recall both familiar present and inaccessible past.

    Pot-bound plant life

    Tessa is an artist who normally uses natural pigments and vegetation. Pot-bound plant-life immediately echoed how she, along with many other people has been feeling confined. She commented later:

    ‘The thread pieces are made from plants in my mother’s garden using an old spindle from my childhood. I was back in my old bedroom while being in isolation looking after my elderly parents. Collecting, breaking down the plants into threads to spin and work with for a future project.

    It was very meditative and soothing to be spinning again and also the idea of creating threads from my mothers garden – her greatest joy . To tie bits of time and place together, mending what is in the process of slipping away.

    The sticks with lichen are from a large Robinia in the garden that my grandmother (her mother in law) had bought for her many years ago. She’s not fond of it as it is always shedding something all over the garden! But it seemed poignant to be binding the the twigs together with other elements from the garden.’
    - Tessa Grundon"

  • Plant Cure, The Humanities Gallery

    Plant Cure, The Humanities Gallery

    "New York, NY – Curated by Maddy Rosenberg, CENTRAL BOOKING’s Plant Cure/Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, opens at the Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn on September 4, from 6-8pm. Sarah Stengle will bring to life her exhibited steel stringed harp, with medicinal rue plants cast in resin, in her performance 'Rue:d/an Acorn is not a Oak Tree' at 7pm. The exhibition runs until December 13, 2019.

    The Plant Cure project began in 2017 with a collaboration of CENTRAL BOOKING and the New York Academy of Medicine in which five Artists in Residence researched their work at NYAM for an exhibition in CENTRAL
    BOOKING’s Lower East Side space. Various documentation of their process was also displayed in vitrines in the NYAM library at the end of their research. Fourteen additional artists with work on the theme of medicinal plants were curated into the CENTRAL BOOKING exhibition and were involved with event programming as well. But Plant Cure was meant to be a project that literally grew from place to place to incorporate more artists,institutions, and collections into a connective thread, with each additional collaboration involving new work while evolving the work of past participants. Brooklyn Botanic Garden seemed to be the ideal next location for the project, a childhood place of exploration for Maddy Rosenberg, the curator and project organizer of CENTRAL BOOKING."

  • Cibotempo Boécho Gallery

    Cibotempo Boécho Gallery

    Cibotempo group exhibition at Boécho Gallery, London UK
    December 1st 2019 - February 28th 2019.

  • Among Friends/Entre Amigos

    Among Friends/Entre Amigos

    Organized by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary & Patricia Fabricant
    Inspired by the Robert Rauschenberg artwork “Hiccups,” AMONG FRIENDS reflects and responds to the strength and illumination we find through art, friendship and community.
    The show will consist of over 200 pieces of 9 x 7”
    paper, each worked on by a different artist,
    zipped together into one continuous, exuberant piece.
    Individual works will be for sale for $250 apiece,
    with 10% going to The Lower East Side Girls Club.
    May 3–5, 8–12, 12 to 7pm

    Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
    LES GALLERY
    107 Suffolk Street, NYC

    "The Clemente is a Puerto Rican and Latinx cultural space rooted in the Lower East Side. We connect and co-create with contemporary artists, cultural workers and small arts organizations by offering subsidized studios, exhibition, rehearsal, office and venue spaces; and produce our own programming in a spirit of responsiveness, heritage conversation and provocative collaboration."

  • I-PARK FOUNDATION'S INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

    I-PARK FOUNDATION'S INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM


    I-PARK RESIDENCY

    I am incredibly excited to have been selected as an artist in residence with I-Park Foundation for this November and December. I will be documenting and posting my work while there.

    The I-Park Mission Statement

    Nurturing artists and the creative process – in the fine arts and in nature.
    I-Park is both an open-air and a closed-studio laboratory for individual creative pursuits in the fields of music composition/sound art, the visual arts, architecture, moving image, creative writing and landscape/garden/ecological design. From insights developed in the laboratory setting, it also develops and sponsors specially-themed cross-disciplinary projects of cultural significance – and brings these discoveries to light in the public domain.
    I-Park supports these individual and collaborative investigations through its international artists-in-residence program, the aesthetic engagement of its natural and built environments and with on-site exhibitions, performances and collegial exchanges.
    Since its founding in 2001, I-Park has sponsored over 900 fully-funded artists’ residencies.

