My work begins with the perspective that movement is primary and prior to space and time. Movement of the corporeal body (both personal and abstracted) does not happen in space and time but instead produces it. This becomes a driving force in my process-oriented and improvisational work, which takes the form of large scale site specific installations, acrylic paintings, drawings, aluminium sculptures, and often, surprising and unexpected interventions in the way we perceive and experience matter itself.
SANDEEP MUKHERJEE
EDUCATION
1999
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1996
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1988
MS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1986
BS, Industrial Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Mangalore, India
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022
Professor of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Approaching Limits, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2017
Molting the Fractured, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Mutual Reentanglement 2, VOLTA, New York
2016
The Sky Remains, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015
Mutual Entanglements, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Traces and Tears, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2012
Sandeep Mukherjee: New Work, Brennan & Griffin, New York City, NY
2011
Sandeep Mukherjee: New Work, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2010
Sandeep Mukherjee: New Work, Brennan & Griffin, New York City, NY
2009
Sandeep Mukherjee, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2008
Sandeep Mukherjee, Sister, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Spell: Sandeep Mukherjee, Broad Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Sandeep Mukherjee, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005
Sandeep Mukherjee, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Project 21: Sandeep Mukherjee, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2002
Sandeep Mukherjee, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Redolence, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Berlin On My Mind, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Asian American Abstraction, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Genesis: On Beginning, Parny Lalont, London
Time Being, curated by Khang Nguyen, Wonzimer, Los Angeles
2023
It's About Time, curated by April Greiman and Stacie B. London, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA
Common Ground, curated by Vida Heydari, Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune, India
Spectral Theatre, with Rohini Devashar, Project 88, Mumbai
2022
Swept Away: Love Letters to a Surrogate(s), Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Tracing Echoes, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2021
Not an Imitation, curated by Rohini Devashar and Pallavi Paul, Project 88, Mumbai
Artists and Poems, Los Angeles, CA
2020
JACOB'S WEST: poem from home, curated by Rema Ghuloum, Online exhibition
2019
Centennial: 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2018
Some of Our Favorite Things, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
On Whiteness, The Kitchen & The Racial Imaginary Institute, New York, NY
2017
Elemental/Marking Time, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
SUPPER CLUB, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany
2016
8688, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Project 88, Mumbai, India
Phantasmagoria/Reentanglement, with Stas Orlovski, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
C.O.L.A. 2016 Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Objectless State, Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Earth Bound, Project 88, Mumbai, India,
2014
Pictures of Everything, curated by Dion Johnson, University of La Verne, CA
A Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA
2013
In Direct Light, curated by Timothy Nolan, Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA
No Less a Drawing, curated by Prajna Desai, Project 88, Mumbai, India
My Echo My Shadow, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL
2012
Emerald City, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Facing West/ Looking East, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Lineamenta, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
Meticulosity, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Drawn, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artists’ Tower of Protest, organized by LA><ART and the Getty Research Institute, West Hollywood, CA
2011
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Goldmine, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
The Archaic Revival, Las Cienegas Projects , Los Angeles, CA
2010
Form and Phenomenon, Project 88, Mumbai, India
In Side Out, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Commonwealth, curated by Young Chung, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Malleable Memory, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Last Show, Kathryn Brennan Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Panaroma: Los Angeles, ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
FAX, curated by The Drawing Center and Independent Curators International, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2009
Oz: New Offerings from Angel City, Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico
In Bed Together, curated by Jane Glassman, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Nothingness and Being, curated by Shamim Momin, Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Prescriptions, ACME gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dialogue in Art: South Asian American Art Festival, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Portrayal Betrayal, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of place in contemporary art, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2007
Humor Us, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Painting’s Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Darling, take Fountain, Kalfayan Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006
DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n., BravinLee programs, New York, NY
Symmetry, The MAK Center at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA
Otis Alumni Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
The Senses, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Pieces of Angels: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
Drawing and Drawn, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2005
Adjunct, University of Southern California, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Erotic Night Mother’s Day, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004
SPF: Self-Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
To the Point, State Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003
Warped Space, California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Go Figure! Manifestations of the Human Form in Contemporary Art,Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Raid the Icebox, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Conversations, curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Real Me, Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
LA Post-Cool, curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Drive By, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2001
Boomerang, Exit Art, New York, NY
Hard-Boiled Wonderland, curated by Julie Joyce, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
The Importance of Being Earnest, curated by Michael Duncan, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Philosophy in the Bedroom, curated by Anne Walsh, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998
The F Word, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
Still And Otherwise, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Van Proyan, Mark. Contemporary Asian-American Abstraction at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Square Cylinder, June 26.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Peter Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS
Pitzer College Art Collection, Claremont, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
The Progressive Art Collection, OH
Cleveland Clinic Collection, Cleveland, OH