Subhankar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee, an Indian-born artist-activist, uses photography to raise awareness about issues that threaten the environment. Since 2000, he has focused his activist efforts on the rights of indigenous peoples and land conservation issues in the Arctic. His Arctic photographs have been shown in nearly forty group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including a solo exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In 2009, his photographs will be featured in the group exhibition IMPACT: Living in the Age of Climate Change that will open in Copenhagen at the Staten Museum for Kunst (the Danish National Gallery of Art) and will travel to Iceland, Sweden, and Norway in 2010. Banerjee received an inaugural Greenleaf Artist Award from the United Nations Environmental Programme and an inaugural Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. In Fall 2008, he is a visiting artist at F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) at Arizona State University in Phoenix and a visiting scholar at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. In Winter 2009 he will be artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College in Hanover. For more information, visit www.subhankarbanerjee.org.