Exhibition: Sreshta Rit Premnath
For his first solo exhibition in Canada, Sreshta Rit Premnath will develop new work
Date/Time: Oct 15 2019, 12:00 am to 6:00 pm
Vancouver, Contemporary Art Gallery | Event calendar555 Nelson St
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Cost: Free
in an ongoing series of material and conceptual investigations on the “knot” between ownership and occupation of space, and the conditions of invisibility and misrecognition that define migrant subjectivity. Premnath works across multiple media including sculpture, video, photography and drawing.
Sreshta Rit Premnath
Born in Bangalore, India, Sreshta Rit Premnath is the founder and co-editor of the publication Shifter and has had solo exhibitions at Rodriguez Gallery, Poznan; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Kansas Gallery, New York; Gallery SKE, Bangalore; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Wave Hill, New York; and Art Statements, Art Basel. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues including The Kitchen and Queens Museum, New York; YBCA, San Francisco; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; 1A Space, Hong Kong and Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai. He completed his BFA at The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA at Bard College, and has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan and Smack Mellon. He has received grants from Art Matters and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Based in Brooklyn, Premnath directs the BFA Fine Arts program at Parsons, New York.
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