Short Version Resume
TANTRA BENSKO
Quick Hightlights Art Resume
Selected Magazines: RECENT, FEATURES, and COVERS ONLY Upcoming CameraArts Portfolio Edition, print Upcoming: Vociferous Union, print
Current Other Magazine, print, issue 12, www.othermag.org Current Ashe Journal Metaportals
Sein und Werden, January, 2007
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/eleven/index.html
F-stop, at January, 2007, http://www.fstopmagazine.com/home.html. JPG Magazine January 2007 Unlikely Stories, www.unlikelystories.com, January 2007 multimedia
Emerging Visions, January 2007, http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/
http://www.mannequinenvy.com/Spring%202006/bensko_summer06.html Feature, with a review of my work.
Feature: www.globalinnervisions.com, Interview, art feature and fiction feature, April, 2006.
Feature: Southern Hum, vol one, issue three, with art accompanying everyone's literature. I am interviewed, and also featured as fiction writer. March, 2006.
Many issues of www.oystersandchocolate.com, including March, 2006.
Big Ol Face Full of Monster, print, issue 2 and 3, winter, 2006.
Feature and Article, print: El Sismógrafo, http://www.sismografo.com/, print, “Burning Art for Light,” Spain, Nov, 2005
Ten Thousand Monkeys, http.m10k.net/,fall,2005
Feature: Spartan Dog Magazine, www.spartandog.com, Issue 7, Oct. 9, 2005
Feature and Review: Mannequin Envy, www.MannequinEnvy.com, fall, 2005
Fulva Flava, print, issue 1, http://fulvaflava.blogspot.com/ print, Fall, 2005
Cover: Mad Hatters Review, www.madhattersreview.com, Sept. 15, 2005
Fstop, http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibit.html, Sept., 2005
Newtopia Magazine, http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/, July, 2005
Altar Magazine, www.altarmagazine.com print, New York, Aug, 2005
NFG Magazine, http://www.nfg.ca/ , print, 2005
Mad Hatters Review, www.madhattersreview.com, several images, issue 3, June 16, 2005
Cover: Art Revolutionaries, www.artrevolutionaries.com, 1.2, May, 2005
Cover: Rearview Quarterly, http://rearview.domynoes.net/ ,print, Spring, 2004
Cover and inside illustrations: Mkzine, print, www.mkzine.com , issues 1, 2, and 3, Olympia, Washington, 2004
Feature: Blue Fifth Review, www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/ winter, 2003
Feature Article: Times Journal of Photography, tutorial and photography, 3.3. spring, 2003
Feature as World Class Photographer: Times Journal of Photography, print, www.timesjournalofphotography, volume 3 issue 2, Jan. 2003
Cover and Feature: 2 River Magazine: Poetry, Art and Theory, http://www.2river.org/gallery/bensko/bensko.html 7.2., Winter, 2003
Cover: Raven Chronicles, print, Seattle
Cover: Artzar, www.artzar.com , Flash animation, Nov. 2002
Feature: Samsara Quarterly, www.samsaraquarterly.net, July, 2002
Cover and inside: Raven Chronicles, http://www.ravenchronicles.org/ , print, Seattle, 2003
Cover: Spring Hill Review: A Journal of Northwest Culture, print, Jan. 2002
Feature: Logascene, http://pages.ivillage.com/lorenalagrassa/logascene, Italy, 2002
Feature: Exquisite Corpse, www.corpse.org , Spring, 2002
Feature: Ladyfire, www.ladyfire.com , Spring 2002
Feature: Silver Graphics, www.silvergraphicsweb.com, June 2002
Feature: Pierian Springs, www.pieriansprings.net, June, 2002
Feature: The Pedestal Magazine, www.thepedestalmagazine.com, April, 2002
Selected Exhibits upcoming Day of the Dead Show Aspect Gallery, San Francisco, Nov. 2007
Open Studios Show, Oct 20 through early November Aspect Gallery, San Francisco 2007
Current Bridging Heaven and Earth, Santa Barbara Oct, for month, 2007
The Human Body Show at Aspect Gallery, San Francisco Aug-Oct 2007
Surreal Landscapes show at Aspect Gallery, San Francisco June-Aug 2007
ArtsfestSF Erotic Art Show, San Francisco, June 16, 2007
Upcoming: Bridging Heaven and Earth show, Santa Barbara, July, 2007 The Mad Hatters Review, Manhattan, June 2007 Spectra Ball, March 31 2007
Solo Show, Calpe, Spain, February, 2007
Dual show, Elche, Spain, December, 2006
Madrone Gallery, San Francisco, Winter, 2006
Satir Satori Salon, August, 2006
Algarve Museum, Algarve, Spain, spring, 2006
Spectra Ball, San Francisco, April, 2006
Chemical Wedding, Live with Animals Gallery, New York, March 2006
Solo Show, Elche, Spain, Nov 2005
Red Ink Studio, San Francisco, 2005
Caladan Gallery in show: "Myths, Mystery, and Ritual: A Portal into Night,"
http://www.caladangallery.com/, October, 2005
Clan Cabaret, Alicante, Spain, projected movies nightly
Solo Show: T-Bar, the caves of Rojales, Spain, Nov 4 2005
Solo Show: Altea, Alicante, Spain, July-October, 2005
