TARA GUPTA (b.1995)
EDUCATION
2020-2021 Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
2014-2019 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Open Media, Providence, RI
2017 Kalu Yala, Sustainable Community Design and Development, Rural Panama
2016 Earthships Academy, Taos, NM
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
2022 Washington Project for the Arts 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
SCREENINGS
2020 LUCY, One Earth Film Festival Launch Party
2018 Screening + Q&A with contestants of 100 Days to 0 Waste, PVD Green Drinks, Social Enterprise
Greenhouse, Providence, RI
2018 Screening of 100 Days to 0 Waste, Cloud Studio, Rhode Island School of Design
FELLOWSHIPS
2017 Estadio Ventures Media+Innovation Fellowship, El Salvador
2016 Textron Charitable Trust Summer Fellowship for work with Farm Fresh RI, Providence, RI
2015-2016 LACE Fellowship with RISD & Southside Community Land Trust, Providence, RI
ARTS AWARDS
2022 RISD Emerging Leader Award
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
2022 Mess Magazine, Global Warming and the Fashion Industry, featuring quote by Tara Gupta
2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Honorees for 2022
2021 Forbes Next 1000
2021 RISD Alum make Forbes 30 Under 30 List https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/forbes-30-under-30-2022
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
2018 Tara Gupta creates an inspiring youtube series https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/taking-environmental-action
2020 Subscribing to the Future, Planning for the Declining Ownership Society, Congress of New Urbanism Interview
2020 Reducing waste during the pandemic, NBC 10 News with Emily Volz
2019 Cutting the Clutter: Inside a 'zero waste' house, NBC 10 News with Emily Volz
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