geetha thurairajah

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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 Bard College, 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).

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Talks

Twilight Hour, Emily Carr University, 10 November 2020

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Exhibitions

Residue (2019)

Sorry (2020)

soothsay (2020)

Exophonic (2021)

We Work to Pay the Bills (2022)

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Writing & Press

Artforum

Akimbo

Canadian Art

Editorial Magazine

Akimbo

 

Publications

to shape a sword (2017)

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CV