INFO
CONTACT
mbasna@gmail.com | Amsterdam, Netherlands
ABOUT
Mayomi Basnayaka is a Sri Lankan contemporary artist. She was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Japan, and was art and design educated in France. Being a citizen of everywhere and nowhere, her art reflects the complexities of multiculturalism. These ideas translate into her installation, performance art, and sculptural work by the subject of FOOD. Being the daughter of a Sri Lankan chef cooking Scandinavian cuisine, his battles between food and identity inspired her passion to explore and question our relationship with food. Interactive or visual, performance is at the core of her work, as seen in her collaborative thought-provoking dinners about climate change, to her solo food tools that enhance focus during the act of eating. Having been raised under conservative cultural and religious regimes, her work aims to question barriers around identity and encourages liberation from taboo associations between food, pleasure, and cultural identity.
EDUCATION
2021-23
2016-20
2019
2016-20
2019
Sandberg Instituut | MIA in Studio for Immediate Spaces| Amsterdam, Netherlands
Parsons The New School for Design | BFA in Art, Media, and Technology| Paris, France
Design Academy Eindhoven | Exchange Program in Food Non Food | Eindhoven, Netherlands
Parsons The New School for Design | BFA in Art, Media, and Technology| Paris, France
Design Academy Eindhoven | Exchange Program in Food Non Food | Eindhoven, Netherlands
EXHIBITION
2021
2021
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2015
2021
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2015
Framing the Archive at Het Niewe Instituute for Capture/Display| Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nudes at RI Center for Photographic Arts for Behind the Lens Plus |Rhode Island, USA
Nudes for BLM for Intermissions |Online
Children of O at Mediamatic for Neo Futurist Dinners | Amsterdam, Netherlands
EATMAD at Musee des Art Decoratif for Museum APIxMAD | Paris, France
Blank Page at The Mansion in Beirut Design Week for Souk-el-Hivos| Beirut, Lebanon
A Little Death at Komunuma for Everybody Dies But Me |Romainville, France
Jane Foe at Platforme Gallery for @non_site_specific| Paris, France
You Are What You Eat at Platforme Gallery for Small Works | Paris, France
Ceramic Dishware at Kodomonoshiro for Artscape Tokyo, Japan
Nudes at RI Center for Photographic Arts for Behind the Lens Plus |Rhode Island, USA
Nudes for BLM for Intermissions |Online
Children of O at Mediamatic for Neo Futurist Dinners | Amsterdam, Netherlands
EATMAD at Musee des Art Decoratif for Museum APIxMAD | Paris, France
Blank Page at The Mansion in Beirut Design Week for Souk-el-Hivos| Beirut, Lebanon
A Little Death at Komunuma for Everybody Dies But Me |Romainville, France
Jane Foe at Platforme Gallery for @non_site_specific| Paris, France
You Are What You Eat at Platforme Gallery for Small Works | Paris, France
Ceramic Dishware at Kodomonoshiro for Artscape Tokyo, Japan
PRESS
2020
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
“Nudes for BLM” for Merde Magazine Issue III
“Nudes for a Cause” by Nadya Agrawal for Kajal Magazine
“And Endurance Finds Its Efficacy” by Malcom Peacock for Flat Rate Contemporary
“Behind the Lense Plus” by Grace Marie Dewitt for RI Center of Photographic Art “Photography Print Sales for Anti-Racist Actionn and Social Change” for Humble Arts Foundation “During Children of O you drink cola instead of water” for Lisa Appels at Het Parol
“Children of O with Design Academy” for Ooze.nl
“Souk-el-Hivos” for Beirut Design Week
“Nudes for a Cause” by Nadya Agrawal for Kajal Magazine
“And Endurance Finds Its Efficacy” by Malcom Peacock for Flat Rate Contemporary
“Behind the Lense Plus” by Grace Marie Dewitt for RI Center of Photographic Art “Photography Print Sales for Anti-Racist Actionn and Social Change” for Humble Arts Foundation “During Children of O you drink cola instead of water” for Lisa Appels at Het Parol
“Children of O with Design Academy” for Ooze.nl
“Souk-el-Hivos” for Beirut Design Week