Photo by Brad Ogbonna
Martha Tuttle (b. 1989, Santa Fe, New Mexico) is a multimedia artist whose practise explores our relationship to the elemental and the surrounding environment. Interweaving sculpture, textile, and painting, she creates subtle, materially rich compositions that investigate impermanence, place, and the tension between the organic and the constructed. Working with earthen materials—plant dyes, stone pigments, wool, linen, and silk—Tuttle constructs fractured topographies that reframe geometric abstraction through the lens of the natural world. Her surfaces often incorporate stone, charred wood, and cast aluminium, generating nuanced tensions between opacity and transparency, weight and lightness, interior and exterior. Through her work, Tuttle reflects on the passage of time and the delicate balance of resilience and vulnerability in natural and built environments, combining careful materiality with a poetic, contemplative sensibility that invites close attention to form, texture, and atmosphere.
Martha Tuttle (b. 1989, Santa Fe, NM) lives and works in Bozeman, MT and she received an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Solo exhibitions include Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (2024) and Storm King Arts Center, New York (2020-21). Group exhibitions include Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2026) and FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2026). Tuttle received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2025) participated in the Atelier Calder Residency, France (2026); she has also participated in a Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL (2019) and received a Josef Albers Foundation Fellowship (2014). Selected public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.