Meena Hasan

Associate Professor

Meena Hasan’s work articulates a South Asian American diasporic experience through its nuanced approach to issues of representation, subjectivity and personhood. Working in painting and handmade materials, the artist constructs her works through a metaphorical engagement with material and process, developing a complex language of mark-making that asks the viewer to participate in the work itself. Hasan’s work both states and questions her own historical perspective while leaving space for the viewers to reimagine their own. 

Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her BA from Oberlin College in 2009 and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013, where she won the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Painting. In 2010, she was awarded the Terna Prize Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts, NYC; The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands; Deitch Projects, NYC; Nathalie Karg Gallery, NYC; and the 2022 New England Triennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum. Recent solo exhibitions have been shown at LAUNCHF18, NYC in 2022 and at the Lee Gallery at the Miami University Museum of Art in Oxford, OH in February 2023. Meena has taught painting at Rutgers University Newark, Pratt Institute's Painting MFA program and the School of Visual Arts at Boston.

Fall 2024 Courses

PAINT 4501-04 - PAINTING I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4501-04

PAINTING I

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM; T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Meena Hasan Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 211 Enrolled / Capacity: 13 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 3361-01 - GAMES WE PLAY/INTERPLAY: GAMES, PLAY AND COLLABORATION ACROSS FIELDS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 3361-01

GAMES WE PLAY/INTERPLAY: GAMES, PLAY AND COLLABORATION ACROSS FIELDS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Kelley-Ann Lindo, Meena Hasan Location(s): College Building, Room 412 Enrolled / Capacity: 22 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

The course investigates play and collaboration as an integral component of the ideation and object-making processes and facilitates a range of radical, interdisciplinary approaches to artmaking. The course illuminates the structures, politics and principles of tabletop games, imaginative play and sports and explores games theoretically as mythology and metaphor for life and art-making, discussing a range of integral ideas such as aspiration, perseverance, practice, spectacle, individualism, teamwork, opposition, success, failure, vulnerability, obsession and desire. Students will play collaboratively and independently while making crucial inquiries into the profound meaning of games and play as tool, meaning and metaphor.

The class, currently led by Painting faculty Meena Hasan and Kelley-Ann Lindo,  provides a model for a long-term program offering across departments. Intended to be collaboratively taught between at least two faculty members, the course’s open theoretical framework has the potential to expand into multiple mediums and methodologies and across student years from undergraduate to graduate to create a dynamic and evolving seminar that will work to heighten students’ awareness of concerns in contemporary and historic art practices as well as their own studio practice. 

The course will be structured around three group critiques, frequent class discussions, individual meetings, presentations and in-class and out-of-class work both individual and collaborative. The first part of the course explores play and collaboration alongside introductory lectures. Mid-semester consists of research presentations and initial explorations that culminate in a final project designed by each student with the support of the class. The invited Visiting Artist(s) discuss how play and games function in their own practices, as material and method, and there will be at least one field trip during the second part of the semester to an exhibition, performance and/or competitive event.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00

Elective