Prey. Flightless, in and out of fear
2023
Rina Banerjee
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 Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee is a mid-career artist based in New York City. Originally from Kolkata, she creates multi-faceted sculptures, paintings, and drawings, fusing boundaries between East and West. Banerjee’s choice of material and subject matter question the experiences of femininity, climate change, migration, commerce, and identity in a globalized world. Her sculptures place in conversation cultural objects, textiles, domestic items, mythologies, as well as the material residue of colonialism.
Banerjee has received considerable international recognition, including a recent traveling retrospective (Frist Art Museum in Nashville, San Jose Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), a survey exhibition at Museé Guimet in Paris, and participation in the 55th and 57th Venice Biennales. She has been included in important group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2020
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
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My sculptural creations embrace interdisciplinary themes and media, delving into history, social justice, and diaspora studies, shaping identity across intricate landscapes. My work endeavors to emancipate beauty from gender and cultural confines, championing diversity through visual markers of value while dismantling sequestered hierarchies.”
