Sutapa Biswas’ work has, for over forty years, investigated how overarching historical narratives from across the globe collide with the often-undocumented personal stories. Her practice questions the complexities of racial and gendered power relations born out of tangled colonial histories – especially the implacable incursions on daily life resulting from the residual power structures borne out of these histories.

Biswas’ works have been exhibited internationally including at Tate, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), The British Museum, ‘Mixed Bathing World 2015’ Triennial (Beppu, Japan), ‘6th Havana Biennial’, Neuberger Museum (New York, USA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Iniva (London), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Nara Roesler gallery (São Paulo), Douglas Cooley Gallery (Reed College, USA), The Photographer’s Gallery (UK). Her artworks are in public collections including Tate, UK Government Art Collection, Arts Council England, Reed Gallery (USA), Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums and Galleries (UK), and Cartwright Hall, Bradford Museum and Art Gallery (UK).

Sutapa Biswas first collaborated with Hospital Rooms on a project at Garnet Ward (2017), a mental health unit for older people in North London, and Springfield Hospital in South West London (2022). She has also led two Digital Art School workshops, designed for people in inpatient mental health units across the country to take part in.