Karan Shrestha’s practice incorporates drawings, sculpture, photography, text, film, and video that speak to the complex, entangled relations of Nepal’s recent history. Shrestha presents projects that are a synthesis of an archive of the terrain, political histories, transient memories, and a speculative world that suspends reality, probing all the while at the fraught rhetoric of progress that is constantly pitted as the only way forward.

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Shrestha has shown work at the Kathmandu Triennale; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Mardin Biennale; Museo Madre, Naples; 10thAsia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane; Dhaka Art Summit; Yinchuan Biennale; 8th Asian Art Biennale, Serendipity Arts Festival, Jameel Arts Centre among others.

 

He was recently the winner of Prameya Art Foundation’s Pair Award which culminated in a residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in collaboration with Institute Francais.