PAST COFFEE TALK
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl
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PAST COFFEE TALK
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl
Join us on Friday, February 5th at 11am ET on Instagram Live for an exhibition walkthrough of Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl, an exhibition of new lens-based work by 2021 Baxter St Resident Cheryl Mukherji.
Encompassing new photographs, sculpture, printmaking, and hand-painted tableaux made expressly for her New York debut, Mukherji leans into and reimagines the tradition of Indian matrimonial portraiture as a meditation on prescribed femininity. Using her family photo albums that focus on her mother’s presence as a point of departure, the exhibition also explores the idea of origin and inheritance and the nuanced relationship between mother and daughter through the lens of arranged marriages.
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Cheryl Mukherji (b. 1995, India) is a visual artist and writer currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard College, New York in 2020. In her current work, Cheryl explores the idea of origin and inheritance, which is embedded in the figure of her mother and her presence in the family album. It deals with memory, personal history, transgenerational trauma, and how they inform identity. Cheryl primarily works with photography, text, and video.
Cheryl has been selected as a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022 at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. She has been the recipient of Capture Photography Festival’s Writing Prize 2020, Brooklyn Museum’s #Your2020Portrait Award, South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund (SAARF) 2020, Firecracker Photography Grant 2020, and was a finalist for the Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize 2020. Her work has been exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (US), Huxley-Parlour Gallery (UK), Format Photo Festival (UK), Brooklyn Museum (US), Museum of Moving Image (US), International Center of Photography (US), Serendipity Arts Festival (IN), among others