BOISALI BISWAS
5440 Claridge Ln, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
www.boisalibiswas.com
boisali@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
MFA: Bowling Green State University, USA
BFA: Visva-Bharati University, India
SELECTED JURIED, GROUP and INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
Group Fiber Exhibit, Gifts of Art, U of MI Hospitals, Dec 2023- March, 2024
Juried into World of Threads Festival, Oakville, Ontario, October-Dec, 2023
Hot DAM, all media show ar Detroit Artist Market, August, 2023
Interlacements II, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI, Sept-Nov, 2023
Brave New World, Fiber in the 21st century, at Adrian Art Center, MI, Sept, 2023
Vivify, Invitational group Fiber Art show at Annex Gallery, Detroit, April, 2023
Hatchback 17, Hatch Art Gallery, MI, April, 2023
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Scarab Club, Detroit, April-May, 2023
International Open 24, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, March-April, 2023
We Are Here, Cultivate Grand Rapids, MI, March-May, 2023
93rd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept 2022- Nov 2022
All Michigan Artists: Studio 23, Bay City, MI, Sept 2022 -Nov 2022
Invited to donate a piece for the auction exhibit for Matrix Human Services, 2021 and 2022
Interlacements, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, MI, April – May 2022
Bipoc is the Theme, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, April -May, 2022
Deeply Rooted, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, April -May, 2022
Darshan, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, March – April, 2022
When There are Nine, Kayrod Gallery, MI, March -April, 2022
Manufactured Narratives, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Jan 2022- May 2022
Art Quilt XXIV: Stitching Stories, Vision Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, Nov 2021-Jan 2022
Poetic Cloth, Kayrod Gallery, Hannan Center, Detroit, MI, Nov 2021 -Jan 2022
Grandfather Exhibit, Kayrod Gallery, Hannan Center, Detroit, MI Sept/Oct, 2021
Incomplete, Invitational Group Show at Scarab Club, Detroit, October, 2021
The 92nd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept, 2021
All media Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, August, 2021
Hatchback 15, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2021
Gilda Snowden Exhibition, Scrab Club, Detroit, MI, March -May, 2021
Pieced, Layered and Stitched, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan, MI, March, 2021
Small Works Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec. 2020.
International Open 23, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Oct 30 – Nov 21, 2020
Citizens Cope, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, MI, Sept - Oct, 2020
Uncommon Threads, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, August - Sept, 2020
Totally FAB, a two-person show with Urban Jupena, Collected Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI, Oct 25 - Nov. 23, 2019
Featured Artist at Vale Craft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sept - Nov., 2019
Fiber without Borders, Glen Arbor Art Center, MI, Oct - Nov, 2019
Fiberography 2 person show with daughter, Swords into Plowshares Peace Gallery, Detroit, MI, July - August, 2019
All Media Show at Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2019
All Media Exhibit at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, January, 2019
Heat, Juried Show at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, Sept - Oct, 2018
Artists in Stitches, An Invitational Curated Show at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, July, 2018
Biennial All Media Exhibit at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, April, 2018
2 Person Exhibit at Northville Art House, Northville, MI, June 2017
Bold and Beautiful, 4 Person Invitational Show, Carroll County Arts Center, MD, Jan – Mar 2017
Art Prize, Fifth Third Bank Plaza, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016
Sewing Our Stories: Personal, Cultural, Universal, San Marcos, TX, 2016
Connection : Fiber Art Network Member Exhibit, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 2016
Midwest Fiber Artists, a Group Show, Vale Craft Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2014
Reaching for the Light, Rackham Graduate School, U of MI, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014
Fiber Invitational '13, Ludington Area Arts Council, Ludington, MI, 2013
Shilpa, Colors of India-Pakistan-Bangladesh, Walkers' Gallery, San Marcos, TX, 2012
From Tradition to Innovation, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010
Six Person Show, River Gallery, Chelsea, MI, 2009
Art in Sight, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
MSDA Members Exhibition, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI, 2008
Sum of the Parts, Members Exhibit at SDA conference, Kansas City, MO, 2007
Back To the Floor, Part of HGA Convergence, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2006
Heritage Festival, Costick Centre, Farmington Hills, MI, 2005
Detroit Scarab Club Fiber Arts Show, Detroit, MI, 2004
Fantastic Fibers, Yieser Art Center, Paducah, KY, 2001
One Vision: Women in Art, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000
Seeing Thru Surfaces, St Charles, IL, 2000
