University of North Texas 
Binod Shrestha
(V ì – n ô d’ S h r ē ș t h a)
Foundations
Professor
Art Building, Room 230E
Professor, Foundations
About
Binod Shrestha, professor of studio art, was CVAD's inaugural director of the studio-based Foundations program. His role has been to support and lead the program, ensure that the program serves all majors in the college, and work with the Foundations' communities in Texas and beyond.
Shrestha came to CVAD from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he was an associate professor, foundations coordinator and active in art foundations pedagogy.
Shrestha is an artist who works across media and holds M.F.A. degrees from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Shrestha has described his work as exploring the possibilities and upshot of myths, memory and metaphor — the 3Ms — on the body and as "probing politics and its implications on the body in socio-political and metaphysical context at the micro-level.
2023
April: Recipient of the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education's 2023 Master Educator Award at the FATE 2023 Conference, April 13, at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado. Shrestha was also elected as the 2023–2025 FATE vice president of development.
March: Elected as a member of the National Arts Administrators Association Board of Directors.