Tesia Blackburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and went to elementary school in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. She attended high school in New Mexico and then moved to San Francisco.

Tesia has been a working artist in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years. In 2002 NextMonet Inc., signed Tesia to produce prints of several of her paintings. In 2000 she was hired by Golden Artist Colors, as the Golden Working Artist in San Francisco. Her work is collected both locally and internationally with patrons as far away as Tokyo.

She received her BFA from the Academy of Art in 1984, studied lithography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990 and received her Master’s of Art in 1992 at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. Tesia has taught at the Mendocino Art Center, Palo Alto Art Center, San Francisco City College, Santa Fe NM Community College, the Randall Museum in San Francisco, Walnut Creek Civic Arts and other facilities.

	REPRESENTATION
2005-present	Marion Meyer, Laguna Beach, CA
2001-04	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999-2000	Picasso’s Piccolo, Madrid, NM
1999	Alpha Group Art, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
1994-96	Stage Interiors, San Francisco, CA
1989-91	Gallery Six Oh One San Francisco, CA
1988-89	Accurate Art Gallery Sacramento, CA
1987-89	Alonso/Sullivan Gallery Seattle, WA
	COLLECTIONS
	Brigham Young University, Rexburg ID Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento CA Bellevue Towers, Bellevue WA
	SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008	Bedford Gallery - Walnut Creek CA  - Civic Arts Faculty Show
2005	Saint John’s College – Santa Fe, NM “Blackburn/Klabunde/Zavada“
2003	Thoreau Center San Francisco – Tesia Blackburn “World Mountain House” (One person show) Blair Carnahan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Invitational Monoprint Show; Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS Tesia Blackburn - Art in the Heartland - (One person show) 525 Market, San Francisco, CA (Two Person Show); Mad River Post, San Francisco CA.
2000	Starbucks on the Plaza –Santa Fe, NM (One person show) Picasso’s Piccolo, Madrid, NM (One person show)
1999	Alpha Group Art Tesia Blackburn - Image and Energy: Recent Work (One person show); SITE Santa Fe, Monomarathon Gala Opening
1998	Artisans’ Gallery, Mill Valley CA Small Works
1997	Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Women's Celebration
1996	San Jose, CA Tapestry in Talent Berkeley, CA Live Oak; Artistes Gallerie, Sacramento, CA Introductions: Letizell/Blackburn, (Two person show)
1992	John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA Annual Open House; Back Room Gallery, Sacramento, CA Private Obsessions
1991	I Gallery, Sacramento, CA Three Bad A's: Aids, Apartheid, Armament
1990	Two Penny Gallery Sacramento, CA Lost Angels
1989	Garden Silks Sacramento, CA Faces No Names; Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Collectors Exhibition; John Beggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hospitality House Fourth Annual Auction
1988	Alonso/Sullivan Gallery Seattle, WA Newell/Blackburn (Two person show); Seattle, WA Visual Artists Against Aids Hospitality House, San Francisco, CA Perspectives; Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Just When Things Don't Figure; Accurate Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA Women Artists 1988
1987	Alonso/Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA 18/200 Small Formats; Arts Council of San Mateo Belmont, CA Bay Arts-Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition; Alonso/Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA Eroticism: West Coast Expression
1986	Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Benefit Auction
1984	San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA Celebration of Form
	LECTURES/TEACHING
2003-08	San Francisco City College, Walnut Creek Civic Arts, Northbay Artworks, San Luis Obispo Art Center
2002	Amsterdam Art- Berkeley, CA; Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM; ArtJuice Studios, San Francisco, CA San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA; Civic Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA ; Art and Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2001	Amsterdam Art- Berkeley CA; Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS; Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM ; Art and Clay, Santa Fe NM; Randall Museum, San Francisco, CA
2000	Art and Clay (Children) – Santa Fe, NM Printmaking Summer Camp; Community College of Santa Fe, NM -
1999	Richmond Art Center (Children), San Francisco, CA ; Community College of Santa Fe, NM - Mixed Media and Monotype ; Art and Clay (Children) - Santa Fe, NM - Printmaking Summer Camp; City College of San Francisco, CA, Printmaking without a Press
1993-5	Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA,Printmaking without a Press
1992	Bayview Senior Center, Instructor, San Francisco, CA
1991	Letterman Army Hospital, Oncology Ward, Instructor, San Francisco, CA