Artist Sangram Majumdar joins artist Josephine Halvorson for a conversation.
In this talk: 🚩 Sangram Majumdar —— Sangram Majumdar (b. Kolkata, India, 1976) holds a MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from RISD. Recent solo exhibition venues include Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, Mumbai; Geary Contemporary, NY, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, and Asia Society Texas Center, Houston. Selected group exhibition venues include Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA, The Landing Gallery, LA and James Cohan Gallery, NY. Selected awards include a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, NYFA Grant, American Academy of Arts and Letters purchase award, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, and the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Grant. His work has been reviewed in _Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, among others. Sangram is a member of National Academy of Design. He lives and works in Seattle, WA.
https://www.sangrammajumdar.com/
🚩 Josephine Halvorson —— Artist Josephine Halvorson makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and takes the form of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she studied at The Cooper Union (BFA 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA 2007). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships such as the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). She is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.
https://www.josephinehalvorson.info/
