Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
Lecturer in Art
Email: sbhaumik@ucmerced.edu
Phone: (209) 228-2929
Office: SSM 250A
Fall 2014 Office Hours: Tuesday afternoon by appointment
Website: www.sitabhaumik.com
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice focuses on narrative representation and sensory perception of mixed-race identities. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and holds an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Art and an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. Bhaumik has collaborated with organizations such as Rayko Photo Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Chinese Cultural Center, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, 826 Valencia, Whitman College, Cal-State Fullerton, Stanford University, and the Future Food House in Rotterdam. She has been the art features editor for Hyphen magazine, writer for Art Practical, and a board member at Kearny Street Workshop. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles and a Lucas Artist Program Resident at Montalvo.
Courses offered at UC Merced
ARTS 9 — Learning to See: Beginner Photography
ARTS 42a — Photographic Techniques
GASP 141 — History and Practice of Photography
