new work
In this innovative rethinking of the artist monograph, Oakland-based artist, educator and activist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik (born 1981) captures conversations with the people who shaped her creative practices and helped her map the tools that are most important to her: wonder, intuition, criticality and belonging. Bhaumik's work has been celebrated by the San Francisco Chronicle and other media for using art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time, as in her 2016 installation Estamos Contra El Muro / We Are Against the Wall, in which she collaborated with artists, makers and community members to recreate (and then smash) the US/Mexico border wall out of brick-shaped piñatas. We Make Constellations of the Stars interrogates not only what makes an artist an artist, but how connection is crucial for personal and political transformation as an artist of color.
Visionary and historian Jeff Chang (author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation) writes: "Thoughtful, engaged and bold, Sita Bhaumik stares down trauma, cruelty and injustice, but always leads us towards wonder, joy and hope. By drawing connections and making meaning of seemingly unrelated points of light, she reveals new pathways toward belonging and freedom for all. She is one of the most insightful and inspiring artists of our time." Forthcoming 2025 preorder available.
Writing
multiple elementary
Contributor. “Eating the Enemy” food, art, politics, and the senses. Featuring artists Michael Rakowitz and Karla Diaz.
all puns intended
Interview with Artist Michael Arcega
From Self-Portraiture to Selfie
Available for free download.
SPICE WAR
Chinese restaurants are stigmatized for using MSG but the tasty additive is in everything from KFC to pizza. The surprising history of a divisive ingredient.
the other senses
Art and the cultural construction of the senses.
ES COMPLICADO: EL CUERPO COMESTIBLE EN EL ARTE
Arte, politica y los sentidos
My work is also included in these Books
(Not just saying this because my work is included, these authors are phenomenal and their works are great teaching tools and resources)
How We Show Up
Interview with People's Kitchen Collective and Mia Birdsong
Intimate Eating
Edited by Anita Mannur
Cover art by Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
