BORN Guyana, South America, 1973
REPRESENTED BY Roberts Projects (Los Angeles)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
solo, ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
solo, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
solo, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, NY
solo, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
solo, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN
“Contemporary Art in the South Asian Diaspora,” group exhibition curated by Tyler Blackwell, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
“Prospects,” group exhibition, MCA San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora,” group exhibition, MCA San Diego, San Diego, CA
“A Garden of Promise and Dissent,” group exhibition, the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Golden Thread, group exhibition, NYC, NY
2023
“In the absence of power. In the presence of love,” solo exhibition, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Forecast Form,” group exhibition, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
“To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Perez Collection,” curated by Tobias Ostrander, Patricia M. Hanna, and Anelys Alvarez, Espacio 23, Miami
Art Basel Miami Beach, Roberts Projects, Miami, FL
The Armory Show, Roberts Projects, New York, NY
“Osmosis: In the face of the sea,” re-imagined solo exhibition, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Women to Watch,” group exhibition, sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Center for Visual Arts, MSU Denver, Denver, CO
“Breakthroughs,” group exhibition, MCA Denver, Denver, CO
Felix Art Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Are we free to move about the world: The passport in contemporary art,” group exhibition, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali, FSU (Florida State University) Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL
“State of the Art: Constructs,” group exhibition, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
And the Moon be Still as Bright, group exhibition in support of The Here and There Co., Harper’s Chelsea, NYC
Variations on a theme, group exhibition, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
2022
“Osmosis,” solo exhibition, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Forecast Form,” group exhibition, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Basel Miami Beach, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL
“Monster,” solo exhibition, Unit London, UK
“Herself as another,” solo exhibition, Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY
Frieze London, Kavi Gupta Gallery, London, UK
The Armory Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
Breathe into the Past, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
group exhibition, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
State of the Art: Constructs, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
Felix Art Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
In the Adjacent Possible, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Alter, group exhibition, curated by Sadaf Padder, Twelve Gates, Philadelphia, PA
Reorient, group exhibition, curated by Lele Barnett, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
Depth of Identity, group exhibition curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Green Family Foundation Gallery, Miami, FL
Serious Work, group exhibition, Guest House LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL
Untitled Art Fair, K Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
The Armory Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, NYC, NY
“Realms of Refuge,” group exhibition, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
“Song of Songs,” group exhibition curated by Rachel Thomas, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Unit London, London, UK
“Breathing Room,” Boise Museum of Art, solo exhibition, Boise, ID
“Fragments of Epic Memory,” group exhibition, curated by Julie Crooks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
“Rites of Passage,” group exhibition, Unit London, London, UK
“Home”, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, NYC, NY
“Reunion,” group exhibition, Hollis Taggart, Southport, CT
”moments towards the Other,” group exhibition, Black Cube (a nomadic art museum), Denver, CO
“Fresh Earth,” group exhibition, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
“No Oceans Between Us,” group exhibition, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio,TX
“See and Be Seen,” group exhibition, Praise Shadows, Brookline, MA
2020
“State of the Art II,” Crystal Bridges Museum/ The Momentary, curated by Lauren Haynes, Bentonville, AK
“History Reclaimed,” two-person exhibition with Adrienne Elise Tarver, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, New York, NY
“Innocence and Everything After,” solo exhibition, K Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Untitled Art Fair, on-line viewing room, Miami, FL
LA Art Show, K Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Cultural Encounters: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America and The Caribbean, 1945-Present,” traveling group exhibition, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
2019
Sharjah Biennial: Leaving the Echo Chamber, curated by Claire Tancons, Omar Kholeif, and Zoe Butt, Sharjah Art Foundation commissioned project, Sharjah, UAE
Denver Art Museum/Biennial of the Americas, installation, Denver, CO
“Womens’ Work,” group exhibition, Pen and Brush, New York City, NY
Pulse Art Fair, K Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
“Fugue,” solo exhibition, the Vault residency, Denver, CO
“Woven Stories,” group exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
“Each of Us is Several,” two person exhibition with Joshua Ware, Platte Forum, Denver, CO
“Small is Beautiful,” group exhibition, Flowers Gallery, London
2018
