Meghana Bisineer | Artist Educator

BIOGRAPHY

Meghana Bisineer is an Indian born artist, curator and educator.
Making drawings, animations, films and installations, her work is shown internationally; across galleries, artist-lead spaces and international film festivals.

Her analogous, site-specific, meditative, and process driven practice draws out an embodied investigation into the nature of time and personal memory in relation to place and landscape. Combining a largeness and a smallness of scale, at times working directly with the physicality of her exterior surroundings, Meg's work gives form to the vastness of our emotional landscapes and interior worlds. Capturing a tender appreciation for the fragility of us, here, now, the films offer a moment of connection. Tactile yet ephemeral, the work often exists on the cusps of performance and ritual, holding within its deep and poetic materiality a moment of becoming.

Graduating from NID, India, and the Royal College of Art, UK (2006), Meg is currently Co-Chair of the Animation Program, and Associate Professor of Animation and Graduate Fine Art at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and also Co-founder & curator of Eyewash Experimental Animation Salon with Christoph Steger.

Life and work is made between Oakland, CA, London, UK, and Bangalore, India.

CONTACT

megbisineer@cca.edu
megbisineer@gmail.com

FUTURE HAPPENINGS

Animate | Quad Derby, UK | Feb 2025

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Upstream | Welcoming our 2nd cohort of artists to the Sierra Foothills, USA | Feb 2025

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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

2024

RASA | Dream Farm Commons | Oakland, USA | October 2024

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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival | Hawick, Scotland

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Winslow House Project Residency | Soft Frame | Vallejo, USA

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This Room Is Nothing Without You | Alternative YBCA Bay Area Now Gaza Fundraiser and Screening | Shapeshifters Cinema | Oakland, USA

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Upstream | Launching a winter residency in the Sierra Foothills, USA

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2023

Kala Media Arts Fellow 2022 - 2023 | Kala Art Institute | Berkeley, USA

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2022

Raining Through My Bones, The Stone, | The Films That Sang and Cried | Screening with Q&A | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Berkley, USA

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Dog, The Stone, Moments of I Don't Know | Works on Paper: Hand Crafted Animated Films | Group exhibition | Telematic Media Arts | San Francisco, USA

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Dog, The Stone, Moments of I Don't Know, Shifting Ground | Works on Paper: Hand Crafted Animated Films | San Francisco Art Book Fair | Minnesota Street Project | San Francisco, USA

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Intimacy | Immersive Installation and Project Space | In collaboration with CWL | Cable Depot Gallery | London, UK

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2021

Hi Vibration Frantic Buzz | An Evening with Jamie Wolfe | Eyewash Experimental Animation Salon | Online | Support from California College of the Arts, USA

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A Toolkit for Gathering : A guide for artists, designers and other creative professionals | Co-authored with Rachel Berger, Sara Dean and Janette Kim | Published by California College of the Arts | San Francisco, USA

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Shifting Ground | #100years Tour : Enchanted Cinema | Cabinet of Living Cinema Gunnersbury Park Museum | Gunnersbury, Bournemouth, Somerton, Surrey, Swanage, London, Margate, UK

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Shifting Ground | Visionary Boscombe | Live score by Cabinet of Living Cinema Margate Film Festival | Margate & Boscombe, UK

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Dust | Screening | Concrete and Ink: Storytelling and the Future of Architecture | Book Launch Theatrum Mundi, London/Online

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The Stone | film and text presentation | Interior Realms | Book Launch Theatrum Mundi, London/Online

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Mar 2021 | Gender and Representation in Animation | co-moderation with Tracy Burns | Panel Discussion | California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

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2020 - 21 | The Stone | Collaboration with Charlotte Law | Interior Realms | Publication by Theatrum Mundi, London, UK

The published text draws from three writing actions, involving meditation and ritualised reflection upon The Stone, the first collaborative film by Meghana Bisineer and Charlotte Law, made over the first few months of lockdown in London in 2020.

The text is accompanied by stills from the film and the soundtrack is available as a singular work online.

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2020 - 21 | Landscape and Interiority | Interview | Concrete and Ink | Publication by Theatrum Mundi, London, UK

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Jan 2021 | Dust | no-body’s room | Online Video Art Screening curated by The Room Projects, Paris and Lux, London

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2020 - 21 | Online Arts Education | Podcast guest | ding global, London, UK

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2019 - 2020 | On Beauty (Salon) | co - curator | Point Arena, California, USA

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2019 | EYEWASH_05 | Curation, Screenings and Talks | Oakland, California, USA