Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan is a New York-based visual artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance & sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Khan is currently on (solo) exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2021). They have shown at the 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), & elsewhere.
Khan's performance work has premiered at several locations including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art, & Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Their works are part of several public permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Kadist, San Francisco, the Walker Art Center, MN, & 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, & TDR Drama Review. Khan is an adjunct professor of sculpture, performance, & critical theory, & received an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
