December 06, 2023 | 7 PM EDT
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be speaking about her practice as part of the Penumbra Foundation’s Artist Series. Organized by Leandro Villaro, the series brings to life the work of featured photographers and other notable guest artists and scholars, offering a unique opportunity to engage with them in an intimate setting as they discuss their work and process.
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Penumbra Foundation
36 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
USA
24 November 2023 — 9 June 2024
Charan Singh and Sunil Gupta’s work is included in The New Art Gallery Walsall’s The World that Belongs to Us. The exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists, largely from the South Asian diasporas of the UK and Canada, activating a wide range of conversations around archival histories and narratives, identity and belonging, collaboration and community, storytelling, the influence of popular culture, the fusion of the traditional with the contemporary and queer histories and perspectives.
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The New Art Gallery
Walsall Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
UK
November 11, 2023 - February 18, 2024
Bhupendra Karia and Serena Chopra’s works are included in Magazzino delle Idee’s survey exhibition Contemporary India, 18 photographers from Ghandi until today, curated by Fillipo Maggia.
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Magazzino delle Idee
2 Corso Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour
Trieste, TS 34132
Italy
October 5 - January 14, 2024
Pamela Singh is included in Barbican Centre’s RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology. The major group exhibition, featuring around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists, explores the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
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Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London, EC2Y 8DS
UK
September 30 - December 16, 2023
Charan Singh is one of the artists selected for New Contemporaries 2023, an annual survey exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The exhibition will launch at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool from 30 September to 16 December 2023 and then travel to Camden Art Centre from 19 January to 31 March 2024.
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Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street
Blackpool FY1 1PU
UK
September 23, 2023 | 2 PM EDT
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be in conversation with Dr. Francine Weiss, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Newport Art Museum, to discuss her work on the occasion of her recently released monograph, The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters Books and sepiaEYE, 2022).
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RISD Museum
20 N Main St
Providence, RI 02903
USA
September 21, 2023 | 7.30 PM BST
sepiaEYE director Esa Epstein and artist Serena Chopra will be in conversation for Entwined: Nature and Spirituality explored through Photography. The talk is part of the Entwined exhibition, on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE.
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Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Gallery 8, 4 Cromwell Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2JE
UK
Entwined
August 30 - October 05, 2023
September 18 - December 16, 2023
Atul Bhalla’s work is part of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, on view at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The exhibition illuminates the cultural, religious, and political significance of water—beyond an extractive commodity framework—and draws attention to the legacy of colonial rule and imperialism in the climate crisis.
Water Stories: Panel Discussions
October 13, 2023 | 10 AM EDT
Bhalla will be part of the Water Stories: Panel Discussions, which will bring together artists whose works are represented in the exhibition with scholars of religion, anthropology, and transnational studies to explore water’s multivalent meaning and to contemplate our current relationships with water.
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
April 03 - September 03, 2023
Vivan Sundaram’s installation Memorial (1993-2014) was on view at Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building. Created in response to the violent conflict between Hindu and Muslim groups in Mumbai in the early 1990s, the work centers around a newspaper photograph of an unidentified victim lying on the street. With Memorial, Sundaram raised questions about erasure, collective memory, nationalism, and citizenship in post-colonial South Asia.
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Tate Modern
Blavatnik Building
Hopton Street
London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom
June 15, 2023 | 7PM EST
Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Minor Matters co-founder Michelle Dunn Marsh will be in conversation at the Griffin Zoom Room to discuss The Answers Take Time (Minor Matters / sepiaEYE, 2022), Matthew’s mid-career survey. The publication elucidates the progression of Matthew’s conceptual, installation-driven work using photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities.
The Answers Take Time
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Griffin Zoom Room
The Griffin Museum of Photography
June 30 - August 30 2023
Vivan Sundaram’s work is included in Come tu mi vuoi / As you want me, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive’s exhibition of works from the FMAV collections curated by the class of ICON 2022 (Course for Curators of the Contemporary Image).
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Fondazione Modena Arti Visive
Via Emilia 283
41121 Modena
Italy
June 3 - June 18, 2023
Qiana Mestrich’s work is on view at Photoville as part of Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia, an international and intergenerational exhibition that blurs the lines between what is exterior and interior to reclaim the Black outdoors and rethink history and the ways African-Americans have been denied freedom.
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Photoville
Brooklyn Bridge Park
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Summer 2023
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is profiled in an essay by Bakirathi Mani titled The Living Archive: How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories? for in Aperture 251: Being & Becoming: Asian in America. This landmark issue considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.
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Being & Becoming: Asian in America
Aperture 251
Summer 2023
May 25 - July 27, 2023
Qiana Mestrich’s project @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace is on view at the Counter Histories exhibition at Magnum Foundation. Featuring four artists from the 2022 cohort of Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories Fellowship, the exhibition incorporates bodies of work that began with an investigation into personal and familial histories. Each artist’s engagement of found archives prompted interventions into gaps in historical and familial records in order to create more inclusive, nuanced depictions of place, cultures, and community.
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Magnum Foundation
59 East 4th St, 7W
New York, NY 10003
USA
May 19 - September 17, 2023
Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh, and Pamela Singh’s images are included at The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum's exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. The show explores the sari as a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.
