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

PERFORMANCES
2024 par-parā / phus-phusā, Bundanon Art Museum, Shoalhaven
2024 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Toogoolawah
2023 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2023 An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2020 Vessel/Vessel (with Isha Ram Das), First Thursdays, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
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, Sydney
2019 sugar/cheeni/shakkar/sakarai/chakara/panjasara (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Botanica, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
2018 Cleansing Ritual (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Metro Arts, Brisbane
2018 RITUAL (with Isha Ram Das & Indarami Simpson), Blak Dot Gallery (Next Wave Festival), Melbourne
2015 MA$ALA MILITIA ft. SEZZO, Fake Estate ARI, Brisbane
2015 CHICHI MA$ALA X BOY VENUS, ALONE TOGETHER, Boxcopy, Brisbane

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

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

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Jameel Collection, Dubai
Gadens Art Collection, Brisbane
KADIST, Paris
Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane

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 DrawingLondon: 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
2021-Current Doctorate of Visual Arts Candidate, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
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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