{"id":31796,"date":"2025-05-02T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/?post_type=artist&p=31796"},"modified":"2025-05-04T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:32:33","slug":"sid-pattni","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/artist\/sid-pattni\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Pattni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sid Pattni<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n
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Sid Pattni<\/strong> (b. 1986) is an Australian artist of Indian descent who explores the intricacies of identity, culture and belonging within a post-colonial framework. Working primarily in painting and embroidery, Pattni aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse surrounding art and its role in communicating the complexities of diasporic identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m interested in how aesthetics shaped under empire can be reclaimed and reconfigured to tell new stories\u2014stories about migration, memory and identity,\u201d says the artist, who describes painting as a way to process the dissonance he has felt as someone navigating multiple cultural identities. \u201cOver time, I\u2019ve returned again and again to themes of hybridity, belonging and erasure,\u201d he says. \u201cI often reference historical visual formats \u2013 Mughal miniatures, Company paintings, colonial portraiture \u2013 not as homage, but as a means of critique and reimagining.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May 2025, Pattni was selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize for his work Self-portrait (the act of putting it back together). He will present his first solo exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney in July 2025.<\/p>\n

Pattni has been the recipient of the Kennedy Prize (2023) for his embroidered portrait of Mostafa \u201cMoz\u201d Azimitabar, as well as the Kh\u014dj Cross-Hatchings Residency, New Delhi (2024), and the Minderoo Artist Fund Grant (2022). He was selected as a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize (2024).<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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