Sukeshi is a multidisciplinary artist whose oeuvre includes painting, collage, installation, and performance art. Her artistic practice is informed by identity, migration, and domesticity in the everyday. The underlying objective is to transform the everyday and elevate the mundane thereby making visible the invisible.
Having travelled extensively from a young age to various parts of the world, Sukeshi’s approach to art making is indelibly influenced by her interactions and responses to her surroundings . Nostalgia, memory, and displacement play a significant role in her art practice. Visual and tactile memories result in preliminary sketches and notes, research and experimentation with varied mediums, materials, and forms. The process is cumulative and reflexive, and remains an integral part of the end-product.
Sukeshi holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (U.K.)/Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore). She has held three solo shows in Singapore to date. Her first solo exhibition, “LKY: An Icon and a Legend” (2013) was a tribute to the late Prime Minister Lee and Singapore on becoming a citizen. In 2017, she was invited to hold a solo exhibition, Angels in the Room at the Indian Heritage Centre (a national heritage museum in Singapore). The show comprised of her latest installation works and interactive performance work Hug Me! Later that year, she was invited in give a talk and performance of Hug Me! by Tasveer, a non-profit organisation, at the Aaina Festival of the Arts at Seattle University, Washington (USA). She was invited as a Visiting Research Scholar at Women’s Studies Research Centre at Brandeis University (2017-18). She curated the art show, Stillness : Transformation which included works by artists and alumni from the student-body, faculty of WSRC and Brandeis.
Sukeshi currently lives and works in Pittsburgh (PA). She is examining the concept and process of redevelopment in urban landscape as evidenced by changes in architecture, demographics, and subculture. For Sukeshi, urban landscapes are repositories of personal and collective memories. She is exploring ways to render her perspective through geometric abstraction using layers of acrylic, and graphite markings on canvas, burlap and corrugated cardboard. Her artwork engages in an interplay between line, color, form and space. Sukeshi prefers that the meaning of a visual element not be didactic but, rather that it evolve according to the perception of the viewer. By distilling urban landscapes into geometric forms, Sukeshi subverts the traditional genre thereby challenging the viewer’s expectations and inviting new interpretations of the ordinary and everyday.
Sukeshi has exhibited in solo and group shows, and art fairs. Her works are held in corporate and private collections in Singapore, India, Indonesia, France, UK, and USA.
