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Tricia Treacy was raised in an Irish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has lived in three counties in the Philadelphia region, the Appalachian Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, and the outskirts of northern Tokyo. Her studio research and creative practice has resulted in a range of artist books, collaborations, installation, performances, and publications.

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As an educator of art and design for over twenty years working, she taught at Appalachian State University, The University of the Arts, University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Professor and Chair of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and lives with her family in Vermont.

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Self-initiated participatory projects that have resulted in publications include Touch: Vista Sans Wood Type Project and The Phonografik Collectivo with Ashley John Pigford. Our research on these projects and for the Technographic Workshops has gained international recognition and a project grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.

For ten years, I collaborated with Shift-lab artists, focusing on creating interpretations of language and visual narratives, a crossover between methods of researching, mapping, and publishing printed matter and artist books.

In 2015 as a fellow for DesignInquiry, I began a long-term collaborative project, Situated Between, with designer/artist Arzu Ozkal. This work is fueled by post-structuralist discourses and requires constant interpretation, reconstruction, and reexamining. We published a series of three volumes that present a range of results from over thirty artists and designers.

As the 2017 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize winner in design at the American Academy of Rome, I initiated prompts on privacy that tap into the perspectives, dialogues, and insights gathered from various members of the creative communities of Rome. In developing a graphic language to convey these themes, and dwell upon the thresholds between public and private, I drew inspiration from the Roman cityscape. Evidence from this probing of privacy manifested in an artist book, SLOT, produced in collaboration with Jo Frenken at the Charles Nypels Lab in Maastricht, Netherlands and John Demerritt in Emeryville, California. This project was on exhibition at Colli Independent Gallery in Rome, Italy in 2018.

A digital adaptation of this project was conceived and inspired by ongoing blended conversations at the AAR. It was designed in collaboration with Matt Frizzell. My particular aim for pause : dash was for the structure and system to redirect and generate an unfamiliar narrative with contrasting phrases taken out of context.

I collaborated with Frederic Antonini on Rerun, a series of five books that revolve around the conceptual idea of repetition. The first book was completed in 2019, Petra, as a collaboration with Italian artist Giulia Crispiani.

Scaffolding, a limited edition artist book, zine, and print installation, uncovers a collection of printed grids, patterns and geometric frameworks from our constructed and natural environments. This mismatch of grids can be quiet, soft, indifferent. This work was exhibited at Center for Book Arts in New York City and the Singapore Art Book Fair in 2023.

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Poster, performed is an evolving critical and artistic study of the use of computer algorithms to impart autonomy in a collaborative creative process. Collaboratively conceived with Arzu Ozkal, the project builds on their Situated Between print series, where active audience participation is key, and it aims to study the use of digital technology, computer algorithms, and experimental print process in creating such works of art. The first iteration was performed at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with Arzu Ozkal, Wylie Kasai, Mark Zurolo, and Steve Bowden as part of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair in August 2023. It was funded by an Art Integration Grant from the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. The second iteration will be performed with Ozkal, and Kasai at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles during the closing event of PST ART.