Mita Chowdhury is an interdisciplinary visual artist and PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne. Born in Bangladesh and now based in Tarneit, she explores the complexities of first-generation Bangladeshi-Australian identity through practice-led methodologies informed by decolonial methods, diaspora studies, and feminist epistemologies. Her work draws on lived experience to examine migration, memory, language, and tacit knowledge as active sites of inquiry.
Her interdisciplinary practice spans expanded painting, installation, and ephemeral sculpture through material storytelling, incorporating embodied processes such as hand-stitching and natural dyeing. By engaging everyday materials, including turmeric, Khadi fabric, reclaimed sari, and found gum tree branches, Mita bridges Bangladeshi heritage with Australian life. She positions everyday objects as “living archives” that bear memory and resistance, foregrounding the fluid and relational nature of hybrid identity and inviting audiences into conversations around resilience, belonging, and cultural continuity.
Mita is the recipient of the RMIT Cultural Vision Award (2022) and the Young & Emerging Artist Award (2023) from the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (ADFAS), and was shortlisted for the RMIT School of Art Dean’s Award (2023). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the 2022 Asian Art Biennial in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has exhibited numerous solo exhibitions including The Proximity of Connection: Past, Present and I at Incinerator Gallery (2022) and Desire for Belonging at Trocadero Projects (2025).
By weaving personal history with broader cultural narratives, her practice positions art as a critical method for negotiating diasporic subjectivity and non-western knowledge production.