Sutapa Biswas

(British/Indian, born 1962)

lumen: blue sari. after vermeer by sutapa biswas

Sutapa Biswas

Lumen: Blue sari. After Vermeer, 2021

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lumen: the ghosts she summons by sutapa biswas

Sutapa Biswas

Lumen: The ghosts she summons, 2021

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lumen: mirror and hair; sounds of the morning by sutapa biswas

Sutapa Biswas

Lumen: Mirror and hair; sounds of the morning, 2021

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Biography

Timeline

Education
Royal College of Art, Master of Philosophy, London, England, 1995-98
Slade School of Fine Art, University College, Postgraduate Diploma, London University, England, 1988-90
The University of Leeds, BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, minor in Art History, Leeds, England, 1981-85
Awards
Visiting Artist and Guest of Honour, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 1998
Visiting Artists Series, Stanford University. One of six internationally based artists invited by Stanford University, 1997
Visiting Artist, Mills College, Recipient of The National Endowment for the Arts Award California, USA, 1994
Nominee, European Photography Award, 1992
Recipient, Charlotte Townsend Award, 1992

Exhibitions

2006
Melborne International Arts Festival 2006, Australia
The University of Leeds, Parkinson Gallery. Migratory Aesthetics, curated by Griselda Pollock and Judith Tucker, Leeds, UK
Sutapa Biswas, Recent Works the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA (solo)
2005
3rd Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival. Curated by Emma Mahony, Hayward Gallery, London,UK
Royal Academy of Arts, Launch of Contemporary Patrons, London, England
2004
Sutapa Biswas Recent Works, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK (solo)
Sutapa Biswas, Recent works by Sutapa Biswas exhibited in situ with drawings by Joseph Turner and Edward Lear, Harewood House, Yorkshire, UK (solo)
2002 - 2003
Tate Modern, From Tarzan to Rambo, London, UK
2001
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Art Through the Eye of A Needle, Oslo, Norway
2000
Sutapa Biswas, Untitled (woman in blue, weeping), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)

Literature

2004
SUTAPA BISWAS, an anthology of essays on the work of the artist Sutapa Biswas. Published by the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, and The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, USA., pp 1-96. ISBN 1-899846-39-5
1997
Baucom, I., Two Places At Once, Or The Same Place Twice: The Art of Sutapa Biswas, in Lloyd, J. Cross-Currents / Krysinger, University of Ethnography, Oslo, Norway, pp. 15-18, 22-23, 52-25, 59. ISBN 08083444
1992
Tawadros, G., Remembrance of Things Past and Present, and Pollock, G., Tracing Figures of Presence: Naming Ciphers of Absence. Feminism, Imperialism and Postmodernity: the Work of Sutapa Biswas, in Walsh, N. Synapse. Published by The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK. Essays by Towadros, G., and Pollock, G., edited by Walsh, N. pp 1-31
1991
Synapse, an Artist’s Book. Limited edition (20), published by Sutapa Biswas, Canada. Essays by Pollock, G. and Towadros, G. pp 1-26