Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
March 19 - September 13, 2026
Rina Banerjee: You made me leave home...

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs programme, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo presents an exhibition devoted to the work of South Asian diaspora artist Rina Banerjee, who transforms a wide range of found objects into mystical female sculptures and complex phantasmagorical installations. This exhibition is part of the Hors-les-murs programme, showcasing holdings of the Collection at the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Venice, Beijing, Seoul and Osaka, thereby embodying the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s mission to mount international projects and reach a broader global audience.

In her artworks, Rina Banerjee uses elements that reflect cultural and material residues of colonialism, textiles, ostrich eggs, feathers, and glass chandeliers, as well as everyday domestic items such as cotton threads and coconut powders, many of which were originally produced in the Global South (“the tropical zone,” per Banerjee). Her paintings are inspired by historic Indian miniature paintings, Chinese silk paintings, and Aztec drawings. Working in the liminal space between abstraction and representation, Banerjee resists the colonial gaze while creating works of exceptional visual beauty from unexpected hybrid materials. Her works, while critiquing various social divides and injustices, resist the colonial gaze, yet always contain humour. Banerjee says, "The viewer is both pleasured by the exotic object and simultaneously perplexed by its assertion." Each work has an extensive and poetic narrative as a title, which constitutes a part of her artistic work.

Over nearly three decades of artistic practice, Banerjee has explored critical issues of colonialism, migration, identity, international travel and trade, climate change, labour, exoticism, ornament, and the tension between tradition and modernity. Adopting a postcolonial feminist approach, she creates feminine figures of diverse sizes, shapes, and colours “invested in freeing the Goddess from the male gaze, freeing her from the sexualized […] representations that dominate the cultural imaginary.”

In this exhibition entitled You made me leave my happy home to become someone else anew, in diasporas without origin to be related again this is living and in this waits the joy of one earthly place, hope of eternal intimacy. Intimate in Nature., Banerjee’s selection of nineteen works, ranging from installations to sculptures and paintings, nuances the themes of international travel and the legacies of colonialism. The exhibition is conceived around In an unnatural storm a world fertile, fragile and desirous, polluted with excess pollination… (2008), a monumental installation about the wonder and precarity of adventurous international travel inspired by French author Jules Verne’s novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, from the Collection, presented for the first time by the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The work is representative of her practice in its conceptual, structural (i.e., a dome hanging from the ceiling, with a cascade of objects below), and formal (i.e., colour and shape) characteristics. Together with her recent installation Black Noodles (2023) that deals with the international trade of human hair and its political environment, the work sets a conceptual and formal tone for this exhibition.

In her works, including a new series of paintings made in 2025, the artist, with her extensive knowledge of pre-1900 Indian art, integrates South Asian materials, motifs, and iconographies to create female figures that often echo Hindu goddesses. Banerjee’s art speaks to the multifaceted, fluid, and transnational nature of the “self,” and explores her own identity as an immigrant who moved across different continents and at different points of life and in time.

Photo credits: Jérémie Souteyrat / Louis Vuitton

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
February 7–September 13, 2026
Rina Banerjee: Take me, take me, take me . . . to the Palace of love

Drawing on the iconic form of the Taj Mahal in India, Rina Banerjee’s translucent sculpture subverts typical assumptions about the monument: its costly materials and elegant marble façades, its sense of history and permanence, and its fixed location. In contrast, Banerjee’s palace consists of a frame of steel and copper wrapped in a skin of pink plastic—a mass-produced material designed for the disposable consumer culture of the twenty-first century. The tentlike structure is suspended from the ceiling and floats above the ground. In the center of the cavernous space are relics of colonialism including an antique Anglo-Indian Bombay chair juxtaposed with a chandelier assembled from a variety of expendable goods—pink foam balls, plastic beads, synthetic materials, and fake birds. The piece encapsulates Banerjee’s working method, combining found objects with consumer products picked up from markets around her home in New York City.