Pulse Art Fair, K Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
“Sugar Bound,” solo exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
“Sweet Asylum,” solo exhibition, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
“Landfall,” solo exhibition, GrayDuck Gallery, Denver, CO
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, commissioned project, Denver, CO
2017
Denver Art Museum/SkyHouse Commission, Solo Exhibition/Installation, Denver, CO
Liminal Space, CCADI, NYC, NY
“Nice Work if You Can Get It,” group exhibition, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
“Axis Mundi,” group exhibition, Platte Forum, Denver, CO
2016
“Revisionist,” solo exhibition, Artworks Loveland, Loveland, CO Monumental, group exhibition, RedLine Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
“Typecast,” Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
“Art of the State,” group exhibition, Arvada Center, Wheatridge, CO
“Visitation,” group exhibition, GrayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX
“Drawing Never Dies,” group exhibition, RedLine Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
“The Intrepid Garden,” two-person exhibition, Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Center, Denver, CO
EDUCATION/AWARDS
Anonymous Was a Woman Award, 2023
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 2023
MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2003
Royal College of Art Fellowship, London, UK, 2002
MA, South Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2001
BA, Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1994
SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP
Sarah Magnatta, “Resonant Presence: Materiality and Memory in the Work of Suchitra Mattai,” Art Journal, Vol. 82, 2023
“Making their Mark: Art by women in the Shah/Garg collection, edited by Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel, Gregory R. Miller and Co., 2023
Grace Aneiza Ali, Artistic Responses to Crossing the Kala Pani, 2023
Grace Aneiza Ali, “Are we free to move about the world: The passport in contemporary art,” Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahasee, FL, 2023
Grace Aneiza Ali, “Herself as Another,” catalog essay for solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart Gallery, 2022
Becky Hart, “Monster,” catalog essay for solo exhibition at Unit London, 2022
Selene Wendt, “The Past is Present,” in Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art, October 5, 2021
Suchitra Mattai, “Revisionist,” Liminal Spaces, edited by Grace Aneiza Ali, Cambridge Open Book Publishers, Jan. 2021
PRESS
Nell Porter Brown, Fresh Take on the Caribbean (review of ICA Boston’s Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora), Harvard Magazine
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/h2-caribbean-ica
Annabel Keenan, Discover 6 Artists You Shouldn’t Miss at this Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, Cultured Magazine
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/12/07/discover-artists-art-basel-miami-beach
Kriston Capps, “Is a National Women’s Museum Still Relevant?,” The New York Times, October, 15, 2023
Jenny Wu, “Suchitra Mattai’s Perfect Future,,” ArtReview Magazine, October 30, 2023
Harley Wong, “Suchitra Mattai’s European Pastorals Make Brown Women the Main Character,” Frieze.com, August 24th, 2023
www.frieze.com/article/suchitra-mattai-profile
Katie White, “In Her Los Angeles Studio, Suchitra Mattai Weaves Vibrant Tapestries Out of Saris and Dreams Up Epically Scaled Installations,” ArtNet News, August 8th, 2023
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/suchitra-mattai-studio-visit-2346713
Paul Laster, From New York to Los Angeles, 6 Not to be Mised Solo Gallery Shows in August, Galerie Magazine, August 7th, 2023
https://galeriemagazine.com/new-york-los-angeles-6-not-missed-solo-gallery-shows-august/
Matt Stromberg, “10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles August 2023,” Hyperallergic, August 3, 2023
https://hyperallergic.com/836969/10-art-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-august-2023/
Lindsay Preston Zappas on Greater LA, KCRW, “These artists weave together a vibrant celebration of women of color” July 26th, 2023
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/trees-newspapers-woven-art/suchitra-mattai-acaye-kerunen
Jenna Adrian-Diaz, , “Suchitra Mattai probes the intersection of craft art and South Asian culture,” Surface Magazine, August 1, 2023
Marina Reyes Franco, “A Complex Survey of the Caribbean Diaspora in Chicago Goes Beyond Geographical Boundaries,” Art in America, April 12th, 2023
Sadaf Padder, Curator’s Choice: South Asian Artists Addressing Migration through New Artifacts, Artsy, May 29th, 2023
Maximiliano Duron, Art in America/ArtNews, The Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, From Dazzling Abstractions to Urgent Protest Art, Nov. 29th 2022 https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/art-basel-miami-beach-2022-best-booths-1234648390/
Vasia Rigou, “The Aesthetics of Salt: A Review of Suchitra Mattai’s Osmosis at Kavi Gupta,” New City, Dec. 15th, 2022
Jan Garden Castro, “EXPO Chicago 2023: Build Community, Celebrate Diversity,” White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, April 2023
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2023-build-community-celebrate-diversity/5755
Cerebral Woman podcast with Phyllis Hollis, episode 135, January, 2023
Maximiliano Duron, The Best Booths at Felix Art Fair, From Biting Art World Commentary to Innovative Approaches to Textiles, February 15, 2023,
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/felix-la-2023-best-booths-1234657746/
Aaron Mok, Hyperallergic, “Suchitra Mattai probes the monstrous misperceptions around immigrant identity,” March 8, 2022
Paul Laster, Galerie Magazine, Highlights from the Intersect Aspen Art Fair, August 4, 2022,
https://galeriemagazine.com/highlights-from-intersect-aspen/
