Bio
Born in Bangalore and based in Brooklyn, Sreshta Rit Premnath is Assistant Professor at Parsons at The New School, New York.
He has had solo exhibitions at KANSAS, New York; GALLERYSKE, Bangalore; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Wave Hill, New York; Art Statements, Art Basel; as well as numerous group exhibitions at venues including YBCA, San Francisco; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; 1A Space, Hong Kong; Thomas Erben Gallery and Queens Museum of Art, New York.
His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, New York Times, Flash Art, Art India and Platform Magazine amongst others.
He is the founder and co-editor of the publication SHIFTER.
Premnath completed his BFA at The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA at Bard College, and has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan and Smack Mellon.
He has received grants from Art Matters and the Civetella Ranieri Foundation, and was awarded the Arthur Levitt Fellowship from Williams College.
Portfolio Selections
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You may also download a portfolio PDF here: Download Portfolio Pdf
J’ai perdu la fin, from Knot Not Nought, KANSAS Gallery, 2014
Gradient, from Knot Not Nought, KANSAS Gallery, 2014
Sleeping Dog, from Plot, The Bindery Projects, 2014; GALLERYSKE, 2013
Plot, from Plot, The Bindery Projects, 2014; GALLERYSKE, 2013
Folding Rulers, CAM St Louis, 2012
Untitled (Pole) and Untitled (Flag), from Folding Rulers, CAM St Louis, 2012
Zero Knot, from The Hollow Center, Smack Mellon, 2013
Green Screen, in Common Spaces at The Kitchen, New York, 2014 and Before and After at Balice Hertling, Paris, 2010
I Will Die When I Stop Building, from The Last Image, Tony Wight Gallery, 2012
&&&, from The Last Image, Tony Wight Gallery, 2012
Storeys End, Galerie Nordenhake, 2011
Eclipse, from Storeys End, Galerie Nordenhake, 2011
Rhizome, Wave Hill, 2011
Leo, Gallery SKE, 2010; YBCA, 2011
Zero Knot, Art Basel, 2010
Selected Press/ Bibliography
2015
After Midnight, New York Times Review by Holland Cotter
After Midnight, Wall Street Journal Review by Michael Fitzgerald
2014
Sreshta Rit Premnath, Artforum Critic’s Pick by Murtaza Vali
The Capricious Sky, Collaboration with Liz Park for ICA Philadelphia
Art After The End Of Philosophy Part II: Sreshta Rit Premnath’s Storey’s End, by Abbra Kotlarczyk for Carets and Sticks
Public Space: A Generative Conflict, by Kristine Jærn Pilgaard in Common Spaces published by The Whitney Museum of American Art
2013
Straying Around, Time Out Bengaluru by Akhila Seetharaman
2012
Sreshta Rit Premnath and Matthew Metzger, Artforum Critic’s Pick by Julia Langbein
New Currents, Art Asia Pacific, April 2012
Sreshta Rit Premnath, by Georgina Maddox, The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art from India Catalog
2011
Sreshta Rit Premnath at Galerie Nordenhake, Contemporary Art Daily, Dec 2011
Sreshta Rit Premnath, Platform Magazine
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sreshta Rit Premnath, Art 21 interview by Thom Donovan
La ‘Ricerca’ di Sreshta Rit Premnath, Exibart
2010
The Lion’s Share,” Art India review by Marta Jakimowicz
Beast a Man Can Get,” Time Out Bangaluru preview by Jaideep Sen
Aspect Blindness: Arnold Kemp and Sreshta Rit Premnath,” Art 21 article by by Thom Donovan
Between Forgetting and Remembering,” Muse review by by Koon Yee-wan
Spectral Evidence,” Artforum.com Critic’s Pick by Doretta Lau
Spectral Narrative in Hong Kong,” Art Slant review by Robin Peckham
2009
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory
Once in a Blue Moon,” Art India review by Zehra Jumabhoy
Back, Forth and Round About,” Evil Monito review by David Rothenberg.
To Err is Perfect,” Artlurker review by David Rohn
Contemporary Art From India: Subcontinental Subconscious, Canadian Art
2008
Black Box Flash Art review by Heidi Fichtner
Collapse of Certainty,” The Deccan Herald review by Marta Jakimovicz
2007
Spectral Evidence The New York Times review by Holland Cotter
Spectral Evidence Artforum Critic’s Pick by Lori Cole
Shifter Magazine International Exchange for Poetic Invention review by Linh Dinh
The Museum of Contextual Amputations Broken Pencil review