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The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
London W8 6AG
United Kingdom
May 05 - September 03, 2023
Pamela Singh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s works are on view at Hier Bin Ich / Here I Am, Kunsthalle Emden’s survey of self-portraiture by over 30 female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries across all artistic media.
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Kunsthalle Emden
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden
Germany
February 07 - June 11 2023
Vivan Sundaram’s new work will be on view at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the biennial will feature works by more than 150 artists presented at 16 venues across the emirate. Sundaram is one of 30 artists commissioned to develop new work to mark the Sharjah Biennial’s 30-year anniversary.
"Okwui’s proposition suggests a narrative that is dynamic yet recursive in an ethically accountable way. I present a photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued (2022), a choreography of bodies that have undergone violence, experienced incarceration, and lived through mourning. The sixth ‘station’ signifies a journey premised on the historical and rehearsed with activist resolve."
- Vivan Sundaram
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Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at Harvard Art Museum as part of their Reframe Initiative. The museum-wide program aims to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum by examining difficult histories, highlighting untold stories, and experimenting with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Spring 2023
Serena Chopra’s The Tale of Time series in included in the new Partition Museum in Delhi, opening soon at the Dara Shikoh Library Building at Ambedkar University. The museum is the second Museum on the Partition of India, dedicated to creating a repository of artifacts, information and stories about the world’s largest migration.
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Partition Museum
Dara Shikoh Library
Ambedkar University
New Delhi
February 2023
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series will be exhibited at the South Asia Gallery – Manchester Museum’s new gallery in partnership with the British Museum, co-curated by the South Asia Gallery Collective. It is the first permanent gallery in the UK dedicated to the South Asian diaspora, displaying material from the British Museum alongside South Asian collections in Manchester.
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Manchester Museum
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester
Winter 2022
Qiana Mestrich’s ongoing project Toward a History of Women of Color in the Workplace, recipient of the 2022 Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories grant, is profiled by Lovia Gyarkye in Aperture’s Reference issue.
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Reference
Aperture 249
Winter 2022
Nandita Raman’s work is included in Guftgu, a curated collection of zines published by Offset Projects. The Guftgu book, edited and curated by Anshika Varma, presents the practices of 10 contemporary photographers to expand on the processes behind a growing visual language within South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
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Guftgu
Offset Projects
January 17 - March 10, 2023
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is exhibited at the William Benton Museum of Art’s Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge. The exhibition explores how science, art, and museums collide to produce, and sometimes distort, truth and knowledge.
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William Benton Museum of Art
245 Glenbrook Rd
Storrs, CT 06269
June 2022 - June 2023
Atul Bhalla is part of a group of artists commissioned by Khoj International Artists’ Association to develop work around the expeditionary weather station 28th Parallel North. The station has been set up as part of the World Weather Network - a global alliance of 28 art agencies formed in response to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
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28th Parallel North
World Weather Network
December 23 2022 - April 10 2023
Vivan Sundaram’s work is on view at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23. The biennale's fifth edition, titled Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, is curated by Shubigi Rao and includes 200 works displayed across Kochi.
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Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Fort Kochi
Kerala, India
September 03, 2022 - June 09, 2024
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at RISD Museum’s Art and Design from 1900 to Now exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the areas of study taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, drawing together works on paper, costume and textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts and design.
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Rhode Island School of Design Museum
20 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02903
December 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023
Atul Bhalla’s work is included in the exhibition Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India at at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition foregrounds landscapes of India, real and reimagined, as powerful means of examining environmental and social issues concerning us all. Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.
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National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20560
2022
sepiaEYE will partner with Minor Matters to release Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s first monograph The Answers Take Time.
This midcareer survey of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew visualizes the progression of a conceptual, installation-driven artist who uses photography, collage, digital animation, parody, and ephemera to explore performative and deep-rooted personal elements of cultural identities. From her highly-publicized series “Indian from India” to the lesser-seen “Bollywood Satirized,” the book reveals within her work consistent themes of malleability, identity, and memory.
The Answers Take Time
(Minor Matters/sepiaEYE, 2022)
8 x 9.5 inches
~75 black and white and color images
Hardcover, 112 pages
$50 plus shipping, deadline June 25 to achieve 500 pre-sales
May/June 2022
Pamela Singh’s work from her Chipko series is included in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine’s May/June 2022 issue. Resurgence & Ecologist offers positive perspectives on a range of engaging topics covering ecology, social justice, philosophy, spirituality, sustainable development and the arts.
“A Himalayan woman who practiced Gandhian principles invited me to participate. She took me to her village to partake and record a unique non- violent demonstration of tree hugging to protect them from being felled down. It was an all female operation that day and their intervention was to drive home a point that they could stop the loggers by their peaceful persistence. This is how I came upon the Chipko movement of the Himalayas that took place in the early 90’s. Chipko literally means to embrace or to hug.” - Pamela Singh
March 18 - May 30th, 2022
Atul Bhalla’s work is included in the exhibition Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water at The Seattle Art Museum. The exhibition explores the many ways artists around the world have engaged with the theme of water, featuring over 80 works of art from 16 countries and 7 Native American tribes. The works date from ancient to contemporary times and include video, sculpture, textiles, paintings, ceramics, and photographs.
Our Blue Planet is a collaboration among three SAM curators: Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art; Natalia Di Pietrantonio, Assistant Curator of South Asian Art; and Pamela McClusky, Curator of African and Oceanic Art.
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Seattle Art Museum
1300 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
USA