Emann Odufu, Document Journal, Suchitra Mattai’s Guyana exists in the gaps of the Western archive,” March 8, 2022, https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/03/suchitra-mattais-guyana-exists-in-the-gaps-of-the-western-archive/
Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Artsy, Suchitra Mattai’s Soulful Works Convey Unspeakable Truths, February 4, 2022
Sammi Lee, Plinth UK, Monstering with Suchitra Mattai, January, 2, 2022
https://plinth.uk.com/blogs/in-the-studio-with/monster-suchitra-mattai-unit-london
Sadaf Padder, Hyperallergic, A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado, January 23, 2022
https://hyperallergic.com/705864/a-tale-of-two-countries-finding-indo-caribbean-shakti-in-colorado/
Cate McQuaid, “Restoring Power with Portraits at Praise Shadows Art Gallery,” The Boston Globe, January 21, 2021
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/13/arts/restoring-power-with-portraits-praise-shadows-art-gallery/
Gregory Volk, Hyperallergic “A Survey of American Art That Isn’t Just Coastal,” Hyperallergic, March 7, 2020
https://hyperallergic.com/546373/state-of-the-art-202o-at-crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art/
Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, Artist Suchitra Mattai’s latest exhibit takes a hard look at a difficult year, and envisions a path forward, July 28th, 2020
https://theknow-old.denverpost.com/2020/07/28/suchitra-mattai-k-contemporary/242374/
Corinne Anderson, Suchitra Mattai Expands Our Sense of History and Identity in New Solo Show, July 23, 2020
https://303magazine.com/2020/07/suchitra-mattai-k-contemporary/
Isis Davis-Marks, History gets reclaimed at Hollis Taggart Gallery, Widewalls, June 8th 2020 https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/history-reclaimed-hollis-taggart-gallery
Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” ArtNet News, March 2, 2020 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-march-2-2020-1785762
Kwon Mee-Yoo, “Sharjah Biennial breaks barriers of perception,” The Korea Times, May 5, 2019
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2020/02/145_268529.html
Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News, April 8 2019
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-april-8-2019-1498255
Ann Binlot, “the 14th Sharjah Biennial tells the stories ignored by popular culture,” Document Journal, April 3rd, 2019, https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/04/the-14th-sharjah-biennial-tells-the-stories-ignored-by-popular-culture/
Tom, Seymour, Wallpaper Magazine, “Sharjah Biennial 14 is raising the emirate’s cultural cache,” March 20, 2019
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/sharjah-biennial-14-leaving-the-echo-chamber
Osman can Yerebakan, “Our highlights from the 14TH Sharjah Biennial: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Cultured Magazine, March 12, 2019, https://www.culturedmag.com/sharjah-biennial/
KATRINA KUFER, Sharjah Biennial Is One Of The Best Art Happenings This Season,” Harpers Bazaar Arabia, March 17, 2019,
https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/art/fairs-and-events/leaving-the-echo-chamber-sharjah-biennial
Shailaja Tripathi, “Making Way for New Stories,” The Hindu, March 14, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/making-way-for-new-stories/article26533342.ece
Ryan Warner, CPR (Colorado Public Radio), interview on Colorado Matters,
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/artist-suchitra-mattai-
Brenner, Wayne Alan. "Suchitra Mattai: Landfall" at grayDUCK Gallery, The Austin Chronicle, Dec. 21st, 2018
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2018-12-21/suchitra-mattai-landfall/
Kirschner, Noelani, “Portraits of Colonialism: Suchitra Mattai,” The American Scholar,” August 20th, 2018, https://theamericanscholar.org/suchitra-mattai/ - .W500QrbMzVo
Michael Paglia, Westword, September 12, 2018, https://www.westword.com/arts/suchitra-mattai-explores-her-complex-heritage-in-cvas-sugar-bound-10767356
Joshua Ware, Other Narratives Other Histories, Entropy Journal, April, 2018, https://entropymag.org/other-narratives-other-histories-on-suchitra-mattais-sweet-asylum/
Grace Anezia Ali, A Collection of Contemporary Women’s Voices on Guyana, Brill Publishing, (forthcoming) 2017
AWARDS/LECTURES
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 2023
Dialogues/EXPO Chicago, Panel Discussion on “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean and it’s Diaspora,” with Carla Acevedo-Yates and Cosmo Whyte, 2023
Logan Lecture, Migration, Diaspora and Displacement, with Shirin Neshat and Hew Locke, Denver Art Museum, 2021
Visiting Artist, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Visiting Artist, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2021
Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2021
Interview with curator Rebecca Hart, Untitled Art Fair OVR programming, Miami, FL, 2020
“Holding Space- Bridging fiber art and racial identity,” Surface Design Association, 2020
“A Woman’s Diaspora and Liminal Spaces” panel discussion (virtual),Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2020
Logan Lecture, Denver art Museum, Denver, 2019
RedLine Denver Artist in Residence, 2014-2016
Angelo Savelli Award, Penn School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Royal College of Art Fellowship, London, England 2002
U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Full Tuition, 2000
American Institute of Indian Studies, FLAS Fellowship, Udaipur, 2000
Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
Nasher Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Tampa Art Museum
The Joslyn Museum of Art
The Crocker Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art
Olivia Walton
Shah Garg Collection
Jorge Perez
Pamela Hornik
Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Delhi, India
TIA Art Collection
Wake Forest University
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Northwestern University School of Law