SRESHTA RIT PREMNATH

BIO/CV

Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in New York City. He is the founder and editor of the magazine Shifter.

He received his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art at Bard College, was a 2008 studio fellow at The Whitney Independent Study Program and attended Skowhegan in 2009.

His work has been shown at Gallery SKE, in Bangalore (India), Rotunda Gallery, Art in General, Bose Pacia Gallery and Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City. He will present a new project in Art Statements at Art|41|Basel.

By engaging with forms of interrogation and representation, his work explores how otherness is constituted through complex matrices of knowledge, power, subjugation, and mediation.

Born: Bangalore, India. 1979

Education

2003- 2006
MFA, Studio Art , The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY

1998- 2003
BFA, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.

2002
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Residencies

2009
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Skowhegan, ME

2007- 2008
The Whitney Museum of Art, Independent Study Program; New York, NY

2002
Yale-Norfolk Painting Residency, Yale University CT, USA

Curatorial/Editorial

2009
“On Certainty,” Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY: A project curated by me consisting of a show, a series of lectures and a new issue of the magazine Shifter. www.oncertainty.net

2004-
Founder, Editor, Shifter Magazine: (www.shifter-magazine.com)
Shifter is a topical magazine that is published both in print and as a free, downloadable pdf file. Shifter invites emerging artists, poets, theorists and scientists to contribute. The Magazine published its 14th issue in May 2009. Shifter is also distributed by Printed Matter and is placed in the Museum of Modern Art’s Library.

Shows

2010
Solo show at GallerySKE, Bangalore (upcoming)
“Zero Knot,” Art Statements, Art|41|Basel, Switzerland (with Gallery SKE)
“Before and After,” Curated by Bill Cournoyer, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris
“Spectral Evidence,” Curated by Steven Lam, 1 A Space, Hong Kong
“Other than Beauty,” Friedman Benda Gallery, New York
“36 Dramatic Situations,” Louis V. E.S.P., New York
“Structures Within an Intervention,” Curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, The Guild, New York

2009
“Beyond The Instance of an Ending,” curated by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia, at Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA
The Third Side (studies in radical nostalgia), curated by Bethany Ides, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR
“We Must Indeed All Hang Together,” curated by Beth Capper, Paige Johnson, Ariel Pittman and Kelly Shindler, at SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
“Back, Forth and Round About,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
“Moment as Monument,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
“Dear Jabir,” curated by Gitanjali Dang, Guild Gallery, Mumbai, India
“A Perfect Human,” Curators Milena Hoegsberg and Megha Ralapati, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
“Good Looking: Vision and Society in Contemporary Art,” Grey Noise Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan

2008
Black Box, (solo show), Gallery SKE, Bangalore, India.
“Mornings in Mexico”, Book Project Curated by Steven Lam and Tamar Guimaraes, Guangzhou Biennial, China.
“Unnamable Name,” Curated by Todd Ayoung, Københavns Hovdbibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2007
“Spectral Evidence,” Curated by Steven Lam, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Between To and From,” Curated by Veronica Mijelshon and Eleanor Eichenbaum, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

2006
“How To Wave A Flag In A Vacuum,” at Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
“Yamini Nayar and Sreshta Premnath,” Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY

2004
“Site/Seeing,” (solo show), Gallery SKE, Bangalore, India

2003
“The Traveling,” (collaboration with Alison O. Daniel), a Spacelab at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Press

2010
“Spectral Evidence,” Art Forum Critic’s Pick by Doretta Lau, ArtForum.com
“Spectral Narrative in Hong Kong,” by Robin Peckham, ArtSlant.com

2009
“Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory,” published by The New Museum, New York, NY
“Once in a Blue Moon,” review by Zehra Jumabhoy in Art India
“Contemporary Art from India,” reviewed in Canadian Art

2008
“Black Box” reviewed in Flash Art by Heidi Fichtner
“Collapse of Certainty,” Black Box reviewed in The Deccan Herald Bangalore by Marta Jakimovicz

2007
“Spectral Evidence” reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter
“Spectral Evidence” reviewed on ArtForum.com
Shifter Magazine reviewed by poet, Linh Dinh on International Exchange for Poetic Invention.