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
Read moreMarch 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
Read moreMarch 13, 2022 | 10.30-11.30 AM CT
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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 moreMarch 12 - August 14, 2022
Vivan 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
Read moreFebruary 24 – June 5 2022
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
Read moreFebruary 12 - July 02, 2022
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
Read moreJanuary 18 - March 27, 2022
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
Read moreDecember 2021
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 moreDecember 17, 2021 - March 20, 2022
Annu 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
Read moreOctober 03, 2021 – January 23, 2022
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
Read moreOctober 16, 2021 - April 24, 2022
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
Read moreSeptember 25, 2021 - January 9, 2022
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
Read moreSeptember 20-23, 2021
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
Read moreSaturday, 18 September 2021, 5PM (IST)
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
Read moreSeptember 14 – October 16, 2021
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
Read moreJuly 30 – October 3, 2021
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
Read moreJuly 26 - October 17, 2021
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
Read moreJuly 17, 2021 - February 27, 2022
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
Read moreJune 18 - August 15, 2021
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
Read moreJune 3 - September 12, 2021
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
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