Rina Banerjee

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Rina Banerjee
Born1963
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Website rinabanerjee.com

Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian-American artist and sculptor. [1] She currently lives and works in New York City. [1] Her ambitious mid-career survey exhibition, Make Me a Summary of the World––co-organized by and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the San Jose Museum of Art––opened in 2018 and is slated to travel to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC through July 2021. [2]

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Early life and career

In 1963, Banerjee was born in a Bengali family in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Indian state of West Bengal. [3] She grew up in London and Queens, New York, [4] [5] and has lived in the United States ever since. Banerjee has mentioned in interviews that the inspiration for her art comes from her childhood memories of visiting her grandfather during his homeopathic treatments. Many of the images and visuals from her visits with her grandfather have stayed with her and can be seen in her art work. She likes her artwork to be not static, but ever changing. [6] She completed an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, Yale University in 1995, after graduating from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio with a B.S. in Polymer Engineering. [5] Banerjee's work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other notable museums.

Exhibitions

Lady of Commerce - wooden. Hers is a transparent beauty, her eager sounds, her infinite and clamorous land and river, ocean and island, earth and sky...all contained, bottled for delivery to open an hole, a commerce so deep while large her arms fool stretched too wide and her sulfurous halo - a ring of glass, metal, stone retire to a sun of fire (2012), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Lady of Commerce - wooden.jpg
Lady of Commerce - wooden. Hers is a transparent beauty, her eager sounds, her infinite and clamorous land and river, ocean and island, earth and sky...all contained, bottled for delivery to open an hole, a commerce so deep while large her arms fool stretched too wide and her sulfurous halo - a ring of glass, metal, stone retire to a sun of fire (2012), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Below is a list of some of Banerjee's solo and group exhibits. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bio", Rinabanerjee.com, Retrieved online 17 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Exhibitions + Collection - Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World". San José Museum of Art. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. ↑ Home page, Rinabanerjee.com.
  4. ↑ https://rinabanerjee.com/page/4-About%20.html
  5. 1 2 3 Jumabhoy, Zehra (22 June 2011). "Rina Banerjee discusses her exhibition at Musée Guimet". Art Forum. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  6. 1 2 Shetty, Deepika (3 February 2014). "Suggestive sculptures that move by New York-based artist Rina Banerjee". The Straits Times Communities. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Rina Banerjee - Artist Biography" (PDF). LA Louver. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 Cotter, Holland (16 June 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Rina Banerjee". The New York Times . pp. Section E, Page 33. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "CV". rinabanerjee.com. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  10. ↑ Shaw, Raqib; Banerjee, Rina; Thomas Gibson Fine Art (2009). Raqib Shaw - Rina Banerjee October 7th - 28th 2009, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd. London: Thomas Gibson Fine Art. OCLC   906974923.
  11. ↑ "First UK Solo Show of Bengali-American Artist Rina Banerjee at Haunch of Venison". Art Daily. 10 April 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Rina Banerjee | 7 September - 17 November 2012 - Installation Views". Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "Des hommes, des mondes". Collège des Bernardins (in French). 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  14. ↑ Vikram, Anuradha (2017). Decolonizing culture: essays on the intersection of art and politics (First ed.). San Francisco: Art Practical + Sming Sming Books. pp. 103–105. ISBN   9780998500652. OCLC   1007152194.
  15. ↑ Pagel, David (14 May 2014). "Review Rina Banerjee "Disgust" at LA Louvre". Los Angeles Times .
  16. ↑ "Rina Banerjee: Migration's Breath - Presented by Ota Fine Arts". Artsy. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  17. ↑ Stamler, Hannah (March 2019). "Rina Banerjee - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum". Art Forum. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  18. ↑ "Spirit in the Land". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  19. ↑ "Spirit in the Land • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  20. ↑ Schoonmaker, Trevor (2023). Spirit in the land: Exhibition, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2023. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. ISBN   978-0-938989-45-5.
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