Tricia Rainwater
The Tellings We Keep
On view October 1 — November 29, 2025
Opening Reception with the Artist: October 11, 5:30-7:30PM
Location: SF Camerawork, 2 Marina Boulevard, Building A, San Francisco, CA, 94123
As our Fall Resident, we are proud to share mixed-media artist Tricia Rainwater's solo exhibition, The Tellings We Keep, with the SF Camerawork community!
Tracing what endures, what has been mourned, what hasn’t, and shining light on what might fall through the cracks, The Tellings We Keep unravels the complexities of separation – of being pulled from family and community by wounds older than one’s own birth. This body of work moves as prayer and song. It carries the stories others might dismiss, inviting viewers to linger in their ache, to witness what resists forgetting.
Through self-portrait photography, sculpture, and installation, Rainwater examines the entanglements of body and memory – what it means to live in a body once denied its own autonomy. Her images become vessels, carving out space for self and for home. Drawing on Choctaw ancestral designs, she dreams into being a geography remembered through childhood tellings and the echoes of land half-known, half-missed.
This exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, October 1 — Wednesday, November 29, 2025, and will take place at our SFC gallery, located at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. We look forward to seeing you and sharing special programming during the run of show, so please stay tuned for more details soon!
Selected Works
Artist Biography
Tricia Rainwater is a Choctaw multimedia artist based in the Bay Area, with roots in the Central Valley and New Mexico. Her artistic portfolio, which includes self-portraiture, sculpture, large-scale murals, and installations, has been featured at the Berkeley Center for the Arts, ICA San Francisco, MOCA Toronto, and with Muz Collective, ICA San Jose among others. In 2022, she received a grant from the SF Arts Commission to trace the Choctaw Trail of Tears. Rooted in themes of identity and grief, her work offers a perspective through the lens of a Choctaw survivor. Through her art, Tricia confronts and resists loss by revisiting sites of pain, creatingspaces for personal and collective healing.
Website: www.triciarainwaterart.com
Follow Tricia on Instagram: @triciarainwaterart