  • WATER ART IS THE NEW LAND ART - exhibition

    WATER ART IS THE NEW LAND ART  -  exhibition

    (Tessa Grundon - Synthetic Tides)

    "WATER ART IS THE NEW LAND ART"

    Water Art is the New Land Art | The Celebration: September 21-22 Preview

    Friday, September 21, 2018
    3:30 PM 5:30 PM
    Nolan Park House 5B
    Governors Island, NY

    “[Working with water as site and material] is about recognizing and experiencing how we are but dependent parts of much larger natural patterns and forces, and living accordingly. This is not new knowledge, but we need to relearn this ancient wisdom and bring it into the contemporary context.” - Jackie Brookner, artist

    Works on Water and Underwater New York are pleased to invite you to a celebration of Water Art is the New Land Art, a small, documentary exhibition that shares photos from Works on Water 2017, the first triennial dedicated to art made on, in, and with the water, along with Water Art projects from around the world and new works created by our fifty-four 2018 Artists-in-Residence. This exhibition is organized as part of our 2018 artist residency on Governors Island, where we have created an incubator space for diverse investigations of water in the urban environment.

    We’re also thrilled to launch the catalogue documenting the 2017 triennial, which will be available during the celebration, as well as the launch of our beta-version Water Art Map. We hope you’ll join us to celebrate the work of this diverse community of artists and practitioners working in water-based planning, science, policy, and art to define the future of our waterways.

  • WORKS ON WATER and UNDERWATER NEW YORK ARTISTS RESIDENCY - Governor's Island

    WORKS ON WATER and UNDERWATER NEW YORK ARTISTS RESIDENCY - Governor's Island

    Works on Water and Underwater New York Artists Residency on Governor's Island

    Works on Water and Underwater New York invite you to join visual, performing, and literary artists working on, in, and with the water on Governor’s Island this summer. Our artist residency program provides an incubator space for diverse investigations of water in the urban environment. Our open studios, performances, monthly conversations, and exhibition "Water Art is the New Land Art" feature work from around the world and invite the public into a dialogue about the emerging field of Water Art. Please join us as we work to build and strengthen the community of artists and practitioners working in water-based planning, science, policy, and art to define the future of our waterways.

  • BOECHO GALLERY - Edificio Bella Exhibition, London, UK

    BOECHO GALLERY - Edificio Bella Exhibition, London, UK


    BOECHO GALLERY

    Delighted to have a few of my paintings in this exhibition "Edificio Bella" at Boecho Gallery in London.

    "Tessa's work is extremely delicate both in the materials she uses and in the output of her work. She uses a mix of found materials including pigments drawn from mud, coloured earths, rust and charcoal. Embedded in the materials is a history of the place and time from which these works are made. It's a wonderfully poetic statement of our time and place and what we are doing to the planet. Her work makes you consider those places, it's unapologetically environmental in it's focus and resonance and all the more powerful for that." Dee Gray, curator and gallery owner.

  • LIQUIDSCAPES SYMPOSIUM. DARTINGTON HALL, Devon, UK

    LIQUIDSCAPES SYMPOSIUM.  DARTINGTON HALL, Devon, UK
  • AMONG FRIENDS

    AMONG FRIENDS

    A wonderful experience - what a delightful and energizing gathering of amazing artists and for such an important cause. Huge thanks to fellow artists and curators Beth Dary, Patty Fabricant and Alexandra Rutsch Brock.

    Also thank you to Joanne Mattera for buying my piece - and I am now the happy owner of a beautiful Bob Seng.

  • DRAWING ROOMS - Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow & Prospero's Grand Street Masque

    DRAWING ROOMS - Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow & Prospero's Grand Street Masque
  • "TREES AND TOPOGRAPHIES" at the THE GARDEN ROOM GALLERY - TWO PERSON SHOW, Dartington Hall, UK.

    "TREES AND TOPOGRAPHIES" at the THE GARDEN ROOM GALLERY - TWO PERSON SHOW, Dartington Hall, UK.

    (Image Tessa Grundon: "Taw" - mud, beeswax, mapping)

    TREES AND TOPOGRAPHIES
    Curated by Richard Povall and Nancy Sinclair

    Garden Room Gallery with Art.Earth and Dartington Hall.

