SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Artist’s Rooms: Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE.
2024 par-parā / phus-phusā, Tales of Land and Sea, Bundanon Art Museum, Shoalhaven, AUS.
2024 ām / ammā / mā maram, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Toogoolawah, AUS.
2023 ām / ammā / mā maram, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Boorloo/Perth, AUS.
2022 Sugar, Milani Gallery, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2020 New Old Archives, Milani Gallery, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2020 Kūlī nām dharāyā / they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’, Institute of Modern Art Belltower, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2020 Echoes Over Oceans (with Shivanjani Lal), Firstdraft, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
2019 And words were whispered, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, IND.
2019  Remnants of my ancestors, Boxcopy, Hobiennale, nipaluna/Hobart, AUS.
2018 Natal’s Coolie Women, CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2018 Bloodlines, Metro Arts, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2018 Bloodlines, Blak Dot Gallery (Next Wave Festival), Narrm/Melbourne, AUS.
2012 Notions of Difference, Ipswich Art Gallery, Tulmur/Ipswich, AUS.
2011 Epidermal Exigency, Queensland Centre for Photography, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.

PERFORMANCES
2025 (upcoming) An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, Asia Pacific Triennial 11, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2025 kalsa / kāla / pānī, Sharjah Biennial 16, Hamriyah Studios, Al Hamriyah, Sharjah, UAE.
2024 par-parā / phus-phusā, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE.
2024 par-parā / phus-phusā, Bundanon Art Museum, Shoalhaven, AUS.
2024 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Toogoolawah, AUS.
2023 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Boorloo/Perth, AUS.
2023 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, GER.
2020 Vessel/Vessel (with Isha Ram Das), First Thursdays, Institute of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2019 sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), MCA Art Bar curated by Radha (Shahmen Suku), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
2019 sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Botanica, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2018 Cleansing Ritual (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Metro Arts, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2018 RITUAL (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Blak Dot Gallery (Next Wave Festival), Narrm/Melbourne, AUS.

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (upcoming) Artes Mundi 11, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, UK.
2025 Sharjah Biennial 16, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
2024 The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2024 Cane, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay, Australia, AUS.
2023 Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
2023 MCA Collection: Artists in Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2023 52 ACTIONS, Artspace Sydney Touring Exhibition, Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre, Singleton, AUS.
2023 52 ACTIONS, Artspace Sydney Touring Exhibition, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery, Jervis Bay, AUS.
2023 52 ACTIONS, Artspace Sydney Touring Exhibition, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, AUS.
2023 Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, GER.
2023 Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂ, Arts House, Narrm/Melbourne, AUS.
2023 9th TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, AUS.
2023 ARTIST POET POIESIS, Milani Gallery, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2022 Tell Me a Story, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn, AUS.
2022 Busan Biennale 2022: We, on the Rising Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, KOR.
2022 52 ACTIONS (Artspace Touring Exhibition), Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, AUS.
2022 Ayesha Hameed and Guests / Radio Brown Atlantis, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SWE.
2022 ‘A Landscape is Not Something You Look At’, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2022 Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Zietz MOCAA, Cape Town, RSA.
2022 PROMISE the EARTH, The Lockup, Muloobinba/Newcastle, AUS.
2022 Blue Assembly: Oceanic Thinking, UQ Art Museum, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2022 This language that is every stone, Institute of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2022 Never So Visible, NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Gimuy/Cairns, AUS.
2021 Staple: What’s on your plate?, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, UAE.
2021 AustrALIEN, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, AUS.
2021 On Earth, QUT Art Museum, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
2021 The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
2021 The Past is the Present is the Future, The Granville Centre Art Gallery, Merrylands, AUS.
2021 Drawn, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, AUS.
2021 Disobedient Daughters, Counihan Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne.
2021 Making Ground, Constance ARI X MONA FOMA, nipaluna/Hobart, AUS.

SCREENINGS
2023 Sugared Land/s, Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Narrm/Melbourne, AUS.
2021 Projections #6: New Australian video art | Cycle 1, Art Gallery of NSW, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.

COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallawoladah/Sydney, AUS.
KADIST, Paris, FRA.
Art Jameel, Dubai, UAE.
UQ Art Museum, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
Museum of Brisbane, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
Gadens Art Collection, Meeanjin/Brisbane, AUS.
Private Collections.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (ONLINE/PRINT)
Simpson, S.M. “Not a chameleon,” In Artist Profile 62, edited by Kon Gouriotis OAM, 116. Sydney: Artist Profile, 2023.
Simpson, S.M. “The Inheritance.” Correspondence 1. 2, edited by Hamish Petersen, 16–21. Christchurch: The Physics Room, 2022.
Simpson, S.M. “Indian Delights.” In Feast of Resistance, edited by Priya Pavri, 39–41. Melbourne: Person Books, 2022.
Simpson, S.M. “Gone to Ṭāpū.” In This language that is every stone: Édouard Glissant and the Australian archipelago, edited by Olivia Fairweather, Liz Nowell, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza and Warraba Weatherall, 54–55. Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2022.
Simpson, S.M. “Vessel/Vessel.” In Cordite Poetry Review, Cordite 103: AMBLE, 2021.
Simpson, S.M. “The Language of Indenture.” In Runway Journal, Issue 40: Caption, 2019.
Simpson, S.M. “Remnants.” In Peril Magazine, Issue 36: History Repeats, 2019.

SELECTED ONLINE CONTENT
“Leaving the gaps: Spotlight talk with Sancintya Mohini Simpson” (2021), MCA, Sydney.
“Brown Atlantis Radio with Ayesha Hameed” (2021), movement.radio., Onassis Stegi, Greece.
“New Old Archives” (2020), Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
“Nicola Scott Interviews: In conversation with Sancintya Mohini Simpson” (2020), Outer Space, Brisbane.
“IMA Belltower: Sancintya Mohini Simpson, ‘Kālāpānī’” (2020), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
“Natal’s Coolie Women” (2018), CARPARK Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
“Hidden histories, lost stories and a “cleansing sound performance” at Sancintya Mohini Simpson’s Bloodlines” (2018), Ed Ayres on the Art Show, The Hub on Art, ABC Radio National.
“Sancintya Mohini Simpson: migration, hidden histories and intergenerational trauma” (2018), Ed Ayres on The Art Show, The Hub on Art, ABC Radio National.

SELECTED WRITING ON PRACTICE
Thurlow, Hilary. “Sancintya Mohini Simpson’s “Sugar”””. Review of Sugar. Milani Gallery. Art Asia Pacific, October 2022.
Phaidon. Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing. London: Phaidon, 2020, 236-7.
Rose, Sophie. “An Archive Materialized: Sancintya Mohini Simpson’s “Kūlī nām dharāyā /they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’””. Review of Kūlī nām dharāyā /they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’. Institute of Modern Art. Art Asia Pacific, March 2020.
Smith, Barnaby, “What’s disguised in the name ‘coolie’?” Preview of Kūlī nām dharāyā /they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’. Institute of Modern Art. Art Guide, March 13, 2020.
Nagesh, Tarun. “Echoes Over Oceans” Exhibition essay for Echoes Over Oceans. Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney. 2020.
Orly, Nanette. “Spectacular or Speculative? Migratory Experience in Contemporary Art.” Runway Journal. Issue 38: Spectacle. 2018.
Dane, Ineke. “Undiscovered: Sancintya Mohini Simpson.” Art Collector. Issue 87: Undiscovered. 2019: 112–113.

EDUCATION
2016 Graduate Certificate in Writing, Editing and Publishing, The University of Queensland.
2014 Bachelor of Photography with Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

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