Few images from my series Still Life are part of a group show, Freedom in Medellín, Colombia. The exhibition is curate by Adriana Rios Monslave at Club Curatorial Piso Alto. Opening reception on Saturday Dec 17, from 5 to 9 pm, with conversation with the artists at 6:30 pm.
I wrote a review for Deepak Rauniyar’s new film White Sun for The Record.
I am teaching a section of Portrait Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD Univeristy. The intermediate course looks at contemporary practices of portraiture and introduces students to various approaches to photographing people. The six-weeks course starts on November 12, 2016.
A selection of This Country is Yours will be part of one of the slide shows at Photo Kathmandu. The slide show will take place in Chysal in Patan, Kathmandu on October 26, 2016 from 6 to 7 pm.
I am teaching a section of Documentary Photography Studio and a section of Portrait Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD University. The six-weeks courses start in November 2016.
A selection of This Country is Yours is part of the traveling exhibition Scope: The Nepal Issue, part of PIX magazine’s 13th issue focusing on photography from Nepal. The exhibition opens on September 30 and closes on Nov 7, 2016 at Taragaon Museum (inside Hyatt Regency) in Boudha, Kathmandu.
A selection of This Country is Yours is part of PIX magazine’s Scope: The Nepal Issue. There is an accompanying exhibition at the Goethe-Institut /Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi till May 7, 2016. http://www.pixquarterly.in/current_issue_launch.php
The video recording of the panel discussion with NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati and Manjushree Thapa at the Urban Space Gallery, organized by Gallery 44 and South Asian Visual Arts Centre on January 7, 2016.
I will be teaching a section of Introduction to Digital Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD University that will start from February 27, 2015. The 6-weeks courses introduces DSLR cameras, image file processing, and Adobe Photoshop.
I will be in conversation with NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, along with Manjushree Thapa at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto on January 7, 2016 7 pm.
I am teaching two sections of Portrait Photography through Continuing Studies at OCAD University in January 2016. The course introduces various technical, conceptual and formal approaches to portraiture.
The Man From Limbuwan – I wrote a tribute to my father, in conjunction with my exhibition at Photo Kathmandu running between Nov 3 to 6, 2015.
Striking a Delicate Balance – I wrote a film review for Drawing the Tiger, a Nepali documentary to be screened at Film South Asia in Kathmandu, between November 19 to 22.
The Man From Limbuwan is a two-part solo exhibition, part of Photo Kathmandu, Nepal’s first international photography festival. The exhibition features pictures from my family albums and selection of two older bodies of the work from the US. I pay tribute to my dad, whom I lost earlier this year through the family photographs. And the work from US deals the migrant experience of assimilation, community, longing and belonging.
Nov 3-9, 2015 | 10am -5pm
Image Ark, Kulimha, Patan, Kathmandu
I am teaching a one-day workshop Portraiture with Medium Format Cameras at Gallery 44 in Toronto. For details click here.
Of Light and Longing, a year-long exchange between artists Surendra Lawoti and Meera Margaret Singh will be part of the group exhibition Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The culminated exchange consisting of newly created images, images from their archives, videos and text pieces will be exhibited as a dual-screen projection.
Exhibition dates: Sep 5, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016
Opening reception: Friday Sep 11, 2015
Symposium: Saturday Sep 12, 2015 11 am – 3pm
Five images from This Country is Yours on sale for Toronto Nepali Film Festival for fundraiser for Nepal earthquake relief featured in Rabble.
This Country is Yours is part of An Ocean of Possibilities at Museum TwentseWelle at Enschede in The Netherlands
Dec 17, 2014 – Feb 15, 2015
Photography and Diaspora: A roundtable with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay. Moderated by Anthony W Lee
In conversation with Hester Keijser, the curator of An Ocean of Possibilities
This Country is Yours will be part of two Photography festivals:
An Ocean of Possibilities
Nooderlicth International Photofestival
Aug 31 – Oct 26, 2014
Fries Museum
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
An Ocean of Possibilities
Singapore International Photography Festival
Oct 31 – Dec 28, 2014
ArtScience Museum
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Interview about This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in SPACES, May 2014
This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in Kantipur (in Nepali)
This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in Nepali Times
This Country is Yours – A Multimedia Exhibition for Inclusive Democracy by Surendra Lawoti at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Opening: May 15, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 16 – June 1, 2014
Gallery Hours: 11 am – 7 pm
Associated Events:
Film Screening – Sweat Drenched Land – Arun Pradhan/32 min/2010: May 16, 5:30 – 6:30 pm, in collaboration with Indigenous Film Archive
Gallery walk-through with Surendra Lawoti: May 17, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion – Visual Representations of Marginalized Groups or Lack There of: May 22, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Artist Talk: May 22nd, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Portfolio Reviews – Surendra Lawoti will offer portfolio reviews to Nepali photographers and visual artists: May 31, all day
One image from the series Don River is part of a large scale outdoor photo installation outside of Galerie Max Mueller, Goethe Institut in Mumbai. It is on view for limited duration from January 24, 2014. For more info, click here.
