BOISALI BISWAS
www.boisalibiswas.com
EDUCATION:
MFA: Bowling Green State University, USA
BFA: Visva-Bharati University, India
SELECTED JURIED SHOWS
Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA, May-August, 2025
Hatchback 19, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2025
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Scarab Club, March-April, 2025
95th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept 2024- Nov 2024
Fiber of my Being, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan, August-Sept, 2024
Hot DAM, Detroit Artist Market, July, 2024
Hatchback 18, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2024
World of Threads, Ontario, CA, Oct, 2023
94th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Sept 2023 - Nov 2023
Hatchback 17, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2023
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Scarab Club, March-April, 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
Bipoc is the Theme, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, April -May, 2022
Hatchback 16, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, April, 2022
Deeply Rooted, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, April -May, 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
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
Fiber without Borders, Glen Arbor Art Center, MI, Oct - Nov, 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
Biennial All Media Exhibit at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, April, 2018
Art Prize, Fifth Third Bank Plaza, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016
Sewing Our Stories: Personal, Cultural, Universal, San Marcos, TX, 2016
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
SOLO SHOWS:
Bonded thru Threaded Memories, at Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Spring 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
Confluence: Mixed Media Fibers, 2 person show with Jennifer Gould, at Northville Art House, Northville, MI, June 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
INVITED GROUP SHOWS
Material Girl, upcoming invitational with six MI artists, Muskegon Museum of Art, May 2026
Two person invited show with Martine McDonald, Gallery Camille, MI, August, 2025
Three artists Fiber show, upcoming at Shiwawasee Arts Council, Shiwawasee, MI, May, 2025
Pushing Boundaries, invitational with five MI artists at Janice Charach Gallery, MI, January, 2025
Fiber Flux, MFAEN exhibit, Center of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, November, 2024
Recollections: Janice Charach Gallery, MI, Nov – Dec, 2024
Emerge, Hannan Art Gallery, Detroit, MI, August, 2024
Discovery Through Process: Contemporary Fiber Art featuring Boisali Biswas, Susan Moran & Sally Rose,
Art Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center, Whitehall, MI, April - June, 2024
Interlacements at Lowell Arts Center, May, June, 2024
Interlacements, Gifts of Art, U of MI Hospitals, Dec ‘23- March, 2024
Interlacements at Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI, Sept-Nov, 2023
Brave New World, Invited Fiber Art exhibit at Adrian Art Center, MI, Sept, 2023
Vivify, Invited group exhibit at Annex Gallery, Detroit, April, 2023
Interlacements, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, MI, April – May 2022
Darshan, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, March – April, 2022
When There are Nine, Kayrod Gallery, MI, March -April, 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, Group Show at Scarab Club, Detroit, October, 2021
Small Works Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec. 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
Fiberography, 2 persons show with daughter, Swords into Plowshares Peace Gallery, Detroit, MI, July - August, 2019
Artists in Stitches, An Invitational Curated Show at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI, July, 2018
Bold and Beautiful, 4 Person Show, Carroll County Arts Center, MD, Jan – Mar 2017
Sewing Our Stories: Personal, Cultural, Universal, San Marcos, TX, 2016
Connection: Fiber Art Network Member Exhibit, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 2016
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
Heritage Festival, Costick Centre, Farmington Hills, MI, 2005
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Featured artist published in Textile Fibre Forum magazine, December issue, 2024, from Australia.
Second place award at Union Street Galley in the juried show Remembrances, November, 2024
First Place Award at Union Street Gallery, in collaboration with SDA, Chicago, October, 2024
Honorable Mention at MLH show, Anton Art Center, October, 2024
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
Second Place and 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
One piece selected for the McLaren Hospital, Petoskey, MI, 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
Quilt Commissioned for St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Main Lobby, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
EXPERIENCES:
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
Interview on Textiles and Tea for 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 and summer, 2013
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.
Work in several private collections in the US and other countries.