Ara Tucker

Overview
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Courtesy of the artist

Ara Tucker is an artist and storyteller whose practice focuses on the intersection of race, class, gender, sexual orientation as well as intergenerational memory and trauma with a particular interest in how these intersections warp daily life.

In addition to using third party platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn for site-specific artistic and culture-shifting multimedia interventions, she has designed I'm Here Too, a website dedicated to storytelling in multiple forms (visual, audio, literary). 

 

Tucker often employs her wry sense of humor to transcend traditional observations of how the New York City artworld operates through projects including a blog as the Art Dealer’s Daughter; a novel How to Raise an Art Star; and Spilling the Tea, a Kwanzaa-themed takeover of her wife Hilary Harkness’s Instagram account. Ara also produced Black Like Us, a
documentary video exploring the lives of an intergenerational group of affluent African Americans.

 

A three-time alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction, Tucker received a degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Princeton University. Tucker, who also received a JD from the New York University School of Law, currently serves as a member of the MoMA PS1 Board of Directors Executive Committee and as Chair of the Audit

Committee.

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Courtesy of Hilary Harkness
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B. 1979 Livingston, New Jersey

 

Education

2004 JD, New York University School of Law

2001 AB, Princeton University

 

Solo Exhibitions

2001 The Lucas Gallery, Princeton, NJ

1998 West Orange High School, West Orange, NJ

 

Group Exhibitions

2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK

2007 My Newark Diaspora, Contemporary Alternatives, Newark Arts Council 2007 Open Doors 2001 Queer Works in Progress, Princeton University
2007 Black Womanhood, in Focus, Princeton University African American Studies Film Series

2007 Atelier Program, Princeton University

 

Publications

2022 How to Raise an Art Star

2021 Spilling the Tea: The Kwanzaa Edition

2021 Color Commentary

2020 Tails from the Alley

2018 Brooklyn Bento Box, Two Coats of Paint

2018 Bedtime Stories

 

Awards

2001 Semifinalist, Experimental Category, Making Waves National Student Festival

2001 Director’s Citation Award, Thomas Edison Media Consortium Black Maria Festival

2001 Prospect “Rethink” Competition
2001 Norfleet-Simpson Book Prize in African American Studies

 

Press

2021 How to Design a Career Journey You Love, Dreams in Drive Podcast

2021 The Art Collector’s Daughter Interviews Her Dad, What’s Newark Got to Do With It? Podcast

2021 Building Perspective for Yourself and Others with Ara Tucker, #29DaysofMagic, The Reset Podcast

2020 Ara Tucker ’04 uses storytelling to bring diverse voices to the table, NYU Law News

2020 Lianna Brinded, Global Change Agents, Yahoo Finance

2018 #OUTLEADER Ara Tucker, OUTLeadership

2017 Stephanie Sandberg, The New Supermodels — How Out LBT+ Women in Business Drive Impact, Huffington Post

2001 The Few Who Have Started, Rise and Shine it’s Thesis Time!, Nassau Weekly