Siji Krishnan

Siji Krishnan (b. 1983) was born in Kerala and is currently based in Kochi, India. She received her MFA from Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Hyderabad, and a BFA from Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts at the University of Kerala. In 2019, Krishnan was an artist-in-residence at Koganecho Art Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Krishnan’s work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India, among others. Krishnan has exhibited work in the National Gallery of Victoria
Triennial, Moscow Biennale of International Contemporary Art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale and The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, as well as solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai. In 2024, Krishnan opened her U.S. debut solo exhibition, Liminal Spaces, at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and will open her first solo museum exhibtion The Secret Place at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA in October 2025.

For Krishnan, her work evokes the Perennial Upanishadic dictum, vasudhaiva kutumbakam, meaning “the world is one family.” Her portraiture delves into the personalities of her subjects, allowing their essence to saturate the senses without exaggerating their outward features. Each subject, though rooted in the artist’s familiar past, is concentrated in the present and prompts

the viewer to listen attentively to their story. Through her enchanted imagery, Krishnan’s large-scale works paint a web of life with the spirit of interconnectedness narrated through a visual language of figure and gesture.