Biography

Mita Chowdhury is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University and is pursuing an MFA (Coursework) majoring in painting at RMIT University. Mita is the recipient of the RMIT Cultural Vision Scholarship 2022. Her work has been showcased in multiple group exhibitions, including the 2022 Asian Art Biennial in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mita has exhibited multiple solo exhibitions, including The Proximity of Connection: Past, Present and I, at the Incinerator Gallery in 2022. 

Her creative practice explores her bi-culture, heritage and history through her experimental material approach by incorporating Bengal folklore, native tradition, knowledge, and her experience as a first-generation female immigrant. She consistently interrogates the concept of 'identity' and the in-between space she inhabits within her hybrid cultural identity through disparate material practice. Her works thus often depict the peculiarity and ambiguities of living in an in-between place. Mita's approach holds this ambivalence to bridge her past Bangladeshi history and to present positionality.