ARTIST STATEMENT / BIO
My process is based in drawing my surroundings and everyday life. In the studio, I aim to carry the spontaneity of drawing into gestural painting, building compositions that evoke a sense of movement and ephemerality through fluid lines and folded forms. My work is informed by histories of baroque painting and medieval marginal art.
My photographs depict personal, diaristic subject matter and are titled according to the date on which they were taken. Implicit in many of them is the replacement or burial of figurative elements through recurring motifs of shadow, blur, transparency, and reflection.
I was born in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, and grew up between Dhaka and Maine. I completed my MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in 2014, and currently live in Brunswick, Maine with my spouse - musician Michele Kennedy - and our daughter.
My practice also extends beyond the studio. In recent years, I have collaborated with musicians, scholars, and other artists; led public tours as a docent at the Met Museum; and published writings on both contemporary art and art history.
CV
Abstract August to September 2024
Group Show curated by Alan Crichton
River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
Roman de Fauvel, performed by Concordian Dawn February 2024 and 2025
Artistic collaborator
Bay Area, California and New York, NY
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera, by Sarah Kay 2022
Artistic collaborator
Cornell University Press
Sita Ram's Hybrid Paintings of Nineteenth-Century India December 2021
Co-author with Abu Kalam Shamsuddin
Journal of the Asiatic Society, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Listeners, by Ernesto Pujol June 2019
Performer
River to River Performance Festival, New York, NY
Museum Highlights Tour: Crossings 2016 to 2018
Docent
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Remede de Fortune, performed by Concordian Dawn May 2018
Artistic collaborator
The Graduate Center, New York, NY
Please Disturb February 2017
Group show curated by David Ross
Midtown Hilton, New York, NY
Material Transformation in Medieval Manuscripts March 2016
Presenter at Early Modern Colloquium
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Ape as a Metaphor for Art: Stowe MS 17 March 2016
Presenter at 8th Annual Medievalists@Penn Conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Sign of the Ape September 2014
Graduate Thesis
Morgan Library Reference Collection, New York, NY
The Monkey Codex August 2014
Solo Exhibition
Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Community Board August 2014
Group show curated by Jovana Stokic
Glasshouse Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Time After Us, by Ernesto Pujol October 2013
Performer
St Paul's Chapel, New York, NY
Ecstasy/Apocalypse August 2013
Group show curated by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
SVA Gallery, New York, NY
Current Practice July 2013
Group show curated by Hesse McGraw
Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Remnant June 2010
Solo exhibition curated by Elizabeth Laribee
Yellow Wall Gallery, Harrisburg, PA