TENNYSON WOODBRIDGE (American, b. 1963) is a multidisciplinary visual and conceptual performance artist. Subject themes surround nature and the nature of anything, the insignificance of everything and the grand conspiracy entertaining 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

CV
2023 (December): Self-appointed promotional content provider: The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC🤷‍♀️)
2023: (August - to present): Visual arts instructor, The-Arc Solano; working with artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities
2022 (to present): Post-pandemic Persona Portraits. In-character, self-shot film & studio portraits
2021 to (present) Self-appointed spokesperson: Monsanto Lunar Division. Inaugural non-sponsorship series harvesting Vouchsafe Modern Living™ on the dark side of the moon 
2021 (to present): Arrives in Vallejo, California
2020 (to 2022): Pandemic Persona Portraits. In-character, self-shot film & studio portraits
2019 (December): Nā Pali Coast / Kalalau Trail; Kauai, Hawaii
2019: (January-April): Encore self-appointed artist in residence, Badwater Basin, Joshua Tree + Mojave National Reserve; concluding large format, in-camera panograph project
2018 (July-August): In search of Hattifatteners, Southern Finland
2018 (July): Encore (actual) artist in residence, Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden; more Scandinavian Summer light 
2017-2018 (November-May): Self-appointed artist in residence, Badwater Basin, Death Valley; large format in-camera panograph project
2017 (August): Solar eclipse, Eastern Oregon, United States
2017: Barboncino e Furfante: Due film di Conti De Luca; Sicily, Italy
2017 (May-June): Beauty, Light and an Abundance of Cigarettes in the Southern Italian landscape; Sicily, Italy
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
2016: (May-June) Artist in residence, Ricklundgården; Saxnäs, Sweden. Large format, in-camera panograph series of Scandinavian solstice light
2015: Films Taxi to Havana at Havana Biennale; Havana, Cuba; co-produced by Emmy Scharlatt
2014: Large-format panograph project commences
2014: Launches idego.com, Another Tennyson Woodbridge Project 
2013 (to present): Pre-pandemic Persona Portraits series begins
2013: Forms a large cell anaplastic lymphoma and rethinks everything
2013: Founds Cap Manta, LLC (a registered investment advisor firm)
2011: Photographs Sontag Appropriations for documentary film Regarding Susan Sontag, released in 2014
2011: Iceland: 2-week summer solstice reconnaissance regarding the nature of Nordic light
2005 (to present): Establishes studio in Touraine, France
2005 (to 2006): Arrives in Pontlevoy, France for 1-year
1997-2002: Eldisco.com… The internet’s largest UFO image bank is launched and operated through 2002. El Disco media proliferates the internet organically since
1995: Insider Trading… Tennyson Woodbridge, grandson of 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
1994 (to 2021): Arrives in Berkeley, California  
1994: Ventura Community Access… Tennyson Woodbridge namesake is born in television performance video with Lincoln Myerson; Richard Nixon’s memorial services, Yorba Linda, California
1993: World Youth Day… Denver, Colorado; El Disco attends, commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II and documenting random Virgin Mary appearances
1992 (to 1996): Forms HERD Research (Heterodoxical Educational Research and Development) with Cedd Moses; Venice, California
1991: Solar eclipse, San Blas, Mexico
1990: Watch This! Performance leap from a 10-story building; UCLA MFA party, Jan Peterson’s rooftop-loft, Santa Fe building,  Los Angeles, California
1987 (to 2002+): Forms collaborative project El Disco with artists Joe Clower and Steve Thomsen
1987 (to 1994): Studio assistant for artist Tony Berlant, Los Angeles, California
1985 (to 1987): Studio manager/personal care attendant for artist Patrick Hogan, Los Angeles, California 

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