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Yasmin Jahan Nupur

Career Highlights

Publication

Reviewed by a major art publication

frieze

 

Exhibition

Included in a major biennial

Venice Biennale National Pavilion, Venice Biennale International Exhibition.

 

Awarded

The International Arts Residency by the Commonwealth Foundation of United Kingdom.

 

Yasmin Jahan Nupur

Born in 1979, Chittagong Bangladesh. Current place of work at Nayarnganj, Dhaka,Bangladesh. Yasmin  is a visual and performance artist whose work is influenced by the ecological and community driven aspects of life. Depicting human relationships from various points of view, her work explores class distinctions and the social discrepancies people face, particularly women and migrants of South Asia, in an effort to increase understanding between people of different backgrounds. Her recent work has engaged deeply with architecture, landscape sifting/displacement and   textile, especially focus on Jamdani(it totally of hand weaving textile)  making soft sculpture and an idea of physical and social constructs affecting her psyche. She usually gone through into the research each subjects.

 

Exhibitions

  • 2021, Bangladesh Art Werk Dubai, IDENTITY Who are you today? at Foundry curated by Niharika Momtaz

•2021  Chobi Mela (The zero / শূন্য) [Off] Limits Curated by Tanzim Wahab, Sarker Protick,

•2021 A TRIFECTA of MOVEMENT", Narratived by Adwait Singh, Exhibit320, Delhi. Films Like No Other” Open air cinema, Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki,

•2019-2020, Homeland” at Kettle’s Yard, Art gallery in Cambridge, England, Curated by Devika Singh,

•2019Lucas Artists residency at Montalvo Arts Center,(May-July) CA, USA,  Sponsor by Art Forum.

•2019 Peabody Essex Museum residency and research, Boston, USA (August),

•2019 Frieze performance in London, curator by Diana Campbell.

•2015performance residency at the Delfina Foundation in London (Performance as a process).

•2018-1019 Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou. •2017-2018 Beyond Borders, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

•2016 The Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India.

•2012, 2014,2016,2018, 2020 Dhaka Art Summit.,

•2018/2013/2010/2008 Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh,

•2013 The Bangladesh Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale and the Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka •2013 & 2008receiving the Honorable Mention Award for her inclusion in both editions.

 

2018, “Patterns of a Tactile Score” at Exhibit320 gallery in Delhi

 

Publication

Reviewed by a major art publication

frieze

 

Awarded

The International Arts Residency by the Commonwealth Foundation of United Kingdom.

 

Collections: Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. UK

Samdani Art Foundation. Many of private collection

 

http://www.yasminjahan.com

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