Baseera Khan: Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series, February 25, 2021

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Baseera Khan (@baseerakhan) is a performance and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Khan’s latest solo exhibition, Snake Skin, opened at the end of 2019 at Simone Subal, New York. Having exhibited in numerous locations a selection of Khan’s work has shown at Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany, Jenkins Johnson Projects (2019), Sculpture Center (2018), Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017). Khan’s performance has premiered at several locations including Whitney Museum of American Art, Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Khan recently completed a 6-week performance residency at The Kitchen NYC (2020) and was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2018-19), Abrons Art Center (2016-17), an International Travel Fellow to Jerusalem/Ramallah through Apexart (2015), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Khan is a recipient of the UOVO Artist Prize (2020), BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2019, granted by both NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters in 2018.

Their works are part of several public permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Kadist, San Francisco, and the Walker Art Center, MN. Khan’s work is published in 4Columns, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail,and TDR Drama Review.

Khan is an adjunct professor of sculpture, performance, and critical theory, and received an M.F.A. from Cornell University (2012) and a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas (2005).

Introduction by VALS co-coordinator, Fía Benitez (MFA ‘21, Art)