Image courtesy Yale Center for British Art. Photo: Richard Caspole.

Asia Society Museum, New York
04 March 2025 - 04 January 2026
(Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection

This exhibition reintroduces key works in Asia Society Museum's Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of pre-modern Asian art through the lenses of three leading contemporary artists: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell. Each artist has selected a number of works in the collection within which to situate their own new and existing works, approaching historic objects in the collection through their practices and from varied cultures, heritages, and perspectives. Creating dialogues across multiple histories and places, these artists offer a range of new insights and entry points into the collection.

Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai
March 21 - April 26, 2025
what kind of Bird are you?

Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is pleased to present "what kind of Bird are you?", the debut solo exhibition in China by Indian-American artist Rina Banerjee (b. 1963, Kolkata, India). Featuring sculptures, paintings and mixed-media works on paper, the exhibition showcases Banerjee's ongoing exploration of postcolonial diasporic identity and the complexities inherent in traditions and cultures.

Born in India and raised in London and Philadelphia, Banerjee did her MFA in Painting at Yale University from 1993 to 1995 and now lives and works in New York City. Her multicultural background has led her to explore and challenge the issue of "self-identity" throughout her decades-long artistic career. Under the influence of history, culture and society, human identity is undoubtedly complex and multi-faceted, and cannot be defined simply by labels or experiences. The exhibition title "what kind of Bird are you?", serves as a metaphor for the species "bird", which prompts the viewers to reflect on the perception of identity.

Banerjee's sculptures utilize materials sourced from around the world—ranging from natural elements, tools and currencies, and folklore artifacts—assembled through methods such as stacking, hanging, spreading, and weaving. The core piece in the exhibition, World Lost (2013), consists of a suspended inverted dome and a map of a watershed depicted in sand, shells, figurines and threads. This sculpture was created in response to the scarcity of potable water in Bangladesh. The rows of plastic cups scattered on the map, the hanging light bulbs and small bottles, and the inverted dome all hint at the brutal subversion and destruction of the ecological order caused by excessive industrialized development.

If Banerjee's large-scale sculpture which occupies the surrounding space and floor, requires viewers to immerse themselves and appreciate the work from multiple perspectives, her wall-mounted sculptures are more aggregated and inclusive. In See her beak... (2017), beneath a ceramic swan's head, Korean silk fabric, plastic mesh, sequins, and beads are intertwined to form the body, while slender, sharp black horns and Philippine shells adorning them become the tail feathers. Through Banerjee’s rearranging and assembling, the sensory qualities of the media are amplified, conjuring up an uncanny creature that is both familiar and strange. By using the objects from various historical contexts, Banerjee deconstructs cultural traditions and conveys the idea of the multifaceted nature of identity; that identity is a collection of different past histories that can be chosen by the individual based on self-identity.

It is worth mentioning that before entering Yale University to pursue her MA in Art, Banerjee had a bachelor degree in Polymer Chemistry. The transition from a chemist to an artist was, in fact, a self-made choice after four years of contemplating: "Who am I? How do I want to spend the rest of my life?" In 2000, Banerjee gained international recognition for her work Infectious Migrations at the Whitney Biennial. Since then, her works have been frequently exhibited around the world, including Greater New York Show at PS1 MOMA (2005, 2015) and the Venice Biennale (2013, 2017). Her mid-career retrospective exhibition toured five museums in the United States from 2018 to 2021.

Banerjee's artistic approach also involves mixed-media painting. In a series of acrylic paintings and watercolor on paper in the exhibition, human and animal figures appear in bizarre and fantastical forms, alluding to Indian and global myths and histories. These protagonists are predominantly female, and for Banerjee, she is committed to liberating these figures from the stereotypes of colonial ideology. The titles of the works also guide the viewers into the otherworld she creates, such as In wonder and wildness, she fled and roamed out of her human family (2025), Striped and tight this long and tall dress… not to narrow (2025), On land with water and bathed in air…give me shelter (2022). These titles do not directly describe the scenes but rather enrich the visual imagery in the works.

