

Biswas has exhibited her work internationally over the past 15 years. She was educated at Leeds University, the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London University and the Royal College of Art, London. An untitled video installation by Biswas was curated by Shelly Bahl and exhibited at the AGO in the spring of 2000.Īrtist-in-residence Sutapa Biswas lives and works in London, England. As curator of Private Thoughts/Public Moments, Biswas selected the artists for the exhibition from proposals submitted in response to the work she initiated during her visit in April. Sutapa Biswas was selected as the artist-in-residence and was invited to Toronto in April 2000 to work with members of SAVAC toward the development of workshops and a public presentation. This program was designed to establish a mentoring relationship between a recognized international artist and local emerging artists, and to explore issues of social identity and accessibility in the context of the museum. In 1998 a sub-committee from the two organizations met to develop programming initiatives for the AGO, one of which was the initiation of the Artist-in-Residence program.

Private Thoughts/Public Moments stems from collaborations between the AGO and the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI). The interventions developed by the artists for these galleries raise provocative questions about established Canadian narratives. The upstairs corridors/toilets in Copper Face Jacks. The Canadian Historical galleries at the Art Gallery of Ontario chart the identity of what it means to be Canadian through selected visual and textual representations, relaying a history of Canada from the days of the early pioneers, through the colonial period, to the first half of the 1900s. Through workshops with Sutapa Biswas, the participating artists have produced interventions that explore features of the display of Canadian Historical art at the AGO. The exhibition brings together site-specific works by artists from SAVAC that engage and interact with different aspects of the Art Gallery of Ontario''s permanent collection. 1.4 miles away from Private Moments Visit the T-Mobile store in Clovis and discover America's largest, fastest, and most reliable 5G network. Private Thoughts/Public Moments is a collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), the South Asian Visual Arts Collective (SAVAC) and U.K.-based artist Sutapa Biswas. This project was curated by Shelly Bahl, Curatorial Resident Unexpected design moments throughout the indoor seating extend to an. EXHIBITION OVERVIEW Artist-in-Residence: Sutapa Biswas & Site Specific interventions by Neena Arora, Rachel Kalpana James, Asma Arshad Mahmood and Meera Sethi A new restaurant in Santa Barbara, Costa Kitchen & Bar seeks to provide guests with.
