Meena Hasan
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Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her B.A. 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 and in 2025 she was an artist-in-residence in the Winter TNT Residency hosted by Transmitter and Tiger Strike Asteroid Galleries in NYC. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Kristen Lorello Gallery, NYC, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC, Center for Book Arts, NYC, The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, Deitch Projects, NYC, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY, the 2022 New England Triennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum and at BRIC Arts and Media in Downtown Brooklyn in Spring of 2023 among others. Recent two-person and solo exhibitions have been shown at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn, NY, Main Window, Dumbo with Deanna Evans Projects, NYC, and Stowaway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA all in 2025. Meena has taught Painting at Rutgers University - Newark, Pratt Institute's Painting MFA program, the School of Visual Arts at Boston University and Studio in a School, NYC. She is currently the Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor in Painting at RISD, Providence. She is also a co-director of the artist and curator run space Transmitter Gallery and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
From The Plane, 2025
Acrylic, Ink, Flashe, Okawara Paper on Panel, 30×20”
Incorporating fine ink drawings and decorative mark making with washes, stains and accumulations of color pigment, I use paint and a variety of papers to develop exuberant psychosomatic surfaces. Informed by textile histories and methodologies, such as batik and kantha embroidery, my work investigates textiles through the medium of painting. I am drawn to symbols and motifs related to the politics and aesthetics of heritage and I indulge my personal fascination with the cultural significance and tactility of texture, pattern, and color. The processes and forms I reference are sourced from my growing index of personal and historical objects. Through this idiosyncratic research my work deals with ideas of desire, individualism, opportunity, competition, and alienation. The decorative is a field of art tied to systems of heritage and I am excited by its subversive potential; my works celebrate ornament, particularly that of South Asia. I playfully present an idea of a synthetic personhood, where objects are animated and shaped by their perpetual search for belonging and are positioned in relation to ongoing colonial, global, and immigrant histories.
Exhibitions
Over & Under by Claudia Bitrán