Ara Tucker is an artist and storyteller whose practice focuses on the intersection of race, class, gender, sexual orientation as well as intergenerational memory and trauma with a particular interest in how these intersections warp daily life. In addition to using third party platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn for site-specific artistic and culture-shifting multimedia interventions, she has designed I’m Here Too, a website dedicated to storytelling in multiple forms (visual, audio, literary). Tucker often employs her wry sense of humor to transcend traditional observations of how the New York City art world operates through projects including a blog as the Art Dealer’s Daughter; a novel How to Raise an Art Star; and Spilling the Tea, a Kwanzaa-themed takeover of her wife Hilary Harkness’s Instagram account. Ara also produced Black Like Us, a documentary video exploring the lives of an intergenerational group of affluent African Americans.

A three-time alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction, Tucker received a degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Princeton University. Tucker, who also received a JD from the New York University School of Law, currently serves as a member of the MoMA PS1 Board of Directors Executive Committee and as Chair of the Audit Committee.