April 03 - September 03, 2023
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
Read moreJune 15, 2023 | 7PM EST
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
Read moreJune 30 - August 30 2023
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
Read moreJune 3 - June 18, 2023
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
Read moreSummer 2023
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work is profiled in an essay by Bakirathi Mani titled The Living Archive: How do artists engage with collections shaped by colonial histories? for in Aperture 251: Being & Becoming: Asian in America. This landmark issue considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American.
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Being & Becoming: Asian in America
Aperture 251
Summer 2023
Read moreMay 25 - July 27, 2023
Qiana Mestrich’s project @WorkingWOC: Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace is on view at the Counter Histories exhibition at Magnum Foundation. Featuring four artists from the 2022 cohort of Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories Fellowship, the exhibition incorporates bodies of work that began with an investigation into personal and familial histories. Each artist’s engagement of found archives prompted interventions into gaps in historical and familial records in order to create more inclusive, nuanced depictions of place, cultures, and community.
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Magnum Foundation
59 East 4th St, 7W
New York, NY 10003
USA
Read moreMay 19 - September 17, 2023
Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh, and Pamela Singh’s images are included at The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum's exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. The show explores the sari as a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.
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The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
London W8 6AG
United Kingdom
Read moreMay 05 - September 03, 2023
Pamela Singh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s works are on view at Hier Bin Ich / Here I Am, Kunsthalle Emden’s survey of self-portraiture by over 30 female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries across all artistic media.
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Kunsthalle Emden
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden
Germany
Read moreFebruary 07 - June 11 2023
Vivan Sundaram’s new work will be on view at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the biennial will feature works by more than 150 artists presented at 16 venues across the emirate. Sundaram is one of 30 artists commissioned to develop new work to mark the Sharjah Biennial’s 30-year anniversary.
"Okwui’s proposition suggests a narrative that is dynamic yet recursive in an ethically accountable way. I present a photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued (2022), a choreography of bodies that have undergone violence, experienced incarceration, and lived through mourning. The sixth ‘station’ signifies a journey premised on the historical and rehearsed with activist resolve."
- Vivan Sundaram
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Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
Read moreAnnu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series is on view at Harvard Art Museum as part of their Reframe Initiative. The museum-wide program aims to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum by examining difficult histories, highlighting untold stories, and experimenting with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Read moreSpring 2023
Serena Chopra’s The Tale of Time series in included in the new Partition Museum in Delhi, opening soon at the Dara Shikoh Library Building at Ambedkar University. The museum is the second Museum on the Partition of India, dedicated to creating a repository of artifacts, information and stories about the world’s largest migration.
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Partition Museum
Dara Shikoh Library
Ambedkar University
New Delhi
Read moreFebruary 2023
Pamela Singh’s Chipko series will be exhibited at the South Asia Gallery – Manchester Museum’s new gallery in partnership with the British Museum, co-curated by the South Asia Gallery Collective. It is the first permanent gallery in the UK dedicated to the South Asian diaspora, displaying material from the British Museum alongside South Asian collections in Manchester.
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Manchester Museum
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester
Read moreWinter 2022
Qiana Mestrich’s ongoing project Toward a History of Women of Color in the Workplace, recipient of the 2022 Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories grant, is profiled by Lovia Gyarkye in Aperture’s Reference issue.
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Reference
Aperture 249
Winter 2022
Read moreNandita 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
Read moreJanuary 17 - March 10, 2023
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
Read moreJune 2022 - June 2023
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
Read moreDecember 23 2022 - April 10 2023
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
Read moreSeptember 03, 2022 - June 09, 2024
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
Read moreDecember 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023
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
Read more2022
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
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