CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1983 in Kerala
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Raja Ravi Varma College, University of Kerala
Master of Fine Arts, Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Hyderabad
Lives and works in Kochi, Kerala
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Liminal Spaces, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 The Family Portrait, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2012 0 + 0 = 0 (my father's mathematics), Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2010 Paternal Instinct, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2003 Depression from Solitude, Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Kerala
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Against the wind, (2022), Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation, USA
2024 Incarnate, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2023 Map of Our Skin, curated by Jitha Karthikeyan, Keraleeyam, India
2022 Posthhumous Dialogues with F.N. Souza, Raza 100 Events, curated by Sabitha Satchi,
Museum of Goa, India
2021 Group show, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, Iowa
2021 NGV Triennial, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Art & Cinema, curated by Riyas Komu, Papaya Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala
2018 Nine Painters from Kerala, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2018 India Art Fair, New Delhi. Presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
2017 7th Edition of the Moscow Biennale of International Contemporary Art,
curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Tretyakov Museum, Moscow
2016 DWELLING, 10th Anniversary Show (Part I), curated by Ranjit Hoskote,
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2014 Gwangju International Art Fair, presented by Gallery Splash, Gwangju, South Korea
2012 ARTVILNIUS'12, International Contemporary Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 First Edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu,
Aspinwall House, Kochi
2011 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2011 India Art Summit, New Delhi, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
2010 Her Work Is Never Done, curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Gallery BMB, Mumbai
2009 Unfaithfully Yours, curated by Alex Mathew, Gallery SKE Gallery, Bangalore
RESIDENCY
2019 Koganecho Artist-in-Residence Program, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
PRESS
2024 C. Lesser, “5 Artists on Our Radar in June 2024”, Artsy, June 3
C. Ross, “Secrets Burrow in Siji Krishnan’s Landscapes”, Frieze, May 21
2023 S. Zoldan, “Sharón Zoldan Shares Her 8 Art Basel Miami Beach Highlights”, Whitewall, December
E. Kinsella, “5 Standout Artists at Expo Chicago 2023, From Patrick Eugene’s Stirring Portraits of
Immigrants to Annie Lapin’s Otherworldly Landscapes”, Artnet News, April 13
2022 M. Westall, “Kohn Gallery Now Represents Indian Artist Siji Krishnan”, FAD Magazine, June 7
2017 “Forest for the Cluds: Kate Sutton at the 7th Moscow Biennale”, Artforum, October 2
“Foreign Biennales Zero in on Kerala’s Women Artists”, The Times of India, August 7
2016 H. Tata, “View Siji Krishnan’s Versions of ‘The Family Portrait’”, Verve Magazine, Sepetember 16
Z. Chaudhuri, “Freeks and Geeks: Everyone Finds a Place in Siji Krishnan’s Family Portraits,”
Scroll.in, September 16