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Rupy C. Tut

Oakland, California

Bursting with Clouds depicts a reclining figure with closed eyes floating in spiral patterned clouds above flowering trees.

Bursting with Clouds

2024

A Place dear to me depicts a person dressed in white, squatting on a patterned sphere, holding organic items in one hand and in the other an umbrella made of patterned flowers and leaves, set against a marigold yellow background.

A Place dear to me

2024

Portrait of a Woman centers on a woman with hands over her pregnant belly, wearing orange and dotted with eyes. She is encircled with a blue spiral-patterned oval, and further framed with clusters of patterned vegetation.

Portrait of a Woman

2023

Mountain Women depicts two figures with heads bent down towards each other. Their green rocky cloaks form rounded mountains from which willow trees grow. Below them are clusters of bushes and trees and a river.

Mountain Women

2023

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.

About Rupy C. Tut

Rupy C. Tut sits smiling brightly on a wooden platform beside an unfinished painting of a person. She is wearing a matching silky tan set, and is an Indian-American woman with medium skin tone and long dark hair.
Photo by Marissa Leshnov

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.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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“ 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.”