Biography

Mita Chowdhury (Hasina Chowdhury) is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) and a PhD candidate at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). She currently lives and works on the land of the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples. Born in Bangladesh, Mita’s creative practice explores the complexities of migratory experiences, particularly her personal journey as a first-generation female immigrant intertwined with a colonised history. Her practice-led research investigates artistic agency through cultural and social issues, colonial impact, and post-colonial transitions. She often collaborates with everyday people, engaging with native practices, pedagogy, and traditions to explore decolonisation methods.

Mita’s consistent interrogation of the notion of ‘identity’, a concept she finds very fluid, often questions the conventional understanding of hybridity. Her practice-led research, therefore, creates a new non-binary commentary on hybridity that is often generalised by the concept of cross-ethnicity. Her works explore the multiplicity of hybridity resulting from her ideology, gender, socio-economic hierarchy, philosophy, political tag, and cross-cultural identity.

Through her diverse material practice, Mita’s work captures the fluidity and ambiguities of living in this in-between ‘Third Space’ resulting from negotiation and (re)creation. Her creative work invites the audience to share her experiences, bridging her Bangladeshi history and her present positionality, highlighting the dynamic and fluid nature of hybrid identity in a post-colonial context.