Tia Factor received her M.F.A. from the Department of Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and her B.F.A. with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 1997. At U.C. Berkeley, Factor was the Eisner Award recipient in 2000, and received the J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award in 2001. Factor has been a lecturer at the Oxbow School in Napa, California and for the Department of Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley. She has curated two exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been included in numerous solo and group shows in galleries and museums throughout the region. She was awarded an ArtsTasmania International Natural and Cultural Residency at Port Arthur Historic Site where she completed a month-long stay this past September. Factor is currently organizing the exhibition, THE LAST FRONTIER(S): Tasmania on the North American West Coast, a show that will tour the West Coast in 2010 featuring artists from Tasmania exploring issues of place in their work.
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