Sajan Mani | |
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Born | Sajan Mani 1982 |
Citizenship | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Artist, Contemporary Artist, Performance Artist |
Known for | Contemporary Art, Performance Art |
Sajan Mani (born 1982 in Kunnoth, India) is a Berlin-based contemporary artist[1][2] and Berlin Art Prize 2021[3] winner. He has exhibited at various international venues, including the Vancouver Biennale,[4] the Kampala Art Biennale[5] the Dhaka Art Summit and the Kolkata International Art Festival,[6] on issues of various lives of marginalized people of India[7] and post-colonial Dalit lives.[8][9] He is working with drawing, performance art[10] and video installations.
Sajan graduated in English Literature from Kannur University in 2004. Later, he graduated in fine arts from Karnataka State Open University in 2011. He later earned a master's degree in Spatial Strategies[11] in 2019 from Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
He was an editorial board member for the first edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.[12][13][14] He Performed at the Vancouver Biennale, Kampala Art Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit, Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Sensorium-Sunaparanta Art Festival, Goa and Musrara Mix Festival.[15] Sajan got critically acclaimed[16] for the solo exhibition 'Alphabet of Touch> <Overseas Stretched Bodies and Muted Howls for Songs' exhibited at the Nome Gallery in Berlin.[17]