Virtual Talk by British-Indian Artist Sutapa Biswas

Virtual Talk by British-Indian Artist Sutapa Biswas

Image credit: Sutapa Biswas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London

The University of Pittsburgh’s Studio Arts department is pleased to announce their Spring 2022 Visiting Artist Series with Conceptual artist Sutapa Biswas.

Sutapa Biswas is a conceptual artist who works across a range of disciplines including painting, drawing, film, video and photography. Born in India and educated in the UK since the age of four, Sutapa Biswas graduated with a BA in Fine Art with Art History from Leeds University in 1985. She completed a postgraduate degree at the Slade School of Art in 1990 and was a research student at the Royal College of Art. In 2016 she joined Manchester Metropolitan University, UK as Reader in Fine Art.

Biswas will be presenting about her work, the latest being a film titled Lumen, and the legacy of British colonialism in South Asia. Her work includes painting, drawing, film, video, and photography, and draws from art history, literature, and film. Andrew Nairne, the director of the University of Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard, where Biswas currently has a major exhibition, described her art as “work(ing) through the intuitive, through the poetic, and through the personal.” Please join us online on Thursday January 27 at 2:00 pm EST for this virtual event. Register here.

Sponsored by the Department of Studio Arts, the Asian Studies Center, the Department of English, and the Film & Media Studies Program.