Photo credit Terrance James

Ep.180 features Kaveri Raina (b.1990, New Delhi, India). She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Select solo and group exhibitions include: The Big Picture (2023) Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A soft place to land (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; Deep! Down! Inside! (2023) Hales Gallery, New York, NY; Kaveri Raina and Coral Saucedo Lomelí: What Do You Remember About the Earth (2023), Lighthouse Works, NY; image as a burden, death as a womb (2022), Chapter NY, New York, NY; Heft (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora (2021), National Indo-American Museum, Lombard, IL; Partings, Swaying to the Moon (2020), PATRON, Chicago, IL; NO LACKS, ME AND MY SHADOW (2020), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; A Space for Monsters (2021), Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Kaveri Raina (2020), Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Linger to Gaze (2019), Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Linger Still (2019), Assembly Room, New York, NY; Here or There (2019), Paolo Arao, Rata Projects, New York, NY; Sarah.Canright / Kaveri.Raina (2019), Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; spaceless (2019), Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Paint School (2019), Shandaken Projects, Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; garcia, raina, shore, tossin (2019) at Luhring Augustine, New York; Pleasure at a Distance (2018), Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA.

Raina has received several fellowships and awards including the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, the Ox-bow Residency Award, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Award.

Patron Gallery https://patrongallery.com/artist/kaveriraina

Patron Gallery “Songs of Silence yet bluebirds hum”

https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/413/songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-hum

Patron Gallery “Heft”

https://patrongallery.com/exhibition/323/heft

Casey Kaplan Gallery https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/kaveri-raina/

Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kaveri-raina-songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-hum

MOCA Cleveland “A soft place to land”

https://www.mocacleveland.org/a-soft-place-to-land

Night Gallery “the big picture”

https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-big-picture/press-release

Chapter “image as burden, death as womb”

https://chapter-ny.com/exhibitions/image-as-a-burden-death-as-a-womb/

Artforum review

https://www.artforum.com/events/kaveri-raina-2-250873/

Lighthouse works

https://lighthouseworks.us/exhibitions/kaveri-raina-coral-saucedo-lomeli-what-do-you-remember-about-the-earth

Office “The wistful edge of silence”

https://officemagazine.net/wistful-edge-silence-kaveri-raina

NewCIty https://art.newcity.com/2020/03/16/ambiguity-of-form-a-review-of-kaveri-raina-at-patron/

Maake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/issue-14

Clouds, loose clouds, slow wind, swift rains; shoveled away slowly in remembrance, 2023
Acrylic, graphite, oil pastel, burlap 85″ x 65″ | 215.90 x 165.10.
Courtesy of the artist and Patron Gallery

….and still raging, treading through the desolate silence, 2023
Acrylic, oil pastel, graphite, burlap 68″ x 110″ | 172.7 x 279.4 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Patron Gallery

Dire; scarring of a sound, scarring of a smell, scarring of an image, 2023
Acrylic, graphite, oil pastel, burlap 50″ x 60″ | 127 x 152.40 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Patron Gallery