2009

MA Fine Art — Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

2001

BA (Hons) Fine Art and English Literature — Exeter University

2024

Immerse, Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles

The Bough Breaks, Camden Art Centre, London

2023

On a Limb, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai

2022

Playground, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London

Undercurrents, LGDR, New York

2021

Arrow and Pulpit, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

2020

Picture Plane, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London

2019

Corvus: a painting installation, Iniva, London

House of Crows, Matt’s Gallery, London

The Sun Never Sets, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

A Murder of Crows, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2018

The Sun Never Sets, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield

2025

Push Me, Pull You, Thomas Dane, Naples, curated by Jenni Lomax

A Room Hung with Thoughts — British Painting Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas

I AM ME, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

2024

2023

Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting, 1600 to Now, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Life Is More Important Than Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London

A Voice Answering a Voice, Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Very Small Feelings, Kiran Nadar Art Museum, Delhi

Arcadia for All?, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds

Dhaka Art Summit: Bonna, Dhaka

2022

The Kingfisher’s Wing, GRIMM, New York

Prophecy, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre

2021

Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London

Coventry Biennial, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa

John Moores Painting Prize 2020, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London

2020

Everyday Heroes, Hayward Gallery / Southbank Centre, London

Beyond Other Horizons, Iași Palace of Culture, Romania

A Rich Tapestry, Ikon / Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan

2019

New Figurations: Matthew Krishanu and Sosa Joseph, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India

And Beyond, New Art Projects, London

Childhood Now (with Chantal Joffe and Mark Fairnington), Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Made in Britain, The National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland

2018

John Moores Painting Prize 2018, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

In the City, East Gallery, Norwich; Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2017

Contemporary Masters from Britain, Yantai Art Museum; Artall Gallery & Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing; Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China

2016

Aviary, Transition Gallery, London

Contemporary British Watercolours, Oriel Gallery, Antrim, N. Ireland

2015

Contemporary Drawings from Britain, XAFA, Xi'an Province, China

2014

Another Country (with Cara Nahaul), The Nunnery, London

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Central Saint Martins (UAL), London

China Academy of Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Government Art Collection, UK

Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, India

Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago

Priseman Seabrook Collection, UK

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London

Tianjin Academy of Art, China

Yantai Art Museum, China

2025

Falling into Place, conversation with artist and writer Julian Bell, Royal Drawing School

2024

Brush and Paper, conversation with curator Isabel Seligman, Camden Art Centre, podcast

Painting Mission, conversation with Allie Biswas, Camden Art Centre

The Bough Breaks (video), Camden Art Centre

2023

A brush with... Matthew Krishanu – The Art Newspaper podcast, interview by Ben Luke, podcast

Matthew Krishanu: Painting About Religion, interview by David Trigg, podcast

2021

Figure and Ground (video) (Phoebe Boswell, Mandy El-Sayegh, Jake Grewal and Matthew Krishanu), Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room

2020

Everyday Heroes (video), Hayward Gallery / Southbank Centre

Artist talks: Camberwell College of Art, Goldsmiths College of Art, Falmouth College of Art, Nottingham Trent University

2019

Corvus, Stuart Hall Library, Iniva, London

The London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Fine Art/Camden Arts Centre

Studio Visit (podcast), interview by Morgan Quaintance, Resonance FM

All things corvid, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

The Sun Never Sets, interview by James Sandy, King of the Buttons Podcast

2018

Artist talk (video), John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Painting — People and Places, Huddersfield Art Gallery

Artist talk, Wimbledon College of Arts, MA Painting

2017

Decolonising Art Practice – Image and Identity, Chelsea College of Arts

The Immediacy of Paint: Surface, University of Suffolk, with Glenn Brown, Kim Anno, Chris Hawtin, Shaun Camp, Dr Matthew Bowman

2016

Curator Round Table, Studio Visit, presented by Morgan Quaintance, Resonance FM

2015

The Immediacy of Paint: The Role of Painting in the Digital Age (video), University of Suffolk

Artist talk, Institute of Education, MA Museums & Galleries in Education

2014

Artists' Talk (with Cara Nahaul), Another Country, The Nunnery, London

2010

Artist talk, Kala Bhavan College of Fine Arts, BA & MA Fine Art, Santiniketan, India

2008

Artist talk, Central Saint Martins, BA Criticism, Communication & Curation

2025

A Room Hung with Thoughts – British Painting Now, Tom Morton, ed. Thomas McMullan, Grace Tighe, Katherine Delony (Green Family Art Foundation), ISBN 9798992568004

2024

The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3, edited by Anneke French, foreword by Matt Price, ISBN 978-1-910221-59-4

2023

Anomie. Ten Years of Independent Art Publishing, Edited by Anna McNay, ISBN 9781910221556

