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IMPETUS
Jagath Weerasinghe 31 Aug - 30 Sep 2023The exhibition presents a selection of works created from 1989 to the first half of the 1990s, created in the years preceding his 1992 Anxiety (Kansawa) show, that locate the themes and ideas that dominate the artist’s three-decade-long year including works that are visual and thematic precursors to his notable series I have got enough guilt to start my own religion, crucify me.Read more -
APRIL WORKS: BACKPACKS, BOMBS & BORDERS
Jagath Weerasinghe 21 May - 18 Jun 2020In this series, created between April/May 2019, Weerasinghe responds to the Easter Attacks that occurred in Sri Lanka. In Los Angeles during this time, Weerasinghe began a smaller series of...Read more -
Crossing Place, Baik Art Los Angeles
Jagath Weerasinghe, Pakkiyarajah Pushpakanthan, Saskia Pinetelon, Priyantha Udagedara, Chandraguptha Thenuwera 20 Apr - 1 Jun 2019When contemporary art from South East Asia enjoys increasing global attention, Baik Art is pleased to present Crossing Place, a unique exploration of contemporary art from Sri Lanka. The exhibition,...Read more -
Belief: The Promise of Absence
Jagath Weerasinghe 16 Nov - 6 Dec 2018The works in this show, as usual, are about social calamities and personal pains. Currently the world is experiencing a major civilizational crisis played out as mass migration - millions...Read more
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With or without meaning
Jagath Weerasinghe 30 Jun - 22 Jul 2016With or Without Meaning combines Jagath Weerasinghe’s painting, drawing and installation work as a philosophical expression of the transitory nature of being. In perhaps his least political works to date...Read more -
Decorated & Emergency at Breese Little Gallery
JAGATH WEERASINGHE, SUJEEWA KUMARI, PRIYANTHA UDAGEDARA, NADIA HAJI OMAR & PRAGEETH MANOHANSA 29 May - 28 Jun 2014BREESE LITTLE, London, and Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, are delighted to present Decorated and Emergency, two exhibitions of contemporary Sri Lankan artists. Decorated is established artist Jagath Weerasinghe’s first UK...Read more -
Drawings
Chandraguptha Thenuwara & Jagath Weerasinghe 2 - 30 Oct 2012Drawings takes place as a dual exhibition of drawings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagath Weerasinghe, staged simultaneously in London and Colombo. Thenuwara and Weerasinghe are among Sri Lanka’s foremost artists....Read more -
Mediated
Asvajit Boyle, Ameena Hussein, Iromi Perera, Mika Tennekoon, Asanga Welikala, Jagath Weerasinghe, Anushka Wijesinha, Sunela Jayawardena 23 Aug - 15 Sep 2012Four individuals – a researcher, an economist, a constitutional theorist and an award winning novelist – were invited to give submissions that were anchored to issues vital to a greater...Read more
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Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka 2011
Muhanned Cader Druvinka Kingsley Gunatillake Vajira Gunawardene Dumith Kulasekara Sanjeewa Kumara Sujeewa Kumari Prageeth Manohansa Pala Pothupitiye Saskia Pintelon Jagath Ravindra Tilak Samarawickrema Chandraguptha Thenuwara Jagath Weerasinghe Anoma Wije 1 - 12 Mar 2011Writing on contemporary Sri Lankan art at this ‘moment’ in history is difficult. It seems that most of the artists that made the last decades of the 20th century and...Read more -
Shiva Natarajah
Jagath Weerasinghe 24 - 30 Apr 2009An artist and an academic, he is often conflicted by his drive to be both. He received his MFA from the American University in Washington DC, USA, he heads the...Read more