Media release for This Country is Yours at Toronto Image Works can be viewed in my blog.
This Country is Yours at Toronto Image Works Gallery is featured in rable.ca
This Country is Yours
A narrative of social and political transformation of Nepal
Photographs by Surendra Lawoti
December 3, 2013 – January 31, 2014
Opening Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday January 18, 1 pm
Toronto Image Works Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 207
Toronto, ON
Tel: 416 703 1999
Email: gallery@torontoimageworks.com
www.torontoimageworks.com
Gallery Hours:
Mon – Fri 9-7, Sat 11-3
Community Partner: SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)
This Country is Yours is featured in Lalit magazine, a literary journal based out of Kathmandu.
@ Martin Chautari, Kathmandu
Mangalbare Disscussion Series (Tuesday, 3 pm)
3 Sept 2013/ 18 Bhadau 2070
This Country is Yours: A Photographic Narrative of Social and Political Transformation in Nepal
Abstract:
Surendra Lawoti will present two photographic bodies of work; Pictures from the Nepali Diaspora (2003–04) and This Country is Yours (ongoing from 2012). For Nepali Diaspora, Surendra photographed his fellow Nepali migrants to the US. He visited peoples’ homes in Chicago, Michigan and Boston, and photographed their living spaces and them. The work looks at a transitory period in peoples’ lives and deals with migration, memory, community, and sense of longing and belonging. This Country is Yours focuses on the activists of six social and political movements of Nepal, which include: women, Adibasi Janajatis, Dalits, Madhesis, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex community, and religious minorities. The work uses Kathmandu as the geographic boundary and combines portraits, landscape and interiors to create a narrative of social and political transformation from the perspective of above mentioned groups. The work is borne from the context of representational deficit faced by the minority groups during the important and historic process of the creation of Nepal’s new constitution.
In The Kathmandu Post, July 20 2013
A selection of This Country is Yours was published in one of the largest circulating English dailies of Nepal. For an online version of the publication, please click here
Nine Rivers City Toronto’s Extraordinary Waterways
A breathtaking, large-scale, outdoor photographic installation exploring Toronto’s river watersheds
June 21, 2013 – June 2014
Opening Reception: Friday June 21, 2013, 6 to 10 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Harbourfront Cenre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto
Featuring works by Surendra Lawoti, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Vanessa Hussey, Christopher Manson, Meghan Rennie and Jade Lee Portelli
Curated by Patrick Macaulay
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts/nineriverscity/
I wrote a review for Deepak Rauniyar’s new film White Sun for The Record.
I am teaching a section of Portrait Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD Univeristy. The intermediate course looks at contemporary practices of portraiture and introduces students to various approaches to photographing people. The six-weeks course starts on November 12, 2016.
A selection of This Country is Yours will be part of one of the slide shows at Photo Kathmandu. The slide show will take place in Chysal in Patan, Kathmandu on October 26, 2016 from 6 to 7 pm.
I am teaching a section of Documentary Photography Studio and a section of Portrait Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD University. The six-weeks courses start in November 2016.
A selection of This Country is Yours is part of the traveling exhibition Scope: The Nepal Issue, part of PIX magazine’s 13th issue focusing on photography from Nepal. The exhibition opens on September 30 and closes on Nov 7, 2016 at Taragaon Museum (inside Hyatt Regency) in Boudha, Kathmandu.
A selection of This Country is Yours is part of PIX magazine’s Scope: The Nepal Issue. There is an accompanying exhibition at the Goethe-Institut /Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi till May 7, 2016. http://www.pixquarterly.in/current_issue_launch.php
The video recording of the panel discussion with NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati and Manjushree Thapa at the Urban Space Gallery, organized by Gallery 44 and South Asian Visual Arts Centre on January 7, 2016.
I will be teaching a section of Introduction to Digital Photography through the Continuing Studies at OCAD University that will start from February 27, 2015. The 6-weeks courses introduces DSLR cameras, image file processing, and Adobe Photoshop.
I will be in conversation with NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, along with Manjushree Thapa at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto on January 7, 2016 7 pm.
I am teaching two sections of Portrait Photography through Continuing Studies at OCAD University in January 2016. The course introduces various technical, conceptual and formal approaches to portraiture.
The Man From Limbuwan – I wrote a tribute to my father, in conjunction with my exhibition at Photo Kathmandu running between Nov 3 to 6, 2015.
Striking a Delicate Balance – I wrote a film review for Drawing the Tiger, a Nepali documentary to be screened at Film South Asia in Kathmandu, between November 19 to 22.
The Man From Limbuwan is a two-part solo exhibition, part of Photo Kathmandu, Nepal’s first international photography festival. The exhibition features pictures from my family albums and selection of two older bodies of the work from the US. I pay tribute to my dad, whom I lost earlier this year through the family photographs. And the work from US deals the migrant experience of assimilation, community, longing and belonging.
