Tina Dillman

Tina is currently residing at the Gear Factory in Syracuse, New York, where she is starting up a new gallery project called, Gallery @ The Gear that will feature local and regional artists with monthly rotating exhibits and public programming.

During the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Tina was based in Pittsburgh, PA, where she founded The Bloomfield Garden Club. This roaming outdoor arts salon featured local and regional artists that identify as “vulnerable” (queer, not-white, female, a mother, and/or other) that work in dance, music, literature, comedy, media, visual and/or performance art. She ran this programming for 2 years with the support from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation.

She has dedicated her life to the arts, through Board involvement at the San Francisco Art Institute, Intersection for the Arts (SF) and Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland). She has held paid positions at AS220 (Providence), ArtSpan (SF), Oakland Art Murmur, Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland), Sculpture Space (Utica, NY), Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center (Buffalo), and at Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media (PA). She has also volunteered with various art non-profits like, Southern Exposure (SF), The Lab (SF), New Langton Arts (SF), Contemporary Craft (Pittsburgh), and the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh).

Tina received a Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 2003.