Sharmistha Ray is a New York-based artist, writer, curator and TED Fellow whose work addresses personal identity as situated at the crossroads of migration. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer politics and phenomenological aesthetics, Sharmistha Ray constructs an autobiography of lived experience, proposing multiple perspectives for the construction of identity. Her work has been presented through solo exhibitions at Aicon Gallery, New York, Galerie Steph, Singapore, and Nine Fish Art Gallery, Mumbai among others.
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