Sreshta Premnath


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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