Tracy Krumm was born in 1963 and grew up in the Twin Cities area. Her interest in craft stemmed from 1960s urban culture and her close relationships with her grandmothers, who sewed, embroidered, tatted and crocheted. By the age of seven, she was already adept at a number of processes and avidly pursued the making of craft objects. This long-standing interest in making has always been balanced with an interest in math and the natural sciences. She attended the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA for two years, studying political ecology, design and craft studies. She finished her BFA in 1987 at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she graduated with high distinction after working closely with Lia Cook and Nance O’Banion.
Her first major exhibition was in 1988, in the Young Americans show at the American Craft Museum in NYC (now the Museum of Art and Design). Since then, her work has been included in over 150 exhibitions, many of them international, including the Belgian Betonac Prize in 1996, which toured for two years and the Lodz Triennial in Poland in 2004. She has been honored with the selection of her work for the National Museum of Women in the Art’s third biennial, which opens in the fall of 2012. In 1990, a residency at Art Park near Buffalo, NY landed her on the east coast and Washington DC, where she was the resident papermaker at Pyramid Atlantic and collaborated with other artists on print, paper and bookarts projects, taught workshops and eventually took on administering their educational programs. She returned to the Bay Area in 1993 to complete her MFA in Sculpture at Vermont College of the Arts’ low residency program, while working as an administrator for Extension, Youth and Summer Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. She moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1996, where she maintained a studio practice for seven years.
She received two grants from the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe for Big Fiber Human Tools in 2007 and 2008, where four site-specific installations were done with the help of public participants. Her work is included in hundreds of private collections and has been collected by such venues as Ford Motor Company, Bloomingdale’s, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe. Krumm currently maintains her studio practice in St. Paul, MN.
Her first major exhibition was in 1988, in the Young Americans show at the American Craft Museum in NYC (now the Museum of Art and Design). Since then, her work has been included in over 150 exhibitions, many of them international, including the Belgian Betonac Prize in 1996, which toured for two years and the Lodz Triennial in Poland in 2004. She has been honored with the selection of her work for the National Museum of Women in the Art’s third biennial, which opens in the fall of 2012. In 1990, a residency at Art Park near Buffalo, NY landed her on the east coast and Washington DC, where she was the resident papermaker at Pyramid Atlantic and collaborated with other artists on print, paper and bookarts projects, taught workshops and eventually took on administering their educational programs. She returned to the Bay Area in 1993 to complete her MFA in Sculpture at Vermont College of the Arts’ low residency program, while working as an administrator for Extension, Youth and Summer Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. She moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1996, where she maintained a studio practice for seven years.
She received two grants from the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe for Big Fiber Human Tools in 2007 and 2008, where four site-specific installations were done with the help of public participants. Her work is included in hundreds of private collections and has been collected by such venues as Ford Motor Company, Bloomingdale’s, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe. Krumm currently maintains her studio practice in St. Paul, MN.
