Rina Banerjee is an artist whose work weaves together the threads of migration, hybridity and feminine energy. In her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, she speaks candidly about how these themes shape her art.

"When you give up that power to the paint, it becomes your partner, helping you to make something beautiful," Banerjee says. Her sculptures, populated with objects as varied as light bulbs and cowrie shells, comment on societal dislocations and propose a radical re-joining of the earth and feminine energy.

Her paintings bring to life hybrid animal-human figures that float in space, their hair or fingernails cascading into tendrils and melding into clouds. The titles themselves are poetic reflections of her work's themes.

Banerjee’s journey from polymer engineering to painting is marked by the influence of artists like Richard Mayhew and Santa Barraza, and the symbolism of materials tied to her family’s migrations in a postcolonial world.

Currently exhibiting at the Louis Vuitton Espace in Tokyo and the Yale Center for British Art, Banerjee continues to explore the complexities of identity and belonging through her unique artistic vision.