Falaks Vasa
Critic
Falaks Vasa (they/she, b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist, emerging writer and award-winning educator from Kolkata, India. Falaks graduated from Brown University with an MFA in literary arts in 2023 and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2018. She has also attended artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). They have published a chapbook of poetry with the unnamed zine project, won the Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence from Brown University and have shown their artwork internationally at spaces like the Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver; the Queens Museum, NYC; and BARTALK, The Hague.