Rina Banerjee

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Rina Banerjee is an internationally renowned Brooklyn-based artist. Banerjee's work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Exhibitions and shows 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Banerjee was born in Calcutta, India, in 1963 but moved to United States at a young age and has lived there ever since.

Banerjee has an MFA in Painting and Print Making from Yale School of Art, Yale University. Banerjee's bachelor's degree was in Polymer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University

[edit] Awards

• Norfolk-Yale Drawing Award
• Skowhegan School of Painting scholarship

[edit] Exhibitions and shows

• “Made of Beast and Bounty , A Worldly Wind Dusts Our Travelings”, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin. 2007
• Tokyo Wonder Site, Kurator Kayoko Lemura, Shibuya- Tokyo. 2007.
• VOLTA, Solo Show: "Silver pearl girls and Gardens" Basel, Switzerland 2006
• AMT Gallery, Solo Show "Fantasies of Travel" Como, Italy 2006
• Whitney Biennial 2000

[edit] External links

• Rina Banerjee's Official site
• Volta Show site
• NY Times Review of Banerjee's Whitney exhibit