Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik Lecture
B Building, Room 7, Oakland Campus
February 6, 2017 @ 3pm
Diversity Studies faculty member Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, who teaches “A Taste of Resistance,” is a conceptual artist who works with craft and food to tell the stories of migration. She is also a writer, educator, and cook with the People’s Kitchen Collective, for which she is a founding member along with Jocelyn Jackson and Saqib Keval.
Her work focuses on decolonization, the hierarchy of the senses, and immigration. Raised in Los Angeles and based in Oakland, she is Indian and Japanese Colombian American.
Sita has exhibited, collaborated, and cooked in the United States, Holland, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Mexico. These institutions include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of California, Southern Exposure, 826 Valencia, Stanford University, The Smithsonian APAC, the Future Food House in Rotterdam and MaD Asia.
Committed to equity and diversity in the arts, Bhaumik has been the art features editor for Hyphen magazine and a board member at Kearny Street Workshop. She has been a Lucas Artist Program resident at Montalvo and an artist in residence at Shankill Castle in Kilkenny, Ireland.
