Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall have been working collaboratively since 2015, developing installations towards re-contextualizing desire and privilege in the United States.  Their installations span a range of media, incorporating sculpture, video, sound, photography and painting.  Exhibitions of their work include In Practice: Another Echo at Sculpture Center, New York (2018), Loving Blackness and A More Perfect Union at the Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia (2017), Ornate Activate at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee (2017) and Shirin Gallery, New York (2015).  Dasgupta and Marshall are currently AIRspace Residents at Abrons Arts Center, developing work for an upcoming show there, and for the Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, New York (Summer 2018).  Priyanka Dasgupta has an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from City College/CUNY (2017), an MA in Studio Art from New York University and the International Center of Photography (2003), and a BA in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (2000).  Chad Marshall has an MA in Studio Art from New York University (2003) and a BA in Studio Art from Morehouse College (1999). 

Our practice is located between history and storytelling.  Embodying the document, story, object and performance, it is an inter-discursive endeavour which draws from archival texts, sociological conventions, oral histories, postmodern theory and postcolonial studies.  We are currently developing work inspired by the lost histories of Bengali sailors who passed as Black in the early twentieth century, to confront conventional notions of racial “passing” in the United States, and layer it with the complexities of lived experiences.  Our installations combine video, sculpture, sound, photography, painting and text. Informed by the complexities of our own transcultural reality, the work is grounded in a desire to uncover shared histories between the self and anOther.

View more of their work at www.priyankadasgupta.com & chadebonmarshall.com