TARA GUPTA (b.1995)
EDUCATION
2024 Georgetown University MBA
2019 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA
ARTS AWARDS
2022 RISD Emerging Leader Award
2022 Best of the Best Award for LUCY, Young Filmmakers Contest, One Earth Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2020 LUCY, Winner of Sally Stovall Planet Warrior Prize, Young Filmmakers Contest, One Earth Film Festival, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Mindscape, Rhizome, Washington D.C.
2020 SOLOS, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Art Basel, Private Event
2023 Art of Surviving Exhibit for the Raymond A. Wood Foundation
2022 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Auction
2022 Washington Project for the Arts Fall Annual Benefit Auction and Show
2021 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Auction
2021 Resilience, Part 2, Serbof-Forbes Cultural Center, Maryland
2020 By The People x MONOCHROME: Virtual Fine Art Fair Featuring DC Artists
2020 Resilience, A Virtual Exhibition through International Visions Gallery, a Washington D.C. based Gallery
2019 Select MINDSCAPE Pieces for sale through International Visions Gallery, Washington D.C.
2019 “Open Media” Group Pop-up in shipping containers at Market Square, Providence, RI
2019 “Open Media + Glass” Group Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2018 “Open Media” Installation, Cloud Studio, RISD, Providence RI
2017 “JCBS Art Auction” Private Exhibition & Auction, Residence in Georgetown, Washington DC
2016 “Tiny Art” Group Exhibition, Unexpected Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
PRESS
2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Honorees for 2022
2021 Rhizome Press Release https://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2021/2/taraguptamindscape
2020 RISD XYZ Magazine, Tara Gupta wins Sally Stovall Planet Warrior Prize for Creativity
2020 RISD Alumni News, Tara Gupta wins Sally Stovall Planet Warrior Prize for Creativity https://alumni.risd.edu/news-events/gupta-tara
2014 Interview with The Catalyst, Blog, on Painting and Creative Process
https://straubreyh.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/tara-gupta-aotm/
COLLECTIONS
2021 Frederick D. Schaufeld Collection, Acquisition of "Earth, Air, Water, Fire"
COMMISSIONS
2017 Commissioned for Series of Drawings for Harvard University Social Sciences Thesis: Hierarchies in Indigeneity in Ecuador
2016 “Are We Really So Different?”, Children’s Book, Written & Illustrated by Tara Gupta for JC Bilingual School, http://www.jcbschool.org/
2015 Animation of Audio Clip from Yasir Qadhi for “Muslim in America” Project for Huffington Post http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/muslim-in-america#video-0