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Sutapa Biswas

TrAIN Core Member - Reader

I was born in India and educated in England where I have lived since the age of four. I undertook my BA in Fine Art at The University of Leeds (1981-1985), after which I completed my postgraduate study at the Slade School of Art (1988-1990), and at the Royal College of Art between (1996-1998). My work engages with issues of time, desire, feminism and cultural identity, and memory and, inspired by a strong interest in poetry, my practice-based research questions ideas of narrative structure in both the cinematic and drawn context.

My film works, which have been referred to as Buñuelesque visual poetry (Robert Clark ‘Sutapa Biswas, Nottingham’, in The Guardian Guide, Saturday September 18th 2004), are informed by a strong painterly aesthetic and draw from a variety of literary and visual sources, from writings by Marcel Proust, Edward Lear, the writings of the psychoanalyst Frantz Fanon, to paintings by George Stubbs, Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper.

A monograph on my works has been published by InIVA (2004), and includes essays by Laura Mulvey, Guy Brett, Moira Roth and Griselda Pollock. I have exhibited extensively internationally, and my recent solo shows include The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2000), Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (2004), and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (2006). My works have also been included in numerous group exhibitions including: the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia (2006), From Tarzan To Rambo, Tate Modern, London (2002-2003), Art Through the Eye of A Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2001), The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (1998), and the Havana Biennale, Cuba (1997).

I was a Fellow at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1990 and 1992. I am currently a Reader at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

Links

  • Research Staff Profile : Chelsea College of Art & Design

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