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Education
- 2008
- Studio Art Fellow, The Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
- 2006
- MFA, Studio Art , The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY
- 2003
- BFA, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Major: Painting with minors in Digital Arts, Photography and Social Studies
- 2002
- Fellow, Yale-Norfolk Painting Residency, Yale University CT, USA
Undergraduate exchange program, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Exhibitions
- 2008
- Black Box, solo show at Gallery SKE, Bangalore, India.
The Stories We Tell, a program of experimental short videos, part of NY Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Art In General, NY
- 2007
- Unnamable Name, Curated by Todd Ayoung, Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, NY
Solo Show, Gallery SKE, Bangalore, India
Between To and From, Curated by Veronica Mijelshon and Eleanor Eichenbaum, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Usufruct, Curated by Seth Nehil, Linfield Art Gallery, OR
Sultana's Dream, Curated by Jaishree Abhichandani, Exit Art, NYC
Transfixed, a program of experimental short videos curated by Yamini Nayar, part of NY Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Alwan for the Arts, NY
If Then As If, Curated by Branden Koch, Brooklyn, NY
Spectral Evidence, Curated by Steven Lam, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
K(C) APUT, a Spacelab at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- 2006
- In the Country of Last Things Forever, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
How to Wave a Flag in a Vacuum at Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
Yamini Nayar and Sreshta Premnath, Bose Pacia Gallery, NYC
MFA Thesis Show, Bard College, NY
Gilded Pony Performance Festival, Troy, NY
Spam, Performance at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY
- 2004
- Site/Seeing, (solo show), GallerySKE, Bangalore, India
International Sculpture Symposium, (group show), Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India
- 2003
- The Traveling, (collaboration with Alison O. Daniel), a Spacelab at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- 2002
- One Week, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Video installation, Circumscript showcased
ABC Learning to Paint, Joseph McCullough Centre for Visual Arts, Cleveland, OH
Yale-Norfolk student exhibition, Norfolk, CT
Sculpture, (group show), Carl-Gordon-Bostwick Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- 2001
- In Transit, (solo show), Edinburgh Collage of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Shoeless Show, Joseph McCullough Centre for Visual Arts, Cleveland, OH
Editorial
- 2006
- Founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations, www.museumofcontextualamputations.org
- 2005
- Assistant to US Editor, Domus Magazine
- 2004
- Founder, Editor, Shifter Magazine
Awards
- 2007
- Tuition Grant, for study at Whitney Independent Study Program.
- 2003 - 06
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000
- Honorary scholarship
- 1999
- Honorary scholarship
- 1998
- Portfolio grant towards my five years of study in CIA
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn