Tiffany Trenda

Tiffany Trenda is a new media performance artist based out of Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and her MFA from the UCLA, Design and Media Arts program. She has exhibited at the Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Robert Berman Gallery, Highways, and Track 16. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London International Creative Competition Awards in 2008. She performed "Entropy" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later, showcased "Face Me" at the World's Expo, in Shanghai, China in 2010. More recently, she has performed at the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions (LACE), Performance Art Institute in San Francisco, Italian Cultural Institute, A+D Museum, Scope Art Fair (Basel and New York) and Miami CONTEXT, where she graced the cover of the Miami Herald for the first image of Art Basel 2013. Trenda was included in the performance program for the Metamorphoses of the Virtual – 100 Years of Art and Freedom (with main exhibiting artists ORLAN and Pia MYrvoLD) during the 55th annual Venice Biennale.

Trenda's performances and installations explore the qualities of human flesh as represented in media. She uses screen and imaging technologies, such as LCDs and video projections, to create a performance that encompasses the digital environment. With these elements, she interchange her identity and her physical body with screens. Thus asking the question—how far can we push the visceral qualities of the body until it becomes unrecognizable?