TARA GUPTA (b.1995)
EDUCATION
2014-2019 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Open Media, Providence, RI
2020-2021 Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
2013 Rhode Island School of Design, Pre-College, Hand-drawn Animation Program, Providence, RI
2011 Oxbridge Academic Programs, Fine Art and Art History, Barcelona, Spain
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Mindscape, Rhizome, Washington D.C.
2020 SOLOS, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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
2013 Finalist for Editorial Cartoon of the Year, National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Awards Competition
PRESS
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
2018 Tara Gupta creates an inspiring youtube series https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/taking-environmental-action
2014 Interview with The Catalyst, Blog, on Painting and Creative Process
https://straubreyh.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/tara-gupta-aotm/
2013 National Scholastic Pacemaker Award Finalist Press
https://fairfaxnews.com/2013/10/fcps-student-journalists-named-finalists-national-competition/
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
2021 Frederick D. Schaufeld Collection, Acquisition of "Earth, Air, Water, Fire"
NOTABLE 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