SANDEEP MUKHERJEE
Born in Pune, India
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
1999
Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
1996
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Sandeep Mukherjee, Sister and Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, 10 May - 21 June.
Spell: Sandeep Mukherjee, Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 2 Feb - 22 March.
Sandeep Mukherjee, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India, 21 Feb - 15 March.
2005
Sandeep Mukherjee, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, 29 Oct - 17 Dec.
2004
Project 21: Sandeep Mukherjee, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, 20 Jan - 22 Feb.
2002
Sandeep Mukherjee, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 21 Sept - 19 Oct.
2000
Sandeep Mukherjee: Redolence, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 9 Sept - 7 Oct.
1997
Drawings, Sinduda Exhibitions, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Panorama: Los Angeles, ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 16 February - 21 February.
Fax, curated by The Drawing Center and Independent Curators International, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, 16 January - 20 February.
2009
OZ: New Offerings from Angel City, Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico, 27 November - 10 January.
Nothingness and Being, curated by Shamim Momin, Fundacion/Colleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.
Rogue Wave Massa @Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy, 12 September - 4 November.
Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 9 May - 6 June.
Prescriptions, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, 25 April - 23 May.
Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany, 24 April - 10 July.
Dialogue in Art: South Asian American Art Festival, Santa Monica, CA, 28 March - 4 April.
2008
Portrayal Betrayal, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA, 18 November - 18 December.
Faculty Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, 6 September - 19 October.
Ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, 9 May - 26 July.
A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of place in contemporary art, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, 2 Feb - 7 March.
2007
Humor Us, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, 14 September - 30 December.
Painting's Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, 14 July - 8 September.
Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, 28 June - 11 August.
Darling, take Fountain, Kalfayan Gallery, Athens, Greece, 31 May - 29 September.
2006
DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n., BravinLee programs, New York, 22 June – 28 July.
Symmetry, The MAK Center at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA, 26 January - 7 May.
Otis Alumni Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, 20 January - 2 April.
The Senses , Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, 21 January - 9 April.
Pieces of Angels: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles , University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, 23 February - 19 March.
Drawing and Drawn , Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, 6 February - 9 March.
2005
Adjunct, University of Southern California, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, 12 January - 2 February.
Works on Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Erotic Night Mother's Day, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2004
SPF: Self-Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, 7 August - 4 September.
To the Point, State Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 18 March - 10 April.
2003
Warped Space, California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, 17 September - 15 November.
Go Figure! Manifestations of the Human Form in Contemporary Art, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, 1 May - 30 August.
Raid the Icebox, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 22 March - 26 April.
Conversations, curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March - October.
The Real Me, Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, 27 February - 27 March.
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 25 January - 27 April.
2002
LA Post-Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 23 November - 23 March 2003
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 12 July - 30 August, curated by Michael Duncan.
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 17 Nov -19 Jan 2003.
Drive By, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, 16 February - 30 March.
2001
Boomerang, Exit Art, New York, 29 October 2001 - 12 January 2002.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, 24 May - 7 July, curated by Julie Joyce.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 26 January - 16 March, curated by Michael Duncan.
2000
Philosophy in the Bedroom, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 5 May - 10 June, curated by Anne Walsh.
1998
The F Word, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
Still And Otherwise, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 19 September - 24 October.
1995
Summer Show, Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
AWARDS
2009
California Community Foundation Award, Mid-career Artist Fellowship.
1999
Feitelson Arts Foundation Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Elaine Krown Klein Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Werner Hirsch Award, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Herbert Ryman Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Otis Critics Award Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University, Norfolk, CT
Segerstrom Grant, Internship, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Hearst Foundation Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Getty Grant, Internship, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Neil Konheim Scholarship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Parsons, Laura. "Cosmic abstraction: Mukherjee spins the wheel," Exhibition review, The Hook, Charlottesville, November 30.
Thiele, Carmela. "Satyr im Hamsterrad." Exhibition review, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, June 1, 2009.
Duncan, Michael. "Sandeep Mukherjee at Cottage Home and Sister." Exhibition review, Art in America 1 (January 2009): 119, illus.
2008
Miles, Christopher. "Best in Show 2008," LA Weekly, December 19-25, Vol. 31/No. 5, p. 50, illus.
Shaw, Michael. "Sandeep Mukherjee," THE Magazine, Los Angeles, Exhibition Review, August 2008, p. 48, illus.
Pomonis, Mary Anna. "Sandeep Mukherjee," artUS, Exhibition Review, Summer 2008, issue 23, p. 16, illus.
Davis, Kathryn M. "Los Angeles: Capital of Contemporary Art?." THE Magazine, Santa Fe, July 2008, p. 48, 49.
Taft, Catherine. "Critic's Picks," Artforum.com, June 2008, illus.
Miles, Christopher. "Sandeep Mukherjee at Sister and Cottage Home," LA Weekly, May 23 - 29, vol. 30/no. 27, p. 49, illus.
Knight, Christopher. "Traces of nature on a grand scale," Los Angeles Times, 16 May, sec. E, p. 21., illus.
Myers, Holly. "Mountain and Valley: The Paradoxes of Sandeep Mukherjee." LA Weekly, April 4 - 10, Vol. 30/No. 20, p. 58, illus.
Michno, Christopher. "Luminosity and a Sense of Jazz." Exhibition Review. Inland Empire Weekly, March 6 - 12, Vol. 2/No. 48, p. 13.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Spell: Sandeep Mukherjee, 2 Feb - 22 March. Essay by Max King Cap. illus.
2007
Knight, Christopher. "45 Painters under 45: Painting Gets A Broader Brush." Los Angeles Times, 2 December, sec. F, p. 1, 10, 11, illus.
Kalfayan Gallery, Athens, Greece. Darling Take Fountain. 31 May - 29 September, 2007. Essay by Konstantine Kakanias, illus.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Rogue Wave 07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles." Art Review, September 2007, p. 126.
Melrod, George. "Rogue Wave 07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles." Exhibition Review, Art Ltd., September 2007.
Koroxenidis, A. "Depicting Life in Los Angeles", Kathimerini, Exhibition Review, 10 July, 2007.
Scarborough, James. "Sandeep Mukherjee, Rogue Wave '07: 12 Los Angeles Artists", What The Butler Saw, Exhibition Review, 19 August, 2007.
Jacobs, James. "Emerging Artists: Strange Forces", Art & Antiques, June 2007, p. 90, illus.
Ollman, Leah. Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2007, sec. E, p. 22.
2006
Wood, Eve. “Symmetry.” Exhibition Review, Art Papers, July/August 2006, p. 63, illus.
Buckley, Annie. “Symmetry: Investigating X.” Exhibition review, Artweek, June 2006, p. 12, illus.
Miles, Christopher. "Sandeep Mukherjee." Exhibition review, Artforum International (January 2006): 229, illus.
Geer, Suvan. "Sandeep Mukherjee at Sister." Exhibition review, Artweek , (February 2006): 16-17, illus.
Shaked, Nizan. “Sandeep Mukherjee: New Work.” Exhibition review, X-Tra. Vol 8, No. 4, pp 36-37, illus.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Made in Los Angeles." Tema Celeste, January/February 2006, p. 57, 60.
Chang, Cindy. “Seeing the Mirrored Images.” Los Angeles Times, 16 February 2006, sec. E, p. 16.
Boone, Lisa. "Art in Balance." Los Angeles Times, 19 January, sec. F, p. 5. Illus.
Frank, Peter. “Symmetry.” LA Weekly, May 5-11, 2006, Vol. 28/No. 24, p. 56.
2005
Knight, Christopher. "A Mural of Color, Line and Light." Los Angeles Times, 25 November 2005, sec. E, p. 38.
Duncan, Michael. "State of the Art '05". LA Weekly, 28 October - 3 November 2005/vol 27/No 49, p. 52, illus.
Donohue, Marlena. "Continuing and Recommended". Exhibition review, Art Scene , December 2005, p.20.
Kraus, Chris; Tumlir, Jan; McFadden, Jane. LA Artland:Contemporary Art from Los Angeles , Black Dog Publishing Ltd. London, 2005, p.163, illus.
2004
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. Project 21: Sandeep Mukherjee, 20 January 22 February. Essay by Christopher Miles. illus.
Donohue, Marlena. "Continuing and Recommended". Exhibition review, Art Scene, February 2004, p.21
2003
Rugoff, Ralph. Warped Space. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute, 2003. illus. p. 7.
Carson, Juli. "Review 04: Sandeep Mukherjee." x-Tra. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 26-28, illus.
Jeno, Heather. "The Young and the Restless: Conversations at MOCA." desirelosangeles.com.
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. International Paper. 26 January 27 April 2003.Essay by Claudine Isé. illus.
Knight, Christopher. "Drawing, not toeing, the line." Los Angeles Times, 7 February 2003: E30.
Worman, Alex. "L.A. Confidential." artnet.com February 2003.
2002
Knight, Christopher. "In the Tiniest Gestures, Delicacy on an Epic Scale."Exhibition review, The Los Angeles Times, 4 October 2002, sec. F, p. 24.
2001
Miles, Christopher. "Los Angeles, Critic's Picks". artforum.com, June.
Knight, Christopher. "Alices Visit Alternate Realities in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland'." Los Angeles Times (15 June 2001): F26.
Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles. Hard-Boiled Wonderland. 24 May 7 July 2001. Essay by Julie Joyce. illus.
Greenstein, M.A. "To Go Naked is the Best Disguise." Art India 6 (quarter 1 2001): 18, illus.
Duncan, Michael. "Sandeep Mukherjee at Margo Leavin Gallery." Exhibition review, Art in America 3 (March 2001): 140-141, illus.
2000
Cooper, Jacqueline. "Sandeep Mukherjee." Exhibition review, New Art Examiner, December/January 2000/2001, 50, illus.
Feldman, James. "Sandeep Mukherjee." Exhibition review, Art issues 65 (November/December 2000): 50, illus.
Duncan, Michael. "L.A. Confidential." Exhibition review, artnet.com, October 2000.
Pagel, David. "Thrilling Images of Nature Throw Caution in the Wind." Los Angeles Times, 22 September 2000, sec. F, p. 18.
Perdices, J. Alvaro. "Sandeep Mukherjee Redolence." alo.com. September 2000.
"Sandeep Mukherjee at Margo Leavin Gallery." eyestorm.com. September 2000.
1999
Duncan, Michael. "L.A. Portraiture: Post Cool." Art in America, October 1999, 131.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Peter Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS
Pitzer College Art Collection, Claremont, CA