Sayan Chanda (he/him) (b. Kolkata) is an artist and textile practitioner from India, living and working in London.
Sayan reimagines votive objects, folk narratives and indigenous rituals as hybrid ambiguous forms that function as totems, portals and talismans. Deploying tapestry weaving, stitching, dyeing and hand-building, he works intuitively with fibre and clay giving physical forms to his anxieties, mythologies, and individual and collective memory. His works exist as relics; vestiges of working through inner monologues, that sit outside of place, culture and period.
EDUCATION
2020 - 2021 - MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Art (University of the Arts London), UK
2009 - 2013 - B.DES Textile Design - National Institute of Design, India
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Art Dubai, with Jhaveri Contemporary
2022 - They Speak in a Hundred Ways, Commonage Projects, London
2022 - A Smear and the Crown, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2022 - Frieze, London, with Jhaveri Contemporary
2022 - Art Antwerp with Modesti Perdriolle Gallery
2022 - Radical Residency VII, Unit 1 Gallery | Worshop, London
2022 - A Plot Hatched By Two, Warbling, London
2021 - London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2021 - Group Show, South London Gallery, London
2021 - Hanging Gardens, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2021 - Common Ground, Copeland Gallery, London
2021 - Unmute, Copeland Gallery, London
2020 - Pause - Method, Mumbai
2020 - Tactile - Deptford Does Art, London
2019 - The 84th London Group Open, Cello Factory, London
RESIDENCY AND AWARDS
2024 - Cove Park Funded Residency (forthcoming)
2023 - Thread artist’s residency, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal (forthcoming)
2023 - Sarabande Foundation Studio Residency, London (forthcoming)
2022 - Radical Residency VII, Unit 1 Gallery | Worshop, London
2022 - The UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize- Honourable Mention
2019 - Marshwood Arts Awards - Applied Arts, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset
FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 - Uncovering the work of Sayan Chanda at Commonage Projects
2022 - Architectural Digest
2022 - Vogue India
2022 - Mint Lounge
2022 - Take On Art
2022 - Mid-Day, India
2022 - Colour Hive Magazine
2021 - India Today
2021 - Patriot, India
2021 - Book - Yarn, Thread, String, Uppercase Publishing Inc.
2020 - Asian Curator
2020 - Warp and Weft Magazine
2020 - Design India Magazine
2020 - Architects and Interiors India
2019 - Cocoa and Jasmine magazine
2017 - Livemint, India