again, I would be born an English dog, because in England they look after their dogs really well.''' She is keen to use her work as a platform for people to begin to address their own racism. Biswas was the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art, and is a European Photography Award nominee. She is currently a Reader Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Collections Biswas' work is held in the following public collection: Tate, London Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 1987 Sutapa Biswas, Horizon Gallery, London 1992 Synapse:'' Sutapa Biswas, The Photographers' Gallery, London, (texts by Gilane Twaadros and David Chandler). 2021 'Lumen', Sutapa Biswas, BALTIC Contemporary 2021 'Lumen' Sutapa Biswas, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Group exhibitions 1985 The Thin Black Line, [Selected by Lubaina Himid], Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1986 The Issue of Painting, Rochdale Art Gallery. 1986 Jagrati, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London 1986 Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room, London 1987 Creation For Liberation 4th Open Exhibition: Art by Black Artists, Brixton Village, London 1987 Critical Realism: Britain in the 1980’s through the Work of 28 Artists, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham 1987 State Of The Art: Ideas And Images in The 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1987 The Image Employed: The Use of Narrative in Black Art 1988 Along the Lines of Resistance: an Exhibition of Contemporary Feminist Art, [Selected by Sutapa Biswas, Sarah Edge and Clare Slattery], Cooper Gallery, Barnsley 1988 The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London 1988 Graven Images: Art, Religion and Politics, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 1989 Fabled Territories: New Asian Photography in Britain, City Art Gallery, Leeds 1989 The Artist Abroad: An Exhibition of Work Influenced by International Travel, Usher Gallery, Lincoln 1989 Intimate Distance, The Photographers’ Gallery, London 1989 The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Gallery, London 1990 Disputed Identities, Camerawork, San Francisco 1992 Fine Material for a Dream...?: A Reappraisal of Orientalism: 19th & 20th Century Fine Art and Popular Culture Juxtaposed with Paintings, Video and Photography by Contemporary Artists, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston 1992 The Circular Dance, Arnolfini, Bristol 1992 Who Do You Take Me For?, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1993 Beyond Destination: Film and Video Installations by South Asian Artists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1993 Disrupted Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol References 1962 births Living people Feminist artists People from Birbhum district Indian emigrants to England Alumni of