ABOUT
Suhasini Kejriwal lives and works in Kolkata. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, London.
Her technique synthesizes the disciplines of painting, drawing, photography and collage into a cohesive whole. Kaleidoscopic and bordering on the psychedelic, Kejriwal’s paintings revel in minutiae, overflow with information, and convey multiple viewpoints simultaneously. As in her earlier works, the artist lavishes her attentions on the surfaces of objects, articulating the differences of materials and replicating the infinite varieties to be found in both the natural and man-made worlds.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Gallery SKE, Bangalore (2004), Nature Morte, New Delhi (2005, 2007, 2014, 2020), Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2008), the Anokhi Museum, Jaipur (2009), Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin (2010); she has also exhibited at numerous group exhibitions in galleries and institutions throughout the world.
She completed a fellowship with the collective Hamdasti (2017-2019) that works to facilitate dialogue and collaborations between artists and communities. She was a visiting fellow at the South Asia Institute at Harvard University in 2020.
C.V
EDUCATION
M.F.A Goldsmiths College, London University (2006)
PG. DIP. Goldsmiths College, London University (1999)
B.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New York (1998)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Everyday Extraordinary – Nature Morte, New Delhi.
2014
Eden – Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012
Art Dubai, Gallery Seven Art
2010
“Eden” – Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
2009
The Garden Of Un-Earthly Delights – Anokhi Museum, Jaipur
2008
An Advertisement For Heaven Or Hell – Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007
An Advertisement For Heaven Or Hell – Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005
Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
Gallery SKE, Bangalore
2002
Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1998
Chitrakoot Gallery, Calcutta
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Frieze Sculpture Park 2023 curated by Fatos Ustek
Frieze London – Nature Morte
India Art Fair, New Delhi – Nature Morte
2022
Frieze Seoul, Seoul – Nature Morte
India Art Fair, New Delhi – Nature Morte
When The Other Stares Back, Kaee Contemporary, Kolkata
2021
Markers in Time and Space, Nature Morte, Delhi
2020
Breathing through shifting scapes, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2019
Sightings out of the wild, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida
Outside/In: An Exhibition of Portraits, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2018
The Edge - Shrine Empire, New Delhi
2017
Art Basel, Hong Kong – Nature Morte
2016
The dream must turn speculative, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Art Basel, Hong Kong – Nature Morte
Mysteries of the Organism, Akara Art, Mumbai
2015
Excavations/Eruptions - Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi
India Art Fair, New Delhi
2014
Art Basel Hong Kong – Nature Morte
India Art Fair, New Delhi – Nature Morte
2013
Art Basel Hong Kong – Nature Morte
India Art Fair – Gallery Seven Art
2012
India Art Fair – Gallery Seven Art
2011
Conundrum – Nature Morte, Berlin
Fabular Bodies, The Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
Tolstoy Farm: An Archive of Utopia, Gallery Seven Art at LKA, New Delhi
Group show at Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo
Roots in the air, Branches Below - Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art
2010
Art Basel, Switzerland, Bose Pacia
Art Basel, Miami - Bose Pacia/Nature Morte
2009
India Xianzai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Miami Art Basel, Nature Morte
2008
Looking At The East – Annarumma 404, Naples
Best Of Discoveries – ShContemporary, Shanghai
FIAC Paris, Gallery Chemould Prescott Road and Nature Morte
Miami Art Basel, Gallery Chemould Prescott Road
2007
Art Brussels, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Brussels
FIAC Paris, Gallery Chemould Prescott
International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale, Seoul
Polyphonies – Gallery Hosp, Austria
2006
The Dang-In-Ri Plant Proposal, Ssamzie Space, Seoul
Celeste Art Prize Finalist’s show, London
All That’s Solid Melts Into Air - Indar Pasricha Fine Art, London
Art Cologne – Grusenmeyer Gallery, Cologne
2005
Inverted Tree – Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2004
Portraits Of A Decade – Mumbai
Secrets: The Spectacle Within – Queens Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi
Anthology Of Art – Groupis - Bau, Berlin
2003
The Hues Of Bengal - National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Performative Textures – India Habitat Center, New Delhi
Portraits Of A Decade – CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2002
Borderless Terrain - India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2001
Art Of Bengal: 150 Years Of Art In Bengal - CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2000
Shatabdi: Hundred Years Of Indian Painting – CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
Jehangir Gallery, Mumbai
Assembly – Stepney City, Whitechapel, London
FELLOWSHIPS AND ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2020
The Visiting artist fellowship at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University
2016-2018
Fellowship with Hamdasti in Chitpur, Kolkata
2016
The Jackman Goldwasser Residency – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2010
Residency at The One World Foundation with Galerie Krinzinger, Sri Lanka
2008
“Shared Histories”, Artist Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2012
YFLO Raga Young Women's Achiever's Award
2006
Celeste Art Prize Finalist
1995-98
Parsons Honor Scholarship
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023
Frieze Sculpture Park 2023 curated by Fatos Ustek
Bangalore International Airport permanent art installation at Departure Lounge 2023
2019
Kolkata Festival - Art Trail by Chiptur Craft Collective as part of Hamdasti
2018
Tales of Chitpur - Chitpur Local
2017-2018
Elephant Parade, India, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and London.
2013
Ping Pong: A collaborative drawing project organized by the Colombian Foreign Ministry, New Delhi
2011
Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India’, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
The Intuitive: Logic Revisted’, from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
Sculpture Court, India Art Summit, New Delhi
2010
‘India Awakens: Under the Banyan Tree’, Essl Museum, Austria
2006
Celeste Art Prize Finalist’s Show, London
2007
International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale
2001-02
“Sidewinder” – A month-long residency in Kolkata, organized by CIMA Gallery, The British Council and Goldsmiths College London. Subsequent exhibitions held at CIMA Gallery, Kolkata; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai