Overview
Surabhi Saraf is a new media artist, composer and a performer who uses her background in experimental sound and Indian classical music to create multi-channel, surround-sound audio and video installations. Using a diverse array of techniques such as repetition, fragmentation, and multiplication, Saraf designs sequences of rhythmic movements, creating multi-layered structures of evolving patterns in an immersive sound & visual scape.
Works
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Surabhi SarafAwoke, 2018, 2018two BrightSign players, iridescent acrylic and molded foam62 3/8 x 38 x 21 in
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Surabhi SarafThe Awokened, 2018Single channel HD videoduration: 1:37 min
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Surabhi SarafCapsules, 20142-channel video with sound3:53 minutes
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Surabhi SarafRed & Blue Alu-Alu, 20144-channel video box sculpture1:13 minutes
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Surabhi SarafTablets, 2014single-channel HD video with 4-channel sound4 minutes
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Surabhi SarafFOLD, 2010QuickTime 1080p high definition video7 minutes 36 seconds
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Surabhi SarafFOLD, 2010videoduration: 7:36 mins
Exhibitions
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OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism
11 Apr - 20 May 2023This sprawling group exhibition traces the use of the form of the grid in contemporary art, beginning with some of its most illustrious mid-20th century proponents. From there, it examines...Read more -
Frankenstein’s Birthday Party
23 Jun - 11 Aug 20182018 is the bicentennial of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Why does a 200-year-old ghost story continue to feel so relevant? It’s important to remember that...Read more -
Surabhi Saraf
Fold 31 Jan - 14 Mar 2015New media/performance artist and composer Surabhi Saraf presents her mesmerizing video FOLD, which, like all of her work, is rooted in her training in Indian classical music and dance. FOLD...Read more -
Surabhi Saraf
Remedies 25 Oct - 26 Nov 2014Composer and new media and performance artist Surabhi Saraf draws on her background in Indian classical music and experimental sound to create a series of multi-channel video installations, the first...Read more
Press
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The Grid Revisited
David M. Roth, Squarecylinder, May 1, 2023 -
Reflections on Contemporary Indian American Art: An Inward Journey
Padma Rangaswamy, Indiaspora, February 8, 2022 -
Our Newest Museum E/Merges
Judy Carmack Bross, Classic Chicago Magazine, January 29, 2022 -
National Indo-American Museum Launches with E/Merge Art Exhibit Interviews — Art and Heritage
Picture This Post, October 14, 2021 -
Best of 2018
David M. Roth, Squarecylinder, December 22, 2018 -
Frankenstein’s Birthday Party @ Hosfelt
Justin Manley, Squarecylinder, July 20, 2018 -
Summer exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery a monstrous affair
Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2018 -
Gallery Chat: Technology Art Champion Todd Hosfelt Opens Innovative Digital Media Conservation Lab
Nicole Casamento, The ADAA, February 17, 2016 -
Surabhi Saraf turns folding laundry into an art
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2015
News
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HG Magazine Issue no. 40
July 27, 2022Summer Exhibition Guide - Part II Düsseldorf | Köln | Berlin | Venice | San FranciscoRead more -
SFMOMA: Surabhi Saraf
July 7, 2022Surabhi Saraf and Laura Hyunjhee Kim of the Centre for Emotional Materiality (CEM) invite you to a multisensorial experience, “Beyond All Polarities, We Are ...Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 3
Surabhi Saraf, Andrea Higgins, Rosie Lee Tompkins @ Berkeley Art Museum, soda bread recipe April 23, 2020Surabhi Saraf's mesmerizing video FOLD is featured Andrea Higgins shares a work in progress from her studio New to Inventory: Emil Lukas We recommend...Read more
Art Fairs
