Baseera Khan (b. 1980, Denton, TX)

Baseera Khan is a visual artist whose practice explores materials influence identity. They have worked in mediums as diverse as painting, public art installations, sculpture, performance, and music. Born in Denton, Texas to immigrant parents, Khan earned her BFA from the University of North Texas, and later completed an MFA at Cornell. Rather than reconstruct colonially-imposed identities, Khan seeks to “emancipate them” through her use of form and color. Drawing from their experience as a femme Muslim-American , Khan explores the complexities of her own intersectional identity while refusing superficial assumptions.

Khan’s public art commission for The High Line, “Painful Arc II, Shoulder High” was installed from 2023 to 2024. They have had solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and the Brooklyn Museum, among others, and have had their performance work appear at the Whitney Museum and the Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Khan has been an artist in residence at Pioneer Works and the Abrons Art Center, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014.

Khan lives and works in New York.

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Seat #10 from [Feat.], 2018

Pleather, artist’s underwear, prayer rugs, synthetic hair

52 x 54 x 3 in (132.08 x 137.16 x 7.62 cm)

 
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