Meet the Artist

Amaaya

Dasgupta

Writer, Artist

“My work mostly experiments with themes of sexuality and sensuality, the politics of body and gender, and the ideas of the self as a private and social being – always transient, always in flux. It is based around thoughts of identity, belonging, and becoming, and as such, brownness and queerness play significant roles in these explorations often in the form of de/reconstruction and posthumanist figuration. I strive towards feeling, understanding, and expressing these various intersections to fulfil desires for a deeper intra and inter-personality. My fields of research inform my art practice and my art practice in turn fuels my research -- I aim to balance the two in symbiosis. ”

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I am a writer, illustrator, and tattoo maker, currently based out of Montréal.
OCAD U - Faculty of Arts & Science
Visual and Critical Studies
Major Completed, 2024

Queer and Feminist Studies Critical Studies Illustration Art

2023, Flourish, Openended BC
Salt Spring Island
2023, Lives Apart, OCAD
Toronto
2022, Volume X, Exposé Noir
Montréal
2022, In Movement, Collective4891
Montréal
2021, Making Gender, OCAD
Virtual
2020, Feminist Art Festival, OCAD
Toronto
2019, Non-Binary Colour Collective Art Fair
Toronto
2017, Imeyouime, Pond at the Brewhouse
New Delhi
2016, Salon of Curiosities, Pond at the Brewhouse
New Delhi
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