About
Tallulah Cartalucca (she/her/hers) grew up collecting objects found in the shade of trees rooted in parkways. Childhood experiences sparked a lifelong fascination with urban natural relationships: the humor, tenderness, memories, and aliveness of the Chicago ecosystem where she lives and works.
Tallulah received her MFA in Art and Technology/Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She develops kinetic sculptures by collaborating with found objects, creating poetry with interactivity and sensing, and documenting their idiosyncrasies. Her sculptures and installations celebrate objects as witnesses and participants in the spaces they share with humans, treating personal encounters with this kind of nature as a form of slow research. Her studio is full of branches, extension cords, printed fabric, fans, vacuums, and whistles. Disassembling, repairing, breaking, mending, and mis-using discarded objects is part of her process. Blending sound, objects, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, and technology, she approaches interdisciplinarity as a way of understanding a complex and evolving ecosystem.
She has shown work in Chicago, Rockford, Detroit, and Houston. Her work is at the 2026 edition of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. She is a recipient of the Mitchell Sound Grant and the Massey Scholarship and has presented workshops at Building Brave Spaces and the National Young Artists Summit. As an artist and arts administrator, she organizes Terrain Exhibitions and has curated exhibitions at Lillstreet Art Center and the WasteShed in Chicago.