Daina Taimina

I am happy to respond to invitations to visit your school, college, or any other place or event - please e-mail me. My talks can be on topics such as the history of mathematics, mathematics and art, creativity and education, geometry and mechanisms, or about any other topic that would be of particular interest to your audience. It is also possible to exhibit my works.

Exhibits of my work:

“Yarn Visions”, Sinkka, Kerava, Finland, November 25, 2016-March 5, 2017.

"Collection crocheted hyperbolic structures", Science-art-2015. Festival-Laboratory, УЧАСТНИКУ, Gallery "Na Kashirke", Moscow; November 21 to December 13, 2015.

“In the Realm of Forms”, Pearl Conrad Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH, November 9-December 8, 2015.

Mathematics in Design, Riga, Latvia, Octobder 2-4, 2015.

“Hyperbolic Planes and Networks of Sustainability”, Contemporary Arts Center, Riga, Latvia (As part of Riga2014 – Cultural Capital of Europe.) October 1 – November 30, 2014.

“Manifolds”, in Rhythm & Rhyme juried group exhibit, Community Arts Partnership Artspace Gallery in Center Ithaca, May 2 – June 1, 2014.

“Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes”, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY-Stony Brook, April 15 - May 30, 2014.

“Knit/Hack/Craft”, Das Electronic + Textile Institute, Berlin (Germany), March 31 – April 5, 2014.

“Stitches”, Simons Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, April 1-May 31, 2014.

“Stitches in Space and Time: The Art of Gail Rothschild and Daina Taimina”, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, November 2013-January 2014

“Hyperbolic Crochet”, solo show of fiber sculptures and watercolor paintings, Anne Kittrell Art Gallery, University of Arkansas, October 1-27, 2013.

Art Festival in DUMBO, Brooklyn (NYC), September 2013.

“Small Wonders”, Norman Y. Mineta San-Jose International Airport, June 2010-June 2012.

“!Aha! exhibit”, G4G10, Public Library, Atlanta, GA March 18-April 1, 2012.

“Entlagen des Fadens” Das Textile als Medium der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Darmstadt, Germany, October 2011 – February 2012.

“Stitches, Hooks, and Moebius: Knit and Crochet Goes Cerebral”, Lafayette College Gallery, Easton, PA, January 8-February 5, 2012.

“Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish, and Reason”, Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA, June8-August21, 2011.

“Measure for Measure”, Central Booking, DUMBO, Brooklyn, February 10-April4, 2011.

Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, March 20-June 11, 2010.

"Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes", solo exhibit, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 15-September 30, 2009.

"From Coral Reefs to Baltic Sea", collective art exhibit - collaborative project with 643 participants, Gallery Azur, Riga, Latvia, August 6-September 30, 2009.

"Yarn Theory", invited group exhibit, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY, USA, April 25-May 17, 2009.

"Do It Yourself UK", invited group exhibit, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester, UK, February 17-April 29, 2009.

"Dritto Rovescio", invited group exhibit, Design Museum, Milan, Italy, February 24-March 29, 2009.

“The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef”, IFF project, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, June11-August 17, 2008.

“Beyond Measure”, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, UK, April6-June1, 2008.

“HandMaking”, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, April 14-July 27, 2007.

“Confini”, MAN museo, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy, October 13, 2006 – January 7, 2007.

“Geometric art or artful geometry?” solo exhibit, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, December 2006.

“Crocheting Curves: Shaping the Hyperbolic Plane”, solo exhibit, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, March 27-June 4, 2006.

“The Curious Tactile”, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD, October 26, 2005 – April 21, 2006. “Hyperbolic”, STUK, Leuven University, Belgium, March 23-April 21, 2006.

“Math Counts”, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 27-April 7, 2006.

Invited Show “Not the Knitting You Know – An Exploration of Possibilities in Sculptural Knitting and Crochet”, at Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, 1111 Pennsylvania Av., Washington, DC, June 13- September 10, 2005.

"Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane – an exhibition at the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft”, The Institute For Figuring at Machine Project gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 16-August 14, 2005.

Annual Open Show, CSMA (Community School of Music and Art) of Ithaca, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Invited Show “Artists respond to 9/11”, in Ithaca, NY – watercolors, April 2002.