Tamara Wasserman is a contemporary painter, mixed media artist, curator, and
performer.
Tamara was born in Riga, Latvia, and raised in Riga and Jerusalem. She holds a
BFA in Painting from the Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem. She moved to
Chicago in 1990. Wasserman has maintained a studio at Bridgeport Art Center in
Chicago from 2012 to 2024. Currently she paints in her home studio in Oak Park,
Illinois.
Tamara has had many solo and group exhibitions in galleries, art centers and
museums in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ann
Arbor.
Exhibition Highlights:
Sonia Zachs Gallery, Chicago (1990's), Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago (1990's),
Stephen Gang Galleries/Gallery Alexie, New York, 2001
Migrations in Black and White, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, 2024
Bridgeport Art Center (multiple group exhibitions, 2013- 2023), Chicago IL
Freeport Art Museum Juried Art Competition, Freeport, Illinois, 2023
Koehnline Art Museum, Des Plaines, Illinois, multiple exhibitions
Oliva Gallery, Chicago IL: two solo exhibitions and curation, 2019-2024
Eat Paint, Chicago, IL, 2019. THIRST, a three artists exhibition
Local Color Art Showcase, Oak Park IL, October - December 2024
Live Painting at Jazz Concerts at Fulton Street Collective, Chicago,
2021- 2025
SOFA ART FAIR, NAVY PIER, CHICAGO, 2019
Since 2019 Tamara enjoys a significant and close collaboration with OLIVA
GALLERY, Chicago, consisting of 2 solo exhibitions, representation at
SOFA Chicago, and curating an invitational group show in 2023.
In 2024 Wasserman's painting "HEAD FULL OF MEMORIES" was purchased by
the St. Regis Hotel in New York City
2025 Women in Nature Invitational Group Exhibition at Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, IL
2025 Luminosity International Symposium, Cocurator and Exhibiting Artist, Oliva
gallery, Chicago, IL
Wasserman's artwork is in private collections in the US, England, Switzerland,
Russian Federation, Latvia, and Israel.
Website: www.paperboatart.com
