Sanjit Sethi, Codirector

Sanjit Sethi was born in Rochester, New York. Sethi received a BFA in 1994 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in 1998 from the University of Georgia, and an MS in advanced visual studies in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sethi has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; a visiting assistant professor at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana; and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago.

After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Bangalore, India, working on the Building Nomads project, he continued his strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration as director of the MFA program at the Memphis College of Art.

His work deals with issues of nomadism, identity, the residue of labor, and memory. Sethi recently completed the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance, an olfactory-based memorial in Memphis. His current works include Urban Defibrillator, the Gypsy Bridge project, and a collaboration with the Richmond Art Center and the Main Street Initiative of Richmond, California, all of which involve varied social and geographic communities.