Sangram Majumdar’s paintings embrace the thematic, formal and symbolic possibilities of gestures and fragments to subvert the idea of a singular narrative. His recent solo exhibition venues include Mirchandani Steinruecke, Mumbai, Geary Contemporary, New York; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; and Asia Society Texas Center, Houston. Selected group exhibition venues include Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles; and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Selected awards include the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting; Purchase Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and a Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space grant, Brooklyn. From 2003 to 2021, Majumdar was a full-time faculty in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he received a Faculty Research Grant (2019), three Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grants (2008, 2012, and 2013) and a MICA Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award (2009). In 2019, he was inducted into the National Academy of Design.
Majumdar is an Associate Professor in Painting + Drawing at the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, where he has been teaching since September 2021. His recent institutional awards include a Royalty Research Fund, the Kreilsheimer Arts Endowment, a Jones Large Grant, and was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in Arts for the 2021-23 academic years. Majumdar’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic among others.
