Meena Hasan

Associate Professor

Meena Hasan’s work articulates a South Asian American diasporic experience through its nuanced approach to issues of representation, subjectivity and personhood. Working in painting and handmade materials, the artist constructs her works through a metaphorical engagement with material and process, developing a complex language of mark-making that asks the viewer to participate in the work itself. Hasan’s work both states and questions her own historical perspective while leaving space for the viewers to reimagine their own. 

Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her BA from Oberlin College in 2009 and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013, where she won the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Painting. In 2010, she was awarded the Terna Prize Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts, NYC; The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands; Deitch Projects, NYC; Nathalie Karg Gallery, NYC; and the 2022 New England Triennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum. Recent solo exhibitions have been shown at LAUNCHF18, NYC in 2022 and at the Lee Gallery at the Miami University Museum of Art in Oxford, OH in February 2023. Meena has taught painting at Rutgers University Newark, Pratt Institute's Painting MFA program and the School of Visual Arts at Boston.

Fall 2023 Courses

PAINT 450G-01 - GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE I
Level Graduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 450G-01

GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE I

Level Graduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Instructor(s): Duane Slick, Meena Hasan Location(s): Fletcher Building, Room 203 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This period is designed for the students to evaluate and analyze the directions he/she established as an undergraduate. Criticisms of the student's work will be aimed at identifying strengths and weaknesses and help the students clarify fundamental objectives. Group and individual critiques will occur by resident faculty and visiting artists and critics during the semester. Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for continuance in the program.

Open to Graduate Painting Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Painting

PAINT 4501-05 - PAINTING I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4501-05

PAINTING I

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM; W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Meena Hasan Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 211 Enrolled / Capacity: 11 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

Spring 2024 Courses

PAINT 4598-02 - PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4598-02

PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne, Meena Hasan Location(s): College Building, Room 610 Enrolled / Capacity: 9 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive course designed to test the student's ability to create, complete, and document a Degree Project of his or her choosing. The Degree Project should be a distinct, carefully conceived, exhibition-ready body of work which reflects the issues and objectives of your art. The Senior Degree Project is distinct from your Woods-Gerry Gallery exhibition, although its work can overlap with that exhibition.

Open to Senior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4515-03 - PAINTING IV
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4515-03

PAINTING IV

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM; T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Meena Hasan Location(s): What Cheer Studios, Room 203 Enrolled / Capacity: 14 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This will be a continuation of directions established in Painting III. Student work will be evaluated through group and individual critiques. Visiting Artist lectures will be important to the issues of contemporary art emphasized at this level. The department will schedule an individual review with a Faculty Committee for each student during this course.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Junior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting