Bhasha Chakrabarti

Bhasha Chakrabarti 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. Bhasha Chakrabarti (b. 1991, Honolulu, HI) graduated with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in the Spring of 2022. The artist has exhibited in solo and group shows at the British Textile Biennial (2023), Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh), Jeffrey Deitch (New York & Los Angeles), Indigo & Madder (London), Hales (New York), Experimenter (Kolkata), and M+B (Los Angeles). Chakrabarti is 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 and the Fountainhead Residency in 2020. Her works have been written about in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artsy, Ocula, and The Art Newspaper. Bhasha Chakrabarti currently lives and works in New Haven, CT.