    Two person show with artist and photographer Hannah Fletcher.

  • ART.EARTH INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION. DARTINGTON HALL, Devon, UK

    ART.EARTH INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION.  DARTINGTON HALL, Devon, UK

    Art.Earth Member Invitational Exhibition

    Delighted to be back with ART.EARTH - a fascinating group of ecological artists and organizations that I am excited to be a part of.

    Thank you to curators Richard Povall and Nancy Sinclair for inviting me.

  • PLANT CURE at CENTRAL BOOKING IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDECINE

    PLANT CURE at CENTRAL BOOKING IN COLLABORATION WITH  THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF  MEDECINE
  • NARS FOUNDATION - INVITATION

    NARS FOUNDATION - INVITATION

    I was delighted to be invited to use a space at NARS Foundation for a solo exhibition.
    Thank you Sarah Olsen for the introduction and to Junho Lee @ NARS for all your help and support.

  • WORKS ON WATER TRIENNIAL - INNAUGURAL

    WORKS ON WATER TRIENNIAL - INNAUGURAL

    WORKS ON WATER

    Contributing artist

    Presented by New Georges with 3LD Art & Technology Center and Urban Water Artists in collaboration with Guerilla Science
    June 5-30, 2017

    Works on Water is the first triennial dedicated to art made on, in and with the water. The inaugural event featured artworks, theatrical performances, conversations, workshops, and off-site expeditions that explore diverse artistic investigation of water in the urban environment.

  • BLACK SWAN ARTS

    BLACK SWAN ARTS

    Delighted to have been selected from over 900 entrants for the Black Swan Arts Open in the UK.
    PRESS RELEASE
    Selected by Dea Vanagan: Director, Hauser & Wirth Somerset; Gary Sangster: Consulting Director of Drawings Project UK, Trustee of Arnolfini; Stephen Snoddy-Director, The New Art Gallery Walsall; Mariella Frostrup, writer and broadcaster & Seamus Nicolson, artist and 2016 BSA winner.

  • "STRING THEORY" at FIELD PROJECTS curator Charlotte Mouquin

    "STRING THEORY" at FIELD PROJECTS curator Charlotte Mouquin

    I am delighted to have a few paintings in this wonderful exhibition at FIELD PROJECTS curated by Charlotte Mouquin.

    Here is a link to the press release: "String Theory" Press Release

    "New York-based Tessa Grundon is moved by topography, history of a place, ever-changing environments, and the relationship between land and people. Her work is created from local maps, beeswax from nearby hives, pigments drawn from the mud, various colored earths, vegetation, rust and charcoal. The delicate abstractions are markers of place, time, and experience." Curator Charlotte Mouquin, Director of Rush Arts Galleries.

  • OCEANOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Art, science and conservation... on a sailboat

    OCEANOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Art, science and conservation... on a sailboat

    https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/features/art-science-conservation-sailboat/

  • ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY - presentation as part of SailBritain's Interdisciplinary Team

    ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY - presentation as part of SailBritain's Interdisciplinary Team
  • SAILBRITAIN AND UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

    SAILBRITAIN AND UNIVERSITY OF EXETER


    The Coastline Project - SailBritain Residency

    Artist on board - Environmental study of waterborne micro plastics. Cornwall Coastline, UK
    "To The Land's End - Cornwall. Art and Microplastics Research"

    "We also had an artist in residence in the crew, Tessa Grundon, who was working alongside the research team and her work will help to spread the environmental message to a wider audience. Her ideas also added a valuable dimension to the scientific research.
    We were spoilt by some seriously beautiful anchorages and visited some of the stunning little harbours on the South coast of Cornwall, and had time to explore the many untouched backwaters with their history of smuggling and romance, such as Frenchman’s Creek of Daphne Du Maurier fame.
    Every time the anchor came up, Tessa Grundon, our artist in residence would take samples of the mud which clung to it. Tessa’s work is influenced by the topography and history of a place and its ever-changing environment, from the shifting tides to the effect of man on community and landscape. The materials she uses in her work are often drawn from the site, such as earth pigments and local beeswax, and likewise her inspiration comes from the secret places and objects she finds on the journey. You can see her beautiful artwork and video of Tolcarne Creek below (turn up the sound, it’s very beautiful!)". Oliver Beardon, founder of SailBritain.
    Dusk Falls on Tolcarne Creek



  • ARTIST ON BOARD WITH NINTH WAVE GLOBAL

    ARTIST ON BOARD WITH NINTH WAVE GLOBAL

    NINTH WAVE GLOBAL

    Artist on Board. Environment exploration of the Hudson River via canoe investigating positive change in environment, community and social settings.


