Tiara Unique Francois
Tiara Unique Francois
Tiara Unique Francois is a painter, born and raised in Dallas, Tx. She has earned her BFA in painting at the University of Texas at Arlington. Utilizing acrylics, paint markers, glitter shimmer, watercolor and ink, she’s interested in old family photos stacked in the drawer, love letters folded in wallets and plants behind the kitchen sink. She has shown work in group exhibitions in Texas and California. She received “Best in Show” in the exhibition, “Don’t Touch Your Face” at Shockboxx Gallery (2020). She was awarded “Juror’s Choice” in the Black Voices juried exhibition (500x Gallery, 2020).
Artist statement
I am interested in colors overlapping to create another. I am interested in layers and layers of paint and sometimes glitter or rhinestones or star stickers from the dollar store. I am interested in the childhood memories I remember and the ones I’ve forgotten, and how the paint on my brushstrokes recalls it. I am interested in the moments where we wait for our name to be called, the moments right before a hug and after, the moment when the camera flash goes off. The moments of in-between everything else. My paintings remember the small, quiet moments that create the most of our lives.
Education
2022 BFA in Painting
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “From The Heart”, Kiva Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2022 “Finding Indigo”, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, Tx
2022 “The Pro Compositions”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2022 “All About The Family”, Gallery 2960, Grand Prairie, Tx
Exhibitions
2023 “The Body As Voice”, Texas Women’s University, Fort Worth, TX
2023 “ON::View Revue”, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2022 “Fooling Ourselves”, The MAC, Dallas, Tx
2022 “Fish Stories”, SP/N Gallery, Richardson, Tx
2022 “LOOK ME IN MY EYES”, Brazos Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2021 Intersections, TWU Gallery, Denton, Tx
2021 Holding Space, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2021 Exotify Elsewhere, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, Tx
2021 i-Bodies, Clyde H. Wells Fine Art Gallery, Stephenville, TX
2020 26th Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition, The African American Museum, Dallas, TX
2020 “Black Voices”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020 Amplfied…Answering the clarion call, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2020 “Don’t Touch Your Face”, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2019 Cecil Wallace Fordham Award in Visual Arts, Dallas College, TX
2019 League For Innovation, Student Art Exhibition, Dallas College, Dallas, TX
2018 Founders Foyer Juried Exhibit, Dallas College, TX
Juror
2022 “Art Of Consent”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Tx
Grants and Awards
2020 Received Juror’s Choice in juried show (juror Ciara Elle Bryant), “Black Voices”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020 “Best in Show” juried show, “Don’t Touch Your Face”, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2020 Art Hoe Collective Micro Grant Recipient
2019 National Exhibit Finalist in League For Innovation, Student Art Exhibition, Dallas College, Dallas, TX
Commissions
2019 Academic Art Commission, And Everything Was Good, painting, 96 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas, Larry Felty Permanent Collection