Into the Artist's Mind: Rupy Tut
Join PAMA Art Curator Sharona Adamowicz-Clements in conversation with American Sikh Punjabi artist Rupy Tut as they discuss the artist’s creative journey, the inspiration and challenges of working today in the arts. Tut will consider how her heritage, her value and belief system, and motherhood have guided her in her artistic practice.
About the Artist
Rupy Cheema Tut was born in India in 1985 and immigrated with her family to the USA as a preteen. Not long after she completed her studies in public health earning her MPH from Loma Linda University, California, she was compelled to pursue a life long passion for art making. She travelled to London, England to learn the rare art of Indian Miniature Painting and the calligraphy of various South Asian alphabets. In her current practice she incorporates both traditional art forms as she addresses a myriad of subject matter from history, memory, gender roles and immigration to the sacred Sikh scriptures and Punjabi poetry of her heritage. Her interest in Eastern forms of expression and stories as well as her experiences as a woman living in the West have all informed her art as she navigates between the old and the new, tradition and modernity, and the politics and social implications of identity.
Tut’s art has been exhibited in the USA, Canada and UK including the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; London City Hall, England and Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton, Ontario where she had her first exhibition in a public art gallery.
Tut lives in Oakland California with her husband and daughter, and is expecting the birth of her twins.
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