Sreshta Premnath - Curriculum Vitae

Sreshta Premnath
Born in Bangalore, India, 1979 Lives and works in New York, U.S.A
Solo Exhibitions
2009		On Certainty, Self curated show, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2008		Black Box, solo show at GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2007		K(C)APUT, a Spacelab at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2004		Site/Seeing, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2001		In Transit, Edinburgh Collage of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Group Exhibitions
2010		Spectral Evidenc, 1A Space, Hong Kong
2010		Punctum II, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009		We Must Indeed All Hang Together, curated by Beth Capper, Paige Johnson, Ariel Pittman and Kelly Shindler, at SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago Moment as Monument (A Selection from Travancore), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (12Th Dec - 19th Dec) Beyond the Instance of an Ending, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst (5Th Nov - 9th Dec) Group show, Lawrence Eng Gallery, Vancouver The Third Side (Studies in Radical Nostalgia), Performance works NW, Portland (4Th and 5th Dec) Contemporary Art From India, Lawrence Eng Gallery, Vancouver A perfect Human, curated by Milena Hoegsberg and Megha Ralapati, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL Back, Forth and Round About, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY Good Looking, Vision and Society in Contemporary Art, Grey Noise Gallery, Lahore, Dear Jabir, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Guild Gallery, Mumbai On Certainity, self curated show, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY
2008		CURRENT, curated by Nivedita Magar, featuring works by Avinash Veeraraghavan, Sakshi Gupta, Minam A, and Sreshta Premnath at GALLERYSKE, Bangalore. The Stories We Tell, a program of experimental short videos, part of NY Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Art In General, New York
2007		Unnamable Name, curated by Todd Ayoung, Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, New York Between To and From, curated by Veronica Mijelshon and Eleanor Eichenbaum, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey Usufruct, curated by Seth Nehil, Linfield Art Gallery, Oregon Sultana’s Dream, curated by Jaishree Abhichandani, Exit Art, New York Transfixed, a program of experimental short videos curated by Yamini Nayar, part of NY Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Alwan For The Arts, New York If Then As If, curated by Branden Koch, Brooklyn, New York Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2006		In The Country of Last Things Forever, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey How To Wave A Flag In A Vacuum, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, New York Yamini Nayar and Sreshta Premnath, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York MFA Thesis Show, Bard College, New York Gilded Pony Performance Festival, Troy, New York Spam, performance at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn New York
2004		International Sculpture Symposium, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2003		The Traveling, (collaboration with Alison O. Daniel), a Spacelab at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2002		One Week, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Video installation, Circumscript showcased ABC Learning to Paint, Joseph McCullough Centre for Visual Arts, Cleveland, Ohio Yale-Norfolk student exhibition, Norfolk, Connecticut Sculpture, Carl-Gordon-Bostwick Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2001		Shoeless Show, Joseph McCullough Centre for Visual Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Residencies
2009		Resident, Skowhegan School of Art, ME
2008 - 09		The Whitney Museum of Art, Independent Study Program, New York
2002		Fellow, Yale-Norfolk Painting Residency, Yale University CT, USA
Grants and Awards
2007		Tuition Grant, for study at Whitney Independent Study Program
2003-2006		Portfolio Grant, towards MFA at Bard College The Otto F. Ege Memorial Award, for equal achievement in studio art and scholarly pursuit, from The Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) The Third Agnes Gund Award, awarded to six outstanding seniors for travel or study post graduation by CIA Northeast Ohio’s Best and Brightest, mentioned in May issue of Northeast Ohio Live magazine
2002		ISC International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture Award. Mentioned in Sculpture magazine Joseph McCullough Painting Scholarship. Honorary scholarship Awarded to 8 students selected from the top 30% of the class, based on academic merit and portfolio Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale-Norfolk Summer residency Gabriele Gossner award for my installation in the Student Independent Exhibition
1999-2001		Honorary scholarship Edward Frost traveling scholarship towards my exchange program in Edinburgh Eastman-Bolton memorial prize awarded to a 3rd or fourth year painting major for excellence in painting
1998		Portfolio grant towards my five years of study in CIA
Editorial
2004-		Founder Editor, Shifter Magazine www.shifter-magazine.com
2006		Founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations http://www.museumofcontextualamputations.org
2005		Assistant to US Editor, Domus Magazine
2008		Heidi Fichtner, Black Box review, in Flash Art Marta Jakimovicz, Collapse of Certainty, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore Warren Greenwood, Conceptual Ithaca, The Ithaca Times
2007		Holland Cotter, Spectral Evidence reviewed in New York Times Art Review Spectral Evidence reviewed on ArtForum.com Shifter Magazine reviewed by poet, Linh Dinh on International Exchange for Poetic Invention
2006		Yamini Nayar & Sreshta Premnath Reviewed in Time-Out NYC Yamini Nayar & Sreshta Premnath Reviewed in Flavorpill, NYC Published work in FO A RM magazine. Issue #5 “Autonomy”
2005		Published work in FO A RM magazine. Issue #4 "Topography" Marta Jakimowicz, Goading Reality to Self Express, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore
2004		Published work in FO A RM magazine Issue #2 "Duals/ Doubles"
2002		Sculpture magazine, ISC International Sculpture Center, Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture Award
Press
2009		Younger Than Jesus, Artist Directory, published by The New Museum, New York Once in Blue Moon, review by Zehra Jumabhoy in Art India Contemporary Art from India, reviewed in Canadian Art Back, Forth and Round About, reviewed in by David Rothenberg in Evil Monito To Err is Perfect, A Perfect Human, reviewed on Artlurker.com by David Rohn
2008		Current, reviewed in Deccan Herald Bangalore by Marta Jakimovicz Black Box, reviewed in Flash Art by Heidi Fichtner Collapse of Certainty, Black Box reviewed in The Deccan Herald Bangalore by Marta Jakimovicz Conceptual Ithaca, Unnamable Name reviewed in The Ithaca Times by Warren Greenwood
2007		Spectral Evidence, reviewed in New York Times Art Review by Holland Cotter Spectral Evidence, reviewed on ArtForum.com Shifter Magazine reviewed by poet, Linh Dinh on International Exchange for Poetic Invention
2006		Yamini Nayar and Sreshta Premnath, Reviewed in Time-Out NYC Yamini Nayar and Sreshta Premnath, Reviewed in Flavorpill, NYC Published work in FO A RM magazine. Issue #5, Autonomy
2005		Published work in FO A RM magazine. Issue #4, Topography Goading Reality to Self Express, Reviewed of Site/Seeing in The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India by Marta Jakimovicz
2004		Published work in FO A RM magazine Issue #2 Duals/Doubles
2002		Sculpture magazine. ISC (International Sculpture Center) Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture Arward
Education
2007-2008		Studio Art Fellow, The Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2003-2006		MFA, Studio Art, The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale, New York
1998-2003		BFA, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Major: Painting with minors in Digital Arts, Photography and Social Studies
2002		Undergraduate exchange program, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland