Recognized for her emotional landscapes which capture the experience of growing up in the vivid countryside of southern India, Siji Krishnan unravels her psyche on canvas in a dialogue between personal and collective memory. Her family paintings—intricately detailed portraits framed by sensorial impressions of rural village life—examine the kinship between humans and the natural world. Seemingly delicate, the weightless […] surfaces are reminiscent of the long, narrative registers of the 16th century Bayeux Tapestry or the subtlety of Giorgio Morandi’s still lives. The works transcend their contemporary trappings and genre associations to create something wholly original.
In 2019, Krishnan was an artist-in-residence at Koganecho Art Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Her work has been collected by numerous public institutions throughout the world including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Dallas Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, among others. Most recently, Krishnan exhibited work in the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, the Moscow Biennale of International Contemporary Art, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, as well as solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai.
[excerpted from Michael Kohn Gallery website: www.kohngallery.com]