Kanishka Raja received his BA from Hampshire College and his MFA from
Southern Methodist University. He also attended the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME. Raja has had solo and group
shows in New York, Boston, and Berlin. His paintings have been featured
at Bellwether, Exit Art and Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York and
he has an upcoming solo exhibition at Envoy in October 2005. In 2004,
Raja received the the Digitas/ICA Artist Prize which included a solo
show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. His work has been
reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America and Tema Celeste. Raja
will be a resident at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)
in New York from Dec 2005 to June 2006 and at the Civitella Ranieri Center
in Umbertide, Italy in the summer of 2006.
Raja’s work deals with the collisions of the foreign and the familiar. Working
as both a painter and a photographer, he creates series of interconnected
interiors— such as hotel rooms, airport lobbies, public restrooms— which
spill over and inform each other, and in their totality, describe a
semi-fictional, self-enclosed architectural complex.
