Baseera Khan

Baseera Khan contains multitudes. They are a queer Indian-Afghani-East African American, a Muslim woman, a Texas native, and the winner of the 2021 UOVO Prize, awarded annually to an emerging Brooklyn-based artist. She is a New York-based visual artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Khan is currently working on their first museum solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2021), and opened their first solo exhibition at Simone Subal, New York (2019). They have exhibited in numerous locations such as Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany, Jenkins Johnson Projects (2019), Sculpture Center (2018), Wexner Center for the Arts (2021), New Orleans Museum of Art (2020), Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017). Khan’s performance work has premiered at several locations including Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art, and 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), was 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 UOZO Art Prize (2020), BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), was granted by both NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters (2018). Their works are part of several public permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Kadist, San Francisco, the Walker Art Center, MN, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA. 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).