You are here

From September 5 through October 19, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will host its first solo exhibition of work by artist Tiffany Shlain, titled You are here. The exhibition will include a selection of Shlain’s supergraphics, tree-ring projections and sculptures, light boxes, and photographs, investigating ideas in feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature.

“In the exhibition You are here, I will go back thousands of years in time, or thousands of miles in space, to reposition our relationship with nature and history,” explains Shlain. “By shifting our sense of scale, we see things differently: the earth, war, feminism, neuroscience, and our own lives. We gain a different perspective on where we are, and where we want to go”.

Included in the exhibition will be the sculpture Dendrofemonology: a feminist history tree ring, which was installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in November 2023. A new short documentary film about that presentation will debut at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and be on view throughout the run of the exhibition.

Tiffany Shlain was born in San Francisco in 1970. She received her BA in interdisciplinary studies from University of California Berkeley, where she was valedictorian speaker, and studied filmmaking at New York University’s Sight and Sound program. She was invited back to UCB to give the campus wide commencement in 2010 which NPR included on its list of best commencement speeches. She is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Mall in Washington D.C. with the National Women’s History Museum, the de Young Museum of Fine Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and embassies globally. She is creating an exhibition with Ken Goldberg for the Getty Museum’s art initiative PST: Art & Science Collide at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in October 2024.

Her over 60 awards and distinctions include honors for her films, visual work, and writing; selection by the Albert Einstein Foundation for their Genius100 list, the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Intellectual Activity, and artist residencies at the San Francisco Ferry Building’s SHACK15 and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She founded the Webby Awards and is author of the national bestselling book 24/6: giving up screens one day a week to get more time, creativity and connection, a practice she has done for 14 years. She lives in Northern California.