Sujith S.N. Indian, b. 1979
Born in 1979 in Baroda, Gujarat, India, Sujith completed an MFA from the Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad in 2007, and a BFA from the College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, University of Calicut in 2005. He also has a diploma as a civil draughtsman.
Sujith has had several solo exhibitions, including Aicon Gallery, New York (2021, 2019); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2021, 2020); Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2017, 2010, 2008); Forum Art Gallery, Chennai (2013); and HSLU, Luzern, Switzerland (2012). He has also participated in shows at Bose Krishnamachari, Kerala (2021–22); Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2018); Shrine Empire, New Delhi (2018); Akara Art, Mumbai (2018); Art Basel Hong Kong (2016); Religare Art, Delhi (2013); Durbar Hall, Kochi (2013, 2007); William Benton Museum, USA (2013); and Bodhi Gallery, New Delhi (2011), to name a few.
He has won several awards including the Kerala Lalit Kala Academy special mention award in 2004, the Kerala Lalit Kala Academy state award in 2005 and the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art emerging artist award in 2011. He was also long-listed for the Skoda Prize in 201 and was a finalist for the Sovereign Asia Art Prize in 2019.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.
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A Handful of Dust
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 May - 18 June 2022Exhibiting Artists: Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Praneet Soi, Gigi Scaria, Sujith S.N., Susanta Mandal, Pranati Panda, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Biraaj Dodiya, Shrimanti Saha, Priyanka...Read more -
Sujith S.N. | Act II: Emphasizing Stillness
VAG Virtual 18 August - 18 September 2021Interested in exploring the subliminal psychology of everyday places and people and reflecting on recent world events involving the pandemic, Sujith observantly recognizes the dwindling of the original panic that...Read more -
Cloud Burst | Delhi Contemporary Art Week
Bikaner House, New Delhi 8 - 15 April 2021Our curation titled Cloud Burst features a diverse set of expressions around the general human condition and undertakings, articulated either through more intimate mental and bodily experiences as with Pranati...Read more -
Sujith S.N. | Seer - Seen
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 - 27 March 2020Sujith S.N.’s solo show, Seer–Seen, is a series of landscapes engulfed by the temporality of loitering and purpose, of documentation and discourse, of perspectives and views. The following excerpt on...Read more -
SUJITH S.N. | Archipelago
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 March - 1 April 2017The works in the show are conversations on the city and everyday realities which Sujith has been engaged in for a few years now, but here he sets about articulating...Read more -
Sujith S.N. | Psalms of an Invisible River
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 17 August - 12 September 2013Read more
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Sujith S.N.
By Meera Menezes | Art Fourm 10 February 2022Sujith SN’s monumental watercolor And River without a Bend, 2019—nearly seven feet long—seemed uncannily prescient. It depicts a line of people standing on a narrow...Read more -
Art that clicks: A look at some of the best Indian online exhibitions and virtual reality shows
By Jaideep Sen | Indulge Express 2 April 20203D show: Seer — Seen Vadehra Contemporary Art Gallery, New Delhi is hosting an immersive 3D exhibition online of Sujith SN’s Seer — Seen....Read more -
‘Art makes people more hopeful’
By Rewati Rau | India Today 2 April 2020What are these works about? Landscape is a crucial element in most of my paintings. They follow the same trajectory as they do in their...Read more -
Sujith SN: Seer Strokes
By Rosalyn D’Mello | Open Magazine 27 March 2020THE TEXTUAL PRELUDE to Sujith SN’s solo Seer-Seen at Vadehra Art Gallery involves a brief but dense excerpt from an essay by art critic Prajna...Read more -
Taming the art of watercolour
By Ornella D’Souza | The New Indian Express 15 March 2020Many artists find painting in watercolour quite nightmarish, given that it has a mind of its own, magnifies every wrong turn of the brush, dries...Read more -
16 shows you need to visit this summer for the best of South Asian art
By Rahul Kumar | Vogue India 12 March 2020Seer-Seen by Sujith SN The show comprises a series of landscapes engulfed by the temporary feeling of loitering with a purpose. These are contemporary landscapes...Read more -
My city as a landscape
By Pallavi Chattopadhyay | The Indian Express 29 March 2017Seeing waves of employees, armed with backpacks, rushing to and from offices during peak hours in Mumbai, artist Sujith SN gave form to his painting,...Read more -
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ARTISTS BECOME CARTOGRAPHERS?
By Huzan Tata | Verve Magazine 22 September 2015Maps aren’t the only things that portray borders and boundaries. New Delhi’s Latitude 28 gallery presents a show where artists from the subcontinent portray their...Read more -
Art | Vanishing cities
By Somak Ghoshal | Mint 24 August 2013“A city makes its people as much as people make their cities,' says artist Sujith S.N . of his work, titled cryptically, but with a...Read more -
Artist who almost became a soldier
By Hemant Mishra | Mint 12 January 2010But soon, he began to realize that he wanted to be an artist. At 18, during the selection trials for the Indian Army, he was...Read more