Banerjee's diverse artistic endeavors explore contemporary global issues and interrogate the notion of identity, inviting audiences into her newly imagined realm of hybridity and interconnectedness.

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
May 11 - Jun 29, 2024
Freedom wonders inside the fantastic, joyous, in relentless dreams free from constraints with movements wandering rotating entangled sinuous perpetual and glowing in effortless being and while wielding free will as “metallic otherness” we reach ourselves, our true selves, as singular and connected, diverse forever searching

Born in Kolkata and based in New York, Rina Banerjee creates shamanistic sculptures and vibrantly sensuous paintings-exploring the complexities of identity, the aftermath of colonialism, the nuances of migration, and what it means to be human-through the lens of a transnational woman of color.

Banerjee's approach is characterized by its defiance of traditional hierarchies-be they cultural, material, or linguistic. Her multifaceted artistic practice includes crafting fetishistic assemblages from a mix of antiques and tourist-market trinkets; painting and collaging evocative images of women in states of ecstatic transformation; and composing poetic titles that draw viewers into the emotional atmosphere of her creations.

Her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on the fundamental human rights to freedom from oppression: to live in safety, to move freely, and to have hope. Banerjee contends that when governments fail to protect these rights, they become illegitimate. This exhibition is a plea for the rejection of injustice and the hope for more ethical world order.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
November 8, 2024 – September 14, 2025
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture

How does American sculpture intersect with the history of race in the United States?

The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture examines the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United States. The exhibition brings together 82 sculptures created between 1792 and 2023 and ranging in size from palm-sized coins to monumental statues created from diverse media such as bronze, marble, shoes, paper, and hair. Made by 70 different artists, these sculptures are displayed to allow for juxtapositions of historical and contemporary works that invite dialogue and reflection on notions of power and identity. American sculpture in its many forms also has served as an expression of resistance, liberation, and a vital means for reclaiming identity.

The exhibition draws extensively on works from SAAM’s collection, which is the largest collection of American sculpture in the world.

The exhibition and related book, published in association with Princeton University Press, contributes new scholarship to the understudied field of American sculpture, which hasn’t been the subject of a major publication survey in more than 50 years.

The Shape of Power is organized by Karen Lemmey, the Lucy S. Rhame Curator of Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Tobias Wofford, associate professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University; and Grace Yasumura, assistant curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Take Me to the Palace of Love
January 19 – May 14, 2023
Syracuse University Art Museum, NY

ake Me to the Palace of Love (on view January 19 – May 14, 2023) was more than just an exhibition: it was a series of community events that brought the artist together with students, faculty, staff, and community members from the city of Syracuse, during Banerjee’s residency at Syracuse University as the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities (February 19 – March 4, 2023). Located in a city with a vibrant, but largely segregated Black, Latino, and Asian minorities, and New American communities, Syracuse University is home to a diverse and international student population. Focusing on ideas about identity and place was, therefore, essential to engaging with the exhibition.

A post exhibition catalogue was created to pay tribute to the exhibition, Banerjee’s Watson residency, and the numerous interlocutors who generously participated in the conversations, workshops, and exchanges organized in conjunction withTake Me to the Palace of Love, including a grand finale that saw Banerjee in dialogue with acclaimed scholar, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It includes video-recordings of events along with essays on the art installations penned by Syracuse University faculty, Jason Vartikar (Whitney Museum of American Art) and Rebecca Brown (Johns Hopkins University).

Can we rescue love? This fundamental question lies at the heart of Take Me to the Palace of Love, an exhibition of artist-engineer Rina Banerjee’s drawings and three critical art installations. For it is through the nourishing power of love that we define our sense of place in our communities and on our planet. Yet, love, as Banerjee’s work discloses, has been distorted to create inequity and to destroy our relationship with the natural world. Take Me to the Palace of Love urges us restore our social and planetary connections with love. Rooted in cultural memory and storytelling, it invites us to ask: Does love play a role in how we view ourselves and shape our sense of place? Has climate change been shaped by a loss of love? How does love shape or resist gendered and racialized identities? As we come to terms with a global pandemic, these questions grow sharper and more relevant than ever. Together with the university community and our community partners in the city of Syracuse, Banerjee will engage with these questions as the university’s Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities (February 19 – March 4, 2023).

Take Me to the Palace of Love is curated by Romita Ray, Art and Music Histories. The exhibition and Banerjee’s residency is generously supported by the Syracuse University Humanities Center, along with 33 departments and units at the University, The Republic of Tea, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Black Noodles
April 26 - June 10, 2023
Perrotin Gallery, New York

In this exhibition, Black Noodles, mixed-media paintings that hang
throughout the space could have been made by a voyager who recorded
their encounters with wondrous beings on land and sea. Several of these
are on large, buckling pieces of paper, as if Banerjee turned over a map
or chart weathered from salty, wet air aboard her ship and jotted down
the likeness of a beast she newly encountered. In the resulting works,
animals, plants, and human figures dance together in radiant puffs of
color, glittering texture, and singular geometries. In this wondrous world,
characters seem to have a voice, implied by Banerjee’s titles that use the
first-person pronoun, like in a work from 2022, I am not afraid of you said
the Elephant to the Rodent. Narrating the adventure they are captured in
by the artist, these creatures grapple with their world. “Take me I am
yours” …said the Worm to her Bird. In fear, in danger, in love they are as
fantastical and confused as characters in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream or The Tempest. Whoever washes up in Banerjee’s paper
works seems to hail from such literary shores, characterologically rich.

Is the title of Banerjee’s exhibition, Black Noodles, therefore a reference
to characters who might figure such a description—hair of Medusa, dark
serpents in rivers, eels or squid with long tentacles in the vast deep?

--Press Release, Jason Vartikar

Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

Blind Spot, Imagining Those Who are Invisible
June 9 - July 7, 2023
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Rina Banerjee’s first solo exhibition in London in over a decade. Comprising new and existing sculptures and works on paper, the exhibition explores diversity and cultural democracy, as well as the reservoirs of greed invested in globalism.

Known for her sculpture, installation assembled from found materials, painting, drawing, and collage, Banerjee captures the experiences of diasporic communities worldwide. The artist’s childhood and adolescence was spent in several different places – Kolkata, Manchester, London, New York – and her work is influenced by her own multinationalism and encounters with multiculturalism. Questions of identity, ethnicity, tradition and social engagement are inherent to her practice, which celebrates diversity whilst exploring the harmful impacts of globalisation. Her work is critical of the centralisation of power to a shrinking, delocalised few.

Banerjee’s non-hierarchical approach to material results in mystical assemblages, extravagantly composed, that reflect on migration and such consequent themes as personal and collective memory, and local and global community. Bringing together a variety of natural and synthetic materials, woven and beaded textiles, and tourist trinkets collected from around the world, Banerjee’s work comments on the transformation of consumerism from a local marketplace to an ever-widening surrender to international cosmopolitanism. The scavenged or unearthed objects with which she makes her sculptures range from low craft associated with folk culture, to objects with more ‘exotic’ or expensive origins. Her compelling assemblages surrender objects and antiques to mythologies that cross multiple cultural and geographical locations.

Communication through commerce is a key concern for the artist. Alongside this, Banerjee interrogates colonial attitudes to land ownership and freedom of movement, responding critically to exceptionalism, whether national or individual. Her figurative drawings evoke dreamscapes featuring jazz era and science fiction motifs, as well as exploring the ways in which migration brings about positive social transformation. In these works, the rapacity of our present and future gives way to a fantasy in which freedom, flexibility and resilience track the journey towards emancipation from the negative effects of globalisation. Banerjee’s politics perforate boundaries and associations forged out of race, immigration, and gender, willing into being a humanistic inquiry into individualism. Her use of animal, celestial and elemental metaphors such as alligators, birds, the moon, planets, fish, snakes, clouds and fire ruminate on both the natural world and human nature.

