PAPERWORK by Sangram Majumdar

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PAPERWORK brings together a selection of drawings made between 2015 and 2024 by the artist Sangram Majumdar. Presented as direct facsimiles, these works open a rare and generous window into Majumdar’s highly layered and iterative drawing process where recurring figurative imagery, decorative motifs, and elements from Indian folklore interweave to explore ideas of intimacy, obfuscation, power dynamics, and bodily gesture. Many of these works closely mirror some of his paintings, while others indicate paths not taken or yet to explored. Bookending these rich and varied images is a wonderfully poetic and luminous text by curator Jordan Amirkhani and an equally insightful conversation with painter Kyle Staver.

PAPERWORK brings together a selection of drawings made between 2015 and 2024 by the artist Sangram Majumdar. Presented as direct facsimiles, these works open a rare and generous window into Majumdar’s highly layered and iterative drawing process where recurring figurative imagery, decorative motifs, and elements from Indian folklore interweave to explore ideas of intimacy, obfuscation, power dynamics, and bodily gesture. Many of these works closely mirror some of his paintings, while others indicate paths not taken or yet to explored. Bookending these rich and varied images is a wonderfully poetic and luminous text by curator Jordan Amirkhani and an equally insightful conversation with painter Kyle Staver.

About the Author & Contributors

Sangram Majumdar (b. Kolkata, India; lives and works in Seattle, Washington) has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibition venues include Geary Contemporary, New York; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; Asia Society Texas Center, Houston; all others. Selected group exhibition venues include Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA; The Landing Gallery, LA; and James Cohan Gallery, NY. Selected awards include a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, Mellon Faculty Fellow in Arts, NYFA Grant in Painting, Purchase Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, and the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Grant. In 2019 he was inducted into the National Academy of Design. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at University of Washington.


Jordan Amirkhani (b. Baton Rouge, LA, US; lives and works in New Orleans, LA, US) is currently a Curator and Head of Research at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought--a non-profit arts organization committed to the art of diaspora. She was worked with a range of living artists to realize books and exhibitions, including Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye for the California African American Museum in LA; Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind for MASS MoCA; Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul for Art + Practice; and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction for Atlanta Contemporary. She earned her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Art from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom and has held academic appointments at American University in Washington, DC and the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN. Her writing and criticism have appeared in Aperture, The Paris Review Daily, Art in America, Artforum, and X-Tra, amongst others. She was awarded the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital ‘Short-Form’ Art Writers Grant in 2017 and has been nominated three times for The Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism.

Kyle Staver (b. Virginia, MN, US; lives and works in New York, NY, US) earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at Half Gallery, New York; Zürcher Gallery, New York; Galerie RX, Paris; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; among many others. Her work is in the collections of the National Academy of Design (New York), The American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), The National Arts Club (New York), The McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco), and Portland Community College (Portland, Oregon). Staver is also recognized as a distinguished member of the National Academy of New York.