Karthik Pandian

Karthik Pandian is an artist who works in exhibitions and public interventions to unsettle the ground of history. He uses moving image, sculpture, and performance to render the mythologies of the present through forgotten, fragmentary, and futuristic pasts. Pandian has held solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Νew York; Bétonsalon, Paris; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, amongst others. His work has been featured in numerous survey exhibitions, such as the first Los Angeles Biennial, “Made in L.A. 2012” at the Hammer Museum; Okwui Enwezor’s ‟La Triennale, Intense Proximity” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and ‟Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015,” at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Pandian’s most recent project, ‟Atlas Unlimited,” a collaboration with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne, sculptor Zakaria Almoutlak, and many others, culminated in a presentation at 80 Washington Square East in Νew York City in 2019 and a commission by Triple Canopy released in spring 2021. He is currently working on a series of public art works in Boston and Minneapolis/St. Paul, animated by resistance to settler colonialism and systemic racism. Pandian received his BA in Art Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University and his MFA from ArtCenter College of Design. He teaches in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.