The Sky's the Limit
Oct 21, 2023 - Feb 25, 2024
National Museum of Women in the Arts

The contemporary sculptures in this exhibition dangle from the ceiling, cascade down walls, and extend far beyond their footprint on the gallery floor. Process-focused sculptures were pioneered by women creators in the mid-20th century, and they continually expand and redefine this medium.

Through the postwar years, curators and critics routinely ignored or minimized women’s innovations in sculpture, which included handwork, repetition, and unconventional materials. Today, scale and a focus on materiality are two techniques that sculptors use to achieve maximum impact. Monumentality expresses an artistic freedom for many makers. Artworks on view feature an array of found objects with strong cultural associations, including silver-plated vessels, hair combs, faux flowers, ostrich eggs, and parasols. Other works on view are composed from aluminum, blown glass, wool, paper, wire, and cedar wood.

Recent acquisitions and never-before-exhibited works by Sonya Clark, Beatriz Milhazes, Cornelia Parker, Mariah Robertson, Shinique Smith, and Joana Vasconcelos form the core of the exhibition. Several NMWA collection artists: Petah Coyne, Alison Saar, Davina Semo, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Yuriko Yamaguchi, made available new works from their studios and connected the museum to private collections holding their art. Works by artists Rina Banerjee and Johanna Unzueta are on view at NMWA for the first time in The Sky’s the Limit.

From its opening in 1987, NMWA committed to collecting and exhibiting visionary sculpture by women. As the museum prepares to open the doors of its revitalized building, this exhibition expresses the museum’s dedication to illuminating artists’ illimitable impact and influence.

What is Left Unspoken, Love
curated by Michael Rooks
March 25 - August 14, 2022
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom and justice? These are just some of the questions to be explored in “What Is Left Unspoken, Love,” featuring contemporary artworks from 1987 to 2021 that address the different ways the most important thing in life — love — is expressed. Organized during a time of social and political discord, when cynicism often seems to triumph over hope, this exhibition will examine love as a profound subject of critical commentary from time immemorial yet with a persistently elusive definition. As poet and painter Etel Adnan wrote, love is “not to be described, it is to be lived.” “Love” will feature more than 70 works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, video and media art, by more than 35 international artists based in North America, Europe and Asia such as Rina Banerjee, Patty Chang, Jeffrey Gibson, Tomashi Jackson, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Ebony Patterson, Magnus Plessen, Gabriel Rico, RongRong and inri, and Carrie Mae Weems. This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
Group Exhibition

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale showcases and celebrates the remarkable achievements of an impressive roster of women artists who have graduated from Yale University. Presented on the occasion of two major milestones—the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts when it opened in 1869—the exhibition features works drawn entirely from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery that span a variety of media, such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, and video.

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Where We Are
Group Exhibition
Hosfelt Gallery

In a sprawling group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of the year 2021. What defines the spirit or mood of this particular point in time?

The function of art — the job of artists — is to hold up a mirror, to help us understand our lives in terms of social, cultural, intellectual and art history. And of course, to address the big existential questions: Who are we? How did we get to this place? How do we know what we think we know? And where do we go from here. Artists include:

Rina Banerjee, Judith Belzer, Jim Campbell, Julie W. Chang, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Russell Crotty, Reed Danziger, Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Max Gimblett, Jutta Haeckel, Tim Hawkinson, Andrea Higgins, Birgit Jensen, Isabella Kirkland, Stefan Kürten, Crystal Liu, Bernard Lokai, Emil Lukas, John O'Reilly, Driss Ouadahi, Patricia Piccinini, Liliana Porter, Angelina Pwerle, Alan Rath, Lordy Rodriguez, Gideon Rubin, Andrew Schoultz, Cornelius Völker, William T. Wiley, Michael Light, Tyrell Collins

