Tina Mari Rucker

Tina Mari Rucker drew from many influences around her to become an artist, entrepreneur, filmmaker and writer. She received a BA in film direction from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

While at Columbia, she produced and directed a documentary, Numu Tewa, Speak Comanche. It is based on the Comanche Tribe and Language Preservation committee’s efforts to preserve their culture. She received the largest grant amount from Columbia’s film department at that time and also recipient of the Weisman Scholarship. She was awarded the Illinois Arts Council, At&T Pioneers and the honorable mention from the Red Earth Film & Video Competition. In graduate school, she was awarded a Fellowship and produced several films including a music video and a short documentary.

After graduate school, she fell in love with abstract art. She began dabbling in the creative process, researching, learning techniques and finding her own voice in her works. By 2014, she started her art business.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

Fine Arts Building Exhibition, August and September 2022

Private Events in 2021

LAND, BODY AND SOUL Series, Oh Art Foundation, Chicago, November 15, 2019-December 20, 2019

LAND, BODY AND SOUL Series, Chicago, May 19, 2018

PRELUDE TO ENNEAD Series, Chicago, September 2017

OVERCOMING the SUPEREGO Series: Chicago, October 28, 2016

Group

PRELUDE TO ENNEAD, Chicago, September 2017

COMPLEX, Chicago, June 2017

CONTEXT, New York, May 2017

OVERCOMING the SUPEREGO: Chicago, October 28, 2016

WHITE SERIES: Chicago, June 6, 2015

IN the BEGINNING, THERE WAS BLUE: Chicago, Dec. 6, 2014

SQUARE OFF SERIES:  Chicago, August 22, 2014