Siji Krishnan
Sometimes I give a wash of tea or watercolour, sometimes I paste one more layer of thin rice paper to accentuate the frail quality of the surface. Everything depends on what I need at that moment in my work….
— Siji Krishnan
Selected Works
Exhibitions
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About the Artist
Born 1983, Kerala, India
Lives and works in Kochi, Kerala
Siji Krishnan (b. 1983) was born in Kerala and is currently based in Kochi, India. She received her MFA from Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Hyderabad, and a BFA from Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts at the University of Kerala. In 2019, Krishnan was an artist-in-residence at Koganecho Art Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Krishnan’s work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India, among others. Krishnan has exhibited work in the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Moscow Biennale of International Contemporary Art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale and The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, as well as solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai. In 2024, Krishnan opened her U.S. debut solo exhibition, Liminal Spaces, at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and will open her first solo museum exhibtion The Secret Place at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA in October 2025.