Residency overview
In Autumn 2024, we welcome Curator and Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts Amanprit Sandhu to a 4-month residency. Sandhu will use this time to research as well as to present work by award-winning US composer and artist Raven Chacon at Chelsea Space. This will be on display for the first time in the UK.
Overtures, Soundings, Ruptures: Amanprit Sandhu
Residency duration: 12 September - 13 December 2024
Amanprit Sandhu is a curator and educator based in London. She specialises in innovative exhibition and curatorial practices, with a focus on collaboration, and expanding access to the arts and arts education.
Recent work includes co-curating the 2021 Borås Art Biennial in Borås, Sweden and organising the inaugural Brent Biennial in Brent, London in 2020. She was the co-founder of the curatorial collective DAM Projects (2014 - 2020). The work supported underexposed artists, art scenes, discourses, and socio-political debates in the UK and internationally.
Other previous roles include:
- Interim Curator at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
- Public Programme and Residencies Curator at Camden Art Centre
- Projects Curator with Art on the Underground
- Project Manager for the 2014 Folkestone Triennial and 2012 Frieze Foundation projects
- Assistant Curator at the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
- From 2017 to 2020, she was a trustee at Arts Catalyst.
Background Music: Raven Chacon
Residency duration: 1 December - 7 December 2024
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on over 80 releases on national and international labels.
He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at:
- LACMA
- The Whitney Biennial
- Borealis Festival
- SITE Santa Fe
- The Kennedy Center.
As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. In 2023, he also was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.
Opening times
11am - 4pm Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays only, from 3 October - 13 December 2024