photo by Raine Yung at Lindsey Mavericks Smitten House Salon July, 2026 (in this photo Billy holds the lid of a Lomo tank showing the logo for the Lomo company. Lomo made 16mm development tanks and accessories during the middle of 20th century and they were designed in the former Soviet Union. On the table is a 16mm Bolex Rex 1 camera, a light meter, and a hinged board wit two film rewinds bolted to either side. There is also a tripod, and a bright light on aimed at the wall flooding the room with a bright reflective light.)

My name is Billy Tucker. I’m a working and teaching artist in Chicago Illinois. I have over 20 years of DIY art making, artist booking, curation, and collaborative/collective experience in art and social practices. I’m a curious maker, I’m interested in people, histories and historic sites. While my mediums of making are not limited I gravitate toward celluloid filmmaking and field recording a lot. I have also had a recent interested and practice in making outdoor studio practice that art that responds to its surroundings and changes because of its public presence. Art has been with me throughout every instance of my life and grows on me as I age. I used to call myself an artist, but no I say I’m working.

My research and practice has become dedicated to experimenting with eco chemistries, plant extracted color, expired obsoleted materials, and impossibilities. My formal education was late by traditional standards, but I also don’t hold a value in the degree as much as I hold the value in my experience as an artist who received a degree in an institution, I don’t take that for granted, and it was and still is my goal to share what I’ve learned, all of the ways of making art affordable, accessible are important to me. Possibilities are infinite.