2009

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

2024

Matthew Krishanu, 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

2024

Beyond the Page, The Box, Plymouth

2023

Beyond the Page, 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; Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

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

Too Cute! (curated by Rachel Maclean), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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

Anything Goes (curated by Anna McNay), Bermondsey Project Space, London

Painting and History, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Shanghai, China

2016

Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight

Aviary, Transition Gallery, London

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

2015

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

2014

Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery

Home, Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax

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

2024

Brush and Paper: in conversation with Isabel Seligman, Camden Art Centre

Painting Mission: in conversation with Allie Biswas, Camden Art Centre

2023

Live at Whitechapel Gallery - Life is More Important Than Art, (Gilane Tawadros chairs a discussion with artists Janette Parris, Matthew Krishanu and Sarah Dobai)

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

Longitudes in Question, MA Art and Space, Kingston University

Studio Visit, interview by Morgan Quaintance, Resonance FM

All things corvid, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Artist tour and talk, The Sun Never Sets, Midlands Arts Centre, 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

2024

Waiting for the Bough to Break, Bidisha Mamata, Camden Art Centre, File Note

2023

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

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

2024

Family, Religion, and Power Dynamics, Hettie Judah, Artsy Editorial, May

The Bough Breaks review, Beth Williamson, Studio International, May

Out on a Limb, Emily Steer, Plinth, May

Painting Childhood, Jonathan Evens, Seen & Unseen, May

The five best exhibitions this week in London, Elizabeth Gregory, Evening Standard, May

The Bough Breaks review, Jonathan Evens, Church Times, May

Painting with a Pastoral Paintbrush, Susan Gray, Church Times, May

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

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

Matthew Krishanu in the studio, Annabel Downes, Ocula, April

2023

Matthew Krishanu: On a Limb review, Artforum, Mario D’Souza, October

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

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

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

Seven key takeaways from Dhaka Art Summit 2023, Kabir Jhala, The Art Newspaper

2022

Gallery Highlights, Samuel Reilly, Apollo

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

Picture Plane, Niru Ratnam, Niru Ratnam Gallery

Everyday Heroes: Southbank Exhibition, Revd Jonathan Evens, Artlyst

Eight artists and writers pay tribute to their Everyday Heroes, Time Out

Pop-up space odyssey: how to do Frieze with no Frieze, Hettie Judah, The Guardian

Seven Of The Best Painting Exhibitions To See In London This Autumn, Joanne Shurvell, Forbes

The seven best contemporary shows to see in London right now, Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper

2019

Artistic Dialogues, Mumbai Mirror, Reema Gehi, Dec

New Acquisitions, Contemporary Art Society, Uma Karavadra

Interview with Matthew Krishanu, Simina Neagu, Iniva

'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, March

‘Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in April’, Tabish Khan, FAD Magazine

MAC and Ikon, Jackie Wullschläger, Critics’ Choice, FT Weekend, Jan

2018

‘The Colour of Memory’, Neil Mudd, The Culture Vulture, Sep

‘A Q&A with Matthew Krishanu, painter’, Narbi Price, a-n, Aug

‘Artists at Work: Matthew Krishanu’, Courtauld Gallery, July

‘Matthew Krishanu: from Bradford to Bangladesh and onward’, Robert Priseman, Art UK, May

2017

Matthew Krishanu interview by Matt Price Fused Magazine, Summer

‘Painting from Life’, Matthew Krishanu, Learning Resource, The Courtauld Gallery

2016

‘Aviary exhibition wings its way to Transition Gallery’, Russell Parton, East End Review, May

2014

‘An interview with Matthew Krishanu and Cara Nahaul’, Wall Street International, Feb

‘Artists’ talk (transcript) Matthew Krishanu & Cara Nahaul’, Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts

2013

‘Matthew Krishanu: Interview by Simon Carter’, Painters’ Table, June

‘Painting the Figure — A Contemporary Practice Perspective’, Matthew Krishanu, Becoming Picasso, Learning Resource, The Courtauld Gallery

2012

'Expressive Arts', Matthew Krishanu, Master Drawings, Learning Resource, The Courtauld Gallery