ctamm (at) usc.edu
Solo Exhibitions
2019
MAMProject 26: Curtis Tamm, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Select Group Exhibitions
2023
not〈 I 〉, not not〈 I 〉(sound designer for Maki Ohkojima), HARUKAITO by island, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Correspondences (Sound Designer for Maki Ohkojima), Chiba Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2019
Song to Life, Struggles of the Soul (sound designer for Maki Ohkojima), Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Center for Cellular Alignment, Arcus Project, Moriya City, Ibaraki Japan
2016
The Viscous Shape (with Hermione Spriggs), Skaftfell Center for Visual Art. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Balancing the Stone, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
2015
Eyes As Sieves, Global Committee Gallery, New York, NY
Those Who At Close Range Resemble Flies, Art/Sci Gallery, UCLA California Nano-systems Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2014
PRESENTISM (Sound designer for Refik Anadol), Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA
A Room In Which The Only Wall Is In The Middle, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2013
No Vestige of a Beginning No Prospect for an End, New Wight Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Angle of Incidence, Design Matters, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Tomato Quintet v2.0 (with Greg Niemeyer and Chris Chaffe). Zero1 Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
A Shapeless Spectacle (with Maneesh Raj Madahar, Travis Wyche), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2010
Corporeal, Martina }{ Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA
The Physics of Experience, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Film/Video Screenings
2017
The Destruction of Royal Gardens (Material Mortality) Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2015
The Thing Is All Around Itself (Live Cinema) Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX
2015
The Thing Is All Around Itself (Official Selection) Aesthetica Film Festival, York, England
2012
Reconciling the Snake (Official selection) Flexfest, Gainesville, FL
2010
Hour) or a fis… (Eisner Prize Screening) Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2009
Epithelial Membrane Moment (How to Dig A Hole), Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Performance / Lecture-Performance
2021
Sparagmos or Silence? Dornsife Center for Science, Technology and Public Life, University of Southern California
2019
Ec(h)osophical Listening Lab, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
The Bell Is What It Is Not, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Disorientation Therapy, (with Maneesh Raj Madahar, Omar Zubair) Rubin Museum of Art, Manhattan, NY
2017
Center for Cellular Alignment, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Flatlander, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Opera for Known and Unknowable Universes, (with Travis Wyche and Maneesh Raj Madahar), Mengi Performing Arts Center, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
Tympanic Tether, Santozeum, Santorini, GR
2014
The Thing Is All Around Itself, EXteresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX
Those Who From Afar Appear as Islands (with Hermione Spriggs), Lorquin Entomological Society at BIOQUIP Supply Warehouse Los Angeles, CA
2012
Transmutating into the 8th and the 9th, (with Maneesh Raj Madahar & Omar Zubair), University of Florida, Corpus/Bodies Conference, Gainesville, FL
Capturing and Releasing the Vapor (with Hermione Spriggs, Omar Zubair, Maneesh Raj Madahar, Mike Glover). BetaLevel, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Efflorescence of Dura-mater (with Michael Campos-Quinn), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2010
Transmutating Bodies Into Wormholes (with Andrew Schneider, Omar Zubair, Bree Tye), BetaLevel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Education
PhD, Media Arts and Practices - University of Southern California (expected) 2025
MFA, Design | Media Arts - University of California Los Angeles 2014
BA, Film Studies - University of California at Berkeley 2010
Awards and Grants
Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA), Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2023
Dornsife Center on Science, Technology and Public Life (STPL), Summer Stipend, University of Southern California, 2023
Annenberg Endowed Fellowship, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2023
Dornsife Center on Science, Technology and Public Life, Summer Stipend, University of Southern California, 2021
East Asian Studies Center, ACE-Nikaido Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2021
Annenberg Fellowship, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2020
Frank Sinatra Endowment Fund, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2020
Art and Technology Lab Grant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 2017
New Music USA, Project Grant, 2017
International Development Fund, Arts Council England 2016
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Major Grant 2013
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Mini Grant 2012
William Nestrick Award, UC Berkeley 2010
Roslyn Eisner Prize for Creative Excellence, UC Berkeley 2010
Helen Merowitz Deafness and the Arts Memorial Grant, 2010
Residency
University of South Carolina, School of Visual Arts and Design, Columbia, South Carolina 2019
Arcus Project, Moriya City, Ibaraki, Japan 2017
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art & GPL Walker Geology Center, Iceland 2016
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska 2016
Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland 2016
Santozeum, Santorini, Greece 2015
Soma, Mexico City, Mexico 2014