Orientalism
2019
Baseera Khan
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan is a New York-based artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map the geographies of the future. Khan is currently preparing her first solo exhibition with Simone Subal Gallery, and has exhibited at the Sculpture Center (2018), the Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017), Texas Christian University's Moudy Gallery (2017), and Colorado College Fine Arts Center (2018). They have performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art POP Montreal International Music Festival (2017). Khan has been an artist-in-residence at PioneerWorks (2018-19) and the Abrons Art Center (2016-17), was an International Travel Fellow to Jerusalem/Ramallah (2015), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Khan has received fellowships from NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters (2018). His work has been published in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, OSMOS Magazine, unbag, The Brooklyn Rail and TDR DramaReview. Khan earned an MFA from Cornell University (2012) and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of North Texas (2005).
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2019
Website / Social Links
My work synthesizes the cultural legacy of being "Native American Muslim" I draw from personal and collective experiences, life lessons transformed into motifs of blackness and desires for protection. I attempt to contradict the assumptions projected onto a Muslim body, black or brown, by honoring my inherent intersectionality and using concealment and abstraction as aesthetic strategies.”
