The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley is delighted to welcome Artist Rina Banerjee to UC Berkeley. The evening will include an artist talk by Rina Banerjee, followed by a conversation with Prof. Atreyee Gupta. The conversation will be moderated by Chair, Advisory Board, South Asia Art Initiative and Collector of contemporary South Asian art collector of contemporary South Asian art, Dipti Mathur.
Bios
Rina Banerjee was born in Calcutta, India in 1963. She grew up in London, England, and eventually moved to New York, NY. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Polymer Engineering at Case Western University in 1993 and took a job as a polymer research chemist upon graduation. After several years, she left the science profession to receive her Masters in Fine Arts from Yale University in 1995. Banerjees work has been exhibited internationally, including but not limited to New York, NY; Paris, France; London, England; Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles, CA; New Delhi, India; Milan, Italy; Singapore; and notably a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC in 2013. The artists works are also included in many private and public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Queens Museum, Queens, NY; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Rina Banerjee currently lives and works in New York City.
A mid career retrospective of the artist, Make Me a Summary of the World, is currently on view till (Sunday, October 6, 2019) at the San José Museum of Art, co-organized with Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and on a five city tour with an illustrated catalog. Read more about the exhibition HERE.
Additionally, the artist's work will be on display at the Hosfelt Gallery (260 Utah Street, San Francisco) from September 07 - October 12, 2019. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 7 from 4 6 PM. Read more about the exhibit in this PRESS RELEASE.
Atreyee Gupta is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She was trained at the University of Minnesota and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Her area of expertise is Global Modernism, with a special emphasis on the global aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards. Her research and teaching interests cluster around visual and intellectual histories of twentieth-century art; the intersections among the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, and art after 1945; new media and experimental cinema; and the question of the global more broadly. Gupta is presently completing Non-Aligned: Decolonization, Modernism, and the Third World Project, India ca. 19301960, a book on the artistic and intellectual resonances of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War era and the interwar anti-colonial Afro-Asian networks that preceded it. Her coedited books include Postwar A Global Art History, 19451965 (with Okwui Enwezor) and Global Modernism/s: Infrastructures of Contiguities, ca. 19051965 (with Hannah Baader and Patrick Flores). Guptas essays have appeared in edited volumes, exhibition catalogs, and journals such as Art Journal, Yishu, and Third Text.
Dipti Mathur, Chair of the South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley, is a biochemist turned collector of contemporary South Asian art who has built a highly regarded collection of modern and contemporary Indian art. Her ongoing interests lie in working with institutions in the US on promoting a broader cross-cultural understanding and study of contemporary Indian art. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Art Museum, the Collections Committee of the Asia Society Museum, New York, the Contemporary Art Advisory Panel of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the Board of Trustees of the San Jose Museum of Art. She is a founding member of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, San Francisco. Dipti has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has performed post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The South Asia Art Initiative, inaugurated in Spring 2018, is the culmination of a comprehensive art program, built over the past several years, that promoted conversation around the visual cultures of South Asia through talks, conferences, and exhibitions. The goal of the Initiative is to move onto the next level with local, national, and international collaborations that combine creative energies with insights drawn from scholarly research. To read more about the Initiative or to help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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