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Trisha Gupta

Multidisciplinary artist · Printmaker · Educator

Connection with Alex

Trisha Gupta and Alex studied in the same Mount Royal MFA programme at MICA: Alex in the class of 2023 and Trisha Gupta in the class of 2024. Trisha’s collaborations with Alex span performance, studio work and photography. She performed in It’s all connected; holding the structure together. Alex refined her website’s UI/UX and page organization, developed an unrealized visual strategy proposal in August 2023, assisted with printmaking and photographed her. They also exhibited in Holding Tension at MICA in 2022.

Work & recognition

Projects, programmes and milestones. Each entry explains its relationship and attribution.

8 entries

Earlier archived Trisha Gupta Studio website

UI/UX & studio collaboration · Summer–Fall 2023

Trisha Gupta Studio

Trisha Gupta
Artist; studio collaborator
Alex Dahdah
UI/UX refinement, website strategy, portrait photography and printmaking assistance
Selected frame of layered hands from Connected, featuring performer Trisha Gupta

Video · Exhibited 2022

It's All Connected

Trisha Gupta
Performer
Alex Dahdah
Artist and filmmaker

Classes of 2023 & 2024 · Shared education · Maryland Institute College of Art

Mount Royal · Multidisciplinary MFA

Both studied in MICA’s Mount Royal multidisciplinary MFA programme, in adjacent graduating classes.

Alex Dahdah
MFA, Multidisciplinary Art · Mount Royal School of Art
Class of 2023
Trisha Gupta
MFA, Multidisciplinary Art · Mount Royal School of Art
Class of 2024

2–10 December 2022 · Exhibited in the same show · Mount Royal exhibition archive and dated poster

Holding Tension

Trisha Gupta and Alex were both exhibiting artists in Holding Tension (2–10 December 2022).

2025 · Photography credit · East City Art

Published portrait photograph

A portrait of Trisha by Alex appeared in East City Art on March 10, 2025. The date is publication context; the photograph’s capture date is unconfirmed.

2022–2023 · Folklife apprenticeship award · Maryland State Arts Council

Maryland Traditions · Printmaking

The Maryland State Arts Council names Gupta as the master artist and Daria Parsa as the apprentice in a funded printmaking team.

2025–2026 cohort · Artist residency · VisArts

Fleur + Charles Bresler Residency

VisArts lists Gupta among its Bresler resident artists. Her practice includes printmaking, sculpture, textiles and community art, with attention to migration and neurodivergence.

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Biography

Trisha Gupta is an Indian American artist and educator working in printmaking, textiles, sculpture and community projects. Preserving Indian woodblock and other traditional print processes is central to her practice. She has taught these processes through the Smithsonian, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Pyramid Atlantic, and runs a community printmaking studio.

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