  • DUMBO OPEN STUDIOS

    DUMBO OPEN STUDIOS

    Please come by our studios at 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn for DUMBO Open Studios.
    My studio is #504, also home to Michelle Handelman, Dev Harlan and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong.

  • DRAWING ROOMS - THE BIG SMALL SHOW

    DRAWING ROOMS - THE BIG SMALL SHOW
  • (Eve Mosher)

    WATER + ART and PIONEER WORKS
    School of the Apocalypse Working Group. Mapping Worldwide Art+Water

    Wonderful collaboration led by Eve Mosher and Sarah Cameron Sunde with Tal Berry, Nancy Nowacek, Seila Fernandez Arconada & Dain Merganthaler for WATER + ART to compiling data and mapping artists internationally who work with water, partnering with Pioneer Works. This will be an ongoing project.

    www.schoolofapocalypse.org

  • DRAWING ROOMS HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER

    DRAWING ROOMS HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER
  • CENTRAL BOOKING GALLERY "week of protest"

    CENTRAL BOOKING GALLERY "week of protest"

    CENTRAL BOOKING "WEEK OF PROTEST"

    Pop Up Show in reaction to the election of Donald Trump


  • SWALE and BIOME ARTS (Eco Hack)

    SWALE & BIOME ARTS (on Swale)
    Contributing Artist

    Spent parts of the summer helping a decrepit old gravel Barge up in Kings Marina on the Hudson transform into a floating food forest and build Biome Arts events space
    Mary Mattingly & SWALE
    Biome Arts
    SWALE website

    Thrilled to be working with both SWALE and Biome Arts on board Mary Mattingly's Floating Food Forest. SWALE will be up and running - mooring at Concrete Plant Park on the Bronx River and Pier 6 on Brooklyn Bridge Park. With performances in collaboration with Biome Arts and workshops with SWALE. Come pick free fruit and vegetables and learn about how SWALE was created in order to get around local ordinances of growing and picking food in public places.




  • SWALE - SHARE A PLANT / SHARE A STORY

    SWALE - SHARE A PLANT / SHARE A STORY

    I was very excited to start a plant exchange initiative whereby neighbours from the local Bronx community surrounding Cement Plant Park could bring plants that they grew for food, particularly food from a home country and plant it on Swale as well as picking whatever they wanted from other plants. We asked that they share their cooking stories and recipes from home wherever that may be. I brought plants that my mother would grow and cook with in her garden back in England - rosemary, marjoram, thyme and tarragon.

    SWALE website

  • BROOKLYN NAVY YARD RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK

    BROOKLYN NAVY YARD RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK


    Please come and join us on Wednesday, March 8 from 6-8pm.
    BLDG 92 will host an informal reception and presentation of work by the 2016 Brooklyn Navy Yard Visiting Artists:


    Tessa Grundon
    C’Naan Hamburger
    Janice McDonell
    Sarah Olson
    Allen Riley

    Wine, beer & light fare
    BLDG 92 is located at 63 Flushing Avenue at Carlton Ave. Directions
    RSVP to bldg92intern@brooklynnavyyard.org by Monday, March 6.

  • BROOKLYN NAVY YARD - ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

    BROOKLYN NAVY YARD - ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

    BROOKLYN NAVY YARD

    Ongoing collaboration with BLDG92, King's County Distillery, IceStone, Steiner Studios, Woodside Press.

    Public Presentation of Work
    BLDG92 Visiting Artist Program

  • DARTMOOR ARTS - SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN THE LANDSCAPE

    DARTMOOR ARTS - SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN THE LANDSCAPE

    (photo credit Phil Ryan)

    July 2015
    Dartmoor Arts Sky Observatory
    Conceiving and building a Spatial Structure in the Dartmoor landscape with an amazing group of architectural students in a span of 6 days.

