Mills College Art Lecture Series: Karthik Pandian

Karthik Pandian: “Language as Sneeze”
February 1, 2017
7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall


Pandian will touch on the involuntary in art and how it has inflected his work on the monuments of the Third Reich, Indian mounds, the black aesthetic, Roman aqueducts and camel choreography.
American artist Karthik Pandian has held solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bétonsalon, Paris; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis amongst others. Pandian’s work was featured in the inaugural L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum as well as in numerous international exhibitions including La Triennale: Intense Proximity at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015 at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Film as Sculpture at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; and the 4th Marrakech Biennale, Higher Atlas. In 2016, he premiered his first performance, a collaboration with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne, at EMPAC in Troy, NY. Pandian was the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2011. He currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. Sponsored by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.