Cheryl Mukherji uses photography alongside the mediums of printmaking, surveillance video, text, and embroidery to explore ideas of origin and inheritance. In her most recent ongoing series, Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl, Mukherji reimagines Indian matrimonial portraiture, taking her mother’s portraits as a point of departure.

Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl was exhibited at Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, and featured in New York Now: Home at the Museum of the City of New York. Selected pieces from Beautiful Home Loving Girl and other projects will be on view during the talk on Saturday. Among them, Ghorer Bairer Aalo and her artist book, I Don’t Oil My Hair Anymore, both of which explore Mukherji’s relationship with her mother and muse.

In addition to her Baxter Street and MCNY shows, Mukherji’s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at PHOTOFAIRS, The Print Center, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Capture Photography Festival, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, Format Photo Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Moving Image, International Center of Photography, Serendipity Arts Festival, among others.