Matthew Krishanu

Looking forward to being in conversation with @tausifnoor on 19 Feb, 7pm @salon94 Falling Into Place 13 Jan – 21 Feb 2026 Salon 94 3 East 89th Street New York, NY 10128 Night Swimming (Pool), 2025, oil and acrylic on board, 60 x 75cm (photo Eva Herzog) Banyan and Water, 2025, oil and acrylic on board, 60 x 75cm (photo Eva Herzog)

Crossbearer, 2025 @salon94 Falling Into Place 13 Jan – 21 Feb 2026 Salon 94 3 East 89th Street New York, NY 10128 Crossbearer, 2025, oil on canvas, 225 x 120 cm (photo Eva Herzog)

Two Boys, Banyan Tree, 2025 (diptych) @salon94 ‘The artist’s recent paintings feature the banyan tree, revered across cultures, and especially in South Asia, as a locus of spiritual significance and enlightenment. Beneath drooping leaves, the massive trunk sends out aerial and adventitious roots that can spread indefinitely. Krishanu varies the weight of his brushstrokes, forming thick, dark outlines that frame and anchor the tree, lending it tangible weight and presence against a pale blue sky.’ – Tausif Noor Banyan Tree, Two Boys, 2025, oil on canvas, 270 x 400 (diptych) (photo Eva Herzog) Falling Into Place 13 Jan – 21 Feb 2026 Salon 94 3 East 89th Street New York, NY 10128 @salon94 @tausifnoor @eva_herzog_

My solo exhibition Falling Into Place opens in New York @salon94 on Tuesday 13 Jan. ‘If it can feel superfluous to describe the formal intricacies of Krishanu’s paintings, it is because they are knowable from an unmistakable rush of sensation.’ – Tausif Noor Sailboat, 2025, oil and acrylic on board, 75 x 60cm (photo Eva Herzog) Falling Into Place 13 Jan – 21 Feb 2026 Salon 94 3 East 89th Street New York, NY 10128 @salon94 @tausifnoor @eva_herzog_

The @kochibiennale opens today. These two new paintings were inspired by a banyan tree in Kochi. Banyan (Kochi, Blue Boy), 2025, oil on board, 51 x 41cm Banyan (Kochi, Red Boy), 2025, oil on board, 51 x 41cm Photos: @eva_herzog_ @jhavericontemporary

Domed Church (Kochi), 2025, will be showing @kochibiennale – opening 12 December. It is one of a number of new paintings responding to Kochi’s churches and trees. I am showing fifteen paintings across two rooms in The Director’s Bungalow, Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi. The biennale runs until 31 March 2026 Oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm (photo Eva Herzog) Thanks to @jhavericontemporary and @kochibiennale

Final day of Push Me, Pull You @thomasdanegallery Wonderful to visit the show back in May. Installs include works by Hurvin Anderson, Amy Sillman, René Daniëls, Francis Offman, and Prunella Clough (Photos: M3 Studio srl) Push Me, Pull You Curated by Jenni Lomax 27 May - 27 Sep 2025 Naples Banyan (Two Boys, Branches), 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 240 x 180cm (photo: Eva Herzog) City (Horizon), 2025, oil and acrylic on board, 40 x 30cm (photo: Eva Herzog) Banyan (Vines), 2025, oil and acrylic on board, 46 x 36 cm

I have works on paper showing @niruratnamgallery – ‘In Passing’ a group exhibition exploring the creative process. Preview: Wednesday 24th September, 6 - 8pm Juliette Blightman, John Cage, Ryan Gander, Bhajan Hunjan, Rita Keegan, Matthew Krishanu, Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby, Cornelia Parker, Keith Piper, Charlotte Posenenske, Daniel Turner and Bill Walton Boy on Bed, 2023, acrylic on paper, 25.5 x 21.5 cm (photo Peter Mallet) Niru Ratnam 71-73 Great Portland Street London W1W 7LP Wednesday through Saturday, 12noon until 6pm ‘In Passing’, 25 September - 29 November 2025

Tree (Storm), Tree, and Treetop are part of Push Me, Pull You @thomasdanegallery – curated by Jenni Lomax. I painted them in 2016 and have always loved them. It’s the first time they are being exhibited together. The show is beautiful, it runs until 27 September. Works by Hurvin Anderson, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Matthew Krishanu, Bice Lazzari, Francis Offman, Pinot Gallizio, Amy Sillman and Caragh Thuring. 27 May–27 September 2025 ITALICS late opening: Wednesday 10 September, 11am–9pm Thomas Dane Gallery Via Francesco Crispi, 69 Napoli Paintings: oil on board, 18 x 13cm @petermalletphotography

Curator Jenni Lomax on ‘Push Me, Pull You’ at Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples. Works by Hurvin Anderson, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Matthew Krishanu, Bice Lazzari, Francis Offman, Pinot Gallizio, Amy Sillman and Caragh Thuring. To watch the video in full, go to the link in bio. ‘Push Me, Pull You’ Curated by Jenni Lomax 27 May–27 September 2025 @thomasdanegallery Via Francesco Crispi, 69 Napoli #PushMePullYou #JenniLomax Artworks featured © the artists. Video: M3 Studio.

‘Save’ and ‘Mission School (Classwork)’ are part of the @royalacademyarts Summer Exhibition, in a beautiful room curated by Sikelela Owen on the theme of ‘Dialogues’. Some images from ‘Dialogues’: @sikelelaowen @carazlina @lubainapics @barbarawalkerstudio @hurvinanderson @larryachiampong 17 June – 17 August 2025 Save, 2018, oil on canvas, 200 x 150cm Mission School (Classwork), 2020, oil on board, 31 x 41cm

Delighted to be showing paintings @thomasdanegallery Naples, in ‘Push Me, Pull You’, curated by Jenni Lomax. Works by: Hurvin Anderson, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Matthew Krishanu, Bice Lazzari, Francis Offman, Pinot Gallizio, Amy Sillman and Caragh Thuring 27 May – 27 September 2025 “Featuring works by nine artists from past and present generations, Push Me, Pull You arrives out of a conversation held in 2018 with the artist Amy Sillman. The note ‘pushing to the edge, pulling back from the brink’ arose from a discussion about painting in general, and the artist Prunella Clough in particular. What connects the artists in this exhibition is the sense that they think and – to quote Clough – ‘fight’ with their materials. By taking things emotionally and physically to an edge, before bringing them back into view, each artist allows shape, imagery and atmosphere to emerge. They therefore build a conversation that goes back-and-forth between the materiality of the process and something drawn from the back of the mind or caught out of the corner of the eye. Each artist plots the surface of the picture plane in an almost topographical way. They layer motifs, signifiers, textures and lines in a manner that contests normal expectations of scale and challenge the conventional play of figure and ground. Time also plays a part in that it collapses and stretches through such distinctive means of making, and personal archived observations and memory of place are conflated.” Thomas Dane Gallery Via Francesco Crispi, 69 Napoli Banyan (Trunk), 2019, oil on board, 46 x 36cm (photo Peter Mallet)