Visual Artist Fellow, Shwarga Bhattacharjee’s Open Studio at CFEVA
Visual Artist Fellow, Shwarga Bhattacharjee’s Studio at CFEVA
Meet the Artist during POST West: October 16, noon-6PM
Special Reception October 16 4-5pm.
Visual Artist Fellow, Shwarga Bhattacharjee, has transformed Cfeva's gallery into his personal studio. Taking advantage of the space, Shwarga is creating a large-scale, collaborative and immersive work. As part of his Open Studio on October 16th, Shwarga will invite audiences into his studio for a series of scheduled readings and discussions.
Special Reception October 16 4-5pm. For the event, Shwarga is collaborating with Atif Sheikh (Moderator), Mehrin (Mir) Masud Elias, and Ahmad Qais Munhazim. During the event Mir and Qais will read their poems and Shwarga will give a tour of us work. Atif will moderate a conversation among the four collaborators.
Shwarga Bhattacharjee is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been shown in the United States and Bangladesh at venues such as Vox Populi, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), Temple Contemporary, and the Dhaka Art Summit. He curated an exhibition for the Little Berlin art gallery in Philadelphia, as part of the Visiting Curator Program. Currently, he is participating in the Spring Curatorial Residency program at the New York Artists Equity Association in New York City. He was selected as one of the Young Talent at the Dhaka Art Summit in 2012. He is a recipient of the Britto Student Residency and Jentel Artist Residency. He also worked as a children’s book illustrator with the Room to Read. Shwarga Bhattacharjee moved to the United States in 2014. He received an MFA in drawing and painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, and a BFA in drawing and painting from the University of Dhaka.
Mehrin (Mir) Masud-Elias, who writes under the penname Mir Elias, is a poet, writer, lawyer and immigrant in the US from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She currently serves as the general counsel of the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine. She has published poems in collected editions and journals and written essays for a Leeway Foundation grant-funded food blog. Her current collections of experimental poetry, Natural Alien and Apocalypsia, are in the submission process for poetry prizes. Mir is a co-founder of Twelve Gates Arts, a non-profit transnational arts organization as well as a member of the Board of Pasión y Arte, a contemporary Flamenco dance company. She co-hosts and curates the bi-monthly 12G Poetic Circle at Twelve Gates Arts. She is the recipient of the 2021 Peregrine Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the 2022 inaugural Universe in Verse prize from UPenn’s Kelly Writers House. Mir is a graduate of Amherst College (BA), Columbia Law School (JD) and the University of Pennsylvania (MBE, SCAN Certificate), and also completed coursework at CALTECH in Theoretical Physics.