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ALI ASGAR TARA (Artist)
Born in 1991, Ali Asgar is a Bangladeshi artist who focuses primarily on body and space as a main element of their practice. Ali’s work surrounding gender, sexuality, and social taboos often reflects upon their personal struggle with the conservative Bangladeshi attitude towards members of LGBTQ communities. Asgar uses their own body and self-imagery as a rudimentary element to walk the line between reality and the artifice of self-analysis. Ali’s artwork is reflective to their past & present experiences in a very different social, cultural, political, and educational environment. Ali has participated in major group exhibitions including the Dhaka Art Summit in 2016 and 2014, the Kolkata International Performance Festival in 2016, the Dhaka Social Art Festival in 2014, SEA Juried Art Show (Lislie) in Chicago in 2014, 15 Asian Art Biennale in 2013 among many others. 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ali Asgar Completed their Bachelor of arts degree (BAF) in 2013 from the Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University. After that, in the 2013-14 session, they completed a course at Millikin University in the 'Global Exchange' Program under the USA State Department. In 2019, they received a master's degree from the Art Institute of Chicago Museum in the Department of Learning and Public Engagement. In the same year they completed the Northwestern Summer Institute in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. In 2020, they completed another Master’s degree in performance from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago.

SOLO EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCES

 * Roopbaan Reimagined: A Drag queen From the Future, Solo Performance, Asian Art Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. (2019)
 * A Private View, Solo Exhibition & Performance, Amazigh Contemporary, Chicago, IL, USA. (2019)
 * Exile Series = Rising Sadness, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. (2018)
 * No One Home, Solo Performance, Waterfall Arts & Barn Arts Collective, Maine.(2017)

ARTIST LECTURE

 * In-between Lands and Territories: Love, Loss and Survival, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. (2019)
 * Displacement & Belonging, artist talk and panel discussion, Alphabet City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (2018)