STATEMENT


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.


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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

2023 - Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York (forthcoming)

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

 

 

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