BIO
Tiffany Bozic is a California-based painter whose work merges the precision of natural history illustration with personal and ecological narratives. Rooted in scientific observation and emotional resonance, her acrylic-on-maple compositions reveal the intricate architecture of life in states of transformation and fragility. Bozic has exhibited widely across the U.S., created commissioned works for U.S. embassies through the Art in Embassies program, and contributed original paintings to National Geographic’s Endurance exhibition. A former artist-in-residence and ongoing researcher at the California Academy of Sciences, her practice is informed by immersive fieldwork in remote ecosystems alongside her ornithologist husband and daughter. Dedicated to biodiversity conservation, Bozic has partnered for many years with Art into Acres to support permanent land protection through art. Her work has also been featured in creative initiatives by Apple, among other cultural institutions. She is the author of two monographs published by Gingko Press and two children’s books published by Simon & Schuster.
MISSION
My work is a bridge—between art and science, emotion and intellect, the human world and the more-than-human world. I paint to honor the beauty, fragility, and complexity of life on Earth, inviting viewers into intimate moments of connection with the natural world.
Through a visual language of form, texture, and metaphor, I create emotional allegories that speak to universal experiences: survival, love, loss, memory, kinship. My paintings often emerge from direct encounters with wildlife and ecosystems—sometimes on scientific expeditions—where I gather both reference and reverence. Each piece is a meditation on our shared entanglement with all living things.
Working in acrylic on maple wood, I let the grain show through like a memory beneath the surface—grounding each scene in the physicality of time and place. I draw from natural history, ecology, and personal mythology to create layered compositions that feel both ancient and immediate.
I believe that artists can help reshape cultural values. My mission is to awaken feeling—to offer a moment of stillness, reflection, and belonging in an age of fragmentation. I hope my work speaks across boundaries of discipline, identity, and species, reminding us that we are not separate from nature—we are nature.
“Tiffany Bozic is a California artist who explores the natural world through her own metaphoric lens. Using fine attention to detail and the accuracy of Audubon, she makes paintings of exquisite beauty and rich meaning. As we begin to come to grips with what we have wrought of this Earth, her pictures place us squarely IN nature, very much part of it, not apart from it. Her animals are us, we are them. Bozic jokes that she was “raised by goats”, and that is not far from the truth: her youth was spent running wild on a farm in Arkansas, and later rural Ohio. Now traveling worldwide with her daughter and ornithologist husband, she continues to expand her vision of what nature is, from gory to glory, from the minute to the mighty. Painting on sustainably harvested maple panels with thinned acrylics, she allows the wood’s grain to inform her celebratory compositions. Each piece requires but a few tablespoons of acrylic medium and pigments to execute, keeping her own ecological footprint small. For two decades, on both coasts, through many solo and group exhibits, her work has shown a continual light on how we need to treat each other, other species, and our planet itself.”
Written by Isabella Kirkland, 2021