Tiffany Carbonneau is an artist and educator whose work explores the intersection of personal and collective histories through digital media, animation, and public art. Her projects combine architectural video projection, 3D animation, and historical research to reflect on place, migration, and cultural identity. She has created site-specific public artworks across the United States and internationally, engaging communities in conversations about how the past informs the present. Carbonneau currently serves as Associate Professor of Studio Arts at the College of Charleston, where she leads the New Media concentration.
Tiffany is an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellow, and her work has been exhibited internationally at Recontemporary Foundation (Turin, Italy), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art – CICA Museum (Seoul, South Korea), Video Art Miden (Thessaloniki, Greece), The University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany), Move Light Festival (Lodz,Poland), Infecting the City Public Art Festival (Cape Town, South Africa) and The Toronto UrbanFilm Festival (Toronto, Ontario). Nationally, her works have been exhibited at The Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, the Indianapolis International Airport, the Digerati Emergent Media Festival (Denver, CO), ARTECHA Festival at Miami University (Miami, OH), BLINK (Cincinnati, OH), Northern Spark outdoor art festival (Minneapolis,MN), IN Light IN: Indianapolis Light Festival, Lumen: International Video Art and Performance Festival (NYC), Inlight Richmond (Richmond, VA), Currents New Media Festival (Santa Fe, NM), Free State Film and Art Festival (Lawrence, KS), as well as other traditional and non-traditional venues in Miami, San Diego, Louisville,and Cleveland. Tiffany’s works have been supported by many private and public institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Central Indiana Community Foundation, The Louisville Fund for the Arts, Doane University, Miami University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Northern Lights.mn, and others.
Tiffany lived in the suburban Chicago area until she was nineteen, when she moved to Flagstaff, Arizona to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and a Bachelor of Science in Art Education from Northern Arizona University. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Ohio University in 2010 and currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, Brian, and her daughter, June.