Beyond the Page (exhibition catalogue), 2023, Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira, with contributions from Emily Hannam and Hammad Nasar, ISBN 9781781301258

Matthew Krishanu (monograph), Mark Rappolt, Ben Luke, Dorothy Price (Anomie Publishing), ISBN 9781910221334

Life Is More Important Than Art, Gilane Tawadros, Janette Parris, Whitechapel Gallery ISBN 9780854883196

Matthew Krishanu (monograph), Mark Rappolt, Ben Luke, Dorothy Price (Amomie Publishing), ISBN 9781910221334

2022

The Kingfisher’s Wing (catalogue), Tom Morton (GRIMM), ISBN 9789083188867

2021

Mixing It Up: Painting Today (catalogue), Ralph Rugoff, ISBN 9781853323744

The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2, ISBN 9781910221273

John Moores Painting Prize 2020 (catalogue), Jennifer Higgie, ISBN 9781902700625

2020

Beyond Other Horizons (catalogue), Peter Harrap, Anna McNay, Florin Ungureanu, (Iasi Palace of Culture), ISBN 9786068547435

2019

Painting Childhood (catalogue), Amy Orrock and Jill Seaton, Compton Verney (Paul Holberton Publishing), ISBN 9781911300564

Matthew Krishanu: The Sun Never Sets, Jenni Lomax and Ruxmini Choudhury, Birmingham, Midlands Arts Centre, ISBN 9781907796234

2018

John Moores Painting Prize 2018 (catalogue), ISBN 9781902700601

The Sun Never Sets, Exhibition publication, Matt Price, Huddersfield Art Gallery

Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition, ISBN 1534870121

2015

Contemporary Drawings from Britain, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

Contemporary British Watercolours, Simon Carter, ISBN 1515109925

The Brentwood Stations of the Cross, Simon Carter, ISBN 1505832063

2014

Priseman Seabrook Collection, ISBN 1514186772

In the City, Exhibition Publication, Robert Harbison, The Lion and Lamb

Iniva — The A-Z of Emotions, Emotional Learning Cards, ISBN 9781899846573

‘Another Country’, Exhibition publication, Skye Sherwin, Nunnery Gallery

2012

The Marmite Prize for Painting IV, ISBN 1905659105

2010

The Marmite Prize for Painting III, ISBN 1905659091

2025

Five South Asian Artists in London, Maanav Jalan, Architectural Digest India

2024

Matthew Krishanu — Camden Art Centre, Zehra Jumabhoy, Artforum

The Bough Breaks, Paul Hills, Art + Christianity, No 118

The Bough Breaks, Edwin Coomasaru, Art Monthly, No 477

Matthew Krishanu, Beth Williamson, Studio International

Matthew Krishanu's Divine Paintings Reflect on Family, Religion, and Power Dynamic, Hettie Judah, Artsy

Interview with Matthew Krishanu, artist, Susan Gray, Church Times

In the studio with… Matthew Krishanu, Arjun Sajip, Apollo

Out on a Limb, Emily Steer, Plinth

Matthew Krishanu in the studio, Annabel Downes, OCULA

Matthew Krishanu: Painting the Postcolonial, Sofia Hallström, Art Basel

2023

Matthew Krishanu — On a Limb, Zeenat Nagree, ArtAsia Pacific

Matthew Krishanu — On a Limb Mario D’Souza, Artforum

Can painting ever bear the weight of grief?, Hettie Judah, Apollo

Life Is More Important Than Art: shows why we need art too, Ben Luke, Evening Standard

Life Is More Important Than Art review, Jessica Wall, The Upcoming

2022

Secrets of the Seesaw, Elizabeth Fullerton, The Guardian, November

The Kingfisher’s Wing at GRIMM, Annabel Keenan, Cultbytes, August

Undercurrents, Allie Biswas, LGDR

On Grief and Grieving, Morgan Quaintance, Art Monthly, April

On Sickert’s ability to paint an inner life, Matthew Krishanu, Tate Etc, January

2021

Mixing It Up: Painting Today Review, George Vasey, Burlington Contemporary, December

Mixing It Up: Painting Today Review, David Trigg, Art Review, November

Interview, Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper

Mixing It Up: Painting Today Review, Laura Cumming, The Guardian, September

Painting in Britain, Ben Luke, Evening Standard, September

Interview, David Trigg, Studio International, September

2020

2019

'New Figurations: Matthew Krishanu and Sosa Joseph', Cleo Roberts, Jhaveri Contemporary

‘Corvus: A painting installation', Christine Takengny, Contemporary Art Society

'Between Skeletons and Sunsets', Cleo Roberts, ArtAsiaPacific

2018

2017

Matthew Krishanu interview by Matt Price Fused Magazine

2016

2014