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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
The Department of Art and Performing Arts at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, presents a 4-day International Conference on ‘Knowledge Production and Research in Art/s Practices’, bringing together highly distinguished artists, educators, and art researchers, from around the world. The conference will be held from 20-23 September 2021.
Atul Bhalla is Professor and Head of the Department of Art & Performing Art, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Shiv Nadar University.
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Shiv Nadar University
NH-91, Tehsil Dadri
Gautam Buddha Nagar UP 201314
The Shergil Sundaram Arts Foundation Lab will be hosting a book discussion, September 18th, 2021 at 5PM (IST), on "Portal: The Curious Account of Achintya Bose" by Shan Bhattacharya.
The book is a fictional "found archive" in a diary format containing the collection of Achintya Bose, a Calcutta-based owner of a photography studio.
Join the Zoom panel discussion of “Portal” by registering at the link below. The author, Shan Bhattacharya, will be joined by Shohini Ghosh, Rimli Bhattacharya, and Ranu Roychoudhuri.
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New Delhi, India
Qiana Mestrich’s photographs are featured in the exhibition, “I belong to this,” curated by photographer Justine Kurland who states, “I belong to this brings seventeen artists together around themes of self and family, private rites and communal ritual, along a continuum of becoming. The title of the show is from Ariana Reines’s poem “Save the World”, and can be read as a declaration of identification, a promise of solidarity, or a blurring of self into multitudes. These artists mark an intractable this. The camera points, more like an ear than an index finger, in the direction of what is felt rather than seen and to those invisible threads that hold us together.”
”Qiana Mestrich’s son bows his head low in concentration as his arms take flight in dance; a grid of photographs maps his movements across time and space.”
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Huxley Parlor
London, England
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s lenticular prints from The Virtual Immigrant series are part of a group show, (re)location, at the Bristol Art Museum. This exhibition was reviewed by Michael Rose in the GoLocalProv.
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Bristol Art Museum
Rhode Island
Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India will be on view in “New England Now: People.”
“New England Now: People is the second exhibition in a new biennial series featuring regional contemporary artists. Organized by Associate Curator Carolyn Bauer, this multi-media group exhibition plumbs and celebrates the communities and people of New England.”
Review in Art Fix Daily, June 23, 2021.
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Shelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, VT 05482
Works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Pamela Singh are on view in “Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of the Daimler Art Collection: Works from the Collection 1920-2021.” The exhibition examines the interplay between art and human co-existence with a selection of around 100 artworks by about 70 artists from the corporate collection. The Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977 and contains over 3,000 pieces of art.
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Daimler Art Collection
Epplestraße 225
70567 Stuttgart-Möhringen
Germany
In the late 2010s, Germany decided to allow people from refraining on having to officially report as either male or female, and gender identity protections are put in place. In the group exhibition, The Third Gender, questions of how gender affiliation is defined, and how that affects discourse on non-binary, transgender, transsexual, and intersex persons is examined. Works from Charan Singh's and Sunil Gupta's Delhi: Communities of Belonging are on view.
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A.K.T;
Pforzheimn, Germany
Qiana Mestrich’s Thrall series will be on view in a group exhibition at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Ideologies.
“The effect of ideologies on the identity of individuals and entire societies is explored by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Johanna Diehl and Qiana Mestrich.”
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Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Germany
Charan Singh will have an essay in the forthcoming issue of TAP (Trans Asia Photography) Journal. "Photographic Rehearsal: A Still-Unfolding Narrative,” will be in the May/June 2021 issue, the first issue under new editorship.
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Read moreQiana Mestrich, whose latest series Thrall was recently on exhibit at sepiaEYE (February 15 - April 15, 2021), will be joined in conversation with Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar's Artistic Director, Charlotte Cotton.
The conversation will focusing on Mestrich’s creative journey through to her latest photographic series, Thrall. Mestrich will also talk about her impetus for founding Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History in 2007, which began as a blog and also functions as a monthly critique group online.
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Read moreArtist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and sepiaEYE director Esa Epstein will be in conversation online for A Peek Behind the Curtain: Conversations Between Photographers + Their Dealers on May 18, 12pm EST. This ongoing 90-minute series is geared toward photographers and the curious collector, going behind-the-scenes to have an honest and open conversation between a dealer and one of their artists.
The conversation will cover how dealers meet photographers/artists, how they work together, how a gallery defines its brand, how new talent is discovered, and the challenges of running a gallery today. Collector, advisor, and Maine Media faculty member, Alice Sachs Zimet will moderate.
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Join Dr. Paul Sternberger and Associate Curator of Contemporary Asian Art Carol Huh for a conversation with Delhi-based artist Vivan Sundaram focused on the development of his multifaceted practice. The subject of the 2019 book, Vivan Sundaram is Not a Photographer by Ruth Rosengarten, Sundaram crisscrosses boundaries of genre and medium to produce powerful installations that are both shaped by and transcend photographic modes. How can we better understand the artist’s diverse world of methods and materials? How are the museum’s own photo holdings from Sundaram’s Re-Take of Amrita series best situated within his broader oeuvre? Following the discussion, the curators and Sundaram will take questions from the audience in this special live event.
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Read moreVivan Sundaram's work is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera" exhibition. (On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 921)
“Epic Abstraction” features large-scale abstract painting and sculpture from the 1940s through the early twenty-first century, drawn primarily from the Met collection. Abstract Expressionism serves as the springboard for a thematic installation that intersperses enduring icons with works by lesser-known artists and debuts new acquisitions. Many of the artists represented worked in large formats because they sought not only to have the scope to fully explore line, color, shape, and texture, but also to evoke expansive – “epic”-ideas and subjects, including time, history, the body, and existential concerns of the self.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Atul Bhalla is included in the book, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling, published by Saint Lucy Books, 2020 and edited by Mark Alice Durant, with contributions by Jean Dykstra, Cig Harvey, Marvin Heiferman, Jennifer Blessing, Susan Bright, & David Campany.
Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and/or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence.
Nude, Beatrice Pediconi's third solo exhibition at the Sara Zanin Gallery, is curated by Cecilia Canziani and will be on from February 5 to April 15, 2021.
“Untitled, the series of work I am presenting, is the result of a drawing process meant to physically express loss. These drawings are the result of a migration, and their volatile and minimal traces are the sole witnesses to a story. They represent an irreversible transformation. The process of manipulating a material that is used to impress photo paper is an operation that interrogates how our past is mediated, transformed, and often ruined. By recycling these strips of Polaroid emulsion to create drawings on paper, I explore the degradation of memory and the corruption of our past. Drawing becomes the medium to seal our inevitable losses.” - Beatrice Pediconi
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Z2O Sara Zanin
Rome