Smita Sen
Smita Sen is an artist working with sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology to research how the body internalizes its environment and significant life events. With installations, Sen attempts to reimagine sites of care and creates environments for the body to enter states of meditative healing. Having served as a palliative caregiver in her family, Sen's most recent works examine the nature of community, grief, and end-of-life care through the theory and praxis of narrative medicine.
Sen has had solo exhibitions at Recess (2021) and the Brooklyn Public Library (2022), and her work has been shown at venues like Bard College, Flux Factory, Anthology Film Archives, and ISSUE Project Room. Sen has been in-residence at the Bakehouse Arts Complex (2022), Recess (2021), Mildred’s Lane (2018), and received the Instigator Fellowship from NYU ITP Camp (2018). An educator, Sen believes in the power of a collaborative classroom and, from 2019 to 2022, was teaching and designing the Emerging Media program at Choate Rosemary Hall.