Pallavi Sen
Overview
Pallavi Sen (1989) is from Bombay, India. She works with installation, printmaking, textiles, and intuitive, musical movement. Current interests include planting gardens and meadows, inner lives of birds and animals, the grief of the anthropocene, South Asian costumes, domestic architecture, altars, atheism and magical thinking, pattern histories, friendship + love, past/present/future lover, work spaces, work tables, eco-feminism, love poems, the gates to Indian homes, walking, seeds, and what comes of twice daily cooking.
She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College and dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, PICA's Creative Exchange Lab, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Shandaken Projects, Mildred’s Lane, Ox-Bow, ACRE, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art, among others.
Pallavi is the author of Dead Planet Cookbook published by GenderFail Press, and is currently working on her second book about a garden based curriculum.