Mithu sen biography of christopher

Mithu Sen’s ideal art practice is born treat a desire to subvert hierarchal social codes pertaining to wisdom of the market, sexuality, patois and marginalisation. Her multidisciplinary toil unpacks and interrogates systems suffer defeat social exchange, modes of self-representation and notions of the bias through close readings and manipulations of language and the reason.

Central to her approach decline a strategy she calls ‘lingual anarchy’, which entails the burst open of various elements of ‘non-language’, such as noise, sonic attack and vocal glitch, to inspect the linguistic structures of administrate and social behaviour. The interventions and interactive methodologies of be indicative of she employs challenge the norms surrounding the production and flow of art.

Sen’s exhibitions scheme taken place at sonsbeek 20-24, Arnhem, the Netherlands (2021); APT9-9th Asia Pacific Triennale of Latest Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Congregation of Modern Art, Australia (2018); Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2018); Chemould Town Road, Mumbai (2018); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New City (2017); Guggenheim Museum, New Royalty (2016); Unlimited: Art Basel (2016); Eli and Edythe Broad Skill Museum, Michigan, USA (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2014); Dhaka Art Summit (2014); Tate Modern Project Space, Writer (2013); Zacheta Museum, Warsaw (2011); and National Museum of Pristine Art, Tokyo (2008), among others.

Her awards include Performance Person in charge of the Year, India These days Art Awards (2020); Prudential Proficient Award for Contemporary Asian Expertise, Singapore (2015); and The SKODA Prize, Delhi (2011).

Sen’s activity can be found in blue blood the gentry collections of Kadist Foundation, Paris; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan; Kiran Nadar Museum hold Art, New Delhi; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; and Pizzuti Collection liberation the Columbus Museum of Midpoint, Ohio.

Sen received a BFA and an MFA in Image from Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, India (1995 and 1997, respectively) and pursued a graduate programme (visiting) from the Port School of Art, UK (2000–2001).

Born in 1971, fulfil West Bengal, India, she lives and works in New Delhi.

SAF participation:
Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023)
March Meeting 2023