Shrine Empire Gallery

Artists

Sarker Protick

Bio CV Exhibitions

Raśmi - Untitled 3
Eastern Bengal Railway, Olympia Watch Co. Karachi
Logging / Residue of New Rail tracks. (Chittagong, Chunati Wild Life Sanctuary, Bangladesh)
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
Murder
E180, Officers Bungalow, Railway Colony, Lalmonirhaat, Bangladesh, 2019
Jirno (Ruins)
E180, Officers Bungalow, Railway Colony, Lalmonirhaat, Bangladesh
Jirno (Ruins)

Education:

2005 – 2009 Bachelor in Business Administration, American International University – AIUB.

2009 – 2012 Professional Photography Program Pathshala – The South Asian Media Institute.

2010 – New Media Journalism, University of Virginia, USA.

2011 – Documentary Photography Exchange, University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Solo exhibitions:

2025

Shadows in the Sky, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2024

অঙ্গার [AWNGAR], C/O Berlin, Germany

ইস্পাতে র পথ [Ishpater Poth] / Crossing, Asia Now Paris, France

2022

িনরবিধ (Till Time Stand Still), Shrine Empire, Delhi, India

2019

Of River and Lost Lands, Impact Doc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017

Paris Photo, Solo show, East Wing Gallery, France

2016

‘What Remains’ at Latvian Museum of Photography, Latvia

Group exhibitions:

2026

िप्रक्रया / Process’, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2025

The 11th Art Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Australia

Awngar, Interview and exhibition, BMW Foundation and C/O Berlin, Germany

India Art Fair, New Delhi

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

2024

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Australia (Upcoming)

Old Stories New Magic, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

At the Edge of Land, Art Jameel, Dubai, UAE

2023

Whitechapel Gallery, O Great Life, London, England

‘To Enter The Sky’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

Serendipity Art Festival, Goa, India

2022

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA

TIBRO’ [Pathshala’s 23 Years Anniversary], Dhaka, Bangladesh

2021

32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Singapore

‘Growing Like a Tree’, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE

2020

Yokohama Triennale 2020, Afterglow, Yokohama, Japan

Nach Uns Die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria

Related Realities, BL2020, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland

Dead Can Dance: The Lock Up Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Noor Der Licht, Generation Z: Tell me, Gronigen, The Netherlands

2019

Bruised: Art, Action and Ecology in Asia’, RMIT Gallery. Melbourne, Australia

Stories of Earthly Survival, Ci.CLO Biennial, Porto, Portugal

2018

(Dis)Place, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural center, Delhi

Temporary Certainty, 4A Centre for contemporary Asia Art. Sydney, Australia

Breaking Point, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany

‘Relics’, Esplanade Visual Arts Center, Singapore Art Week. Singapore

2017

Dispatches The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, USA

Chobi Mela Photo Festival IX, Bangladesh

2016

Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea

Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India

Art Dubai, Eat Wing, Dubai, UAE

2015

Photo Quai Biannual, Paris, France

Encontros da Imagem, Burga, Portugal

Delhi Photo Festival, Delhi, India

Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia

Defying the laws of gravity, Richmix London, United Kingdom

2014

Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

Eyes on Bangladesh, New York, USA

2013

Noorderlicht Photography Festival ’20 By 20′ Exhibition, The Netherlands

Chobi Mela VII International Photography Festival, Bangladesh

Photovisa Festival, Moscow, Russia

Festival of Promenades Photographiques Vendome, France

Organ Vida Photo Festival, Croatia

2012

Noorderlicht Photo festival, Gronigen, The Netherlands

Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

World Bank Art Program: Dhaka, Delhi, Washington

Awards/ Grants/ Fellowships:

2024

After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 2024, Awarded by C/O Berlin

2021

Foam Talent Amsterdam

2018

Magnum Foundation Fund

2017

The Australian Photobook of the Year Grand Prize

2015

World Press Photo Award

2014

Joop Swart Masterclass

2013

Winner of the World Bank Art Program

Residencies:

2019

Light Work Residency, Syracuse, New York

Khoj – Curatorial Intensive South Asia

2016

Gibellina Photo Road

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.