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Dr. Paul Sternberger and Esa Epstein have recently indexed and arranged 3,000 work prints by Bhupendra Karia that were made in Bombay between 1968 and 1970. Focusing on the craft movement, architecture, portraiture, and city scenes of India, the prints, organized by negative number, provide us with a day-by-day visual chronicle of Karia’s travels.
Read moreAnnu Palakunnathu Matthew was awarded a 2024 Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship to study Italian in the summer of 2024 and received funding to continue her research and to meet the descendants of the Italian families who sheltered escaped Indian prisoners from the Italian Campaign of World War II. She will be giving a talk at the Collelonga Festival, a town that hid some of these soldiers.
Read morePamela Singh’s Chipko series will be included in Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World, Phaidon’s upcoming publication survey celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees. Spanning continents and cultures, Tree reflects the diversity of its subject in a wide-ranging selection of visuals dating from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Read moreCharan’s Singh’s new work, The Promise of Beauty, will be exhibited in his first major solo exhibition at The Art House. Developed during his 2023 residency, the series disrupts Euro-American versions of queerness by re-examining and re-creating minor figures from Company Paintings — hybrid paintings made in India, by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons.
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The Art House
Drury Ln
Wakefield WF1 2TE
United Kingdom
Pamela Singh’s work is included in Take a Breath at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition explores the historical, social, political, and personal relationships to breath in the context of decolonisation, environmental racism, indigenous language, war, and meditation.
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW3
Ireland
Pamela Singh’s work is included in the Rebel Garden exhibition at Musea Brugge as part of the Triennial Bruges. The exhibition, breaking out of traditional museum walls and occupying no fewer than three museum sites, looks at the tumultuous relationship between man and nature in the context of the climate crisis.
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Musea Brugge
Dijver 12
8000 Brugge
Belgium
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series is included in the Waral Prakalp exhibition at Spore Initiative. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with the eponymous indigenous Warli artist community from Ganjad, Maharashtra, centres on practices of forest protection, reforestation, and agroforestry.
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Spore Initiative
Hermannstraße 86
12051 Berlin
Germany
Qiana Mestrich’s @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace series is included in Counter Histories at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Drawn from a 2023 presentation organized by Magnum Foundation in New York City, the exhibiting artists confront difficult histories by reconstructing perspectives that have been omitted from previously accepted or official accounts.
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Center for Photography at Woodstock
474 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401
United States
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 30 - October 05, 2023
Read moreAtul 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.
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
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
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
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
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