Art SG

Srijon Chowdhury (b. 1987) was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and lives and works in Portland, OR, where he and his wife Anna Margaret run the exhibition space Chicken Coop Contemporary. He holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN, and an MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. He has been awarded grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, 2018; Regional Arts and Culture Council, 2018; Andy Warhol Foundation, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Calligram Foundation, 2017; and the Otis Governors Grant, 2012. In 2018, he was awarded the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship. Chowdhury has presented solo exhibitions at Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Foxy Production, New York, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, OR; CFA Live, Milan, Italy; Antoine Levi, Paris, France; and Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France; among others. His work has been included in group shows at the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; Foxy Production, New York, NY; Et al., San Francisco, CA; Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada; Chapter NY, New York, NY; Deli Gallery, New York, NY;  White Columns, New York, NY; Nir Altman, Munich, Germany; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; among others. Chowdhury’s work was recently showcased in the 2024 Artists’ Biennial in Portland, OR. Concurrent with his co-curation of the Frye Art Museum’s group exhibition Door to the Atmosphere, the institution held Chowdhury’s first solo museum exhibition Same Old Song in 2022, coinciding with a publication of the same name. Tapestry, the artist’s debut solo show with P·P·O·W, was on view in Fall 2024.

Elizabeth Glaessner (b. 1984) conjures a saturated, densely layered world of transformation and multiplicity. Inviting amorphousness in her subjects and environments, Glaessner’s surreal universe is populated by evocative forms in various states of becoming or undoing. Rich with art historical and cultural allusions, her work offers no narratives or fables, but rather evokes nebulous atmospheres unmoored by virtue and vice. Working in oil, acrylic and pure pigments dispersed with water and various binders, Glaessner’s technique shifts between formal articulation and non-representational gesture. In her review of Gleassner’s 2022 exhibition at P·P·O·W, Johanna Fateman writes, “Glaessner’s vaporous figuration and dreamy backgrounds can recall such symbolists as Edvard Munch and Odilon Redon, but her color is bolder. She deploys a singular alchemy of high-key stains and pours, overlaid with rich oil paint, to achieve a hazy deep space and smoothly modelled volumes.” Glaessner was born in Palo Alto, CA, and grew up in Houston, TX. After receiving her BA from Trinity University in 2006, she moved to New York and completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art in 2013. She was awarded a postgraduate fellowship at the New York Academy of Art in 2013 and has held residencies at GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany, in 2013 and Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany, in 2012. In February 2022, P·P·O·W presented Phantom Tail, Glaessner’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. In 2022, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, presented Four Legs in a Garden, the first institutional solo presentation of Glaessner’s work. Glaessner has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Perrotin, Paris, France, and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA.

Set in fantastical, utopian landscapes, Sanam Khatibi’s (b. 1979) atemporal and allegorical works showcase primal impulses and unrestrained animality, wherein humans and beasts have little emotional or physical distinction. Channeling magical naturalism through paintings, tapestries, and sculptures, Khatibi both exalts and cautions against the fine line between triumph and failure, peace and brutality, and ultimately, civilization and destruction. Khatibi lives and works in Paris, France. She has presented solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium; rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium; Kunsthal Gent, Belgium; and P·P·O·W, New York, NY; among others. She has also been included in Paradise, the Kortrijk Triennial, in 2021 and The Seventh Continent, the 16th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud in 2019. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; S.M.A.K, Gent, Brussels; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium; Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitane, Sète, France; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France; and Museum of Deinze, Belgium; among others. P·P·O·W presented Khatibi’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, We Wait Until Dark, in Spring 2024.

Combining painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing, Daniel Correa Mejía (b. 1986) deftly mines imagery from his own subconscious to mythologize the landscape of his interior world. His highly symbolic figures personify various emotional states, becoming one with their scenery as contemporary society fades away and sacred, primordial knowledge is uncovered. Juxtaposing rich ultramarine with vibrant red on rough jute canvas, Correa Mejía invokes the complimentary nature of masculine and feminine energies to summon the divine power of contrasting forces, simultaneously grappling with the process of grief and loss, rediscovering sanctuary within the power of the human imagination and the interconnectivity of our shared planet. The artist was born in Medellín, Colombia and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His solo exhibitions include Soy el dueño de mi casa, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Cuando el depredador está lejos: los pájaros canta, Maureen Paley at Studio M, London, UK; Lucrecia, mor charpentier, Paris, FR; Soy hombre: duro poco y es enorme la noche, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY; Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London, UK; and Die Klarheit, Colombian Embassy, Berlin, Germany. His work has been included in group exhibitions at mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia; Maureen Paley, London, UK;  P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Kunstverein Meissen, Meissen, DE; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil, and New York, NY; Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany; Fortnight Institute, New York, NY; and Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany, among others. His work has been featured in articles in Juxtapoz, Art Viewer, and Artnet, among others. A solo exhibition of new work by Correa Mejía was on view in fall 2024 at mor charpentier in Bogotá, Colombia.

Working in paint, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978) seamlessly transitions between mediums, imbuing her work with a distinct sensibility that melds theatricality with intense emotional vulnerability. Known for her uncanny approach to traversing the internal and immaterial terrains of nostalgia, childhood memories, and dreams, Schulnik choreographs an honest, complex and contemporary portrait of new motherhood and life seen through the purple haze and black silence of the desert. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA. Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France; and Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Solo exhibitions of Schulnik’s work have been presented at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Zieher Smith, New York, NY; Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain; and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Schulnik’s work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Museé de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. In the fall of 2022, Schulnik presented, Purple Mountain, her second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist's first solo exhibition with the Pit LA, Dumb Phone, was on view in Winter 2024.

A “documenter of the constellation of social life,” Martin Wong (1946-1999) developed innovative approaches to technique and form, creating rich surfaces and intricate details from astrology, architectural space, and various modes of language. Wong was born in Portland, OR, and raised in San Francisco, CA. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1968. Wong was active in the performance art groups The Cockettes and Angels of Light before moving to New York in 1978. He exhibited for two decades at notable downtown galleries including EXIT ART, Semaphore, and P·P·O·W, among others, before his passing in San Francisco from an AIDS related illness. His work is represented in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Tate, London, UK; among others. Human Instamatic, a comprehensive retrospective, opened at the Bronx Museum of The Arts in November 2015, before traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2016 and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2017. From 2022 to 2024, the first extensive, touring exhibition of Wong’s work in Europe, Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez-Rubio, debuted at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, traveling to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and the Camden Art Centre in London, before concluding at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. On view at P·P·O·W in spring 2024, The Midnight Sea, A Little Dash of LSD exhibited Wong’s work in dialogue with Canadian artist Paul P. Wong’s work was most recently showcased this fall in the two-person exhibition Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo and Martin Wong at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA.