Artist Talk with Pablo Tut

Join us for a presentation by St. Elmo Fellow Pablo Tut. Tut will introduce his practice and detail new works made for Land Invention, Tut’s solo exhibition on view at the VAC through March 8, 2025. The presentation will be 45 minutes followed a Q&A session.

About the artist

Pablo Tut is the 2024–25 St. Elmo Arts Residency Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Tut is an artist of Maya ancestry from the city of Campeche. In addition to working across mediums as an artist, Tut is an educator, curator, and cultural manager. His art practice considers the experimentation of different media, the use of public space, and national and religious themes to expand working-class and Indigenous agency. His artwork functions as deviations, distortions, and reimaginations that resist assimilation into white colonial culture and values. Tut has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across Mexico and the U.S., including most recently at Stanford Art Gallery in California. Tut was awarded a scholarship for art studies in 2022 and the 2021 patronage program by the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo. He was selected by the 2020 and 2021 patronage program of Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, and is the founding member of the independent spaces TARA Cultura Compartida (2017–2018) and Cachorra (2021) in Yucatán. Tut earned his BA in Fine Arts from Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán (2015) and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University (2024).