• Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art & Design), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka – 2014

• 2018 Full-time Visiting Scholar, South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Professional Associations

• 2016 – Present, Artist fellow, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
• 2019 Co-founder and Director, Student Recruitment, TAASI East: Institute for Transformative Arts, Advocacy and social Impact, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Solo Exhibitions

• 2019 Wounded Landscapes| Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2018 The Disappearance of Disappearances | History of Art Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• 2017 Disappearance| Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 Inequality | Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

• 2019 Look, Stranger! |Serendipity Arts Festival, curated by Rahaab Allana, Goa, India
• 2019 Five | Baik Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2019 A cross-section |Jaleh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2019 A Timeless Heritage |Tolworth Recreation Centre, Fullers Way North, UK
• 2019 Crossing Place, Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka | Baik Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2019 Contemporary Sri Lankan Art| Organized by Theertha International Artists Collective in collaboration with Iranian Cultural Centre in Colombo
• 2018 When Memory Lives| Artscape Youngplace, Conducted by Asian Research
• Centre, York University, Toronto, Canada
• 2018 Living on the Margins | Brunei Gallery (UK), Park Gallery (Nepal), Sapumal Modern Art Museum (Sri Lanka), Conducted by PositiveNegative Ltd, SOAS University of London, UK
• 2018 Embodying Power |Sapumal Modern Art Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2017 Human Rights Arts Festival | JDA Perera Gallery, Visual and Performing Arts, University, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2017 Silent Auction of Modern & Contemporary Art, Temple Trees Auditorium
• 2016 Young Subcontinent | Serendipity Arts Festival, curated by Riyas Komu,Goa, India
• 2016 Conceiving Space | Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 Liminal Space: Reconfiguring Identity and Space through Contemporary Art | JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 Truth to Truth: Visual Art exhibition about transitional justice | Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts. (VAFA), Colombo
• 2016 C/A/M/P – Contemporary Artists’ Meeting Point | Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo
• 2015 Shadow Scenes | Colomboscope, curated by Natasha Ginwala, and conceptualized and implemented by EUNIC, which consists of the Goethe Institute, Alliance Francaise de Kotte and British Council
• 2015 Seven Conversations | Saskia Fernando Gallery, curated by Sharmini Pereira and T.Shanathanan, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2013 Open edit Mobile library | Park Street Mews, Colombo, Conducted by Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong and Raking Leaves, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2013 The SAARC Artist Camp and Exhibition of Paintings | National Art Gallery, Male, Maldives

Collections

• Private collections in Sri Lanka, India, Ireland, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, Hawaii, Denmark, Japan, London, Spain, Toronto, Scotland, Boston & New York
• 2018 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY
• 2018 SOAS, University of London, UK
• 2017 Embassy of Switzerland in Sri Lanka
• 2017 Positive Negatives Ltd., UK Home Office, London
• 2013 SAARC Cultural Centre, Colombo

Conferences, Panels and/or Talks

• 2018 Artist Talk – When Memory Lives, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Ontario
• 2018 Contemporary Visual Art in the North and East of Sri Lanka, Tamil Studies Symposium, York University
• 2018 Artist Talk – The Disappearance of Disappearances, incorporated with Sri Lanka
• Graduate Student Conference, the History of Art Gallery, Cornell University, NY
• 2018 “Mainstreaming Subaltern Arts & Practices: Opportunities, Obstacles and
• Dangers: A Journey from the Margins or to the Margins?” Paper presented at International Conference, SVIAS, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• 2018 Panel discussion – Living on the Margins, Sapumal Modern Art Museum, Sri Lanka
• 2017 Artist Talk – Memorialization and Personal Narratives, the St. John‟s Church, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
• 2017 “Burning memories” Conference Paper presented at International Conference on Challenges and Importance of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Times of War and Post War, SVIAS, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• 2015 “Introducing performance Art”, Art Circle, Arts Faculty, University of Jaffna

Curatorial Projects

• 2020 Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka | Co-Curator, Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
• 2019 Degree Show-2019 | Curator, SVIAS, Eastern University, Sri Lanka
• 2016 Visual Art Exhibition | Curator, WINGS 2016 – “A festival of arts on reconciliation”
• Swami Vipulananda Memorial Auditorium, Ampara, Sri Lanka

Press archive (selected)

• 2019 “Veering onto Wounded Landscapes” http://www.themorning.lk/veering-onto-wounded-landscapes/
• 2019 “When Stillness Came Rushing In: Sri Lanka‟s Artistic Community Responds to the Easter Attacks” https://frieze.com/article/when-stillness-came-rushing-sri-lankas-artisticcommunity- responds-easter-attacks
• 2019 “Exhibition of Lankan contemporary art in Los Angeles” http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190505/plus/exhibition-of-lankan-contemporary-artin- los-angeles-347463.html
• 2019 “Crossing Place: Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka at Baik Art Gallery” https://www.srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/crossing-placeexhibition- of-contemporary-art-from-sri-lanka-at-baik-art-gallery/
• 2018 “Community Visual Art Workshop with S. P. Pushpakanthan” https://www.evensi.ca/visual-art-workshop-artscape-youngplace/277502297
• 2018 “An exhibition of drawings by Visiting Artist Pushapakanthan Pakkiyarajah” https://arthistory.cornell.edu/disappearance disappearances
• 2017 “Stark Symbolism and Bloodthirst” http://artra.lk/articles/art/paintings/starksymbolism-&- bloodthirst-narrative-2
• 2017 “13 Contemporary Artists in Sri Lanka You Should Know – Culture Trip” https://theculturetrip.com › Asia › Sri Lanka
• 2017 “All about disappearances” http://www.dailynews.lk/2017/08/31/features/126751/all aboutDisappearances
• 2016 “Goa’s Serendipity festival to celebrate diversity in art” | The Hindu
• 2016 “33 global artists to showcase at Serendipity Arts Festival”| the Times of India
• 2016 “An artist not only to watch but also to collect” | The Sunday Times,
• Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 “ART AND TRUTH TELLING: THE SINGULARITY OF TRUTH” | South Asian Centre for Legal Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka

• 2018 Community Art Workshop with S.P.Pushpakanthan, by Tamil Studies and
• Resources, and York Centre for Asian Research – YCAR, York University, Ontario
• 2016 Young Subcontinent, Goa, India
• 2016 Art and Transitional Justice contacted by Center for policy alternative
• (CPA) and VAFA, at Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, Colombo
• 2015 CAMP Creative Art workshop. (Contemporary Artist meeting point),
• Implemented by Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA), Colombo
• 2014 “KAVITHA Talent Programme 2013/2014 – Painting workshop” National
• Institute of Education, Maharagma, Srilanka
• 2013 Drawing workshop collaborate with Theertha International Artists Collective
• 2013 SAARC Artist Camp, Kuda Bandos, Maldives

• 2020 Visiting Fellow (GCRF), Department of Philosophy & Art history and Department of Law, University of Essex, London 

• 2019 Fulbright Master’s Award 2019-2020 
  

• 2019  Artist Fellow, Summer School, Decolonizing Thought, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Conducted by Goldsmiths College, University of London
• 2018 South Asian Studies Fellowship 2018, awarded by The South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

• 2014 The Best Creative Artist of the Year 2013/2014 in Sri Lanka, KAVITHA Talent, awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Colombo, Sri Lanka 

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