Indian-American artist Rina Banerjee continues to expand a visual language built from movement, memory, and transformation. Working from her studio in Brooklyn, she creates sculptures and paintings that merge organic forms, domestic objects, and symbolic materials into vivid compositions that feel both intimate and expansive.
Banerjee's practice is known for its layered surfaces and hybrid figures. Fingers can resemble roots, hair can drift into clouds, and bodies often seem to dissolve into water, air, or fabric. Through this fluid imagery, she explores the experience of migration, displacement, and belonging while also celebrating resilience and imagination.
Her sculptures often combine unexpected elements such as light bulbs, feathers, textiles, shells, gourds, and incense, while her paintings build atmospheric worlds filled with color, texture, and motion. Rather than fixing her subjects in a stable setting, Banerjee creates a sense of suspended space that invites viewers to consider identity as something evolving and interconnected.
Born in Kolkata in 1963, Banerjee studied polymer engineering at Case Western Reserve University before earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1995. Her path from science to art adds another dimension to her work, where material choice becomes part of the storytelling.
Her art is currently featured in two institutional exhibitions: You made me leave home... at Louis Vuitton Espace Tokyo and Rina Banerjee: Take me, take me, take me . . . to the Palace of love at the Yale Center for British Art. Together, these presentations highlight the growing reach of her vision across major cultural spaces. Banerjee's work points toward an art future where migration, material intelligence, and personal myth continue to shape global conversation.
