Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating visual art with sound, original compositions, and live performance. His work is the product of a rich interactive process through which he investigates human rights issues, historical events, community impacts, and basic human emotions surrounding his subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the prison industrial complex and the many issues that accompany incarceration.

Rucker has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for his work in visual art and music. In 2013,… more