The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, July 28, 2005
Kona, San Francisco, 2005
Judaliscious solo show, San Francisco, 2005
Seattle Erotic Art Show, Washington, Jan 31-Feb 2, 2004
Seattle Erotic Art Show, Washington, Jan 2004
The Mason Show, London, Sept. 2002
Solo Show: Sala Clan Cabaret, Alicante, Spain, July1 –Oct. 1 2004
Solo Show: Akelare, Tarravieja, Spain, May 1-June 15, 2004
Solo Show: Café Theatre El Carro De Tepsis, Sax, Spain, Jan 28-March 20 2004
Dual Show: Café Utopia, Elche, Spain Aug. 9-Dec. 22 2003
Dallington Street Show, London, July 2002
Solo Show, The Voyeur, Olympia, May, 2002
Art- Photo- Shop Special Exhibit, Golden Café, Golden Square, London, May 2002
Salon Mondial, Luxembourg, 2002
Photography 2002, The Stage Gallery, New York, April, 2002 (one of 23 works selected from thousands of International contestants)
GoRaInMotus, Birmingham, Alabama, Barehands Gallery, March 2002
Solo Show, Four Winds Gallery, Montevallo, Alabama, 1992
Current Positions
The Art Director, www.madhattersreview.com,ongoing
Juror for BTDesign Awards, http://www.barbaratampieri.com/ for both photography and art, 2004 ongoing
Selected Awards
Digital Color Award from Digital Consciousness, spring, 2007
www.Mosaicglobe.com Award, 2006, 2007
BTDesign Golden Art Site Award, with interview, and feature, 2002
Salon Mondial Ribbon, Luxembourg, 2002
Grand Prize Best of Show, Art on the Lake Exhibit, Guntersville, Alabama, 1992
Interviews San Francisco Voice, http://www.sanfranvoice.com/ current issue, June, 2007 by Gary Gray in Global Innervisions, April, 2006.
"The Little Show," Channel 29, San Francisco, Sept. 13 2005. 2 of my movies may be seen on their site, http://thelittleshow.com
Barbara Tampieri, BTF design awards, artist of the month, Italy, http://digilander.libero.it/barbaratampieri/permanent61.html, Feb 2003
By Amrita Ganguly, Times Journal of Photography, print, India, January, 2003 www.timesphotojournal.com
"A Star so Bright" and "Masks as Metaphore (sic), interviewed by Lilian, Olympia, 2002, for TV, A Visit with a Person of High Strangeness
by Carol Tipping, PIxiport, 2002, www.pixiport.com
by John Amen, The Pedestal Magazine, Oct 2002, www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Inter.asp?interid=16
by Alec Clayton, The Buzz, Oct, 2002
By Lorena LaGrassa, Logascene vol 6 , Italy, http://pages.ivillage.com/lorenalag
Other Art sites
http://www.zhibit.com/tantra
www.artbeacon.com/tantravision
and now, to extend the short version just very slightly, here are just a small sprinkling, eh?
Gallery Exhibits
In Art-Photo-Shop Special Exhibit, Golden Café, Golden Square, London, May, 2002
In Salon Mondial, Luxembourg, 2002
In “Photography 2002”, The Stage Gallery, New York, April 2002
In “G.o.R.a. in Motus” currated exhibition, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, March 2002
In “Bottoms Up”, curated exhibit at The Voyeur, Olympia, April 2002
In Olympia’s Fifth Annual “Sex Worker’s Art Show”, Capitol Theatre, Olympia, Jan 19th, 2002
In Visions of Peace, curated exhibit, at the Voyeur in Olympia, January 18.
Solo, Tonic Oxygen Bar, ongoing exhibit, Boulder, Colorado
In Olympia World News, Olympia, Dec 2001
Art WROC, Olympia, WA, December, 2001
Magazines
Branches Quarterly, issue 1, (January),
Branches Quarterly, issue 2 (April)
Branches Quarterly, issue 3 ((July) 2002. www.branchesquarterly.com
MKZine, website for upcoming print magazines, beginning in December, 2002
Small Spiral Notebook, Sept. 2002. www.smallspiralnotebook.com
Bright Lights and Dead Ends feature.
Branches Quarterly, issue 4 , www.branchesquarterly.com
Wild Violet, issue 5, www.wildviolet.net
Newspaper
The Buzz, Olympia, issues 1, (May),
The Buzz, Olympia, issue 2, (June)
The Buzz, Olympia, October, 2002,. Featured, www.buzz24.com
Curated Online Exhibits
BTDesign Awards Site. http://digilander.libero.it/barbaratampieri/preview.html
www.Photography.ca
MOCA museum of computer art. http://museumofcomputerart.com
Profotos. www.profotos.com
Shadowlands, www.maillard.co.uk
British Journal of Photography. www.Bjphoto.co.uk
Burning Man. http://images.burningman.com
Creanum Belgium. http://www.creanum-belgium.net/page3g.html
Artists for Peace, Justice, and Civil Liberties. www.taparts.org
Child of the Militia –Featured as artist about Mind Control.www.sonnet.com
Tantra-Sex Erotic Photography exhibit, http://www.tantra-sex.com/art.html
Please note that many places my art is linked to my old art site, www.Tantragarden.com. I lost the domain to that site, and it became a porn site which I have nothing to do with.
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