Kamini Avril

Pamela Avril Tucker (born September 3, 1955), also known as Kamini Avril, is an American painter. A 1989 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in large paintings depicting humans and animals. Biography Pamela Avril Tucker was born on September 3, 1955, in Vallejo, California. After attending the Interlochen Arts Academy (1973) and the Yale Norfolk School of Art, She attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she obtained a BFA in 1977, and Bennington College where she obtained a MFA in 1980. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. In April 2020, she and her husband held their first joint solo exhibition, at the Bannister Gallery in Rhode Island College; Art New England remarked that the husband-and-wife duo "share a remarkably similar creative process, yet their work is profoundly different in medium, execution, and form".

She is married to British sculptor William G. Tucker, and they have two children, clarinetist Shankar Tucker and cellist Akshaya Avril Tucker. As of 1986, she was based in Willow, New York. Joint exhibition with Claude Carone and Ruth Leonard, Greene County Gallery on the Arts Mountaintop Gallery (Windham, Maine), March 16 to May 6, 1996 Frescos/Drawings, Oxbow Gallery (Easthampton, Massachusetts), October 2025.