TIFFANIE TURNER
b. 1970, USA
Lives and works in West Marin, CA
education
1995 Bachelor of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1993 B.S. Building Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1992 School of Architecture, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India
1988 Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
awards and residencies
2021 Artist grant, Pirkle Jones Fund Visual Artist Support Program Grant
2018 Artist-in-Residence, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Brewster, NY, family residency
2016 Artist-in-Residence, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, month-long program
Artist grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation Award
Artist-in-Residence, Olde Orchard Farm, Moultonborough, NH, family residency
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Olde Orchard Farm, Moultonborough, NH
Fiscal Sponsorship, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (ongoing)
published works
2017 The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House (author and photographer)
solo exhibitions
2024 American Grown, Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2023 American Grown, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco CA
2019 What Befell Us (selections from), Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
What Befell Us, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, Rare Device Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Nature Constructed, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Tiffanie Turner: Botanical Works in Paper, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA
2014 One for You, One for Me, Rare Device Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Heads, Rare Device Gallery, San Francisco, CA
group exhibitions
2025 In Bloom: Flowers in Contemporary Art, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA (upcoming fall 2025)
Crocker-Kingsley Juried Exhibition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2024 GROW!, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Botanica, Village Theater and Art Gallery, Danville, CA
2022 Paper Show, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
Informing Memory: Process, Place, and Notion, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2021 Sometimes Things Come Together, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Orchids: Attraction and Deception, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA
Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Posies: A Pocketful, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020 NSFW/Femme, Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA
Cut Up, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2019 Art Market SF, booth 309, San Francisco, CA
Pulp + Process, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA
2018 Pleasure Garden, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flora, Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, FL
Beyond the Bouquet, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
World of Frida, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2017 Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Flower Power, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016 Preternatural, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Botanica: All Things Plant Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Dead of Winter, Rare Device gallery, San Francisco, CA (participant and curator)
press/publications
2025 The Rose Book, Phaidon
Connections/Sculpture: The Fine Art of Flowers, The Exeter Bulletin, winter 2025
In Full Bloom, Elle Decoration (Germany), January/February 2025
2022 Why Paper Flowers Are This Hardcore Gardener’s Guilty Pleasure, The Wall Street Journal, April 2022
Paradisi Artificiali, Amica Magazine, March 2022
Handmade Havens, Crafts magazine, Jan./Feb. 2022
2021 What We Learned From a Year of Crafting, The New York Times, May 2021
Noted, American Craft Magazine, May 2021
NSFW, Paragon Books
2020 The Artists Giving New Life to Fake Flowers, The New York Times T Magazine, May 2020
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom, Phaidon
Southwest Review, vol. 105.1
2019 Life’s Imperfections, Gardens Illustrated Magazine, August 2019
Rethinking What’s Beautiful, Marin Independent Journal, April 2019
Museums and Galleries Calendar, California Homes Magazine, March/April 2019
2018 The Botanical Bible, Sonya Patel Ellis, Abrams Books
Simple Pleasures, American Craft Magazine, April/May 2018
Bricks & Flowers, Elle Bloemen, spring 2018
A Botanical Sculptor, Seizing Floral Moments, Dynasty Magazine, China Airlines, March 2018
Craft Issue, Selvedge Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2018
2017 The Great Outdoors, New York Times Book Review, Nov. 2017
Botanica: Art, Design and Ephemera, Uppercase Publishing Inc.
