He has had solo exhibitions at Bridget Donahue, NY; Commonwealth and Council, CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Queens Museum, NY; MoCA Tucson, AZ; Tufts University Art Gallery, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; MIT List Center for Visual Arts, MA and Institute for Contemporary Art LA, CA. Tam has participated in group shows at the Hammer Museum, CA; SculptureCenter, NY and at The Shed, NY, and will be included in Greater New York 2026 at MoMA/PS1.
Tam is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University and faculty at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Tam received his BFA from the Cooper Union, and is represented by Commonwealth & Council in Los Angeles.
Awards and Residencies
Guggenheim Fellowship
Gold House Art Prize
ALL ARTS Artist in Residence
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists
New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant
Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship - Finalist
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
The Kitchen at Queenslab
Pioneer Works, NY
Artist's Lab, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (’16, ‘19, ‘22)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Residency Fellowship
California Community Foundation Fellowship
Art Matters Foundation Grant
Collections
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Dallas Museum of Art
Guggenheim Museum
Hammer Museum
KADIST
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Tufts University Art Gallery