Meena Hasan

Meena Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 2009 and her MFA 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 and in 2025 she was an artist-in-residence in the Winter TNT Residency hosted by Transmitter and Tiger Strike Asteroid Galleries in NYC. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Kristen Lorello Gallery, NYC, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC, Center for Book Arts, NYC, The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, Deitch Projects, NYC, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY, the 2022 New England Triennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum and at BRIC Arts and Media in Downtown Brooklyn in Spring of 2023 among others. Recent two-person and solo exhibitions have been shown at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn, NY, Main Window, Dumbo with Deanna Evans Projects, NYC, and Stowaway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA all in 2025. Meena has taught Painting at Rutgers University - Newark, Pratt Institute's Painting MFA program, the School of Visual Arts at Boston University and Studio in a School, NYC. She is currently the Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor in Painting at RISD, Providence and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

"My work navigates the politics and aesthetics of heritage and draws from processes and forms sourced in my index of personal and historical textiles, patterns and decorations. I indulge my personal fascination with the cultural significances and tactility of texture, pattern, and color. Incorporating fine ink drawings and decorative mark making with washes, stains and accumulations of color pigment, I use paint and a variety of papers to develop exuberant psychosomatic surfaces. My compositions are site-sensitive and are often sculptural, presenting multiple sides and existing in pedestrian space. My work explores the subversive potential of the decorative and celebrates ornament, particularly that of South Asia. Playfully parallelling personhood and objecthood, I present an idea of a synthetic selfhood shaped by its perpetual search for belonging and positioned in relation to ongoing colonial, global and immigrant histories. My works explore issues of inheritance, legacy and community as well as ideas of desire, individualism, opportunity, competition and alienation." - Meena Hasan

EXHIBITIONS:
SPLIT-LEVEL Art Fair, solo presentation, 2025
Main Window Dumbo, 2025