Rakhee Balaram

Michael Ann Holly Fellow

09/04/2023–12/31/2023

Rakhee Balaram is associate professor of global art and art history at State University of New York-Albany where she specializes in modern and contemporary art. Balaram has published two books, Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of French Feminism (Manchester University Press, 2022) and a co-edited volume on modern and contemporary South Asian art, 20th-Century Indian Art (Thames & Hudson, 2022), which was named a Financial Times Book of the Year. In spring 2024, Balaram will be a Scholar-in-Residence at INHA (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art) in Paris, France. At the Clark, she will work on a book on two canonical Indian artists, Amrita Sher-Gil and Rabindranath Tagore.