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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Read moreAtul 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
Nandita Raman will be in conversation with Avantika Bawa and Kuldeep Singh for the Unfolding: How Artists Shape Diaspora panel moderated by Namita Gupta Wiggers. The talk is part of the E/Merge:Art of the Diaspora exhibition at National Indo-American Museum (NIAM) curated by Shaurya Kumar, Chair of Faculty and Associate Professor at School of Art Institute of Chicago.
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Read moreVivan Sundaram’s work is included in the exhibition Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art at Museum of Arts and Design, the first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art.
The exhibition is guest curated by Alexandra Schwartz, a New York-based art historian, curator, and adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Studies at SUNY | Fashion Institute of Technology. Schwartz remarked, “Despite the current ubiquity of garmenting as a visual arts practice, it has not previously been examined or theorized. This exhibition centers contemporary artists’ exploration of dress as a formal trope and critical tool, using the language of fashion to address fundamental aspects of subjectivity, including gender, class, race, and ethnicity."
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Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 11001
USA
Vivan Sundaram’s work is included in the exhibition A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020 at Whitechapel Gallery, a 100-year survey of the studio through the work of artists and image-makers from around the world.
Review in The Wall Street Journal March 16, 2022
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Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London
Qiana Mestrich’s work is included in the exhibition Picturing Black Girlhood as part of the conference Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play and Performance at Rutgers University-Newark. Her series The Black Doll is on view in this exhibition that reimagines girlhood through the eyes of Black women and girl photographers.
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Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University
Express Newark (EN), Rutgers University
54 Halsey Street Newark, NJ
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is included in the exhibition “Black, White & Shades of Grey” at Cal Poly Pomona. The exhibition has been curated by Michele Cairella Fillmore and addresses topics of the current socio-political, racial and ethnic, gender-based and cultural issues.
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Kellogg University Art Gallery
Cal Poly Pomona
Pamela Singh, Nandita Raman, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Vivan Sundaram are included in Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait by Phillip Prodger, published by Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Face Time is an esteemed curator’s introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture that masterfully combines some of the most famous portraits ever made with rarely seen treasures and curiosities.
Read moreAnnu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work from An Indian from India is included in the exhibition “Visions of India: From the Colonial to the Contemporary” curated by Nathaniel Gaskell for the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru. The survey exhibition of over 170 works is now on view at the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) in Melbourne, Australia.
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Monash Gallery of Art (MGA)
Melbourne, Australia
ARRIVALS, guest curated by Heather Ewing, will feature some 50 works spanning the 16th century to the present. Artists represented in the exhibition include Norman Akers, Katrina Andry, Enrique Chagoya, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Willie Cole, Vanessa German, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Titus Kaphar, Dorothea Lange, Annie Lopez, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Keith Anthony Morrison, Dulce Pinzón, Sara Rahbar, Faith Ringgold, Ben Shahn, Roger Shimomura, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Saul Steinberg, Stephanie Syjuco, Thuan Vu, Kara Walker, Flo Oy Wong and N.C. Wyeth.
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Katonah Museum of Art
Nandita Raman's ongoing series, Body is a Situation, will be featured in the inaugural group exhibition of the National Indo-American Museum. E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora is curated by Shaurya Kumar, Chair of Faculty and Associate Professor at School of the Art Institute Chicago.
"Using my body as a device, Body is a Situation is a re-looking at the city of Varanasi (Benares) in India, which features prominently in the mystique and map of the East. It examines tropes of representation in the colonial gaze while relying on the body for awareness of place, culture, politics and history. I’m using drawings, etching, photographs and text in this work." - Nandita Raman
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National Indo-American Museum (NIAM)
Lombard, IL
Curated by Dr. Francine Weiss. For over twenty years, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has been making photo-based works of art that deal with lesser known histories and immigration. The exhibition will feature works from Memories of India, An Indian from India, Open Wound - Stories of Partition, and The Unremembered - Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of WWII.
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Newport Art Museum