Toisha Tucker

Tucker is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and writer. Their work explores three often-overlapping veins of critique. They use art as a mode of cultural organizing illuminating social constructions of gender, race, and identity. They posit incisive critiques of contemporary and historical events of Western society. They delve into the anthropomorphic relationship between technology and humans, contemporary dystopia and human empathy. Their practice is process and research based and manifests through text-based prints, photographs, video, participatory works, sculptural installations, analog and virtual physical labor, crafting, repetition, and other media that aim to directly engage with the body. Tucker’s work reflects their deep desire for precision in material, firsthand experiential evidence, and fabrication that conveys these elements. Many of the pieces are ongoing and mutable.

behind the mask of infinite energy (a play in three acts), 2021, made while in residence with the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation.

Tucker (b. 1980, Oklahoma) received their BA in Philosophy and History with a concentration in English Literature from Cornell University and their MFA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Design. They have exhibited in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Verona. They were a 2021 NYC Artist Corps artist, 2020 BRIO Grantee and the 2019-19 Wellesley College Alice C. Cole Fellow. They are an alum of ACRE, Bemis, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, AIR at Andrew Freedman Home and an Affliated Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Tucker is a published author and has curated two exhibitions. They were a Field Organizer for Hillary for America in 2016 in South Philly. Tucker resides in the Bronx with their partner, a thriving aloe plant named Wednesday and a fiddle leaf fig named Newton.