Meena Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her B.A. in Studio Art from Oberlin College in 2009 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking 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. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions including 'Sheherezade's Gift' at the Center for Book Arts, NYC, 'Premio Terna 02' at the MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT, the 'Bosch Young Talent Show' at The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 'No Longer, Not Yet', curated by Sean McCarthy, at Essex Flowers, NYC and 'Good Pictures', curated by Austin Lee, at Deitch Projects, NYC. Recent two-person and solo exhibitions include 'Mangiferin Chintz' at LAUNCHF18, NYC, 'Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden' at LAUNCH F18, NYC and 'Covering as much of the sky' at RISD's Memorial Hall Painting Dept. Gallery, Providence, RI. Meena has been a Part-Time Lecturer in Painting at Rutgers University - Newark, Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting at Pratt Institute's Painting MFA program, Lecturer in Painting at the School of Visual Arts at Boston University's College of Fine Arts and Teaching Artist with Studio in a School, NYC. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Painting at RISD, Providence. Meena Hasan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Epicenter NYC Featured Artist: Meena Hasan
Something Curated | Contemporary Artists Using Textiles to Interrogate Histories of Colonialism
Hyperallergic | Echoes of Identity Across the Work of Two Asian American Artists
Greenpointers | Thursday Spotlight: Meena Hasan and "Post-Colonial Legacy"
Whitehot Magazine | In Conversation with Meena Hasan & Tommy Kha
Art Stockings: Dialogues on Art, Gender and Cultural Theory, Digital Lecture, Smith College
Coeval Magazine Interview with Meena Hasan
OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Meena Hasan
SPREAD with Marissa Bluestone, Sophie Grant, Meena Hasan and Miriam Hitchcock, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo CA
Meena Hasan and Cal Siegel: wallflower frieze, 6BASE, Bronx, NY
Art Blog: Telling Tales – Sheherzade’s Gift at Twelve Gates Arts
Sheherzade's Gift curated by Jaishri Abichandani at Twelve Gates Arts, 10/20-11/29
|http://http://twelvegatesarts.org/exhibitions/sheherzadesgift|
Stages, organized by Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery
|http://http://www.galeriezurcher.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=1342|
Sheherzade's Gift curated by Jaishri Abichandani at the Center for Book Arts 7/13-9/24
Sheherzade's Gift Exhibition, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Sept 2015
http://localproject.org/2015/08/sheherzades-gift-exhibition-sept-3rd/
Group Show 826NYC Exhibition & Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, NY, NY 2015
http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibition/826nyc-auction/
Superfund Storytellers, Dialogues in the Visual Arts Panel at the Brooklyn Public Library. 10/8/2014
Are We Already Gone? FlickerLab Exhibition Curated by Negin Moss. 9/21/2014
CURRENT: Gowanus Group Show at Gowanus Loft, curated by Benjamin Sutton. 05/14/2014
Click to view CURRENT: Gowanus Studio Visit with Meena Hasan
Gowanus Open Studios 10/2013
Bosch Young Talent Show 2013 Den Bosch, The Netherlands 09/2013
Una residenza d’artista per Meena Hasan (Connectivity 02)
An article posted on the Premio Terna website commenting on the residency at the American Academy. To view, please go to: http://www.premioterna.it/#news/news/detail/una-residenza-dartista-per-meena-hasan-connectivity-02
Premio Terna 02
Awarded third place in the international art competition titled Premio Terna. 02 The prize includes a 3-month residency at the American Academy in Rome, a group show in Rome and Shanghai and publication in Premio Terna's catalogues.
visit http://www.premioterna.it/en/new/the-winners-of-the-terna-prize-02-announced .com
and/or TheWinners for more information