TENNYSON WOODBRIDGE (American, b. 1963) Visual artist working with mixed media and performance. Subject themes surround nature and the nature of anything, the insignificance of everything and the grand conspiracy connecting all of it

EDUCATION
MFA: Painting, University of California at Los Angeles; 1992
BFA: Studio Art, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; 1985

BIO
1963: Born, Long Beach, California
1985: BFA-Studio Art, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
1985 (to 1987): Studio manager/personal care attendant for Patrick Hogan, Los Angeles, California
1987 (to 1994): Studio assistant for Tony Berlant, Los Angeles, California
1987 (to 2002+): Forms collaborative project El Disco with artists Joe Clower and Steve Thomsen
1990: Watch This! Performance leap from a 10-story building; UCLA MFA party, Jan Peterson’s rooftop-loft, Santa Fe building, Los Angeles, California
1991: Attends total solar eclipse, San Blas, Mexico
1992: MFA-Painting, University of California at Los Angeles
1992 (to 1996): Forms HERD Research (Heterodoxical Educational Research and Development) with Cedd Moses; Venice, California
1993: World Youth Day 1993… Denver, Colorado; El Disco attends, commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II while documenting random Virgin Mary appearances
1994: Ventura Community Access… Tennyson Woodbridge namesake is born in television performance video with Lincoln Myerson; Richard Nixon’s memorial services, Yorba Linda, California
1994 (to 2021): Arrives in Berkeley, California
1995: Insider Trading… Tennyson Woodbridge, surviving heir to the inventor of dental floss, shoots performance video with Cedd Moses on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, San Francisco, California. Briefcase camera footage is confiscated by security in exchange for evading arrest
1997-2002: Eldisco.com… The internet’s largest UFO image bank is launched and operated through 2002. El Disco media proliferates organically since
2005 (to 2006): Arrives in Pontlevoy, France for 1-year
2005 (to present): Establishes studio in Touraine, France
2011: Iceland: 2-week summer solstice reconnaissance regarding the nature of Nordic light
2011: Photographs Sontag Appropriations for documentary film Regarding Susan Sontag, released in 2014
2013: Founds Cap Manta, LLC (a registered investment advisor firm)
2013: Forms a large cell anaplastic lymphoma and rethinks everything
2013 (to present): Persona Portraits series begins
2014: Launches idego.com, Another Tennyson Woodbridge Project
2014: Large-format panograph project commences
2015: Films Taxi to Havana at Havana Biennale; Havana, Cuba; co-produced by Emmy Scharlatt
2016: (May-June) Artist in residence, Ricklundgården; Saxnäs, Sweden. Large format, in-camera panograph series of Scandinavian solstice light
2017 (February-March): El Disco Trans-Pecos: Video and still renderings of West Texas HO-scale tanker-fires and agro surveillant UFO’s in the region
2017 (May-June): Beauty, Light and an Abundance of Cigarettes in the Southern Italian landscape; Sicily, Italy
2017: Barboncino and Furfante: Due film di Conti De Luca; Sicily, Italy
2017 (August): Total solar eclipse, Eastern Oregon, United States
2017-2018 (November-May): Self-appointed artist in residence; Badwater Basin in Death Valley; large format in-camera panograph project
2018 (July): Encore (actual) artist in residence, Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden; more Scandinavian Summer light
2018 (July-August): In search of Hattifatteners, Southern Finland
2019: (January-April): Second self-appointed artist in residence, Badwater Basin, Joshua Tree + Mojave National Reserve; concluding large format, in-camera panograph project
2019 (December): Nā Pali Coast / Kalalau Trail; Kauai, Hawaii
2020 (to 2023): Pandemic Persona Portraits. In-character, self-shot film & studio portraits
2021 (to present): Arrives in Vallejo, California
2021 to (present) Spokesperson - Monsanto Lunar Division. Inaugural non-sponsorship series from the Dark Side of the Moon
2023: (August - to present): Visual arts instructor at The-Arc Solano, teaching artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities
2023: (December): COP28 promotional content provider. We can do this people!

EXHIBITIONS
2023 Architecture in Contemporary Art - The urban landscape as a seismograph of social change; juried by Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
2019 Lines of Sight / The Secret Garden of Dr. Kappeler, Los Angeles, California, curated by B. Taylor-Ndiaye
2018 Art+Tech, Infinity Film Festival, Paley Center for Media, Beverly Hills, California, Curated by Adam Newman and B. Taylor-Ndiaye
2015 The Havana Project, Palos Verdes Art Center, California. Curated by Gail Phinney
1992 Doomsday Optimism, Dickson Art Center, UCLA MFA exhibition
1992 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Irit Krygier and Jean Milant. Group exhibition of nineteen artists, including Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom & John McCracken