Frederic Tuten (b. 1936, Bronx, NY) is a celebrated novelist, essayist, and visual artist. He studied at the Art Students League, City College of New York, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico prior to receiving a Ph.D. in 19th-century American literature from New York University. Over the course of Tuten’s long career, he has published five novels, including The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), and Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993), both of which feature original cover art designed by Roy Lichtenstein; and most recently a memoir, My Young Life (2019). His short-form writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Artforum, New York Times, and Vogue. Tuten’s visual art has been the subject of solo exhibitions: Sweet Dreams, Central Fine, Miami Beach (2024); Victory, Central Fine, Miami Beach (2022); In the Fullness of Life, Harper’s Apartment, New York (2022); Works on Cardboard, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY (2021); and Flowers, Plants, and Other Romances, Planthouse Gallery, New York (2019). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A book of Tuten’s works on cardboard will be published in Spring 2022 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, and is edited by Karen Marta with an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Tuten currently lives and works in New York City and Southampton, NY.
