Born in 1991 in Bangladesh, Ali Asgar Tara is a transgender (she/they) artist from the Bengal Delta. As a transdisciplinary researcher, artist, activist, and scholar, Tara’s hybrid practice utilises body, space, and personal narrative (archive/ language/ history/ identity) to create political, site-responsive and community-based cross-disciplinary collaborations. Tara’s original work has been featured, exhibited, and staged across the world including the 2014 and 2016 Dhaka Art Summits, the 2016 Kolkata International Performance Festival, the 2014 Dhaka Social Art Festival, and the Asian Art Biennial. Tara has been exhibited and showcased in Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago, Space Gallery in Portland Maine, Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, Bullet Space, Panoply Performance Lab, Dixon Place, Bronx Academy of Art and Queens Museum in NYC, 7d11 Online performance festival, Trinitite square video and Onsite Gallery in Toronto, Asian Art Initiative in Philadelphia, City of Asylum in Pittsburgh and in other North American experimental performance spaces. Tara’s work has been reviewed by critique Hans Ulrich Obrist, and appeared in newspaper publications such as Dhaka Tribune, The Daily Star, The Daily Beast, Pittsburgh City Paper, and Voyage Chicago. Tara has shown their work as a visiting artist at the University of Maine, University of Connecticut, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Ontario College of Art and Design – OCAD, and University of California in Berkeley. Tara has earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and recently an MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, USA. Tara teaches Art and Critical Race Theory at Pace University in New York as an assistant professor and runs her studio practice in Dumbo Art District, Brooklyn. Very recently they have co-founded Bangladesh Trans, Hijra, and Koti Rights Coalition, a grassroots community-based platform to connect and create space in Bangladesh.