geetha thurairajah
geetha thurairajah (b. 1986) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice relies on allegory gleaned from art history, personal narrative and observations of modern life to recreate spaces that defy hierarchies of genre. thurairajah studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design and Wilfrid Laurier University. Recent exhibitions include The Buddha of Suburbia, King’s Leap, New York (2023); At Land, Foxy Production, New York City (2022); Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Soothsay, Unit 17, Vancouver (2020); Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; No body to talk to, Invisible Exports, New York; Downward Flower, Fourteen30, Portland (all 2019); An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries (2018); Mingling with flowers panthers’ eyes, The New Gallery, Calgary; Here’s Looking at You, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (both 2017) and Goodbye here no matter where, 8eleven, Toronto (2016).
Talks
Twilight Hour, Emily Carr University, 10 November 2020
Exhibitions
Sorry (2020)
soothsay (2020)
Exophonic (2021)
We Work to Pay the Bills (2022)
Writing & Press
Publications
to shape a sword (2017)
Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, installation view, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Bloody Moon, 2018, installation view
Bloody Moon, 2018, acrylic and oil on canvas, 122 x 107cm
Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, installation view, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, installation view, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, installation view, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
I crawl on the ground and rise on a pillar, 2018, installation view
I crawl on the ground and rise on a pillar, 2018, acrylic and oil on canvas, 122 x 107cm
Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, installation view, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
If you're stuck in the past you're depressed and if you're fixated on the future you're anxious, 2018
Power, Purging and Politics, 2018, installation view
Power, Purging and Politics, 2018 (detail)
Shadow Boxer, 2018, installation view
E-A-R-T-H, 2018, installation view
E-A-R-T-H, 2018, acrylic and oil on canvas, 122 x 107cm
Born Again, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm
Onement, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm
Neophyte, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm
What do you mean I and II, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm ea.
No body to talk to, installation view, Invisible Exports (New York)
Convergence, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm
Subtle Exchanges, 2019, acrylic on canvas, pine, 243.8 x 60.9cm
We Work to Pay Bills, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 40.6cm
I heard you’re more intuitive if you use ‘I feel’ more…, 2017, acrylic and flash on canvas, 122 x 91cm
In time we’ll learn we’re one in the same, 2017, acrylic and flash on canvas, 122 x 91cm
Nightline, installation view, Pier 44 (New York)
Nightline, installation view, Pier 44 (New York)
A Kind of Existence After My Own Heart, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
Finding Our Way Back, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
It wasn't the right kind of performance and now we're not friends but I just heard from your sister, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
We Left She Stayed, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
Drink up 'cause Tahiti ain't free, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
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From Here You Look Different to Me, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
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Make It Rain, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm
hotlines, 2016
hotlines, 2016 (detail)
hotlines, 2016 (detail)
Goodbye Here, No Matter Where, installation view, 8eleven (Toronto)
Bound, 2015
Casting Back, 2015
Casting Back, 2015 (detail)
To Keyt (with love), 2015
To Keyt (with love), 2015 (detail)
Cargo Fantasies, 2015
Cargo Fantasies, 2015
Passing of the Olive Branch, 2015
Swimming for Idols, 2015