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2023 ABC Television Mithu Sen in Conversation, ACCA Podcast Mithu Sen’s Subversion of the Violent Artifices of Language, by Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Art Review ‘My preferred medium is life itself’: Mithu Sen, by Sukhada Tatke, Frontline Mithu Sen Speaks in Tongues, by Hilary Thurlow, Frieze Mithu Sen on Art, Poetry, and Lingual Anarchy, by Natalie King, Ocula The Art Show, ABC Radio National Artist Mithu Sen, by Neha Kale, The Saturday Paper Mithu Sen is one of India's foremost contemporary artists but she doesn't consider herself an activist, rather a trickster, ABC works  Interview: Mithu Sen centres “lingual anarchy” to question institutions and the art market, by Amelia Winata, Artguide Language, hospitality and discomfort in the work of Mithu Sen,  mOTHERTONGUE is a dense, mid-career survey of Bengal-born artist Mithu Sen that escapes simple definitions, by Celina Lei mOTHERTONGUE, Platform magazine MOTHERTONGUE: Peter Hill And Mithu Sen In Conversation  In a mid-career retrospective, Mithu Sen showcases a body of work at ACCA in Melbourne, which disrupts and challenges the normal, New Indian express   2021 “We Have Entered a Stage of Overproduction”: The Weight of (Un)hospitality and the Performative Self, by Karin Zitzewitz, Critical Times  Unsettling the Normative with Mithu Sen, by Jess Henderson, Maeken From Accentuating Sexuality to Questioning Hierarchy, Mithu Sen’s Works of Art Explore Multiple Domains, Outlook This Constant Becoming: An Interview with Mithu Sen, by Erica X Eisen, The Hypocrite Reader Erasure, by Meera Menezes, ART FORUM UnMYthU : Unquantize, Sonbeek Mithu Sen's work at Radhika Chopra's Neo-baroque mansion, by Sunil Sethi, Architectural Digest “New Delhi: Churning of the World.” by Deeksha Nath, ArtAsiaPacific Mithu Sen, OCULA THE UNMYTH OF BRYAN’S WORLD, by Mithu Sen, Ming studios A meditative showcase from India at Art Basel, Avantika Bhuyan, Mint lounge Art Basel: A look at the Indian heavyweights on view, by Arshia Dhar, Architectural Digest This Constant Becoming: An Interview With Mithu Sen, by Erica X Eisen, Hypocrite reader   2020 “The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic and Speaks to Transform!” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Mithu Sen’s concept-laden practice unearths the unseen meanings of body and home, by Dilpreet Bhullar, StirWorld Marg in their 75 years issue on 'Must artist be activist?'  “What Does It Mean to be a Postcolonial Feminist? The Artwork of Mithu Sen.”, Hypatia, by Sushmita Chatterjee, Cambridge Core Unsocial media by MASH Kate daw's artistic research in the asia, The university of Melbourne   2019 My Medium is Life, by Anuj Kumar, The hindu Performance and mixed media artist Mithu Sen on what fuels her feminism and how she learned to love the colour pink, India Art Fair “The Archive in Real Time: Gossip and Speculation in the World of South Asian Art.” Art Journal by Karin Zitzewitz  “Mithu Sen, Thomas Erben Gallery.”, Kate Sutton, Artforum Overturning the male gaze through art, by Sujatha Shankar Kumar, The Hindu Business Line An Act of Persistence, by Chinki Sinha, India Today Artist Mithu Sen on (Un)Mansplaining, her satirical performance piece from the 2019 Venice Biennale, by Rosalyn D'mello, Firstpost My medium is life: Mithu Sen, by Anuj Kumar, The Hindu   2018 In conversation with Mithu Sen, the artist who wants to 'unmake' everything 2018 Provocation and Insistence: A Conversation with Mithu Sen, by