Rina Banerjee

Indian-American(1963)

Works

Rina Banerjee creates fantastical sculptures and installations from globally sourced materials including feathers, shells, textiles, and found objects, exploring colonialism, migration, and cultural hybridity. Her works feature elaborate titles that function as prose poems, such as her installation for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts rotunda. She has exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Venice Biennale.

2007 Acrylic Political Mixed Media Ink Paper Narrative Abstract Rina Banerjee

Rina Banerjee — Dizzy with labor, Commerce, she spoke, spewed and sprouted her feudal bonds with vassal and lord, tradesmen and troops, slaves, servants and third worlds so to secure an insatiable pride in our movements away from place and home

Dizzy with labor, Commerce, she spoke, spewed and sprouted her feudal bonds with vassal and lord, tradesmen and troops, slaves, servants and third worlds so to secure an insatiable pride in our movements away from place and home

2007

Artists in conversation