Sita Bhaumik
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
About
Residency Dates
- August 2013 – November 2013
- January 2016 – February 2016
- February 2017 – February 2017
- August 2019 – September 2019
Region
USA
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist, chef, and educator who tells the stories of our migration through food. Raised in Los Angeles and based in Oakland, she is Indian and Japanese Colombian American. Sita holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College, an M.F.A. in interdisciplinary art and an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts.
Sita has exhibited, collaborated, and cooked in the US, Holland, Ireland, andMexico. This includes RayKo Photo Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, SomArts, 826 Valencia, Whitman College, Southern Exposure, Stanford University, Shankhill Castle in Ireland, and the Future Food House in Holland.
Sita has been the art features editor for Hyphen magazine, writer for Art
Practical, and a board member at Kearny Street Workshop. She has recently been a research fellow at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles and an artist in residence at Shankill Castle in Kilkenny, Ireland. She is currently a chef organizer with The People’s Kitchen Collective. For more of her work please visit sitabhaumik.com