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'''Rina Banerjee''' (born 1963) is an [[Indian Americans|Indian-American]] artist and sculptor.<ref name="Bio">[https://rinabanerjee.com/links.html "Bio"], Rinabanerjee.com, Retrieved online 17 October 2018.</ref> She currently lives and works in New York City.<ref name="Bio"/> Her ambitious mid-career survey exhibition, ''Make Me a Summary of the World''––co-organized by and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the San Jose Museum of Art––opened in 2018 and is slated to travel to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC through July 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-11-05|title=Exhibitions + Collection|url=https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/rina-banerjee-make-me-summary-world|access-date=2020-09-22|website=San José Museum of Art|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
In 1963, Banerjee was born in a Bengali family in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] (now [[Kolkata]]) in the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]].<ref>[http://rinabanerjee.com/home.html Home page], Rinabanerjee.com.</ref> She grew up in [[London]] and [[New York City]],<ref name="Artforum 2011">[http://artforum.com/words/id=28485 Rina Banerjee], ''Artforum'', 22 June 2011.</ref> and has lived in the [[United States]] ever since. Banerjee has mentioned in interviews that the inspiration for her art comes from her childhood memories of visiting her grandfather during his homeopathic treatments. Many of the images and visuals from her visits with her grandfather have stayed with her and can be seen in her art work. She likes her artwork to be not static, but ever changing.<ref name="SGpost">{{Cite news|url = http://www.stcommunities.sg/entertainment/arts/news/suggestive-sculptures-move-new-york-based-artist-rina-banerjee|title = Suggestive sculptures that move by New York-based artist Rina Banerjee|last = Shetty|first = Deepika|date = 3 February 2014|access-date = 4 March 2015}}</ref> She completed an [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] in Painting and Printmaking from [[Yale School of Art]], [[Yale University]] in 1995, after graduating from [[Case Western Reserve University]], [[Ohio]] with a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in [[Polymer Engineering]].<ref name="Artforum 2011" /> Banerjee's work has been exhibited at the [[Bronx Museum of the Arts]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], and other notable museums.

== Solo exhibitions ==
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* 1998: ''Home within a Harem'', Colgate University Gallery, NY
* 2000: ''Auf Weidersehen,'' Admit One, [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]], NY<ref name=":0" /> — Banerjee uses Asian and Western materials. The exhibit has plastic tubing that runs along the walls and ending which end with rotten-looking fruit and leaves. The plants in the show represent tropical plants that were taken by western settlers to bring to other countries; some of the plants didn't translate well to other land while some blossomed. The room is also filled with a thick webbing which is meant to represent a digestive system, and within the system colorful ritual powder and spices are captured.<ref name=":0" />
* 2001: ''Antenna'', Bose Pacia Modern, New York
* 2001: ''Phantasmal Pharmacopeia'', Debs & Company, [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]], NY<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/16/arts/art-in-review-rina-banerjee.html|title=ART IN REVIEW; Rina Banerjee|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=16 June 2000|work=newspaper review|access-date=4 March 2015}}</ref>
* 2002: ''Phantasmal Pharmacopeia'', curated by Susette Min, [[Painted Bride Art Center]], Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
* 2006: ''Fantasies without travel will travel'', AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
* 2007: ''Foreign Fruit'', Galerie [[Nathalie Obadia]], Paris
* 2007: ''"Where the Wild Things Are" ...is no place at all and all places that cannot be lived in but visited, realized out of our careful, playful and tenacious tourism of others, realized as our mobility wanders too far'', [[Volker Diehl|Galerie Volker Diehl]], Berlin (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rinabanerjee.com/page/3-CV.html|title=CV|website=rinabanerjee.com|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/artist-biographies/rina-banerjee-biography.pdf|title=Rina Banerjee - Artist Biography|website=www.lalouver.com/|access-date=3 March 2018}}</ref>
* 2008: ''Distant Nearness'' (with [[Bharti Kher]] and [[Subodh Gupta]]), [[Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art]], Kansas City, KS
* 2008: ''Allure'', Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
* 2009: ''Look into my eyes and you will see a world unexplainable, out of place'', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
* 2009: ''Rina Banerjee and Raqib Shaw'', Thomas Gibson Ltd., London
* 2010: ''Forever Foreign'', [[Haunch of Venison]], London — Banerjee's first solo show in the UK.<ref>[http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=37384&int_modo=2#.UY5c00rAFUt "First UK Solo Show of Bengali-American Artist Rina Banerjee at Haunch of Venison"], ArtDaily.org, 11 April 2010</ref>
* 2011: ''Chimeras of India & the West'', [[Musée Guimet]], [[Paris]]<ref name="Artforum 2011" />
* 2011: ''Imagining the other half of the world from here'', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
* 2012: ''Creationismʼs Kiss'', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
* 2012: ''A World of Lies'', Galerie Espace, Hong Kong, China
* 2013: ''Bowerbirdnest'', Future Perfect, Singapore
* 2013: ''A world lost'', The Smithsonian Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
* 2013: ''What am I made of and how do you know my name?'', Ota Fine Art, Tokyo
* 2013: ''Seven Sisters,'' Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* 2014: ''Of Men and Worlds'', curated by Alain Berland, [[Collège des Bernardins|College des Bernardins]], Paris
* 2014: ''Disgust'', [[L.A. Louver]], [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]], CA — Her four sculptures in this show are made from an uncountable number of small objects that are wired and strung together. She uses cowry shells, rooster feathers, gourds, acrylic horns, glass vials, silk, and many other objects.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Decolonizing culture: essays on the intersection of art and politics|last=Vikram|first=Anuradha|publisher=Art Practical + Sming Sming Books|year=2017|isbn=9780998500652|edition= First |location=San Francisco|pages=103–105|oclc=1007152194}}</ref> Her sculptures could be either human or animal, still life or moving. It seems as though Banerjee does not look through junk to find materials for her art, but instead will selectively chose what she wants by ordering her materials off of specialty sites. This selective process she uses emphasizes the global culture of her art, and how she has many different pieces from all over the world, all of which form one cohesive work of art.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-review-rina-banerjee-disgust-at-la-louver-20140513-story.html|title = Review Rina Banerjee "Disgust" at LA Louvre|last = Pagel|first = David|date = 14 May 2014|work = Art review}}</ref>
* 2015: ''Migrations Breath'', OTA Fine Arts, Gillman Barracks, [[Singapore]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/ota-fine-arts-rina-banerjee-migrations-breath|title=Rina Banerjee: Migration's Breath {{!}} Ota Fine Arts {{!}} Artsy|website=www.artsy.net|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> — Colorful yet suggestive pieces of art, which seem to change with different angles or positions. She uses many objects in her works such as Indian sarees, glass bottles, and seashells. Critics have suggested that some of the names of Banerjee's artwork carry sexual implications. For example, the piece ''She Drew A Premature Prick'' and many of the pieces have been suggested to represent reproductive organs. Banerjee has said that she enjoys the way that artwork can be fluid and how one's perspective could change with something so simple as wind blowing.<ref name="SGpost" />
*2019: ''Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World'', Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201903/rina-banerjee-78681|title=Hannah Stamler on Rina Banerjee|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref> Traveling to San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fowler Museum at University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
*2019: ''Rina Banerjee: Blemish'', Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.artsy.net/artist/rina-banerjee Rina Banerjee] at [[Artsy.net]]
*[https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500114571 Rina Banerjee] at [[ULAN]]
*[https://whitney.org/artists/8111 Rina Banerjee] at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]

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