- ‘In Plain Sight’
- Raśmi
- Jirno (Ruins)
- Jirno (Ruins)
- Jirno (Ruins)
- Jirno (Ruins)
- Mr. and Mrs. Das
- Untitled I (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Untitled II (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Untitled III (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Untitled IV (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Untitled V (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Untitled VI (Mr. and Mrs. Das)
- Raśmi
- Origin
- Untitled, Of River and Lost Lands
- Exodus
- Love Kill
- Raśmi
- Astres Noirs
- O Great Life!
Education
2009 2012 Professional Photography Program Pathshala – The South Asian Media Institute
2005 2009 Bachelor in Business Administration, American International University – AIUB
2011 Documentary Photography Exchange, University of Gloucestershire, UK
2010 New Media Journalism, University of Virginia – USA
Selected Exhibitions
2024 India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2023 Whitechapel Gallery, O Great Life, London, England
2023 India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2023 ‘To Enter The Sky’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2022 নিরবধি / Nirobodhi / Till Time Stands Still, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
2021 32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Singapore
2021 ‘Growing Like a Tree’, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020, Afterglow, Yokohama, Japan
2020 Nach Uns Die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2020 Related Realities, BL2020, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
2020 Dead Can Dance: The Lock Up Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020 Noor Der Licht, Generation Z: Tell me, Gronigen, The Netherlands
2019 Solo: Of River and Lost Lands, Impact Doc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Bruised: Art, Action and Ecology in Asia’, RMIT Gallery. Melbourne, Australia
2019 Stories of Earthly Survival, Ci.CLO Biennial, Porto, Portugal
2018 (Dis)Place, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural center, Delhi
2018 Temporary Certainty, 4A Centre for contemporary Asia Art. Sydney, Australia
2018 Breaking Point, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany
2018 ‘Relics’, Esplanade Visual Arts Center, Singapore Art Week. Singapore
2017 Paris Photo, Solo show, East Wing Gallery, France
2017 Dispatches The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, USA
2017 Chobi Mela Photo Festival IX, Bangladesh
2016 Solo: ‘What Remains’ at Latvina Museum of Photography, Latvia
2016 Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
2016 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
2016 Art Dubai, Eat Wing, Dubai, UAE
2015 Photo Quai Biannual, Paris, France
2015 Encontros da Imagem, Burga, Portugal
2015 Delhi Photo Festival, Delhi, India
2015 Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia
2015 Defying the laws of gravity, Richmix London, United Kingdom
2014 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2014 Eyes on Bangladesh, New York, USA
2013 Noorderlicht Photography Festival ’20 By 20′ Exhibition, The Netherlands
2013 Chobi Mela VII International Photography Festival, Bangladesh
2013 Photovisa Festival, Moscow, Russia
2013 Festival of Promenades Photographiques Vendome, France
2012 Noorderlicht Photo festival, Gronigen, The Netherlands
2012 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2012 World Bank Art Program: Bangladesh, India, USA
2012 Organ Vida Photo Festival, Croatia
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2012 Prix Mark Grosset pour les écoles internationales de photographie
2013 Winner of World Bank Art Program
2014 ‘Ones to Watch’ – (featured), British Journal of Photography
2014 World Press Photo Joop Swart Master class
2015 Photo District News’s 30 Emerging Photographer
2015 World Press Photo Award (For ‘What Remains’)
2016 Residency at Gibellina Photo Road
2017 Winner of The Australian Photobook of the Year Grand Prize
2018 Recipient of Magnum Foundation Fund
2019 Khoj – Curatorial Intensive South Asia.
2019 Light Work Residency, Syracuse, New York.
2021 Foam Talent, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Curatorial Works
Guest Curator: Colomboscope 2024
অ“ব$ত&’ / Interim, Pathshala 24 Years Anniversary, 2023
Expanded: New waves of Documentary Practice, VII Academy 2022
EXTRACURRICULER: Pathshala at Istanbul Biennale, 2022
Chobi Mela 0 Edition, 2021
The Sky is Closing on Us, Chobi Mela 2019
Bengal Divided, Chobi Mela 2017
Upcoming Projects
Art Jameel: At the Edge of Land, 2023
Serendipity Art Festival, 2023
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, 2024
Publications
The New York Times, The New Yorker, Financial Times UK, Le Monde, Liberation, Internazionale, Elephant Journal, Marie Claire Magazine, GEO, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, National Geographic, Die Zeit, The British Journal of Photography, Wired, Helsingin Sanomat, California Sunday, Grazia, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, UNESCO Courier, Economist.
Book
Astres Noirs
Under the Banyan Tree, A 12 years retrospective book of Pathshala
Collections:
Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE
KNMA, India
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Sarker Protick (b. 1986) is an artist primarily working in Bangladesh. He studied at the South Asian Media Institute – Pathshala in Dhaka, where he is currently teaching for the last eleven years. Sarker Protick has developed a practice that combines the roles of an image-maker, a teacher and infrequently a curator. His often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance. Working with Photography, Video and Sound, Protick’s works are built on long-term surveys rooted in Bangladesh and larger region of Bengal. The form and materiality of his works often morph into the physicality of time; its raptures and our inability to grasp or hold time, the process of image-making is a way to expand time and its sensorium. Here we don’t experience time as moving in a linear direction, rather, we experience it slowing down, recurring, having dips and curves, sometimes changing in a constant flux.
Protick is a co-curator of Chobi Mela, the longest running International Photo Festival in Asia. He also co-curated the 8th edition of Colomboscope in 2024. Some of his selected exhibitions include ‘At the Edge of Land,’ Jameel Arts Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2023-34); ’O Great Life’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (2023);‘To Enter The Sky’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2023); ‘Synaesthetic Notations,’ curated by Veerangana Solanki, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (2023); “নিরবধি / Nirobodhi / Till Time Stands Still,” solo show, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (2022), 32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Singapore (2021); ‘Growing Like a Tree’, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2021); Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan (2020); Nach Uns Die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria (2020); “Related Realities,” BL2020, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland (2020); “Dead Can Dance,” The Lock Up Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2020); Noor Der Licht, Generation Z: Tell me, Gronigen, The Netherlands (2020); Stories of Earthly Survival, Ci.CLO Biennial, Porto, Portugal (2019); (Dis)Place, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural Center, Delhi, India (2018); Breaking Point, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany (2018); ‘Relics’, Esplanade Visual Arts Center, Singapore Art Week, Singapore (2018); Paris Photo, Solo show, East Wing Gallery, France (2017); Solo: ‘What Remains’ at Latvina Museum of Photography, Latvia (2016); Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea (2016); Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia (2015); Photovisa Festival, Moscow, Russia (2013); Organ Vida Photo Festival, Croatia (2012).
Sarker Protick’s work has received several recognitions, including After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 2024, Awarded by C/O Berlin (2024); Foam Talent Amsterdam (2021); The Australian Photobook of the Year Grand Prize (2017); World Press Photo Award (2015); Winner of World Bank Art Program (2013) among others. Protick has received fellowships and grants such as Magnum Foundation Fund (2018) and Joop Swart Masterclass (2014). He has attended residencies like the Light Work Residency, Syracuse, New York (2019); Khoj – Curatorial Intensive South Asia (2019); Gibellina Photo Road (2016). His works can be found in the collections of Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE, KNMA, India and Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE.
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