Alumni Exhibition, Art Center BGSU, Bowling Green, OH, 1997
100 In the Sun: Art Fabric by the Yard, SDA Exhibit, Seattle, WA, 1995
The Group, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India, 1995
SOLO SHOWS:
Invited solo show at Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Spring 2024
Invited solo at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, Summer, 2024
Metamorphosis of the Strands, Studio 23, Bay City, MI, Sept 2022 -Nov. 2022
Liggett School, Grosse Pointe, MI, Sept, 2021
If Shadows Could Speak, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, May 8 -29, 2021
Timewarp, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH, May 17 - June 22, 2019
Fabric of My Life, Village Theater at Cherry Hill, Canton, MI, March 1 - 31, 2019
Clifton Cultural Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, Feb - March, 2018
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Sept - Oct, 2017
Cancer Center, U of MI Hospital System, Ann Arbor, MI, Jun - Sep 2017
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Apr – Jun 2016
Henry Ford Hospital, West Bloomfield, MI, Oct - Dec 2015
Ferndale Public Library, Ferndale, MI, Jun - Aug 2015
Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA, Jan - Jun 2015
Middleton Public Library, Middleton, WI, Mar - Apr 2015
An Introspective Journey, Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD, Nov 2014
Mélange, Grove Gallery, Lansing, MI, Oct 2013,
The Layered Surface, Padziesky Gallery, Dearborn, MI, Aug 2011
Foundry Art Center, Charles, MO, Aug – Oct 2010
Transcending Boundaries, Central Michigan University Library, Mt Pleasant, MI, 2010
Arts for the Spirit, Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center, Dearborn, MI, 2010
Gifts of Art, University of Michigan Hospital Main Lobby, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (Ann Arbor Art Center), Ann Arbor, MI, 2000
Waterford Township Public Library, Waterford, MI, 2000
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1994
Lancaster Public Library, Lancaster, OH, 1992
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH, 1991
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India 1987
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Second Place award at 24th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, April 2023
Awarded Artist-In-Residence at Studio 23, Bay City, MI, funded by Joanne Grabinski fund, Summer 2022
Honorable Mention at 22nd Biennial Fiber Exhibit at MLH exhibit, June, 2022
Honorable Mention at Bipoc is the Theme, Buckham Gallery, April, 2022
Third Place award at Pieced, layered and Stitched, JRAC, March 2021
Third Place award at International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Nov. 2020
First Place award in Uncommon Threads, Scarab Club, Detroit, August, 2020
Selected as one of the six artists for annual fundraising auction at Detroit Artist Market, August, 2019
Selected for the auction for Brushes with Cancer project, first debut at Detroit, Summer, 2019
Artwork selected for Art in the office program at Kresge International Headquarters 2018-2020
Third Place at 20th Biennial Fiber Exhibit at MLH exhibit, June, 2018
3 pieces selected by the Art in Embassies program for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2014 - 2016
Featured in Textiles: The Art of Mankind, by Mary Schoeser
A piece placed in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Lobby, Chelsea, MI, 2012
Selected as one of the Artists as part of the Public Arts Program, Farmington City Hall, Farmington, MI, 2012 - 2014
Featured Artist at Vale Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sep 10 - Nov 10, 2010
Art in Stitches: An invitational Fiber Exhibit by 6 Artists, The Art House, Northville, MI, 2009
No Restrictions, MWG exhibit at BBAC, Honorable Mention, Birmingham, MI, 2009
Featured artist at Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA, Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
Quilt Commissioned for St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Main Lobby, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
MSDA Exhibitions, 1998 onwards 5 First Place Awards, 3 Second Place Award, 3 Honorable Mentions Detroit Area, MI
Art Tees, First Place Award, Rockford, IL, 1997
Surface Treatment, 2000, Honorable Mention, St. Charles, IL, 2000
Our Visions: Women in Art, Oakland Community College, Honorable Mention, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000
American Stitches, invited to contribute a piece to the Quilt for Detroit, Detroit Area, MI, 2000
EXPERIENCES:
Interview on Hand Weavers Guild of America, September, 2021
Served on the selection committee for the scholarship program at Detroit Artists Market, 2020
Served on the committee for Ann Arbor Arts Fair, 2019
Weaving Instructor at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Fall, 2017 – Summer, 2019
Adjunct Faculty (Weaving) at Wayne State University for Winter 2013 Semester
Conducted various workshops and lectures with Michigan Surface Design and other local groups.at Center of Creative Studies, Bowling Green State University, Wayne State University and other locations.
Regularly invited to present “My journey as a Fiber Artist” by several guilds around the country, in person and online
Invited for guest lecture at CCS, 2023
Work in several private collections in the US and other countries.
