MAHENDERPAL SORYA
CV
Mahenderpal Sorya
Education:
2016 - 2018 MA Fine Art (Distinction) Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2013 - 2014 PGCE, City Lit Institute/ University of Westminster, London
2005 - 2009 BA Fine Art (First Class Honours) Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2003 - 2004 City and Guilds 7407 Cert. in Further Education Teaching, City and Islington College, London
1997 - 2001 LLB Law (2:1 Honours) University of Westminster, London and The University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 The Krueger Institute (part of group exhibition ‘Vestibule’), Lethaby Gallery, London
2022 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2022, Frankfurt, Germany
2022 Swedenborg Film Festival, London
2022 Deptford X 2022 Mobile Cinema, London
2022 Satyajit Ray Festival, UK Asian Film Festival, BFI, London
2022 Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image/ Make Film History, London
2021 Mosaic International Film Festival, Ontario, Canada
2021 Tagore International Film Festival, West Bengal, India
2021 UK Asian Film Festival, Phoenix Cinema + Arts Centre, Leicester
2021 UK Asian Film Festival, Soho Screening Rooms, London
2021 Fringe of Colour Film Festival 2021, Fringe of Colour, Edinburgh (online)
2021 One Year On, Morley Gallery, London (online)
2020 Fringe of Colour Film Festival 2020, Fringe of Colour, Edinburgh (online)
2019 Experimental Film Festival 2019, UK, (online)
2018 MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
2018 Where It Is (group show) Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art
2017 Thingification, MAFA Gallery, London
2017 Contemporary Collage (Group Show) Morley, London
2016 Myths (group show) MAFA Gallery
2013 Tradition, Pumphouse Gallery Battersea, London
2012 Open 2012, CGP London, Southwark Park, London
2010 Group Show, Duke of Clarence Building, London
2009 Degree Show 2009, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2009 Brenda Langdon Pye Portrait Award, (group show), Triangle Gallery: Chelsea College of Art
2007 Paperworks (group show) R.K Burt Gallery, London
2007 Opinion Poll, Triangle Gallery: Chelsea College of Art and Design
Selected Research and Commissions:
June 2021 - Present
Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) | Fellowship
Nov 2022 – Present
Peoples Health Trust | Workshop Facilitator
‘Let’s Talk’ weekly Family Art Club + community filmmaking workshops for residents in Southall, London
Nov 2022 – Present
Greater London Authority | Workshop Facilitator
‘Untold Stories’: community photography workshops for residents in Southall, London
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Central Saint Martins (UAL) | 'College Lenses' Research Grant: 'Nightmare Syndrome'
May 2022 - July 2022
University of Oxford (TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) | 'Creative Multilingualism' Projects Commission: 'Tu Hai Meri Fantasy'
January 2020 – Dec 2021
Imagining India: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) + UAL | Workshop Coordinator and Researcher
Project working with first and second generation South Asian communities in the UK. Project partners include: Southall Community Alliance, TrAIN (The Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation), Tara Arts and The Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication (University of Hyderabad), India.
June 2021 – Oct 2021
Southall Ever After: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) + UAL | Project Coordinator + Researcher
Planning and management of community arts festival in Summer 2021
May 2021 - Sept 2021
UAL CCW – Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon + Gunnersbury Park Museum | Project Coordinator
'Being South Asian' Photography Project/ Exhibition
Project partners include: South Asian Heritage Month UK, Gunnersbury Park Museum, Southall Community Alliance and University of the Arts, London.
June 2021 - Nov 2021
Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and The Essay Film Festival | Archive-based filmmaking commission
July 2020 - June 2021
UK Asian Film Festival/ Arts Council England| Satyajit Ray film commission
March 2021
Axis Arts/ Social Art Library | Storytelling for Artists Commission
Social Art Library bursary
Professional Membership:
FHEA: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education
Higher & Further Education Teaching:
2021 – Present
Central Saint Martins (UAL) | 0.6 BA Fine Art Lecturer
2020 – Present
London College of Communication (UAL) | Associate Lecturer: Contextual and Theoretical Studies for Design, Media and Screen
2014 – 2021
London College of Communication (UAL) | Academic Support Lecturer: Screen School/ Pre-Degree School
2010 – 2022
Morley College London | Art History Lecturer: Contemporary Art
Painting and Drawing Tutor
Contextual and Theoretical Studies Lecturer: Foundation Art
Selected taught (gallery based) courses/ lectures:
A Beginner's Guide to Contemporary Art
Gallery Visits: Contemporary Art
Art History and Practice: New Ways of Interacting with Art in Galleries and Museums (co-taught with Art Historian Carlo Corsato)
Foundation Art: Contextual Studies: including assessment of written work
Contemporary Collage
Contemporary Paper Art
Edvard Munch: Life, Love, Anxiety and Death
Designs on Bomberg: The Life and Work of the Artist, in collaboration with ‘A David Bomberg Legacy: The Sarah Rose Collection’
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
13/05/2010 – 01/07/2013
Mary Ward College | Art History Tutor (Contemporary Art)
29/04/14 – 01/07/16
Lewisham Council (Mindlift) | Printmaking Tutor
Selected Lectures + Workshops:
2020: South Asian Heritage Month (fringe) | Being South Asian: Drawing Workshop (online)
2019: V&A, London | Lectures: Antoni Tapies: From Surrealism to Emptiness +
Santiago Calatrava: Building a New Spain - A Return to Nature
2017: British Museum, London | American Dream exhibition workshop: ‘Vivid Vernacular’
2016: Goldsmiths, University of London: MA Art and Politics | Workshop: ‘Paper and Protest’
Employment:
23/01/12 – 01/08/12
Tate Modern/ Tate Britain | Intern and Freelance Assistant Curator (Young People’s Programme)
10/09/13 – 01/06/14
Spectrum Youth PRU (14 – 16 year olds) | Sessional Art Tutor: Specialist Artist Register – Fine Art
01/05/2012 – 31/01/18
Islington Council | Sessional Tutor
29/03/2004 – 16/12/2011
The Bede Centre/ Youth Project | Education and Employment Co-ordinator
05/08/2002 – 26/03/2004
Mencap Pathway, Harrow & Lewisham | Education and Employment Co-ordinator
04/05/2002 – 08/02/2003
St Mungo’s Homeless Project, Kings Cross | Volunteer Art Tutor
Specialist Training:
2012: Engage | Working with ‘at risk’ young people in the arts
21+22/04/12: Camden Arts Centre | Artist Educator Training workshop (Planning gallery based art workshops for young people)