ZORAWAR SIDHU

b. 1985 Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Lives and works in New York, NY


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hall Art Foundation

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Unites States Department of State

Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024: “History is Present”, (in collaboration with Rob Swainston) Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY

2022: “No Justice”, (in collaboration with Rob Swainston), West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY

2022: “Doomscrolling” (in collaboration with Rob Swainston) Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

2021: “Essential Services: 2020 Woodblocks” (in collaboration with Rob Swainston) Five Myles 

Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020: “Essential Services” (in collaboration with Rob Swainston), 601 ArtSpace, New York, NY

2019: “After Francis Bacon and Vélasquez” New Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019: “Ideal Violence”, Field Projects Gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY

2018: “Time Capsule”, Museum of the Town of Vestal, Vestal, NY

2017: “Zorawar Sidhu: Eakins in Perspective”, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine

Arts, Philadelphia

2017: “Zorawar Sidhu: Author of the Quixote” Marginal Utility, Philadelphia

2007: “Zorawar Sidhu: Paintings and Drawings, 2005-2007”. Mattin Center,  Johns Hopkins

          University

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024: “Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston: Plague and Protest”, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

2023: “We are the Revolution”, Converge 45 Biennial, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, (in collaboration with Rob Swainston), Portland OR

2023: “Draw: Point to Point” The Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2023: “Crisis of Image”, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA

2023: “Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality and Sovereignty in U.S. Art”, Syracuse 

          University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY

2023: “PeopleScapes: Portraits of Humanity” United States Department of State, Washington, DC

2022: “The Fourth IAPA Printmaking Bienniale”, Kunming Museum, Yunnan Province, China 

2022: “Time’s Relentless Melt”, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

2022: “Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale Society Has the Capacity to     

            Destroy”, Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York, NY 

2021: “Haunted Summer”, Field Projects, New York, NY 

2020: “Seasonal Repression”, Field Projects, New York, NY

2020: “Friends and Family”, 601 ArtSpace, New York, NY

2020: “Audit”, PROTO GOMEZ, New York, NY

2019: “Consumption”, 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY

2019: “Install/Deinstall”, 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2019: “Pool Party”, C24 Gallery, New York, NY

2019: “New Prints 2019”, International Print Center, New York, NY

2019: “Published By the Artist”, International Print Center, New York, NY

2018: “Brixtape”, Calico Brooklyn, NY

2017: “Print Think 2017: Graphic Mimicry”,  Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia

2017: “Humanness”, curated by Marc Dennis,  Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2017: “Pivot Hosts Ess Ef Eff”, Pivot Gallery, New York, NY

2016: “New Barracuda”, curated by Nicholas Cueva, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

2016: “Polymorphous”, curated by Joel Carreiro, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016: “The PAFA Show”, curated by Katherine Bradford, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY

2015: “The New New People”, Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY

2014: “East-West Moments Day to Day”, Museum of Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ

2013: “The Reprocessed Image”, curated by Janna Dyk, Hunter College, NY

2012: 71st Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia

2012: “get it while it’s cheap #2”, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia

2012: PPAC Member Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia

2012: 111th Annual Student Exhibition, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2012: “It’s a Small, Small World”, Family Business, New York, NY

2011: Summer Residency in Photography Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, NY

2011: 110th Annual Student Exhibition, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2011: Fellowship Juried Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2010: The Philadelphia Salon: Winter Exhibition, Philadelphia

2010: Juried Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2009: Winter 2009 Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023: Jenkins, Mark “In the galleries: Exploring new methods of image transformation”, The Washington Post, May 5, 2023

2023: Kirsten Gill, Crisis of Image, Catalog Essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA

“Time’s Relentless Melt”, Princeton University Art Museum, Fall 2023 Magazine, Cover image and Essay

2022:Woods, Lynn. "No Justice exhibit at West Strand Gallery", Hudson Valley One, August 12,  2022.

Arnold, John Felix. “Masterful Feats of Printmaking: A Studio Visit with Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston”, The Coastal Post, March 30th, 2022. 

Norton, Aaron. “Exhibition Review: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston:Doomscrolling”, Musée: Vanguard of Photography Culture, Jan 27, 2022

Yaniv, Etty. “Doomscrolling at Petzel”, Art Spiel Jan 26, 2022

Doomscrolling”, Consequence Forum, Jan 25, 2022

Hirsch, Faye. “A Historic Art of Dissent for the Digital Age”, Hyperallergic, Jan 20, 2022

Lanot, Lise. “Des œuvres sur notre étrange soif de mauvaises nouvelles tentent  d’exorciser 2020”, Konbini Arts, Jan 18, 2022

Rivera, Steve. “Doomscrolling to Paradise”, The Great Fires, Jan 17, 2022

Diehl, Travis. “Facing Violence with Brushes and Ballots”, New York Times, Jan 14, 2022

Waddoups, Ryan. “Is 2022 the Year we Finally Stop Doomscrolling?”, Surface Magazine, Jan 4, 2022

Smith, David. “Doomscrolling: the exhibition that visualizes our appetite for bad news”, The Guardian, Jan 3, 2022

2017: Herzog, Matthew. “Author of the Quixote”. Velvet Glove, May 2017


AWARDS

2015: Kossak Travel Grant, Hunter College

2012: Haney Foundation Award for Philadelphia Artists

2012: Thouron Prize for Composition

2012: Special Notice, Hal and Linda Robinson Book Award

2011: People’s Choice Award, PAFA After Dark

2011: The Elena and Will Barnet Prize for Abstract Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2009: Merit Scholarship Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2007: Eugene Leake Award, Johns Hopkins University

2007: Homewood Arts Certificate, Johns Hopkins University

EDUCATION

2016: MFA, Studio Art, Hunter College

2012: BFA, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2012: Certificate, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2008: Post-Baccalaureate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2007: B.A. with Honors, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University