Nov 3-9, 2015 | 10am -5pm
Image Ark, Kulimha, Patan, Kathmandu
I am teaching a one-day workshop Portraiture with Medium Format Cameras at Gallery 44 in Toronto. For details click here.
Of Light and Longing, a year-long exchange between artists Surendra Lawoti and Meera Margaret Singh will be part of the group exhibition Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The culminated exchange consisting of newly created images, images from their archives, videos and text pieces will be exhibited as a dual-screen projection.
Exhibition dates: Sep 5, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016
Opening reception: Friday Sep 11, 2015
Symposium: Saturday Sep 12, 2015 11 am – 3pm
Five images from This Country is Yours on sale for Toronto Nepali Film Festival for fundraiser for Nepal earthquake relief featured in Rabble.
This Country is Yours is part of An Ocean of Possibilities at Museum TwentseWelle at Enschede in The Netherlands
Dec 17, 2014 – Feb 15, 2015
Photography and Diaspora: A roundtable with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay. Moderated by Anthony W Lee
In conversation with Hester Keijser, the curator of An Ocean of Possibilities
This Country is Yours will be part of two Photography festivals:
An Ocean of Possibilities
Nooderlicth International Photofestival
Aug 31 – Oct 26, 2014
Fries Museum
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
An Ocean of Possibilities
Singapore International Photography Festival
Oct 31 – Dec 28, 2014
ArtScience Museum
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Interview about This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in SPACES, May 2014
This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in Kantipur (in Nepali)
This Country is Yours at Nepal Art Council in Nepali Times
This Country is Yours – A Multimedia Exhibition for Inclusive Democracy by Surendra Lawoti at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Opening: May 15, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 16 – June 1, 2014
Gallery Hours: 11 am – 7 pm
Associated Events:
Film Screening – Sweat Drenched Land – Arun Pradhan/32 min/2010: May 16, 5:30 – 6:30 pm, in collaboration with Indigenous Film Archive
Gallery walk-through with Surendra Lawoti: May 17, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion – Visual Representations of Marginalized Groups or Lack There of: May 22, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Artist Talk: May 22nd, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Portfolio Reviews – Surendra Lawoti will offer portfolio reviews to Nepali photographers and visual artists: May 31, all day
One image from the series Don River is part of a large scale outdoor photo installation outside of Galerie Max Mueller, Goethe Institut in Mumbai. It is on view for limited duration from January 24, 2014. For more info, click here.
Media release for This Country is Yours at Toronto Image Works can be viewed in my blog.
This Country is Yours at Toronto Image Works Gallery is featured in rable.ca
This Country is Yours
A narrative of social and political transformation of Nepal
Photographs by Surendra Lawoti
December 3, 2013 – January 31, 2014
Opening Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday January 18, 1 pm
Toronto Image Works Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 207
Toronto, ON
Tel: 416 703 1999
Email: gallery@torontoimageworks.com
www.torontoimageworks.com
Gallery Hours:
Mon – Fri 9-7, Sat 11-3
Community Partner: SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)
This Country is Yours is featured in Lalit magazine, a literary journal based out of Kathmandu.
@ Martin Chautari, Kathmandu
Mangalbare Disscussion Series (Tuesday, 3 pm)
3 Sept 2013/ 18 Bhadau 2070
This Country is Yours: A Photographic Narrative of Social and Political Transformation in Nepal
Abstract:
Surendra Lawoti will present two photographic bodies of work; Pictures from the Nepali Diaspora (2003–04) and This Country is Yours (ongoing from 2012). For Nepali Diaspora, Surendra photographed his fellow Nepali migrants to the US. He visited peoples’ homes in Chicago, Michigan and Boston, and photographed their living spaces and them. The work looks at a transitory period in peoples’ lives and deals with migration, memory, community, and sense of longing and belonging. This Country is Yours focuses on the activists of six social and political movements of Nepal, which include: women, Adibasi Janajatis, Dalits, Madhesis, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex community, and religious minorities. The work uses Kathmandu as the geographic boundary and combines portraits, landscape and interiors to create a narrative of social and political transformation from the perspective of above mentioned groups. The work is borne from the context of representational deficit faced by the minority groups during the important and historic process of the creation of Nepal’s new constitution.
In The Kathmandu Post, July 20 2013
A selection of This Country is Yours was published in one of the largest circulating English dailies of Nepal. For an online version of the publication, please click here
Nine Rivers City Toronto’s Extraordinary Waterways
A breathtaking, large-scale, outdoor photographic installation exploring Toronto’s river watersheds
June 21, 2013 – June 2014
Opening Reception: Friday June 21, 2013, 6 to 10 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Harbourfront Cenre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto
Featuring works by Surendra Lawoti, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Vanessa Hussey, Christopher Manson, Meghan Rennie and Jade Lee Portelli
Curated by Patrick Macaulay
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts/nineriverscity/