Karthik Pandian

Karthik Pandian is an artist who works across disciplines to unsettle the ground of history. He uses video, sculpture and performance to render the present through forgotten, fragmentary and mythical pasts. Pandian has held solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Bétonsalon, Paris; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis amongst others.

His work has been featured in numerous international survey exhibitions such as the inaugural LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum in 2012; Okwui Enwezor’s La Triennale: Intense Proximity at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Film as Sculpture at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. His most recent project, Atlas Unlimited, a collaboration with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne and sculptor Zakaria Almoutlak, recently closed at 80 Washington Square East in New York City.

Pandian teaches in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is looking forward to working with the history of radical speech in Boston in the Public Art Accelerator this year.