Sahana Ramakrishnan was born in Mumbai, India and raised in Singapore. She travelled to the United States to complete her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has since been living and working in Brooklyn and Jersey City. Sahana’s work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in Fridman Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, Rachel Uffner Gallery, the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Rubin Museum, the NARS Foundation, and more. Sahana has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, a recipient of the SIP fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking workshop, the Feminist-in-Residence program at Gateway Project Spaces, the Yale/Norfolk Summer program, and the Florence Lief grant from RISD. Her work is currently in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, The Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Kadist Foundation in Paris. Ramakrishnan’s paintings and exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and more.