Dialogue: Rina Banerjee and Zai Kuning
Duo Exhibition
Ota Fine Arts Singapore

Ota Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present "Dialogue", a duo exhibition by Rina Banerjee and Zai Kuning. This exhibition features recent works on paper by the two artists, which are characterized by their usage of bold colors and multi-layered compositions. While Banerjee's works depict mythical-looking figures painted in acrylic and incorporating collage elements, the new series of works on paper by Zai present abstract forms drawn in ink, watercolour and organic pigments. Through this exhibition, we hope to create a lively dialogue between the works of these two artists, which resonate strongly in the time that we live in.

Solo Exhibition
Main Hall
Kunsthall3,14
Vågsallmenningen 12, N - 5014
Bergen, Norway

Sweaty Concepts
Group Exhibition
Williams College of Art in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition

Consisting of works in all media drawn from WCMA’s collection, this exhibition explores the difficulty and labor of “coming up against … and trying to transform a world.”

Organized by WCMA in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition, a platform for art projects informed by feminisms presented at various museums and nonprofit organizations beginning in the fall of 2020 and over the course of one year, Sweaty Concepts is also coincident with the fiftieth anniversary of coeducation at Williams College and the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

15 Lawrence Hall Drive Williamstown, MA 01267

AICON X HAMPTONS
Presented by Aicon Gallery
Group Exhibition
Watermill, NY

Sculpture in Celebration! The 10 Years of the Villa Datris Foundation Collection Exhibition
Villa Datris Foundation
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Group Exhibition


Villa Datris offers a rereading of its exhibitions through a selection of works acquired during its first decade of existence which allows to discover the richness, the diversity as well as the aesthetic qualities of the Collection of the Villa Datris Foundation.

Art in Focus: Women From the Center
Group Exhibition

This exhibition celebrates women artists in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Inspired by Yale University’s celebration of fifty years of coeducation in Yale college and 150 years of coeducation in Yale graduate programs, Art in Focus: Women From the Center highlights women artists whose inventive art practices have enabled them to stake out space in the art world. The title for this exhibition references both the use of the collection of the Yale Center for British Art and Lucy Lippard’s influential collection of feminist essays, From the Center (1976).

Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Irresistible Earth
Solo Exhibition
Brussels
8 rue Charles Decoster
1050 - Ixelles-Brussels - Belgium

45 at 45 L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists
Group Exhibition

The group exhibition 45 at 45, which includes works by 45 artists, timed to celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of the gallery located at 45 North Venice Boulevard in Venice, California.

As the global pandemic has required we distance from one another and engage through screens, 45 at 45 celebrates
L.A. Louver’s reopening of our gallery, and physical connection expressed through the materiality of the artworks on view.
The largest group exhibition in L.A. Louver’s history, over half of the participating artists are based in Los Angeles, and
reflects the gallery’s founding principle: To champion L.A. artists within an international program. 45 at 45 features long represented L.A. Louver artists and those from L.A. Louver’s Rogue Wave program of emerging L.A.-based artists, as well as many others including Rina Banerjee.

45 at 45 draws upon many thematic strands, from the body and sensuality, to personal narrative and magical thinking,
among other connections we will highlight in curated, contextual online presentations.

L.A. Louver
45 North Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291

Visions from India 21st-Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection
Group Exhibition

Visions from India presents a breathtaking sweep of 21st-century painting, sculpture, and multimedia works from India and its diaspora. It features some of the most sought-after international artists alongside younger rising stars.

The exhibition showcases a remixing of traditional crafts with radical new applications, interactive sculpture and stunning paintings. Based on private collectors Ron and Ann Pizzuti’s original 2017 presentation in Columbus, Ohio, this will be the only other opportunity to see Visions from India in the United States.

