Bhasha Chakrabarti

Bhasha Chakrabarti (b. 1991, Honolulu) is an artist who has been based in Honolulu, New Delhi, New York and now New Haven. She is interested in exploring how artwork, even when grounded in local materials and symbols, can speak to issues beyond the local by situating her practice within global conversations around race, gender and power. By crossing many genres, she engages art-making as a mode of discourse and her work generates dialogues between subaltern tropes and feminine forms of labor from the Global South and the agendas of resistance movements of marginalized communities in the Global North.

Chakrabarti graduated with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2022. She has exhibited in solo and group shows at Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh), Jeffery Deitch (New York & Los Angeles), Hales (New York), Experimenter (Kolkata), M+B (Los Angeles) and Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore). She has been an artist in residence at the Ekard Residency in the Netherlands in 2024, the Hampi Art Labs in India in 2023 and the Fountainhead Residency in 2020. Chakrabarti was the recipient of the 2023 South Asia Artist Prize (SAAI) awarded by University of California, Berkeley. She was a semi-finalist in the Smithsonian’s 2022 Outwin-Boochever Portrait Competition and was awarded a Beinecke Research Fellowship in 2021.