SF Camerawork — Tricia Rainwater: The Tellings We Keep
SF Camerawork
Through Nov 26thSF Camerawork (SFC) hosts Tricia Rainwater: The Tellings We Keep in Landmark Building A at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC). The Tellings We Keep is an invitation residency exhibition.
The exhibition is on view Thursday though Saturday, October 23 to 25, 2025; Wednesday through Friday, October 29 to 31, 2025; Thursday through Saturday, November 20 to 22, 2025; and Monday to Wednesday, November 24 t0 26, 2025. Hours on those days are 12:00 p.m. (Noon) to 6:00 p.m. The Opening Reception took place on Saturday, October 11, 2025, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
An “Artist Talk” with Rainwater and SFMOMA Assistant Curator Of Photography Delphine Sims takes place in the gallery on Saturday, November 21, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Donation requested. (Register in advance.)
The Tellings We Keep is a living archive – an offering of memory and survival. It traces what endures, what has been mourned, what hasn’t, and shines a light on what might fall through the cracks. It traces what endures, what has been mourned, what hasn’t, and shines a light on what might fall through the cracks.
The Tellings We Keep unravels the complexities of separation – of being pulled from family and community by wounds older than one’s own birth. This body of work moves as prayer and song. It carries the stories others might dismiss, inviting viewers to linger in their ache, to witness what resists forgetting.
Through self-portrait photography, sculpture, and installation, Rainwater examines the entanglements of body and memory – what it means to live in a body once denied its own autonomy. Her images become vessels, carving out space for self and for home. Drawing on Choctaw ancestral designs, she dreams into being a geography remembered through childhood tellings and the echoes of land half-known, half-missed.
Free Admission
About The Photographer
Tricia Rainwater is a Choctaw multimedia artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with roots in the Central Valley and New Mexico. Her artistic portfolio, which includes self-portraiture, sculpture, large-scale murals, and installations, has been featured at the Berkeley Center for the Arts, ICA San Francisco, MOCA Toronto, and with Muz Collective, ICA San Jose among others.
In 2022, Rainwater received a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to trace the Choctaw Trail of Tears. Rooted in themes of identity and grief, her work offers a perspective through the lens of a Choctaw survivor. Through her art, Tricia confronts and resists loss by revisiting sites of pain, creating spaces for personal and collective healing. CV
