Bio
Mahedi Anjuman is Los Angeles-based, interdisciplinary visual artist and art educator. In 2022, she pursued a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was born and raised in the mystic land of Bangladesh, in 2010, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree from the Department of Drawing and Painting at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In 2012, she was selected as a member and showcased her artwork in the contextual art event OGCJM2012 (Only God Can Judge Me) at Dhaka and participated in a group exhibition to represent Bangladeshi contemporary art, ‘OPEN 15’ (International Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Exhibition) in Venice, Italy with artist Yoko Ono and others. She took part in many national and international film festivals, video art exhibitions, and artist residencies at Elsewhere Living Museum (2021), Picture Berlin (2018), and Transart Institute (2013). Recently she exhibited at Sparks Heritage Museum and Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, USA, and participated in the 19 Asian Art Biennial in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She is practicing concrete, rebar-made sculpture, video art, and assemblage painting by the influence of the contextual presence and intuitive response of being. Her interest is analyzing the fundamental limitations, instability, and duality between mind and body, self and other.
Artist Residency
2021 Elsewhere Living Museum, Greensboro, NC
2018 Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013 Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Forming: Mind/Mirror, D301 Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2021 Existence: Self and Other, D300 Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2020 Beyond the Language, Erik Lauritzen Gallery, Reno, NV
2019 Existence: I and Other, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
Existence: Sensing Myself in You, Student Galleries South, Reno
2018 Existence: I Therefore You, The Potentialist Gallery, Reno, NV
2017 Existence: My Name is You, SGS Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 19th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2022
MFA post-grad show, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Surreal Art Exhibition, City Hall Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA
51st Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Main Gallery, TMCC, Reno, NV
CalArts Expo 2022, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Far East, Public Library, New Jersey, USA
Cross Wired, current MFA in 2nd year group exhibition at CalArts, CA
2021
Visions of landscape, Sparks Heritage Museum, Sparks, Nevada, USA
Feeler gauge Festival, 32 CalArts filmmakers and films
CalArts Expo 2021, Virtual gallery spaces, CalArts, CA, USA
2020 CalArts Expo 2020, Virtual gallery spaces, CA, USA
2019
3-Minute Film Competition, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
MOZIMOTION FILM FESTIVAL, Hilversum, Netherlands
45 ANNUAL FACULTY ART EXHIBITIONS, TMCC, Reno, NV
First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Lift-Off Global Network, UK
Grosskreisentfernung / Great Circle, Tête, Berlin, Germany
MEDUSA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, Las Vegas, NV
ART SHARE PRESENTS, Los Angeles, CA,
Existence: Self Presence, Whittemore Gallery, UNR, NV
OGA VIDEO ART EXHIBITION, Rome, Italy
2018
INTERPERSONAL CONNECTION- OGA, Rome, Italy.
THE WIND CALLS- Capital City Art Initiative, Carson City, NV
MASTER’S CLASS SHOW- JAY JAY Contemporary Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
AUTHENTIC ALIENS- The Holland Project, Reno, NV
2017 32ND ANNUAL POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE- ETSU Slocumb Gallery, TN
2011-12
OPEN 15, Lido, Venice, Italy
Only God Can Judge Me, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Young Dhaka, Zainul Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh