Pigment ink, pastel, charcoal on archival paper
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33 x 24 inches
Sandeep TK is an artist from Thalassery, Kerala, currently based in Bangalore. His multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, and text, exploring intersections of queerness, caste, class, and colourism, often rooted in personal experience. He also curates and manages programming at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore. Sandeep TK works with the idea of desire, alternative histories, autobiographical narratives and fleeting feelings in the context of spaces that he has inhabited or
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Sandeep TK is an artist from Thalassery, Kerala, currently based in Bangalore. His multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, and text, exploring intersections of queerness, caste, class, and colourism, often rooted in personal experience. He also curates and manages programming at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore. Sandeep TK works with the idea of desire, alternative histories, autobiographical narratives and fleeting feelings in the context of spaces that he has inhabited or experienced by exploring the role of his queer, class, colour identity and its experiences he had in everyday life by positioning himself as someone who transcended class and the journey of this transition.
His practice involves photographs, videos, and text-based drawings.
He has presented solo exhibitions at Gallery Sumukha (2018, 2024) and Villa Renata, Basel (2022), and shown work at Khoj Studios, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, and Serendipity Arts Festival. His video works have screened at Bangalore Queer Film Festival, Palace International Queer Film Festival (UK), and others.
Sandeep has received several accolades, including the Paradise Air Residency (Tokyo, 2019), Inlaks Fine Art Award (2020), Khoj Peers Residency (2021), Pro Helvetia Residency (Basel, 2022), and the Robert Bosch Crossing Borders Grant. In 2023, he was named a Serendipity Arles Grantee. Upcoming: residencies at OCAD (Canada), IASPIS (Sweden), and participation in an exhibition at the Swiss National Museum (2025).