Meena Hasan. Mangiferin Bows, 2022.
Acrylic and Flashe on handmade Jute, 24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm).
Image courtsey of Platform.com
LAUNCH F18 is delighted to present Meena Hasan's online collaboration with Platform. This unique showcase, highlights four new works by the artist, expanding upon her recent solo exhibition, Mangiferin Chintz which took place at the gallery in 2021. Explore these works and more with this exclusive look at the June selections on Platform.com.
Meena Hasan’s work articulates a South Asian American diasporic experience through its nuanced approach to issues of representation, subjectivity and personhood. Working in painting and handmade materials, the artist constructs her works through a metaphorical engagement with material and process—developing a complex language of mark-making that asks the viewer to participate in the work itself. Hasan’s work both states and questions her own historical perspective while leaving space for the viewers to reimagine their own.
Meena Hasan was born in New York City in 1987. The artist received a BFA in Studio Art from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in 2009 and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut in 2013.
Solo exhibitions of Hasan’s work have taken place at: LAUNCH F18 in New York City (2021); Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island (2019); and the American Academy in Rome, Italy (2010); among others. Group exhibitions that have shown Hasan’s work include: the New England Triennial at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts (2022); Good Pictures at Jeffrey Deitch in New York City (2020); No Longer, Not Yet at Essex Flowers in New York City (2020); Stages at Zurcher Gallery in New York City (2016); and The Landscape Changes 30 Times at Anahita Art Gallery in Tehran, Iran (2015).
Work by Hasan is held in numerous collections, including: the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio; Haas Arts Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; the Jiménez-Colón Collection in Ponce, Puerto Rico; and the Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection in Washington, DC. Hasan lives and works in New York City.