Susan Krane  In conversation with Mithu Sen, the artist who wants to 'unmake' everything, by Chinki Sinha, India Today The un-making of Mithu Sen, by Somak Ghosal, Livemint Mithu Sen on Platform Magazine, by Rosalyn D'Mello Provocation and Insistence: A Conversation with Mithu Sen, by Susan Krane, Sculpture Magazine UNHomed | The Radical Hospitality of Mithu Sen, by Sue Bell Yank and Vasundhara Mathur, 18thstreet Museum of unbelongings (mou) by mithu sen remains permanently in the kunstmuseum wolfsburg, by Durjoy Bangladesh, Germany Mithu Sen, Artfacts “(Un)MYthU: Byproducts of twenty years of performance - A process of seeing and unseeing.” by Jesal Thacker, for Critical Collective “‘New’ Feminisms in India: Encountering the ‘West’ and the Rest,” in Rethinking New Womanhood, edited by Nazia Hussein article by Sushmita Chatterjee Women speak out: Ten female artists submit statements on their experiences with sexual harassment and sexism, ArtAsiaPacific   2017 “The India that was”, The Pioneer “The Museums of Time and Space” by Chinki Sinha, India Today “Art Stars Trek to Nepal for the First Kathmandu Trienniale, Promoting Regional Solidarity”, by Skye Arundhati Thomas “Women’s Day special: Women talk about desire and other difficult dialogues”, Mithu Sen, The Indian Express, March 2017 “Mithu Sen isn't afraid to depict sexuality in her works”, by Anindita Ghosh, Femina “Mithu Sen: I constantly change my mediums so the market will not be able to trap me”, Skye Arundhati Thomas, Studio International, May 2017 ‘I constantly change my medium so the market will not be able to trap me’, by Skye Arundhati Thomas, Studio International Mithu Sen: The Constant Performer, by Rosalyn D'Mello, OPEN Magazine The un-making of Mithu Sen, by Somak Ghosal, Livemint   2016 “Art Basel questionnaire, Mithu Sen, MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)”, Artreview “The Borders Between Us.” by Karin Zitzewitz, Art India   2015 “Mithu Sen: Poetry, Beauty, and Androgyny.” by Jyoti Dhar, ArtAsiaPacific Indian Artists Look Westward, and Homeward, at the Queens Museum, by Holland Cotter, New York Times Between certain forms of life and what is living, by Daniela Zyman, Critical Collective   2014 “Mithu Sen”, by Lee Ann Norman, Bomb Magazine “Mithu Sen at the Broad”, by Karin Zitzewitz Critic’s Picks, by Murtaza Vali, Artforum  In Conversation: Mithu Sen, by Asian American Writers Workshop    2013 Vitamin D2: New Perspectives In Drawings. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, by Craid Garrett Avant Gardes of the 21st Century, Phaidon Press Limited “Organic Dreams of Electric Sheep: Image, Empathy and Pulse (After Philip K. Dick)” by Renuka Sawhney   2012 “Mithu Sen, Galerie Steph.” by Sherman Sam, Artforum ‘In house adoption’ show in Singapore at gallery steph, by Sherman Sam, Artforum critic’s pick Artists at the India Art Fair, by Georgina Maddox, India Today Gift Economies: System of Love and Exchange in FreeMithu, by Latika Gupta, TAKE ON ART   2011 High Blood Pressure, by Vandana Kalra, The Indian Express  Article by Hemant Sareen, ArtAsiaPacific   2010 “Interview with Mithu Sen”, by Sophia Powers, ARTSLANT Black Candy: Welcome to Mithu Sen’s Exotic Adventure, by Himanshu Bhagat, Motherland Mithu Sen by Sabine B. Vogel, Artforum  
2009 “Miniature as Style — A Small Revolution?” Living, by Annapurna Garimella, The PARK Magazine 2008 I dig, I look down reviewed, by Zehra Jumabhoy, ArtAsiaPacific 2006 Mithu Sen: Drawing Room by Asia Art Archive Elaine N G on art asia pacific