Anika Sultana is an M.A. student at The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she is pursuing studies in Bengali and Bangladeshi art and material culture. Her research interests lie in the Bengal Famine of 1943, and her thesis work focuses on the holistic oeuvre of Bengali artist Zainul Abedin.
About Anika Sultana
Anika Sultana is an M.A. student at The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she is pursuing studies in Bengali and Bangladeshi art and material culture. Her research interests lie in the Bengal Famine of 1943, and her thesis work focuses on the holistic oeuvre of Bengali artist Zainul Abedin.
Articles with Anika Sultana
As above, so below: ‘Organic Worlds’ celebrates human-nature symbiogenesis
Curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova at the SP/N Gallery at The University of Texas at Dallas, ‘Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art’ tackles its subject matter(s) of organisms and organicism, and, arguably, of the Great Chain of Being and Lynn Margulis’ theory of symbiogenesis. ‘Organic Worlds’ seats mankind as conscious players in the biological Great Chain of Being — below God and above rock — and invites the layman viewer to introspect upon and engage with the commemorations of life in this exhibition.