Netflix premiere
The cape
A custom hand-painted cape with handwritten quotes and a hidden zipper for the after-party, worn by director Gabriela Tagliavini at the premiere of Christmas With You, starring Freddie Prinze Jr.
Berlin · Los Angeles
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Shiva Tamara
One of one.
Self-made tech founder. Designer. Artist. Dealmaker.
Founder of Vented, Veradia and Shiva Luxury
As seen in Voyage LA · Bold Journey · Epicenter NYC · Feminist Spaces · Artsy
▶ Watch the reelSee the workThe companies
Three companies. Founded, owned and run by Shiva Tamara.
$5.295MTop listing as a licensed agent
3Companies founded, owned and run
20Exhibitions and screenings in five countries
Selected work for
Apple Khloé Kardashian Ray-Ban Universal Music Santa Monica Hot Topic Complex I Am the Night (TNT) CSI Duke University USC Law School Prinz Pi Culcha Candela
[Self-made]
How She Built It
No network. No money. A table on the Venice Boardwalk, and everything after it built by her own hand.
- 01
The Boardwalk
Sold her paintings by hand on the Venice Boardwalk. Three sold in a single night.
- 02
Sold Out
Turned her paintings into prints, patterns and apparel that sold out almost every weekend.
- 03
The Walls
Murals for hotels and buildings across Los Angeles, up to six stories painted by hand.
- 04
The Deals
From painting buildings to selling and financing them. Listings up to $5.295M.
- 05
The Capital
Licensed loan originator: hard money and commercial loans for investors nationwide.
- 06
The Companies
Coded and launched Vented. Founded Veradia, mixed-use buildings in Los Angeles.
[Selected]
Highlights
Duke University Press
Published cover art
Her painting Get It While You Can (2019) on the cover of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Volume 19, Number 2.
WWD · LA Fashion Week
The scrap dress
Her upcycled dress, made by hand from hundreds of fabric scraps, captured by Women’s Wear Daily in its look at the LA Fashion Week scene.
Murals + buildings · before and after
[Featured]
Press
- Voyage LAConversations with Shiva TamaraOn building what doesn’t exist yet.
- Voyage LAHidden Gems: Meet Shiva TamaraHow her paintings became patterns, then a fashion label.
- Bold JourneyMeet Shiva Tamara“Not taking a risk is often the bigger risk.”
- Epicenter NYCFeatured Artist“A visual manifesto for gender equality.”
- Feminist SpacesIssue 10, “What Is She?”“Wild Waves,” page 115.
- Feminist SpacesIssue 9Featured artist.
- ArtsyArtist page“Art belongs not only in galleries but in everyday spaces.”
- HelloArtArtist collectionOriginal paintings and limited editions.
Tech founder. Shiva Tamara designs, codes and launches her own apps.
Including Vented, a social emotional support platform, live on Google Play. Product, interface, code and launch: every layer is hers.
Community builder. Shiva Tamara builds for the people around her.
Housing, public space, public art and women’s empowerment. Her largest project is Veradia, a mixed-use housing venture in Los Angeles, in three parts: homes above shops, with places for neighbors to meet.
- Housing. Veradia Collective and Veradia Capital: mixed-use homes, development and investment.
- Public space. Veradia Foundation: grants and public spaces.
- Public art. Murals painted across Los Angeles, putting art in everyday spaces.
- Women’s empowerment. Feminist installations, featured by Epicenter NYC and Feminist Spaces, and her #shivaempowers films.
She builds companies. Her own, and other founders’.
Shiva Tamara has founded and runs three companies, and she brings the same range to other founders: the brand, the product and the money behind it.
- Brand. Graphic design, identity and fashion design.
- Product. Apps designed, coded and launched end to end.
- Capital. Hard money, commercial and investor financing, nationwide.
- Story. Film, video and content she directs and edits herself.
[04]
Real Estate
Licensed agent. Listings up to $5.295M.
CA DRE #02251909
From first homes to multi-million-dollar listings, she turns the goal of owning a home into the keys in hand. She reads a property like a designer and an investor at once.
Hard money and commercial lending. Multi-million-dollar properties, nationwide.
NMLS #2779492
Mortgage loan originator specializing in hard money and commercial loans for investors across the country, structured from every angle: the property, the numbers and the deal. Real estate, finance and development under one roof with Veradia Capital.
Hard moneyCommercialDSCRCash-out refinance
Investors · Nationwide
Client reviews · 5.0 ★ on Google · 9 reviews
“Shiva Luxury is a visionary who can practically as well as artistically assist you in making your dreams regarding environment and home ownership a reality! What a gift she is to the Real Estate industry!”
“She helped us with both real estate and mortgage guidance, and made a complicated process feel very simple. Her design insight was especially helpful.”
“Shiva knows exactly what she’s doing. Honestly she is phenomenal and anyone working with her will get absolute professional treatment.”
“I was given many gifts. My life’s work is to waste none of them.”
Shiva Tamara, founder
Read the full storyGraphic designer. Brands built from the logo up.
