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Angela Tucker

New Orleans, Louisiana

Self Portrait is a framed mixed media collage featuring a figure with bold colors, floral motifs, and the word "Paradise" on the right side. The figure is composed of fragments of photographs, drawings and painting.

Self Portrait

2025

Montage of several photographs of an immersive sound installation and altar, showing Black fathers reading passages in front of a peacock chair altar, records of jazz music, a collage in the style of the 1980s READ posters featuring artist’s family and banned books.

We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For

2025

Yeyo is a collage featuring braided hair, an eye, puzzle pieces, a hand in prayer, a leg in black stockings and boots, abstract shapes, and the word "BLACK" on a dark background.

yeyo

2024

come celebrate with me shows a Black woman gazing beatifically upwards, holding a CT scan of her fibroids. She wears a matching pink leopard print set in front of a planked fence, sun streaming through the trees with potted plants on either side of her.

come celebrate with me

2024

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker smiles warmly with arms folded in front of her. She is a Black woman with a medium skintone, long honey blond-brown braids, and wears round fuschia glasses and matching knit shirt.

Angela Lynn Tucker is an Emmy and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work confronts the trauma and beauty of living in a Black body in America, spanning genres from documentaries to holiday films starring Patti LaBelle.

Her films screened at Tribeca, BlackStar, and the New Orleans Film Festival, and aired on NBC and Netflix. Her first solo exhibition debuted at The Diboll Gallery. She’s exhibited at Vassar College, Lawrence Arts Center, and Brooklyn Historical Society, and had an installation at the True/False Film Festival with work featured in Cut Up Magazine. She is a member of the artist-run gallery, The Front.

Her latest documentary, THE INQUISITOR, will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Angela holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Columbia University. She was raised in New York City and now lives in New Orleans.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025

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