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 in a landscape of speculative mythology. 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
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 (forthcoming) - Reverberations: Textile as Echo, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
2024 (forthcoming) - Actions for the Earth, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
2024 - Right Foot First, Hampi Art Labs, Karnataka
2024 - Actions for the Earth, The Block Museum of Art, Illinois
2023 - Chamber, Cooke Latham Gallery, London
2023 - British Textile Biennial, Fragments of Our Time, Lancashire
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 | Workshop, 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
2020 - Pause - Method, Mumbai
RESIDENCY AND AWARDS
2024 - Cove Park Funded Residency (forthcoming)
2023 - Thread artist’s residency, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal
2023 - Sarabande Foundation Studio Residency, London
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
2021 - India Today
2021 - Patriot, India
2020 - Asian Curator
2020 - Warp and Weft Magazine
2020 - Design India Magazine
2019 - Cocoa and Jasmine magazine
2017 - Livemint, India