Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian-American artist and sculptor. She currently lives and works in New York City. Her ambitious mid-career survey exhibition, Make Me a Summary of the World––co-organized by and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the San Jose Museum of Art––opened in 2018 and is slated to travel to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC through July 2021.

Early life and career

In 1963, Banerjee was born in a Bengali family in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Indian state of West Bengal. She grew up in London and Queens, New York, and has lived in the United States ever since. Banerjee has mentioned in interviews that the inspiration for her art comes from her childhood memories of visiting her grandfather during his homeopathic treatments. Many of the images and visuals from her visits with her grandfather have stayed with her and can be seen in her art work. She likes her artwork to be not static, but ever changing. She completed an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, Yale University in 1995, after graduating from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio with a B.S. in Polymer Engineering. Banerjee's work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other notable museums.

Exhibitions

Below is a list of some of Banerjee's solo and group exhibits.