Edition of 20. Hardeep Pandhal received a Leverhulme Scholarship to complete the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 2013, following which he was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013 and Collective Gallery’s 2015 Satellites programme.
Hardeep Pandhal’s digital animations, drawings, textile work and multimedia installations confront the toxic legacies of empire. His art makes direct reference to his Sikh heritage and to the many types of racism that he has experienced. Layered narratives – delivered via rap and elliptical wordplay and through the visual language of ‘gutter media’, such as comics and video games – excavate tangled histories of post-colonialism and misogyny, creating, in his words, ‘syncretic strains of post-brown weirdness’ while reflecting the ‘exaggerated madness’ of real life.