The Columbia Museum of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29201

100 Drawings from Now
Group Exhibition

Exhibition featuring drawings made by an international group of artists since early 2020, 100 Drawings from Now provides a snapshot of artistic production during a period of profound global unrest that has resulted from the ongoing health and economic crises, as well as a surge of activism in response to systemic racism, social injustice, and police brutality in the United States. Together, the works in the exhibition spotlight the urgency, intimacy, and universality of drawing during moments of upheaval and isolation.

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St.
New York, NY 10013

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond
Group Exhibition

100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond is organized by Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator, and Minita Sanghvi, Assistant Professor of Management, Marketing, and Business, Skidmore College.

Wachenheim Gallery
The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery at Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Unbreakable: Women in Glass
Group Exhibition
organized by Fondazione Berengo
curated by Nadja Romain and Koen Vanmechelen

"Unbreakable: Women in Glass" is a celebration of the many female artists Berengo Studio has had the honor to collaborate with during its 30 year history. Although the art of glass has historically been dominated by men, over time more and more women have measured themselves against the infinite creative possibilities of this material. It is precisely women artists, such as Laure Prouvost, Renate Bertlmann and Monica Bonvicini, who have most often encouraged the Masters of the Studio to experiment with innovative techniques and try to redefine the limits of glass.

At a time when women artists, despite the progress achieved in recent years, continue to fight for their full recognition, with this exhibition Berengo Studio intends to honor their "unbreakable" spirit.

Rina Banerjee's "In the Darkest Blossom was a Mythical Beast, Mythical Island, Mythical Sea" from Glasstress 2015 will be featured.

Fondazione Berengo Art Space
Campiello Della Pescheria
Fondamenta dei Vetrai,
30100 Murano
Venezia – ITALY

Project Atrium: Rina Banerjee Irresistible, irreplaceable Earth
Solo Exhibition
curated by Ylva Rose

Irresistible, irreplaceable Earth, open over interior screams, shouting in folds creased by vapors that thread fire and earth, between ground and sky; Masculine Mythologies play upon us, heavy and heaving, as the Feminine escapes, the embers beneath breathing, to tired exile.

In this installation Banerjee draws inspiration from the story of the faithful Hindu goddess Sita. In this ancient myth of exile and trial, Sita is made to endure a circle of fire to prove her innocence and devotion to her husband. For Banerjee, the story of Sita becomes a story of historic gender division, where women are valued in relation to their purity; and of Earth as a place, both valued and undervalued, in a relational pull of domination.

There are three main protagonists featured in the installation: the Dome (Mother Earth), the Sita figure, and Hanuman the monkey, a “savior” figure, mounted on the wall above. Joined by delicate threads and wrapped in folds of translucent nets, cloth, and other symbolic materials laden with multi-cultural meaning, Banerjee's installation invites us to consider our connectedness to the crisis of adaptation and human migration, and to revisit the cycle of rejuvenation and transformation that was invested in the hopes of the New World, that became the American Dream.

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
333 North Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202

Video available to view here.

Make Me a Summary of the World
Rina Banerjee Retrospective

PAFA
118-128 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Irresistable Earth
Solo Exhibition

The Armory Show 2020
New York, NY

Open Spaces
Group Show

Kansas City Arts

Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
US Biennial

New Orleans, LA

Human Likeness
Solo Exhibition
January 28 - March 4, 2017

Hosfelt Gallery
260 Utah Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

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En toute modestie - Archipel Di Rosa
Group exhibition curated by Julie Crenn
February 2 - September 17, 2017

MIAM Sète, (Musée International des Arts Modestes)
France

Displacement: Symbols and Journeys

Curated by Amy Galpin
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Rollins College
1000 Holt Ave
Winter Park, FL 32789

Banerjee will be exhibiting 2 sculptures:
"Lady of Commerce-Wooden. Hers is a transparent beauty, her eager sounds, her infinite and clamorous land and river, ocean and island, earth and sky...all contained, bottled for delivery to an open hole, a commerce so large her arms stretched wide and with her sulfurous halo-a ring of glass, she will swallow it al!"

