Talk title: “From Bangladesh to Brooklyn: Transnational Art Practices” by Monica Jahan Bose

Abstract: Monica Jahan Bose has lived in Bangladesh, the U.K., the United States, Japan, France, Pakistan, and India. Using the sari as a symbol for women’s lives, she has presented her work in tiny villages in Bangladesh, at art fairs during Miami Basel, and on the streets of Brooklyn. Her talk presents her recent projects and considers how South Asia and Bangladesh enter conceptual frameworks and art practices in the US, the extent to which artists in Bangladesh are influenced by the outside world, and the impact and interplay of colonization and globalization on the art world in South Asia and the US.

Bio:
Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist, lawyer, and activist whose work spans performance, painting, film, photography, printmaking, and interdisciplinary projects. Her solo performance/installations and exhibitions have been presented at Art Asia Miami, Twelve Gates Gallery, the Bangladesh National Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the DUMBO Arts Festival, (e)merge art fair, SELECT Art Fair (during Miami Basel), UNESCO, Galerie Deborah Zafman, and many other venues. She studied art at Wesleyan University and Santiniketan (India) and has a law degree from Columbia University. She is the creator of “Storytelling with Saris,” a longterm collaborative art and advocacy project with 12 women from her ancestral island village, which is adversely impacted by climate change. Monica lives and works in Washington, D.C. and Bangladesh.