5440 Claridge Ln, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
www.boisalibiswas.com
boisali@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
MFA: Bowling Green State University, USA
BFA: Visva-Bharati University, India
SELECTED JURIED, GROUP and INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
Group Fiber Exhibit, Gifts of Art, U of MI Hospitals, Dec 2023- March, 2024
Juried into World of Threads Festival, Oakville, Ontario, October-Dec, 2023
Hot DAM, all media show ar Detroit Artist Market, August, 2023
Interlacements II, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI, Sept-Nov, 2023
Brave New World, Fiber in the 21st century, at Adrian Art Center, MI, Sept, 2023
Vivify, Invitational group Fiber Art show at Annex Gallery, Detroit, April, 2023
Hatchback 17, Hatch Art Gallery, MI, April, 2023
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Scarab Club, Detroit, April-May, 2023
International Open 24, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, March-April, 2023
We Are Here, Cultivate Grand Rapids, MI, March-May, 2023
93rd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept 2022- Nov 2022
All Michigan Artists: Studio 23, Bay City, MI, Sept 2022 -Nov 2022
Invited to donate a piece for the auction exhibit for Matrix Human Services, 2021 and 2022
Interlacements, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, MI, April – May 2022
Bipoc is the Theme, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, April -May, 2022
Deeply Rooted, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, April -May, 2022
Darshan, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, March – April, 2022
When There are Nine, Kayrod Gallery, MI, March -April, 2022
Manufactured Narratives, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Jan 2022- May 2022
Art Quilt XXIV: Stitching Stories, Vision Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, Nov 2021-Jan 2022
Poetic Cloth, Kayrod Gallery, Hannan Center, Detroit, MI, Nov 2021 -Jan 2022
Grandfather Exhibit, Kayrod Gallery, Hannan Center, Detroit, MI Sept/Oct, 2021
Incomplete, Invitational Group Show at Scarab Club, Detroit, October, 2021
The 92nd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept, 2021
All media Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, August, 2021
Hatchback 15, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2021
Gilda Snowden Exhibition, Scrab Club, Detroit, MI, March -May, 2021
Pieced, Layered and Stitched, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan, MI, March, 2021
Small Works Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec. 2020.
International Open 23, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Oct 30 – Nov 21, 2020
Citizens Cope, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, MI, Sept - Oct, 2020
Uncommon Threads, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, August - Sept, 2020
Totally FAB, a two-person show with Urban Jupena, Collected Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI, Oct 25 - Nov. 23, 2019
Featured Artist at Vale Craft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sept - Nov., 2019
Fiber without Borders, Glen Arbor Art Center, MI, Oct - Nov, 2019
Fiberography 2 person show with daughter, Swords into Plowshares Peace Gallery, Detroit, MI, July - August, 2019
All Media Show at Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2019
All Media Exhibit at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, January, 2019
Heat, Juried Show at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, Sept - Oct, 2018
Artists in Stitches, An Invitational Curated Show at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, July, 2018
Biennial All Media Exhibit at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, April, 2018
2 Person Exhibit at Northville Art House, Northville, MI, June 2017
Bold and Beautiful, 4 Person Invitational Show, Carroll County Arts Center, MD, Jan – Mar 2017
Art Prize, Fifth Third Bank Plaza, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016
Sewing Our Stories: Personal, Cultural, Universal, San Marcos, TX, 2016
Connection : Fiber Art Network Member Exhibit, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 2016
Midwest Fiber Artists, a Group Show, Vale Craft Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2014
Reaching for the Light, Rackham Graduate School, U of MI, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014
Fiber Invitational '13, Ludington Area Arts Council, Ludington, MI, 2013
Shilpa, Colors of India-Pakistan-Bangladesh, Walkers' Gallery, San Marcos, TX, 2012
From Tradition to Innovation, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010
Six Person Show, River Gallery, Chelsea, MI, 2009
Art in Sight, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
MSDA Members Exhibition, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI, 2008
Sum of the Parts, Members Exhibit at SDA conference, Kansas City, MO, 2007
Back To the Floor, Part of HGA Convergence, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2006
Heritage Festival, Costick Centre, Farmington Hills, MI, 2005
Detroit Scarab Club Fiber Arts Show, Detroit, MI, 2004
Fantastic Fibers, Yieser Art Center, Paducah, KY, 2001
One Vision: Women in Art, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000
Seeing Thru Surfaces, St Charles, IL, 2000