"Her captivity was once someone's treasure and even pleasure but she blew and fled away took root which grew. We knew this was like no other feather, a third kind of bird that perched on vine intertwined was neither native nor her queen's daughters, a peculiar other"

Women in Print

Pace Prints
521 W. 26th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Gallery Website

Hey You! ~ Who Me?

Curated by Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale School of Art
32 Edgewood Gallery
Yale School of Art
New Haven, CT
Gallery Website

Hosfelt Gallery at the India Art Fair

India Art Fair
Kailash Colony Market
HS-37, First Floor
New Delhi, India 110046
Gallery Website

Dawn
Review by Virginia Whiles of Rina Banerjee's work in "Human Traffic" at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.
Artists' work: Of similarities and differences
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Art Africa
Review by Allie Biswas of Rina Banerjee's work in "Human Traffic" at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.
'Human Traffic': Rina Banerjee at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris
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New York Times
Review by Holland Cotter
At 'Greater New York,' Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School
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Greater New York

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Museum Website

Recurring every five years, the "Greater New York" exhibition showcases the work of established and emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area.

Le Figaroscope
Review by Valérie Duponchelle
Rina Banerjee, La Magicienne
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Le Quotidien de l'Art
Feature story by Alexandre Crochet
La Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain à la lumière scandinave
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Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain

Group exhibition of works from the Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection at the Centre Pompidou on loan to the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet.
Sodra hamnen 6
471 32 Skarhamn
Sweden

Rina Banerjee Human Traffic
Solo Exhibition

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Bourg-Tibourg, Paris, France
Gallery Website

Monograph
Rina Banerjee 2006 - 2015
Published by Editions Dilecta
Essay Forward by Wangechi Mutu and Courtney Martin, Cedric Vincent
Thanks to Galerie Nathalie Obadia and OTA fine Art
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ARTnews
Review by Anne Doran
Rina Banerjee at Jacob Lewis
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New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture

Dorsky Gallery
Curatorial Programs
11-03 45th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
Gallery website

Rina Banerjee: Tropical Urban
Solo Exhibition

Jacob Lewis Gallery
521 West 26th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Gallery website

Artsy Editorial
Feature story on Banerjee's solo exhibition at Jacob Lewis Gallery
Rina Banerjee's New York is a Tropical Paradise Populated by Mythical Women, Serpents, and Monkeys
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Juxtapoz Magazine
Feature on Banerjee's solo exhibition at Jacob Lewis Gallery
Rina Banerjee "Tropical Urban" @ Jacob Lewis Gallery, NYC
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Rina Banerjee: Migration's Breath
Solo Exhibition

OTA Fine Arts - Singapore
7 Lock Road, #02-13, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Exhibition Announcement

Artsy Editorial
Feature story on Banerjee's solo exhibition at Ota Fine Arts
Rina Banerjee Makes Migration Magical
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Interrupting Entropy: Selections from the Betlach Collection

Santa Clara University
University Library Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Press Release

FAMO
Interview with Rina Banerjee by Federica Bocina
Dio Selvaggio - Rina Banerjee
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LA Times
Review by David Pagel
Rina Banerjee "Disgust" at L.A. Louver
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Rina Banerjee: Disgust (L.A. Louver 2014)
Step inside Rina Banerjee's studio for a glimpse into her practice and concepts.
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Perspectives: Rina Banerjee - Behind the Scenes
Watch Banerjee install A World Lost at the Smithsonian's Sackler Museum in Washington, DC.
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WETA Around Town - Perspectives: Rina Banerjee
Discussion of Rina Banerjee's installation at the Sackler on PBS Channel 26 in Washington, DC.
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Rina Banerjee: Disarming the Goddess Durga
Rina Banerjee discusses her works in the exhibition "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
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