MFA, Pratt Institute, 2019
Madeline Rupard was born in Provo, Utah, grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and moved most recently from New York City, her home of five years. She received an MFA in Painting ('19) from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Studio Art ('16) from Brigham Young University, where she returned as a Visiting Professor from 2020-2021. She has attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency (2016) as well as the Ora Lerman Soaring Gardens Residency (2019). Her work has appeared in Booooooom, New American Paintings, and at Lorin Gallery in Los Angeles and Room 57 Gallery in New York. Rupard’s paintings consider the American landscape as one who has moved through it frequently and traveled across long distances. She paints to describe contradictions: the suburban and the sublime, the sacred and the mundane, and the ancient and man-made running up against each other.