Sutapa Biswas
Biography
Born: 1962 in Santinekethan, India
Education:
1995
MPhil leading to a PhD, The Royal College of Art, London
1992
Fellow, The Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
1990
Fellow, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1988-90
University of London Higher Diploma in Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
1981-85
B.A. Hons Degree in Fine Art, The University of Leeds
Fellowships / Awards:
2000
London Arts Board, award given for the development of new works.
1995
Regional Commissioning, Eastern Arts Board and Cambridge Darkroom, UK.
1997
Stanford University, Visiting Artists Series - this brings six internationally based artists, per year to give a public lecture at the Department of Fine Art, and which is open to the Stanford University as a whole.
1994
The Correnah W.Wright Endowment Fund and The National Endowment for the Arts, USA, Guest Artist and Lecturer,
Mills College, Oakland, California , USA.
1993
Arts Council / Ikon Gallery, commission to create new video sculpture - Murmur.
The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, commissioned video production.
London Arts Board, Artist's Project Development Award.
1992
Fellow to The Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Recipient of the Charlotte Townsend Award, The Banff Centre For The Arts, Canada.
1992
Nominee for The European Photography Award, 1992.
1991
Project Development Award, The Arts Council of Great Britain.
1990
Fellow to The Banff Centre For The Arts, Canada.
Recipient of the Mark Turner Award, The Banff Centre For The Arts, Canada.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2000
Art Gallery of Ontario
(Solo installation in contemporary art gallery April 5th - June 25th, 2000)
1994
Atlas Studio Space, London
1993
Gallerie OBORO, Montreal, Canada
Synapse, The City Art Gallery, Leeds
1992
Synapse, The Photographer's Gallery, London
The Los Angeles Centre For Photographic Studies, California, USA
1990
The Banff Centre for The Arts, Alberta, Canada
Forthcoming Projects/Publications:
2002
Collaborations underway for a solo show, London, UK
2000-1
Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties (working title) - I have been invited to contribute a chapter in a book to be published in collaboration with Duke University Press and Aavaa.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2001
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway.Art Through the Eye of A Needle.
1999
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (touring to Berlin, exhibition catalogue)
1999
The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest. Identity and Environment.
1998
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA.
The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists.Three person show.
1998-9
Admissions of Identity, Sheffield Museums and the Mappin Art Gallery
1997
CrossCurrents/Krysninger
University Museum of Ethnography, Oslo, Norway (touring exhibtion)
1996
The Visible and the Invisible: representing the body in contemporary art and society, Site Specifi works, London - St. Pancras Church, Euston Station, Wellcome Trust, University College, London.
1996
Diver's Memories, The Manchester Museum, UK
1995
The National Gallery, Botswana
1994
Travelling Gallery, a two person show commissioned by The Scottish Arts Council, UK.
1994
Beyond Destination, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Disrupted Borders, The Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1993
Murmur, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1992
The European Photography Award 1992, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Berlin, and Frankfurt, exhibition sponsored by Deutsche Leasing
The Body Politic, The Herter Art Gallery,
University of Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Memory and Desire, The Vancouver Art Gallery (touring exhibition)
Who do You Take Me For ? The Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Supported by The British Council
1991
The Circular Dance,The Arnolfini, Bristol
1990
Disputed Identities, Camerawork, San Francisco, California, USA.
(touring exhibition)
1989
Images of Women, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Intimate Distance, The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
British Artists Abroad, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
1988
Critical Realism, Camden Arts Centre, London (touring exhibition) UK
1986-87
The State of The Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980's, ICA, London, UK. Curated by Sandy Nairne, a major touring exhibition and series on Channel 4 TV
1986
The Issue of Painting, AIR Gallery, London
Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow room, London
1985-86
The Thin Black Line, ICA, London
Exhibitions Curated by Sutapa Biswas - Artist/Curator
2000 Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada - A site specific exhibition curated by me, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, and arising out of an artist's residency established in conjunction with the AGO, Contemporary Art Gallery Curatorial staff, and Education Department.
Public Lectures:
1997
Stanford University, Visiting Artists Series - this brings six internationally based artists, per year to give a public lecture at the Department of Fine Art, and which is open to Stanford University as a whole.
1995
May SpeakerTateGallery,London-BeautifulTranslations. Other guest speakers included writer and poet, Derek Walcott; Andrew Benjamin; Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. Published by Pluto Press, 1996. ISBN 074531144X; ISSN 1360-4287
1995
Feb.: Speaker Tate Gallery, London - My paper was titled, Fine Art Education and the Museum - The Museum as a Surprising Catalyst. The conference has been published,as a collaboration between the Tate Gallery, London, and Wimbledon School of Art, London UK.
1994
The Correnah W. Wright Endowment Fund and The National Endowment for the Arts, USA, Guest Artist and Lecturer, Mills College, Oakland, California, USA.
Artist in Residence:
2000
Sep.: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto , Canada
Apr.: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1996
Artist in Residence at the invitation of the TRIANGLE TRUST, founded by the artist Anthony Caro. Place of rseidence -The Thapong International Workshop, Botswana.
1993
The Western Front , Video and Media Production, Vancouver, Canada
1991
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1986
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Selected Publications:
1999
Views of Difference: Different Views in Art, Art and Its Histories, edited by Catherine King, published by Yale University and The Open University, pages 37 and 38. (Citation)
1998
The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists, exhibition catalogue published by Yale University art Gallery.
1998
Crosscurrents-Krysninger, exhibition catalogue, published by The University Museum of Ethnography, Oslo Norway, ISBN 08083444
1997
Sexta Bienal de La Habana- el individuo y su memoria, mayo, junio, 1997 published by the Ministry of Culture, France. ISBN 2865451615
1997
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996, published by The Franklin H. Williams Cultural Center/ The Africa Diaspora Institute, New York ISBN 0946657475
1997
The Transcultural Gallery, Cartwright Hall published by Bradford Museums and Art Galleries. ISBN 0946657475
1996
Refiguring Nature: Women in Landscape, Camerawork - A Journal of Photographic Arts, Volume 23, No. 2, Fall / Winter 1996.
1996
Investigating Modern Art, p.3, Fiona Barber, published by Yale University Press.
1995
New feminist art criticism, Edited by Katy Deepwell, published by Manchester University Press. Reading between the lines: the imprinted spaces of Sutapa Biswas, by Moira Roth, pages 31-43. ISBN 0719042585
1995
Inside Out : Contemporary Women Artists of India, exhibition catalogue, Middlesborough Art Gallery. Catalogue essays by Sutapa Biswas.
1994
Scattered Hegemonies, Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, Edited by Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, University of Minnesota Press.
1993
Feminist Art Criticism, An anthology of essays edited by Katy Deepwell, Manchester University Press, article by Moira Roth
Disrupted Borders, An intervention in definitions of boundaries, edited by Sunil Gupta, Rivers Osram Press
Beyond Destination, exhibition catalogue, Ikon Gallery
1992
Synapse, solo exhibition catalogue, with essays by Griselda Pollock and Gilane Tawadros, published by The Photographer's Gallery, London and Leeds City Art Gallery
The Body Politic, exhibition catalogue, The Herter Art Gallery, Massachusetts
Sounding the depths, exhibition catalogue, essay by Moira Roth, Irish Museum of Modern Art
The European Photography Award 1992, exhibition catalogue, Künstlerwerkstatt, Berlin, sponsored by Deutsche Leasing
1991
Artists book (limited edition), OR Gallery, Vancouver. essays by Griselda Pollock and Moira Roth
The Circular Dance, exhibition catalogue, Arnolfini, Bristol
1990
Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Janet Wolff, Polity Press
Images of Women, exhibition catalogue, Leeds City Art Gallery
Fabled Territories, exhibition catalogue, Leeds City Art Gallery
1989
Intimate Distance, exhibition catalaogue, The Photographer's Gallery, London
The Essential Black Art, exhibition catalogue, Chisenhale Art Gallery, London
1987
Framing Feminism: Art and The Women's Movement, 1970- 85, Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker , Pandora Press
1987
Visibly Female: Feminism and Art Today. An Anthology, Hilary Robinson (ed), Camden Press
The State of The Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980's, Sandy Nairne, channel 4 production and publication
Selected Bibliography:
1996
Art Monthly, 'Inside Out : Contemporary Women Artists in India', Eddie Chambers, February 1996, Issue No 193.
1995
Women's Art Magazine, 'What's Critical about New Feminist Criticism? Griselda Pollock asks of Katy Deepwell's new book'. Publication No. 67 November/December 1995.
1994
Artists Newsletter, 'Sutapa Biswas on Success', December Issue.
1994
Third Text, Spring Issue, Sean Cubitt
Jan Variant : Reviews, Beyond Destination, Sean Cubitt
1993
Parachute Magazine: Synapse, January Issue.
Women's Art Magazine, Griselda Pollock
Third Text, 'Sutapa Biswas, Remembrance of Things Past and Present', Gilane Tawadros, Issue 22, Spring
1993-2
Art Monthly, Dec-Jan , Issue No. 162, Sutapa Biswas: Synapse, Ian Connolly Hunt
1992
Nov New Statesman Society: The not so naked truth, Marina Benjamin
City Limits: Synapse, Robin Dutt, Nov 5-12
1992
Parallellogramme: Vol 18 No 1, 1992
Parallellogramme: Vol 17 No 1
1990
San Francisco Quarterly: What Are We doing Here?, Judith Wilson, Fall Issue
Art Monthly: Feminism in the 1990's, Sutapa Biswas, No 123, February 1990.
1989
Third Text: 'Beyond The Boundary', Gilane Tawadros, Issue 8/9, Autumn/Winter issue
Artscribe: Images of Women, Miranda Strickland, October issue
1988-89
The Massachusetts Review, Vol XXIX No.4
1988
Art Monthly: Storms of The Heart, Homi K Bhabha, No 21, November issue
1988
Arts Review: XXXIX, No 19
1986
Ten 8: No 22
Time Out: 'The Issue of Painting', Sarah Kent, No 840
The Tribune: 'Images of Resistance', Emmanuel Cooper, 19 September
The Guardian: Murdoch Lothian, 16 July
The Guardian: Anger at hand, Waldemar Janusczak, 27 November
1985
Artrage: No 11, Winter issue