Shashwati Talukdar

Bio

Shashwati Talukdar has made several films and videos which have been screened at venues including the Margaret Mead Festival, Mediopolis–Berlin, the Whitney Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She has been supported by entities including the Jerome Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, New York State Foundation of the Arts. She was awarded the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from NAATA (2002) and the Project Involve Fellowship (2003) from IFP/New York. Shashwati was born in Dehra Dun, India and has an MFA from Temple University, Philadelphia. Currently, she resides in New York.