Surabhi Ghosh is an artist and educator based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal, Quebec. She uses textiles, patterning, and site-responsive installations to materialize contradictory narratives which begin and end in her own experiences, while analyzing the tensile relationship between materials, objects, and their contested cultural meanings.
Recently, her work has been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, Heaven Gallery in Chicago, Gund Gallery in Gambier, OH, Hawthorn Contemporary in Milwaukee, and Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PEI. Her most recent solo exhibition was hosted by the Maison des arts de Laval in 2023, titled Le poids de nos mythes [The weight of our myths]. She also curated and directed a web-based special project for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, titled Intranarration, viewable online from 2023 to 2027.
Ghosh began teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 followed by the University of Oregon. Now an Associate Professor in the Fibres & Material Practices program at Concordia University, she is also serving as Chair of the Department of Studio Arts.
Curriculum Vitae 2023: See PDF
Visit the MAC’s project launch page and/or visit Intranarration directly. Best viewed on a computer / tablet. Available online in English and French from 2023 to 2027.
Read more about Leaking Logic, collaborative exhibition with Patrick Howlett at Susan Hobbs Gallery (May 30 to July 6, 2024), including FrameWork response text by Ashley Culver
Watch an exhibition overview and interview from 2023, produced by the Maison des arts de Laval (YouTube, 5 minutes)
Purchase a copy of the full-colour catalogue for What’s mine is yours, a 2022 mini-retrospective exhibition at Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Read an interview with the artist and curator Caroline Kipp from 2020
Read an interview with the artist and artist-educator Liz Miller from 2018