Tammy Rae Carland
Tammy Rae Carland
Untitled (On Becoming; Billy and Katie, 1964 #8), 1994/2010
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in
Edition of 20
In On Becoming, Tammy Rae Carland explores themes of identity, family, memory, and gender through the reinterpretation of personal and archival imagery. Untitled (On Becoming; Billy and Katie, 1964 #8) reflects her interest in how photographs shape our understanding of personal histories and the construction of identity.
Carland is a Bay Area-based artist, photographer, and educator whose work examines queer identity, feminism, intimacy, and representation. She is a professor at California College of the Arts and was a co-founder of the influential independent record label Mr. Lady. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Rae Carland's work has been widely exhibited and screened in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and Sydney. Carland is Chair of the photography program at California College of the Arts. Her photographs have been widely published and reviewed in numerous publications, including: The New York Times, Artforum, Art Papers, Big, Curve, Los Angeles Times, Spin, Details, Out, and The Village Voice.

