Matthew KrishanuFalling Into Place

Matthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother, and their parents—a Christian priest, and a theologian. Some paintings reference religious scenes (clergy, church interiors, sacramental iconographies) while others center on recurring images of two boys, standing in for him and his brother, who often function as a single unit—or one boy, alone in the landscape.

Many of these works of the natural world picture large-scale and interlocking banyan trees, aquatic scenes, and other memories of the natural world. Krishanu is not, however, landscape artist or a portraitist: instead his narratives come to the surface—of memory, but also of the picture plane—and through painterly technique or contortions of scale and perspective, fall just out of immediate reach. Sequenced in the galleries, each work connects to the other to tell a version of a past told from the present day.

Falling Into Place is Matthew Krishanu's second solo show in our gallery, preceded by Undercurrents in 2022. In 2024, the Camden Art Centre organized a major exhibition of Krishanu's work, The Bough Breaks. The artist is represented widely in institutional collections across the United Kingdom, United States, India, and China.

For more information, please contact Andrew Blackley [andrew@salon94.com]