EDUCATION
| 1983 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 1971 MA, English/ESL, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA |
| 1966 BA, English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1965 Sorbonne, University of Paris, Study Abroad |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 1999 Gallery Seed, Sapporo, Japan announcement |
| 1998 Salon Gallery Doral, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1997 San Francisco Sapporo/Sapporo San Francisco, Gallery One, Tokyo, Japan announcement |
| 1995 Art Salon, Chiba, Japan announcement |
| 1993 Lesley Tannahill, Temporary Space, Sapporo, Japan announcement, brochure |
| 1993 Gallery Ai, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1988 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
| 1987 National Gallery of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Costa Rica article, brochure, exhibition images |
| 1987 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA announcement |
| 1985 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA exhibit |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2004-07 In the Case of Painting, Port Gallery, Hokusho University, Sapporo, Japan |
| 2001 High Tide, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan |
| 2000 High Tide Contemporary Art Exhibit, Eniwa City, Hokkaido, Japan brochure |
| 1999 Women Beyond Borders, Akino Fuku Museum, Tenryu, Japan and Gallery One, Tokyo, Japan brochure |
| 1992-96 Junin Kukan Ten, Daimaru Fuji Central, Sapporo, Japan brochures |
| 1995 Selected Hokkaido Artists, Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan brochure |
| 1989 SFAI Alumni Show, Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 1987 Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA announcement |
| 1987 JB Speed Art Museum Gallery, Louisville, KY |
| 1984 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan |
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
| 1999 Yanai, Akira. The Chaos Preceding Consciousness, Hokkaido Shimbun, March 25 article |
| 1998 Sato, Tomoyoshi. An Arabesque of Light, Gallery One Park Tower Art Program, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994 Sato, Tomoyoshi. Lesley Tannahill’s Mind Map of Pathos and Logos, catalogue published by Temporary Space, Sapporo, Japan article |
| 1988 Ohi, Toshiyasu. Groping In The Dark, Bijitsu Techo, vol. 41, November article |
| 1987 Rojas G, Jose Miguel. La Huella de Tannahill, La Nacion, July article |
| 1987 Retrato Psicologico de Lesley Tannahill, Viva, June article |
| 1987 Dills, Keith. Ephemera and Transformation, Artweek, February 7 article |
| 1987 Emerton, Anthony. Climbing the Walls at CAF, Daily Nexus, January article |
| 1987 Anderson, Bill. Space: The Fourth Dimension in Art, The Independent, January 21 article |
| 1986 Anderson, Ann Stewart. California Artists Confuse and Stimulate, Louisville Courier-Journal, June article |
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
| Museum of Costa Rican Art, San Jose, Costa Rica, Central America |
| Collection of Jane Niven, Scottsdale, AZ |
| Collection of Yoshiko Sato, Sapporo, Japan |
| Collection of Taro Yamada, Sapporo, Japan |
| Collection of Masata Urakawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Masayuki Nagata, Sapporo, Japan |
| Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Sapporo, Japan |
| Yamagiwa (lighting and design company), Tokyo, Japan |
| Collection of Claire and Jeff Fluhr, San Francisco, CA |
| Collection of Edith Gladstone, Berkeley, CA |
COMMISSIONED WORK
| City of Sapporo Cultural Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Park Hyatt Shanghai, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China |
| St. Regis Hotel, Osaka, Japan |
| Mr. and Mrs. Nishiyama, Tokyo, Japan |
| Crown Plaza Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand |