Tucker Neel is an artist, writer, curator, and educator living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Neel’s work investigates the apparatuses, actions, and contradictions ideology renders invisible for allegiances to congeal and truths to take hold. He is particularly interested in the objects, texts, and rituals that stand in for or alter individual and collective presence and memory. His project-based, heterogenous works explore a range of topics and phenomena, including voicemail services, political campaign ephemera, YouTube concert documentation, internet conspiracy theories, gentrification and boosterism, memorials and monuments, false memories, hook-up apps, souvenir postcards, and museum display systems.

He holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design and a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Occidental College. He has exhibited work in venues such as The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Samuel Freeman, Control Room, and various site-specific exhibitions and actions in public spaces. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Weekly, and Art Week. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for CB1 Gallery, The Tom of Finland Foundation, Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, and GATE Projects in Glendale, CA. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Weekly, and Art Week. Neel is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences department at Otis College of Art & Design. He is also a contributing editor for Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles, CA. His additional writings and reviews have appeared in publications such as X-Tra, ART LIES, Artpulse, and The Los Angeles Alternative Press.