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About the Artists

Smita Sen (b. 1994) is an artist working with sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology to research how the body internalizes its environment and significant life events. Sen has had solo exhibitions at Recess (2021) and the Brooklyn Public Library (2022). Sen’s work has been shown internationally in Dubai, U.A.E, and at venues like Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), Flux Factory (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), and ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY). Sen has been in-residence at the Bakehouse Arts Complex (2022), Recess (2021), and Mildred’s Lane (2018). She is the recipient of an Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts (2022), and the Instigator Fellowship from New York University ITP Camp (2018). Sen is currently a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator (2022-2023). She has given talks and workshops at Columbia University, Bard College, NYU ITP Camp, and LRLX NY. An educator, Sen believes in the power of a collaborative classroom and, from 2019 to 2022, was teaching and designing the Emerging Media program at Choate Rosemary Hall. Sen currently leads Miami-based nonprofit, the Manipura Care Network, and serves as a Part-Time Lecturer at the Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Amanda Linares is a Cuban-born visual artist based in Miami, Florida. Her multidisciplinary interests made her receive a technical degree in printmaking from San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, and a BFA in graphic design from New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida. Linares’ work intimately sways between many universal issues, such as identity, belonging, absence, and reconnection through an immense variety of media from design and drawing to installation and photography. Her work contains a poetic language while exploring narration and space through the use of reflection, transparency, revelation, found objects, and typographical solutions. Linares’ solo BFA project Between Islands and Peninsulas was displayed at the Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida (2020). Her work has been exhibited at Oolite Arts, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Edge Zones, The Bonnier Gallery, Miami, Florida, and FAR Contemporary Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Linares participated in the Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Oolite Arts in 2021 and is a 2022 Ellies Creator Award winner by Oolite Arts. She is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex.