Rina Banerjee received her training in painting at Yale School of Art ,Yale University, where she acquired her MFA degree. She has received awards such as Drawing Award Norfolk-Yale, Skowhegan School of Painting scholarship. Ms. Banerjee has been an active educator in the area of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies in Visual Arts while teaching at Bucknell University, Yale University, and Penn State University, University of Chicago, and Cooper Union before coming to teach at Bennington College. She has been an active visiting artist giving lectures at Stanford University, Chicago Institute of Art, Queens Museum, Whitney Museum, Mills College, University of Minessota , Parson's School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University.

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Banerjee's work was a focus in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, Brent Sikema, Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, Debs and Co. Gallery, Bronx Museum, New Museum, and Queens Museum acquiring favorable reviews in Art News, Art Forum, and Art in America. Presently her can be  viewed at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams in an exhibition "Yankee Remix" reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times, cover story in The Boston Globe and Albany Times Union. She has exhibited abroad in Madrid, Durban, Africa and India.

Interviews

"Eve's Rib", Documentary by Odile Foucaud video digital
"Good Business is the Best Art", Bronx Museum, CD
"Urbane Encounter", New Museum, VHS
"Egg Show", Channel Thirteen, Spring 2000, VHS
"Whitney Museum of American Art 2000 Bienniel", audio tour/digital
Haung, curator Jamaica Arts Center, audio
Ariel Evas
Debra Hutton, College Art Association (CAA) Conference 2003
"Art In General" mediator Elonar Heartney with artists Shirin Neshat and Rina Banerjee, ICA (Independent Curators Association)

She has been an active visiting artist, giving lectures at Stanford University, Chicago Institute of Art, Queens Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Palmer Museum, Mills College, University of Minnesota, Parsons School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Skidmore College between 1997-2002.