Humaira Hossain
PhD Student: Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, Specific focus on Bangladesh
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Humaira Hossain is a third-year PhD student specializing in Modern and Contemporary South Asian art, with a particular focus on the evolution and transformation of abstraction in post-Partition and post-Independence Bangladesh. Her research explores modern art as a medium for negotiating collective memory, national identity, and personal expressions of selfhood. Humaira has worked as a curatorial assistant at the George Washington University Textile Museum and Gallery 400 and also served as an instructor for AH 100 at UIC. She holds an MA in Art History from Louisiana State University (2020) and a BFA in Art History from the University of Dhaka (2017). Her scholarly work seeks to situate Bangladeshi art within the context of Global Modernism, emphasizing its exploration of displacement, trauma, and the complex interplay between absence, presence, grief, and cultural heritage.