    DARTMOOR ARTS - SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN THE LANDSCAPE
    Stargazing Platform in 6 Days
    With Jerry Tate, Henry Russell

  • WORKS ON PAPER art fair

    WORKS ON PAPER art fair

    MADE ON PAPER ART FAIR 2016

    MADE ON PAPER Art Fair 2016
    with Arco Gallery

    Pier 36, New York City
    March 2016

  • ARCO GALLERY

    ARCO GALLERY
  • GREEN SCHOOL ALLIANCE CONFERENCE - ENVIRONMENTAL ART EXHIBITION. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MAYA LIN

    GREEN SCHOOL ALLIANCE CONFERENCE - ENVIRONMENTAL ART EXHIBITION.   KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MAYA LIN

    Tessa Grundon - Curator and a contributing artist.

    GSA Conference: Lycee Francais de New York.
    April 20, 2013: 9:30am - 6.30pm
    The Lycee Francais de New York
    505 East 75th Street, NYC

    Keynote Speaker: Maya Lin presenting "What is Missing"

    The exhibiting artists produce work (video, sculpture and painting) directly relating to environmental issues; for many nature is the subject or starting point. Some weave environmental or natural elements into their work, others use recycled materials.

    Anna Schuleit
    Dana Levy
    Nuala Clark
    Sam Clayton
    Beth Dary
    Francisco Donoso
    Kate Temple
    Katia Santibañez
    Ellie Irons
    Jeanne Greco
    Tessa Grundon
    Asuka Hishiki
    Dulce Nascimento
    Sky Pape
    Naomi Reis
    Linda Stillman

  • AFFORDABLE ART FAIR

    AFFORDABLE ART FAIR

    AFFORDABLE ART FAIR NYC 2014

    Participating in New York's Affordable Art Fair April 2 - 6, 2014

    Please come and visit us at New York City's 2014 Affordable Art Fair . I will be showing with Arco Gallery in Booth 1.57 at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues).

    Times, tickets & location

    Hours
    Wednesday, April 2
    Private View 7pm – 10pm
    Thursday, April 3 11am – 8pm
    AAF After Dark 8pm – 10pm
    Friday, April 4 11am – 8pm*
    Saturday, April 5 11am – 8pm
    Sunday, April 6 11am – 6pm

    *Free Admission Hours: Friday, April 4, 6pm-8pm ONLY

    Tickets
    General Admission Online $15/day
    At the door $20/day
    Students/Seniors At the door $10/day*
    *Valid ID required

    Children Under 12 Free

    Private View
    Online $65 per person / $125 for two
    At the door $75 per person

    AAF After Dark
    Online or at the door $30 per person

  • KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE

    KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE

    KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE

    Participating in Kentler International Drawing Space's
    100 WORKS ON PAPER BENEFIT

    Exhibition runs Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 5pm - April 12 - May 11, 2014

    353 Van Brunt Street, (RED HOOK) Brooklyn, New York 11231


    MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION:
    Saturday, APRIL 12, 6-8pm (open to the public)
    The 100 Works on Paper exhibition is open to the public

    BENEFIT:
    Saturday, MAY 17, 6pm (ticket holders only)
    TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW (tickets are limited)
    PURCHASE ONE TICKET for $200 ($250 couple)
    GO HOME WITH ONE NEW WORK OF ART

  • CERES GALLERY - EXPOSURES EXHIBITION
    New Works

    CERES GALLERY
    547 27th Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10001
    December 15th - 19th, 2015
    Hours: Tue-Sat, noon-6pm, Thu noon-8pm
    Reception: Thursday, December 17th 6pm-8pm

    I am delighted to have been included as one of the artists showing at |Ceres Gallery in Chelsea for their Exposure Exhibition. My work will be showing from December 15th - 19th. The reception for the show will be on the evening of December 17th between 6-8pm.



    DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE

    Contributing Artist

    Art+Design Benefit Auction

    Date and Time:
    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 @ 6:00 – 9:00 PM

    Location:
    CHRISTIE'S

    Address:
    20 Rockefeller Plaza
    New York, NY 10020

  • WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE - PRIVATE STUDIO VISIT

    WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE - PRIVATE STUDIO VISIT

    WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE OPEN STUDIOS

    WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE OPEN STUDIOS March 24th, 2013
    Noon - 3pm
    Please come by and visit the Open Studios for the Winter Workspace Artists at Wave Hill.

