December 8–January 26, 2019
Organized by guest curator Priyadarshini Shanker with Nandita Raman and sepiaEYE, this series accompanies Nandita Raman’s photography exhibition Cinema Play House, which captures the magical allure of fading cinema halls in India. The screening series, in conversation with Raman’s black-and-white photographs, approaches the subject of cinema from a multi-dimensional perspective. Non-fiction Indian films explore themes of film archiving, restoration, production, distribution, and exhibition. In order to spotlight modes of cinematic representation that do not pertain to conventional notions of the “documentary,” the series also includes experimental essay films, narrative shorts and feature-length ruminative documentaries. It also brings to light the work of women filmmakers, showcasing the films of four contemporary Indian female directors.
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Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave.,
Astoria, NY 11106
Thursday, November 15, 6:30 to 8 PM
Please join us at sepiaEYE for an enlightening conversation with artist Nandita Raman as well as two distinguished scholars of photography and film, Paul Sternberger and Priyadarshini Shanker. We will explore Raman’s personal connections to some of her work as well as additional influences on her choice of subject matter. The discussion will delve into the choices Raman has made for each of her series regarding photographic technology, approaches to composition, process, and color and how her approach is informed by but distinguished from documentary photography.
RSVP required, limited seating available.
November 1 - December 2, 2018
Works from Matthew's mixed media series, Bollywood Satirized, will be featured in One In Three: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence. The exhibit is part of a larger initiative to bring attention to the topic of violence against women, including a day-long conference at Lesley. One in Three is curated by Meenakshi Chabra and Sonia Perez-Villanueva, and will present work by artists addressing themes associated with violence against women.
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Lunder Arts Center, Roberts Gallery
1801 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States
October 17 – 21, 2018
Images from Gupta's "From Here to Eternity” will be featured in a group exhibition on "Activist Art" entitled Life-Blood as part of the Bloombury Festival.
Sunil Gupta on this body of work: "I made these works partly in response to a period of illness brought on by the HIV. I thought that it might be time to think about how the virus affects my life. I ended up with these six diptychs. They were made in the darkroom as straight forward negative positive prints. Printing one's work in the darkroom is still magical as opposed to the digital printing that has largely taken over. The process itself seemed therapeutic."
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The Crypt Gallery
Euston Road (Entrance Dukes's Road), London, NW1 2BA
England
October 12 - December 9, 2018
Beatrice Pediconi's video installation, Alien, will be on view in the exhibition, Chi utopia mangia le mele (Eating Apples in Utopia) which is part of Art Verona. Curators, Adriana Polveroni and Gabriele Tosi.
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Ex Dogana Vecchia
Verona
Italy
September 15–January 27, 2019
Concurrently with her exhibition at sepiaEYE, Nandita Raman's cinema hall photographs are currently on view at The Museum of the Moving Image. This solo exhibition of Cinema Play House will include a film program presented by Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, PhD, Adjunct Faculty at NYU and Columbia University.
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Astoria, NY, USA
September 10-21, 2018
As part of Watershed, a multi-disciplinary program that "enmeshes arts and science," Atul Bhalla's presents You always step into the same river: Looking for lost water (Explorations at the Cradle). Fully utilizing the echo-y atmosphere of the Atrium in The Chamber of Mines Building, Bhalla's installation combines photographs, performative photographs, video with sculptural and textual interventions, and performances.
Bhalla has been involved in projects which highlight the use/misuse of water as well as its religious and mythical significance in his hometown of New Delhi. His work for Watershed will examine water as a repository of history, meaning and myth within the context of Johannesburg gold mining, taking references of land and water relations from historical (oral and non-oral) contexts.
“I’ll also attempt to explore how people live and survive in and around the dumps, developing local language/s and words for operations and acts that may not have existed pre-mining days. I intend to use Zulu as the language of communication within the work,” says Bhalla.
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Chamber of Mines Building
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, 2000
South Africa
August 31 - December 30, 2018
Osamu James Nakagawa's Banta series will be featured in the Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur in Copenhagen for the Photography Biennale 2018. He will be showing prints from Banta that are larger and "hyper real" than previously exhibited images. The Photography Biennale 2018's title, Photography to End All Photography, focuses on "post-photographic photography." The participating artists all create amazing photographs that are almost impossible to distinguish from reality. But on closer inspection, the photos reveal the most surprising details that make us doubt whether we can entirely trust our own eyes.
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Brandts Museum for Kunst & Visuel Kultur
TORV 1
5000 Odense, Copenhagen
Denmark
July 27, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's image, Flags, from her An Indian from India series is featured in the exhibition, Former Glory. With photographs, prints, and paintings spanning more than 150 years, the exhibition questions our emotional connections to the flag and explores its presence in domestic and international communities. Humorous, violent, critical, and sentimental, these varied works acknowledge and reflect on American nationalism and our complex histories.
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RISD Museum
Providence
United States
December 12, 2018 – March 29, 2019
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's project: Delhi: Communities of Belonging are among the first announced for inclusion to the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Curated by artist Anita Dube, although the vision of the other biennale has not been stated firmly yet, she has expressed: "I want to explore the vexed question of the relationship between art and politics," she says, "as well as the possibilities of a non-alienated life."* Congratulations to the artists, and we look forward to seeing the Biennale take shape.
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Various locations
Kochi, Kerala
India
July 13 – August 18, 2018
Betwixt and Between: Photography, Time and Place, curated by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, features photographic works by: Hasan Elahi, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Meggan Gould, Sunil Gupta, Abigail Gumbiner, Yashna Kaul, Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe, Netta Laufer, Olivia B. McCullough, Abelardo Morell, Lorie Novak, Pierre & Gilles, Meghann Riepenhoff, Ian Mohon, Lauren Semivan, Starn Twins, Millee Tibbs, Penelope Umbrico, Clement Valla, and Jay Simple.
"This exhibition highlights artists that explore different processes and possibilities in photography with a strong emphasis on points where the various technologies amplify and augment the artist’s concept. Rather than arguing for a monolithic definition of photography, this exhibition is betwixt and between, with a three-pronged approach.”
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Jamestown Arts Center
18 Valley Street
Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835, USA
July 4 - 11, 2018
Qiana Mestrich's Hard to Place will be amongst a selection of artist's publications and editions presented during Toronto Art Book Week at the Critical Distance Center for Curators.
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Critical Distance Centre for Curators
180 Shaw Street, Unit 302
Toronto, ON M6J 2W5, Canada
June 29 - July 10, 2018
"The presentation at Haus der Kunst is the most comprehensive and wideranging survey of Sundaram’s work at a European institution. The display is conceived as a sequence of juxtapositions with a view to suggesting how formal and thematic concerns ricochet from one work to another. History, Memory, Archive: the three keywords that the artist has designated as the overarching concerns of his practice are the signposts, as it were, for articulating the overall structure of the exhibition, an open-ended framework for exploring the connections or disjunctures between these terms and themes." - Curator Deepak Ananth, Assistant Curator Anna Schneider
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Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538 Munich
June 14 – September 16, 2018
Charan Singh's work can be viewed in the group exhibition, Cast of Characters, a salon-style exhibition curated by artist Liz Collins. Collins has transformed The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center into a lush, densely patterned salon filled with portraits made by over 100 LGBTQ artists.
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The Center
New York
United States
April 21, 2018, 1:00-3:15PM
Annu Matthew will be giving three 15-minute talks on her work, Majority, Minority, on view in the exhibition, “(un)expected families” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusettes, USA
April 7 - August 1, 2018
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is featured in the group exhibition, Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacies of Post Independent Art from South Asia which is now moving on to Mumbai. Curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala.
Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacies of Post Independent Art from South Asia
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
March 10th - April 22nd, 2018
sepiaEYE artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Atul Bhalla, and Serena Chopra will be a part of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial. The theme for this year is INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art focusing on 48 Contemporary Photographic and New Media Artists from India. Organized by Lead Curator Sunil Gupta and FotoFest Executive Director Steven Evans, FotoFest 2018 will be one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary photography by artists of Indian origin to be presented in the United States.
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INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art
Houston, Texas
United States
March 9th - July 29th, 2018
sepiaEYE artists Pamela Singh and Vivan Sundaram will be a part of the San Fransisco Asian Art Museum's exhibition Divine Bodies.
Divine Bodies
Asian Art Museum, San Fransisco
March 9th - April 29th, 2018
Soumya Sankar Bose's series Full Moon in a Dark Night will be on view at the Houston Center of Photography's exhibition For Freedoms: Margin and Center.
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9, 5:30pm-8pm
Artists' remarks beginning at 6pm
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Houston Center of Photography
United States
March 8th - 11th, 2018
sepiaEYE is pleased to have organized a trip to Houston during the FotoFest 2018 Biennial focusing on INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art. The program is geared towards those with an interest for South Asian arts and includes VIP Fotofest passes as well as curator and artist guided tours through museums including the Museum of Fine Art, Houston Center of Photography, Contemporary Art Museum, and Asia Society.
Contact the gallery for more information.
March 7 - May 18, 2018
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be on view at Reclaimed Baggage at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum. The exhibition curated by Nirmal Raja focuses on South Asian American women navigating their cultural landscapes in the light of migration and globalization.
Opening Reception: March 29 | 5-6:30 pm
Panel discussion beginning at 6.40 pm
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Northern Illinois University Art Museum
United States
March 3rd - April 8th, 2018
Charan Singh's work will be on view in If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly at the Abrons Art Center.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 14 | 6-8 pm
If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly
Abrons Art Center
March 1 - March 18, 2018
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be on view at Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood at the University for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Opening Reception: March 02 | 6:30-8.30 pm
Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood
UArts, Philadelphia, PA
February 15 - March 10, 2018
Nandita Raman's work is exhibited at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York's Body is A Situation.
In her first New York City solo exhibition, Raman looks at the most available body, her own, in an effort to locate herself in the here and now; and opens it up to performativity of gender. In so looking, she embodies Simone de Beauvoir’s sentiment: “The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 15 | 6-8 pm
February 10 - February 21, 2018
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's will be on view at the exhibition Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacies of Post Independent Art from South Asia at the AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi.
February 9 - June 30, 2018
Vivan Sundaram's first ever retrospective surveying his practice over five decades is on view at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India.
Preparing for his Retrospective exhibition, Vivan Sundaram says: “This exhibition presents the themes I have engaged with, but it also proposes structures that hold things together in retrospect: via the work, the exhibition layout, and spectator itineraries. ‘Step inside and you are no longer a stranger’: the exhibition’s title reflects the conflicting dimensions of my practice.”
Step inside and you are no longer a stranger
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
January 19 - March 31, 2018
Works by sepiaEYE artists Sunil Gupta, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Pamela Singh, and Vivan Sundaram will be on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery exhibition Re Present: Photography from South Asia.
Re Present: Photography from South Asia
Kamloops Art Gallery
January 20th - April 29th, 2018
Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's works documenting queer life are shared in Dissent and Desire at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston as a part of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial.
Dissent and Desire
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
December 9, 2017 – June 17, 2018
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's series To Majority Minority will be shared at the exhibition (un)expected families at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
(un)expected families
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
November 11, 2017–May 13, 2018
Nandita Raman’s series on India’s disappearing cinema house culture will be on view at the George Eastman Museum.
There will be an Artist Talk and Tour with Nandita Raman and Curatorial Assistant William Green.
Friday, November 10, 2017, 12 p.m.
ARTIST TALK AND GALLERY TOUR (link)
Cinema Play House
George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY 14607