Best of the West: Faux-Flower Master, Sunset Magazine, Sept. 2017
Blooms for All Seasons, Sweet Paul Magazine, fall 2017
Fall Flowers in California, Habitat: Bay Area Home and Style, fall 2017
Pretty Paper Flowers, Flower Magazine, Sept. 2017
Filling the Blank Page, Tolleson Creative Agency campaign for Gmund Paper
2016 Flowers 2.0, Vogue Magazine, 2016 Met Gala Edition
Women Who Make Beautiful Things, O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2016
2015 Collective Unconscious: Outdoors, American Craft Magazine, April/May 2015
The Paper Playhouse, Gallery: Artists as Inspiration, K. Rodabaugh, Quarry Books
2014 Tiffanie Turner’s “One for You, One for Me” in Full Bloom, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2014
Studio Visit: Architecture, Craft Intersect in Hybrid Art, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2014
Paper Flowers, LAB Magazine, issue 8
Surprise, Migrate Magazine, South Africa, issue no. 20
select online art features
2024 48 Hills, It starts with a flower: Tiffanie Turner’s surprisingly intricate blooms
2023 Colossal, In ‘American Grown,’ Tiffanie Turner Roots Out Personal Memories and U.S. Exceptionalism
2022 The Wall Street Journal, Why Paper Flowers Are This Hardcore Gardener’s Guilty Pleasure
2021 Ralph Lauren Magazine, The Art of the Craft: Tiffanie Turner
The New York Times, What We Learned From a Year of Crafting
2020 The New York Times T Magazine, The Artists Giving New Life to Fake Flowers
Colossal, A Colossal Interview
2019 Colossal, What Befell Us Challenges Notions of Beauty and Perfection
Marin Independent Journal online, Fairfax Artist’s Paper Flower Sculptures Explore Aging, Beauty
2018 Selvedge Magazine, Fake it for Love
2017 New York Times Book Review online, The Great Outdoors
Gardenista, Required Reading: The Fine Art of Paper Flowers
Architectural Digest, The Global, Ancient Roots of a Contemporary Maker Fixation
Vice Creators Project, Tiffanie Turner Has the Art of Paper Flowers Down to a Science
The Elie Saab Magazine, Noted: A Life in Flowers by Tiffanie Turner
Selvedge Magazine, Paper Posies
Lisa Congdon blog, Tiffanie Turner: The Fine Art of Paper Flowers
Martha Stewart, 6 of our favorite Paper Flower Artists
2016 Colossal, New Giant Paper Flower Sculptures by Tiffanie Turner
The Jealous Curator, Tiffanie Turner
Saatchi Gallery Instagram feature
Juxtapoz Magazine Instagram feature
Design*Sponge, 12 Paper Flower Artists to Follow
Better Homes and Gardens, 6 Instagram Accounts to Follow
2015 Squarespace Presents: HI-FRUCTOSE; Tiffanie Turner’s Paper Flowers
Journal du Design, Fleurs en papier par Tiffanie Turner
Beautiful/Decay, Tiffanie Turner Challenges Scale and Age in Her Giant Flowers
Refinery 29, 30 Amazing Things To Do in San Francisco This Month
2014 SF Gate, Tiffanie Turner’s Fluffy Paper Bouquets Turn Heads
The Jealous Curator, Tiffanie Turner
My Modern Met, 3-Foot Wide Stunning Textured Flowers Created Out of Paper
Colossal, Giant Paper Flowers
Lisa Congdon blog, Tiffanie Turner: HEADS
Laughing Squid, Giant Papercraft Flower Blossom Sculptures
Some Nice Friends, Tiffanie Turner/Architect + Paper Flower Artist
One Kings Lane Travel Guide, San Francisco Creatives Share Their Favorite Local Haunts
One Kings Lane, The Makers: San Francisco’s Next Big Things
invited talks
2023 The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, Annie’s Annuals, Richmond, CA
2021 Flora and Female, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2018 Biophilia and Representational Art, Steelcase Showroom, San Francisco, CA
Using Representational Botanical Sculpture to Address Conceptual Ideas, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2017 The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, The Gardens at Heather Farm, Walnut Creek, CA
The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, speaker series, Design Tech High School, Burlingame, CA
featured artist/podcasts
2018 SPARK: Tiffanie Turner, Paper Artist/Botanical Sculptor, season 1, episode 12
2017 Featured artist, Sunset Magazine video series
2015 Art For Your Ear with The Jealous Curator, episode no. 18
2014 Featured artist, Carte Fini Crepe Paper Tutorial Series
2013 Featured artist, Carte Fini Crepe Paper Tutorial Series
consulting
2025 Selection committee member, 2025 Pirkle Jones Fund Grant ($400,000 in awards)
2024 Juror for “Botanica”, city of Danville, CA
2020-21 Botanical art/prop design and production, “What We Do in the Shadows” television series, season 2 & 3, FX network
2019 Visual art application reader, SPACE on Ryder Farm 2020 residency season
2018 Visual art application reader, SPACE on Ryder Farm 2019 residency season
Botanical art/prop consultant, “LIttle Joe” film
product design
2019 Spring 2020 paper color designs for Cartotecnica Rossi, Italy
2018 Fall 2019 paper color designs for Cartotecnica Rossi, Italy
2017 Fall 2017 paper color designs for Cartotecnica Rossi, Italy
instruction/workshops
Textile Retreat Company at Goodnestone Park, Kent, UK
Chateau Dumas, Auty, France
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Colossal, Chicago, IL
FlowerSchool NY, NY
Pot + Box, Detroit, MI
La Santisima Trinidad, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. MX
Handcraft Studio School, El Cerrito, CA
Filoli Gardens, Woodside, CA
The Makerie, Boulder, CO
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Makeshift Society, San Francisco, CA
French General, Los Angeles, CA
Athenaeum Art Center, La Jolla, CA
Outlet, Portland, OR
Hinterland Workshop, Springville, UT
Martha Stewart Living private workshop, San Francisco, CA
Olde Orchard Farm, Moultonborough, NH