    Jennifer McGregor, Wave Hill Senior Curator invites you to attend:

    Winter Workspace Private Studio Visit
    Sunday, March 24 Noon - 1:30PM
    Studios will be open until 3PM

    Meet the Artists
    Firelei Báez
    Onyedika Chuke
    Francisco Donoso
    Tessa Grundon
    Lina Puerta
    Naomi Reis

    Winter Workspace provides studio space for artists in Glyndor Gallery during January, February and March. Artists develop new work or continue ongoing projects using Wave Hill's exceptional gardens, greenhouses and woodlands as a source of creative inspiration.

    SUPPORT FOR THE WINTER WORKSPACE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED BY the New York Community Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support for the Visual Arts Program is provided by Anonymous, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. and the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation. Sustaining support for Wave Hill is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

    A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, Wave Hill's mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts.

  • Wave Hill Public Workshops

    Wave Hill Public Workshops

    WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

    Wave Hill's Winter Workspace Program

    Public Workshops
    SESSION 2
    Artist: Tessa Grundon
    Portrait of a Landscape: Painting with Natural Materials
    The artist will demonstrate how she creates images of the environment using natural materials such as mud and beeswax sourced from the site. Using these techniques, participants will make their own drawings of the local landscape.
    Tuesday, February 26, 1-4PM & Tuesday, March 19, 1-4PM

    |https://www.wavehill.org/arts/exhibits/winter-workspace-2013/|Wave Hill Public Programming - Details of my workshops

  • WAVE HILL WINTER RESIDENCY 2013

    *I am delighted to announce that I have been selected as an Artist In Residence at Wave Hill in the Bronx as part of their WINTER WORKSPACE PROGRAM. I will be working with materials found in and around the property through February and March.*

  • BRONX ART EXCHANGE - ARMORY WEEK

    BRONX ART EXCHANGE - ARMORY WEEK

    March 6-8 2013
    I will be one of Wave Hill's represented artists at Bronx Art Exchange for Armory Week at the Andrew Freeman House.
    Wave Hill in Bronx Arts | Cultural Express II on the Grand Concourse.
    Stop by the Bronx Happy Hour from 5-8 on Thurs. March 7.
    Subway, from midtown Manhattan: take uptown D/B train. Exit on 167th Street and Grand Concourse. Andrew Freedman Home is located diagonally on Grand Concourse between 166th and McClellan Streets. (718) 293-8100
    From Wave Hill we usually take Metro-North to Yankee Stadium, then it’s a 15 min. walk.

  • 3RD WARD EXHIBITION and PANEL TALK

    3RD WARD EXHIBITION

    Wednesday March 27th 2013
    7-9pm
    Panel Discussion Introduction to the New York Art World
    New York is an international hub for the most exciting art and artists. But how to break in? On Wednesday March 27, we're opening our Introduction to New York's Art World Class to the public with an eye-opening panel discussion.

    Learn from a diverse panel of art world professionals as they shed light on how to begin and sustain a career in the New York art world of the 21st century. Moderated by class instructor Krista Saunders, the panel will consist of informal conversation with the panelists : Marco Antonini, Director of NURTUREart, Asya Geisberg, owner of Asya Geisberg Gallery, Lydia Kutko, Founder of Lydia Barry Kutko Art Advisory and Artist Lyn-Kee-Chow.

    Plus, this time around, the panel will be held in conjunction with a one-night-only exhibition of work by artists who have taken the course! Including Christian Grattan, Tessa Grundon, Gustavo Rizerio, Carlo Sampietro and Leticia Sampedro.

  • COURTYARD STUDIOS RESIDENCY. Wiltshire, U.K.

    COURTYARD STUDIOS RESIDENCY.  Wiltshire, U.K.

    Local stone carved, shaped and incised, wrapped with horsehair collected from surrounding barbed wire fencing

    "COURTYARD STUDIOS" RESIDENCY
    2 week residency

    Summer Residency 2012
    "The Sheds"
    Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire
    UK