Who i Am

Media & texture- these are the core tools I use to work the ideas that drive my practice.

I’m Arvid—an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of media, texture, and identity. My practice centers on mixed-media works that explore the complexities of otherness and the layered experience of belonging.

As a mixed-heritage American—born to a Bengali father and a Latina/Hispanic American mother—my life has moved between cultures. Raised primarily in the United States, with formative years spent in Bangladesh, I’ve often navigated the world as an insider–outsider. This duality informs my perspective and fuels the thematic core of my work: examining what it means to be “other” within the American landscape.

Material choice plays a central role in my process. I use a wide range of elements—spices, milk, ash, paint, and natural materials—as cultural signifiers and personal markers. These materials reflect my lived experience as the child of immigrants, someone who has learned to code-switch, adapt, and bridge multiple worlds.

I’m driven by questions about the “fabric of society”: What is the moral texture of America? How do the textures of our bodies, communities, and histories shape our interactions with the world? Through tactile surfaces, layered media, and experimental processes, my work explores these ideas and invites viewers to consider their own relationships to identity and belonging.

My practice is an ongoing investigation—an attempt to understand how we find acceptance, define ourselves, and create meaning within the overlapping textures of contemporary life.