Alumni Exhibition, Art Center BGSU, Bowling Green, OH, 1997
100 In the Sun: Art Fabric by the Yard, SDA Exhibit, Seattle, WA, 1995
The Group, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India, 1995
SOLO SHOWS:
Invited solo show at Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Spring 2024
Invited solo at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, Summer, 2024
Metamorphosis of the Strands, Studio 23, Bay City, MI, Sept 2022 -Nov. 2022
Liggett School, Grosse Pointe, MI, Sept, 2021
If Shadows Could Speak, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, May 8 -29, 2021
Timewarp, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH, May 17 - June 22, 2019
Fabric of My Life, Village Theater at Cherry Hill, Canton, MI, March 1 - 31, 2019
Clifton Cultural Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, Feb - March, 2018
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Sept - Oct, 2017
Cancer Center, U of MI Hospital System, Ann Arbor, MI, Jun - Sep 2017
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Apr – Jun 2016
Henry Ford Hospital, West Bloomfield, MI, Oct - Dec 2015
Ferndale Public Library, Ferndale, MI, Jun - Aug 2015
Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA, Jan - Jun 2015
Middleton Public Library, Middleton, WI, Mar - Apr 2015
An Introspective Journey, Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD, Nov 2014
Mélange, Grove Gallery, Lansing, MI, Oct 2013,
The Layered Surface, Padziesky Gallery, Dearborn, MI, Aug 2011
Foundry Art Center, Charles, MO, Aug – Oct 2010
Transcending Boundaries, Central Michigan University Library, Mt Pleasant, MI, 2010
Arts for the Spirit, Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center, Dearborn, MI, 2010
Gifts of Art, University of Michigan Hospital Main Lobby, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (Ann Arbor Art Center), Ann Arbor, MI, 2000
Waterford Township Public Library, Waterford, MI, 2000
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1994
Lancaster Public Library, Lancaster, OH, 1992
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH, 1991
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India 1987
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Second Place award at 24th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, April 2023
Awarded Artist-In-Residence at Studio 23, Bay City, MI, funded by Joanne Grabinski fund, Summer 2022
Honorable Mention at 22nd Biennial Fiber Exhibit at MLH exhibit, June, 2022
Honorable Mention at Bipoc is the Theme, Buckham Gallery, April, 2022
Third Place award at Pieced, layered and Stitched, JRAC, March 2021
Third Place award at International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Nov. 2020
First Place award in Uncommon Threads, Scarab Club, Detroit, August, 2020
Selected as one of the six artists for annual fundraising auction at Detroit Artist Market, August, 2019
Selected for the auction for Brushes with Cancer project, first debut at Detroit, Summer, 2019
Artwork selected for Art in the office program at Kresge International Headquarters 2018-2020
Third Place at 20th Biennial Fiber Exhibit at MLH exhibit, June, 2018
3 pieces selected by the Art in Embassies program for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2014 - 2016
Featured in Textiles: The Art of Mankind, by Mary Schoeser
A piece placed in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Lobby, Chelsea, MI, 2012
Selected as one of the Artists as part of the Public Arts Program, Farmington City Hall, Farmington, MI, 2012 - 2014
Featured Artist at Vale Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sep 10 - Nov 10, 2010
Art in Stitches: An invitational Fiber Exhibit by 6 Artists, The Art House, Northville, MI, 2009
No Restrictions, MWG exhibit at BBAC, Honorable Mention, Birmingham, MI, 2009
Featured artist at Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA, Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
Quilt Commissioned for St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Main Lobby, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
MSDA Exhibitions, 1998 onwards 5 First Place Awards, 3 Second Place Award, 3 Honorable Mentions Detroit Area, MI
Art Tees, First Place Award, Rockford, IL, 1997
Surface Treatment, 2000, Honorable Mention, St. Charles, IL, 2000
Our Visions: Women in Art, Oakland Community College, Honorable Mention, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000
American Stitches, invited to contribute a piece to the Quilt for Detroit, Detroit Area, MI, 2000
EXPERIENCES:
Interview on Hand Weavers Guild of America, September, 2021
Served on the selection committee for the scholarship program at Detroit Artists Market, 2020
Served on the committee for Ann Arbor Arts Fair, 2019
Weaving Instructor at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Fall, 2017 – Summer, 2019
Adjunct Faculty (Weaving) at Wayne State University for Winter 2013 Semester
Conducted various workshops and lectures with Michigan Surface Design and other local groups.at Center of Creative Studies, Bowling Green State University, Wayne State University and other locations.
Regularly invited to present “My journey as a Fiber Artist” by several guilds around the country, in person and online
Invited for guest lecture at CCS, 2023
Work in several private collections in the US and other countries.