Brand identities, logos, packaging, apparel graphics, album art, websites, flyers and social media, all designed by Shiva Tamara.
The portfolio
Fashion and graphic designer. Collections that sold out.
She designs the graphics, the prints and the garments herself: original paintings turned into patterns, then into one-of-a-kind upcycled fashion. From her Venice Beach studio, founded in 2018. She designed the cape worn by director Gabriela Tagliavini on the Netflix red carpet for Christmas With You (2022), starring Freddie Prinze Jr.
Campaign
The fashion line
Artist. Exhibited and screened in Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
Paintings, murals and installations, including murals for the Aliza Hotel on Rose Avenue in Venice, the building at 1110 S. Spaulding Avenue and Craig Spano, and art in memory of Stan Lee for J.C. Lee. Exhibited from Galerie Thomas Schulte and the University of the Arts Berlin to the Goethe-Institut in Amsterdam, galleries in London and across Los Angeles. Her cover art has been published by Duke University. All exhibitions
Shivopia, 60×48″
Model and on-camera talent since seventeen, from Berlin to Los Angeles. Fluent in English, German and Farsi.
Singer, songwriter, director and film editor. On camera in Berlin and Los Angeles, and behind it, shooting, directing and editing her own films and music videos.
Designed the social media promotion for the TNT series I Am the Night and for Complex magazine’s Khloé Kardashian shoot. Music videos in Berlin for Prinz Pi, Culcha Candela, Kolumbus Kill and Aaron Ottignon.
Music videos
Directed and edited by Shiva Tamara
[About]
About Shiva
Tech founder. Owner of three companies. Self-made.
- 00
The CameraBerlin, from 17
Model, singer and on-camera talent from seventeen in Berlin. Fashion, editorial, music videos and premieres across Berlin and Los Angeles.
- 01
The OriginVenice Boardwalk
Raised across countries, she earned a master’s and a bachelor’s in Fine Art from the University of the Arts Berlin, plus a bachelor’s in Theatre Arts, by twenty-one. Then she returned to California with two suitcases and built her first business on the Venice Boardwalk, from the ground up.
- 02
The StudioVenice Beach, 2018
Founded her Venice Beach studio. As graphic and fashion designer, she turned original paintings into prints, patterns and one-of-one upcycled collections. They sold out.
- 03
The CityLos Angeles and abroad
Took the work to scale: murals across Los Angeles and feminist installations, with exhibitions and screenings in Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam.
- 04
The DealsReal estate and finance
Licensed agent with listings up to $5.295M. Specializes in hard money and commercial loans for investors on multi-million-dollar properties, nationwide.
- 05
The BuilderVented, Veradia
Tech founder. Designed, coded and launched her own apps, including Vented, and helps other founders build their businesses. Now building Veradia, a mixed-use housing venture in Los Angeles.
[Education]
Education + Credentials
- The Wharton SchoolCommercial Real Estate Investment and AnalysisUniversity of Pennsylvania
- Master’s Degree, Fine ArtUniversity of the Arts Berlin (UdK)Berlin, Germany
- Bachelor’s Degree, Fine ArtUniversity of the Arts Berlin (UdK)Berlin, Germany
- Bachelor’s Degree, Theatre ArtsTatwerk Theatre SchoolBerlin, Germany
- Associate’s Degree, VideographyGlendale Community CollegeLos Angeles, CA
- California DRELicensed real estate agentDRE #02251909
- NMLSLicensed mortgage loan originatorNMLS #2779492
[Exhibitions]
Exhibitions + Screenings
Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles.
- Group ShowThe Tree HouseVenice, CA
- BloomRose Room EventsVenice, CA
- Pancakes and BoozeSponsored GalleryDowntown LA
- Artist Community NightThe TripSanta Monica, CA
- Venice Art CrawlPurple HouseVenice, CA
- CrewNative Art ShowSponsored GalleryDowntown LA
- Fractured LensesPilates & ArtsPasadena, CA
- CMYK & RGBImperial Art StudiosDowntown LA
- Night of the Art WalkHeaven EstateSouth Pasadena, CA
- You Are The ArtistHackesche HöfeBerlin, Germany
- You Are The ArtistGalerie Je RegretteBerlin, Germany
- Meisterschüler ExhibitionGalerie UdKBerlin, Germany
- Grass Grass LaunchGrass Grass GalleryLondon, England
- FragmentsGalerie UdKBerlin, Germany
- Katharina SieverdingGalerie UdKBerlin, Germany
- SchubladeGalerie Thomas SchulteBerlin, Germany
- Reality and PerceptionsGalerie Thomas SchulteBerlin, Germany
- Kiosk UnterhaltungGoethe-InstitutAmsterdam, Netherlands
- KAO ShowMesse YOUBerlin, Germany
- Je t’aime BatofarBatofarParis, France
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Original paintings, prints, and one-of-a-kind apparel, made by hand.
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Representation
Available for television and film, on-camera work, speaking, brand partnerships and press.
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