Bursting with Clouds
2024
Oakland, California
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
Rupy C. Tut (b. 1985, Chandigarh, India) creates paintings using traditional Indian painting techniques and meticulously handground pigments. Tut studied traditional Indian painting at the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London in 2016. She previously received a BS from UCLA and an MPH from Loma Linda University. Her work has been exhibited in recent group exhibitions at Fowler Art Museum, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; deYoung Museum, San Francisco; and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at prominent institutions, including ICA San Francisco; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; and Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives, Ontario. Tut’s work is in the permanent collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the de Young, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis. Tut will be included in upcoming group exhibitions at SFMOMA (2024) and deYoung Museum (2024), and a second solo exhibition with Jessica Silverman in 2025. She is a 2024 recipient of the SFMOMA SECA Art Award. She lives and works in Oakland, CA, and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024
My paintings, made using handmade pigments on paper or linen, center primarily around a female figure as a symbolic reclamation of power in a shifting world. Rooted in personal history as a daughter of refugees and immigrants, my work’s central character contends with her place in the world as an outsider, a woman, and a mother.”