TANTRA BENSKO


Tantra Bensko
Artist’s Resume



Gallery Exhibits
In The Mason Show, London, September, 2002
In Dallington Street show, London, July, 2002
Solo show, “Reality Burn!” The Voyeur, Olympia May 17, 2002
In Art-Photo-Shop Special Exhibit, Golden Café, Golden Square, London, May, 2002
In Salon Mondial, Luxembourg, 2002 
In “Photography 2002”, The Stage Gallery, New York, April 2002 
In “G.o.R.a. in Motus” currated exhibition, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, March 2002
In “Bottoms Up”, curated exhibit at The Voyeur, Olympia, April 2002
In Olympia’s Fifth Annual “Sex Worker’s Art Show”, Capitol Theatre, Olympia, Jan 19th, 2002
In Visions of Peace, curated exhibit, at the Voyeur in Olympia, January 18.
Solo, Tonic Oxygen Bar, ongoing exhibit, Boulder, Colorado
In Olympia World News, Olympia, Dec 2001
Art WROC, Olympia, WA, December, 2001
In Gunnersville Art Festival, Gunnersville, Al, 1992, won top ribbon.
Solo show “The Mask Maker”, Four Winds Gallery, Montevallo, AL 1992
Solo show, “The Dance of Shiva”, The Great Midwestern Ice Cream Company, Iowa City, Iowa, 1987
 

Selected Online Exhibits
Art-photo-shop.com, London. Tantra’s art is represented by Steve Bicknell www.art-photo-shop.com.
BTDesign Awards Site. http://digilander.libero.it/barbaratampieri/preview.html
www.Photography.ca
Pixiport- two Elite Photographer galleries. www.pixiport.com
MOCA museum of computer art. http://museumofcomputerart.com
Profotos. www.profotos.com
Shadowlands, www.maillard.co.uk
British Journal of Photography. www.Bjphoto.co.uk
Burning Man. http://images.burningman.com
Creanum Belgium. http://www.creanum-belgium.net/page3g.html
Artists for Peace, Justice, and Civil Liberties. www.taparts.org
Child of the Militia –Featured as artist about Mind Control.www.sonnet.com
Tantra-Sex Erotic Photography exhibit, http://www.tantra-sex.com/art.html 

Print Magazines
Spring Hill Review:A Journal of Northwest Culture, cover, Brush Prairie, WA, January, 2002
Aura Literary Arts Review, back cover and inside, Birmingham, AL, Fall 2001

Print Magazines Coming soon
Raven Chronicles, Seattle, 2002
Times Photo Journal feature, India,  Dec. 2002. www.timesphotojournal.com
MK-zine covers and inside illustration, Olympia,  scheduled to first appear in winter, 2002. www.mkzine.com

Online Magazines
Cover of Artzar, Oct. 2002. www.artzar.com
Featured in The Pedestal Magazine Aug., 2001. www.thepedestalmagazine.com
Featured in Exquisite Corpse, Spring,  2002. www.corpse.org
Featured in Ladyfire, Spring 2002. www.ladyfire.com
Featured in Silver Graphics, June 2002. www.silvergraphicsweb.com
Branches Quarterly, issue 1, (January),
Branches Quarterly, issue 2 (April)
Branches Quarterly, issue 3 ((July) 2002. www.branchesquarterly.com
Featured in Logascene 2002. http://pages.ivillage.com/lorenalagrassa/logascene/
MKZine, website for upcoming print magazines, beginning in December, 2002
Small Spiral Notebook, Sept. 2002. www.smallspiralnotebook.com
Featured in Samsara Quarterly, July, 2002. www.samsaraquarterly.net
Featured in Pierian Springs, June, 2002. www.pieriansprings.net

Online Magazines coming soon
Blue Fifth feature. http://www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/
Bright Lights and Dead Ends feature. New magazine.
Branches Quarterly, issue 4 , www.branchesquarterly.com
Wild Violet,  issue 5, www.wildviolet.net

Newspaper
The Buzz, Olympia,  issues 1, (May),
The Buzz, Olympia, issue 2, (June)
The Buzz, Olympia, October, 2002,. Featured,  www.buzz24.com

Brochure/Flier
One World Arts Printing, Boulder, CO, 2002. Boulder, CO. Tantra’s art was chosen to represent the quality art giclees made by their press.
Dance o Dance TV Show, Olympia, 2002. Asked to make the collectable flyer for this well attended show. 

TV Shows about Tantra’s art
Featured guest on the following two episodes of A Visit With a Person of High Strangeness, produced for cable television in Olympia and distributed nationally:
“A Star So Bright”, Interviewed by Lilian, Olympia, 2002, 
“Masks as Metaphore” (sic) Interviewed by Lilian, Olympia, 2002

Interviews
By Carol Tipping, Pixiport, 2002. www.pixiport.com
By John Amen, The Pedestal Magazine October 2002.  www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Inter.asp?interid=16
By Alec Clayton, The Buzz, October, 2002. www.buzz24.com
By Amrita Ganguly, Times Photo Journal, coming December, 2000. www.timesphotojournal.com

Awards
BTDesign Golden Art Site Award, Italy, 2002. http://digilander.libero.it/barbaratampieri/preview.html
Golden Web Award, 2002
Salon Mondial Ribbon, 2002. http://www.pce.lu/salonm/2002/winners/2002winners-Esch3.html
One of 23 works selected from thousands of international contestants to be in Photography 2002, Stage Gallery, New York., March 29-April 28, 2002.

PO Box 7212
Olympia, WA 98507
 360.866.4925
flameflower@tantragarden.com
 

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