Padma Rajendran

In residence:

Erie, Pennsylvania – MAY,2021

Padma was born in Klang, Malaysia in 1985, and as a child, she moved to many places- Saudi Arabia, Wales, within the US: New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Iowa. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her M.F.A. at Rhode Island School of Design. She teaches at SUNY Purchase and Parsons School of Design and is a teaching artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has taught workshops at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts and was an instructor and guest critic for New York Crit Club in 2019. She has had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn) and Bric Arts Media (Brooklyn). She has exhibited at High Tide Gallery (Philadelphia), Crystal Flowers Art Salon (New York), Field Projects (New York), Beers London (UK), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Unpaved Gallery (Yucca Valley, CA), September Gallery (Hudson NY), Blackburn 20/20 (New York), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn), and Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn). Her print edition from the 2018 Prints for Protest portfolio is part of the RISD Museum’s collection. She has completed residencies at Ortega y Gasset Projects, the Studios at Mass MoCA, Women’s Studio Workshop, Lower East Side Printshop, and the Ox-Bow School of Art. She has been interviewed for Art Spiel, Kajal Magazine, the Art Maze Magazine blog, AF Art Magazine, and Maake Magazine. Her work has also been featured in New American Paintings and Chronogram Magazine.

EDUCATION:
Rhode Island School of Design · Providence RI · 2015
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking

Bryn Mawr College · Bryn Mawr PA · 2003- 2007
Bachelor of Arts · Fine Arts Major at Haverford College

AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES:
2021
Long Road Projects, Erie, PA

2019
OxBow Faculty Residency
Lower East Side Keyholder Residency

2018
Ora Schneider Residency Grant (Women's Studio Workshop)
Mass MoCA Artist in Residence

2017
Ortega y Gasset Artist in Residence

2015
Byrdcliffe Woodstock Guild Fellowship
Ruth Katzman Scholarship

2013
RISD Printmaking Fellowship

2011
Chautauqua Friends of the Arts Tuition Grant

Artist's Website: https://padmarajendran.com/