Ara Tucker
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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Brilliant Things to Do This July
Daisy Woodward, AnOther Magazine, 2023年7月4日 -
‘Saints and Sinners’ at GUTS Gallery Refuses to Let Us Look Away
Emily Burke, Elephant, 2023年6月30日 -
MUST-SEE EXHIBITIONS BY QUEER ARTISTS
Marni McFall, FLANNELS, 2023年6月15日 -
Guts Gallery wants to “disrupt” with its new show on LGBTQIA+ identity
Liz Gorny, It's Nice That, 2023年6月15日 -
SAINTS AND SINNERS
Adriano B., Fucking Young!, 2023年6月13日 -
Reflections and Resilience: The Bold Spectrum of LGBTQIA+ Artistry at the ‘Saints and Sinners’ Exhibition
Vanity Teen, 2023年6月13日 -
The defiant new queer art show fuelled by ‘disgust at the world’
Zoe Whitfield, Dazed, 2023年6月9日 -
"SAINTS AND SINNERS" AT GUTS GALLERY DEPICTS A JOURNEY OF LGBTQIA+ RESILIENCE
Sofia de la Cruz, Hypebae, 2023年6月8日 -
Saints and Sinners
Art Plugged, 2023年6月8日 -
Art shows to leave the house for in June 2023
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, 2023年6月5日 -
‘Saints and Sinners’ platforms LGBTQIA+ artists during Pride Month.
QX Magazine, 2023年6月1日
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