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 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. Her recent participations include the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2024 and the Frieze Sculpture Park 2023, curated by Fatos Üstek.

She completed a fellowship (2017–2019) with Hamdasti, a collective that works to facilitate dialogue and collaborations between artists and communities. She was also a visiting fellow at the South Asia Institute at Harvard University in 2020.

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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

2024
Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2024

2023
Frieze Sculpture Park 2023 curated by Fatos Üstek

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