Scarlet, formerly Lindsay, Tunkl is a conceptual artist working in performance, sculpture, writing, one-on-one encounters, and group workshops to explore and support the human experience in unprecedented times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
Tunkl received an MFA in Fine art and an MA in Visual Critical Studies from California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2017) and a BFA from CalArts In Los Angeles (2010). Her work has been shown in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: most notably at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Southern Exposure, Fused Space, Swissnex and StoreFrontLab in San Francisco, The Center For Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Peformance Space in London, and Gruntaler9 in Berlin. She is the creator of Pre Apocalypse Counseling, The Wailing Institute and the author of the book When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die published by Parallax Press.
EDUCATION
2017 MFA in Fine Art | CCA, San Francisco
MA in Visual and Critical Studies | CCA, San Francisco
2012 Performance Art Studies | Grimmuseum, Berlin
2010 BFA in Photo and New Media | CalArts, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOPS
2020 Grief + Grounding Ritual | Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
Wailing Workshop| Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
Conjuring Sustainable Action | Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
2018 Parting Practice: Rituals For Endings and Failure | Wolffman General Interest Bookstore,
Adobe Books Gallery, Mountain View Cemetery and Land’s End in the Bay Area, CA
2016 Thoughts on the Cyanometer | StoreFrontLab, SF, CA
2013 Diagnostic Session II | Grüntaler9, Berlin, DE
2010 Nuance, Nuisance, and Blood Before Water | CalArts Valencia, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE
2020 Futures Emergent | Dream Farm Commons, Oakland CA
2019 To Take Root Amongst the Stars | The Galalarry, San Francisco, CA
Desperate Holdings Real Estate Agency | Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA
Making and Being Series | Hauser + Wirth, NYC
2018 You Had to Be There | Swissnex, SF
OPTIMISM | Endless Editions Biennial, EFA Projects, NYC
2017 Double Dip | CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, CA
Talk Back Talk Out | CTRL+SHFT | Oakland CA
2016 CCA All College Honors Exhibition | Hubbel St Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Talk Back Talk Out | Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA
AIX Scent Fair | The Hammer Museum, LA, CA
Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition | Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
CCA MFA Thesis Exhibition | The Fused Space, SF, CA
Goes Without Saying | Hello Etc, SF, CA
Getting Real, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Lawn Ornaments | Outside Gallery, LA, CA
Unspoken Release, San Francisco, California
2014 More Than One Way | Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
Community Arts Exhibition | The Oakland Galleries, Oakland, California
2013 Performance Exchange | Performance Space, London, UK
2012 Multiplicity | Gallery 129, Berlin DE
PAS: After Image | Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE
2011 Voyeuristic Exhibitionism | Concord Gallery, Los Angeles, California
PUBLISHED WORKS
2017 When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die, Parallax Press
Origins and Endings: An Inkblot Test, Parallax Press
2013 With/out You Everything Falls Apart, self-published
AWARDS
2016 All College Honors Award
Barclay Simpson Award
2014 CCA Graduate Merit Scholarship
2009 CalArts Undergraduate Merit Scholarship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Art is Everything: A Novel, Yxta Maya Murray
2018 Spiel Des Lebens (Game of Life), Monopol Magazine
What Does the Apocalypse Smell Like?, Eastbay Express
In ‘Parting Practice,’ greeting death with ritual and humor, 48 Hills
My Session with an Artist Who Helped Me Confront Death, Hyperallergic
Artist Lindsay Tunkl Confronts Our Greatest Fears + Gets Real About Death, BobCut Magazine
2017 Comments on Lindsay Tunkl's Vimeo Posting, Los Angeles Review of Books
2016 Turning The World of Fragrance on its Head at the aix scent fair, VICE
This Exhibition Wants You To Feel, Hyperallergic
2014 Emergency Index Vol. 3, Ugly Duck Press
PODCASTS
2021 Seeing Yourself Through the Apocalypse with Lindsay Tunkl, The Numinous Podcast
2019 Episode 182 with Lindsay Tunkl, End of Life University Podcast
2018 Facing the End of the World with Lindsay Tunkl, BAART Podcast
The Arts of Dying, Expanding Mind with Erik Davis
2014 Episode 22, 'My Body and Me' of Adventures Within by Jennifer Moon