PROFILE
Interdisciplinary artist with professional teaching experience, creative entrepreneur, enthusiastic learner, constantly seeking new challenges
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2024 OVER AND UNDER: Outdoor sculpture for Brentwood Parks, Brentwood, MO (painted metal)
2023 SOAR: Indoor sculpture loaned to Crestview Parks, Crestview, MO (painted metal)
2021 DANCER: Site specific outdoor sculpture for Florissant Civic Center, Florissant, MO (painted metal)
WE BELONG: Outdoor sculpture for Eliisville, MO (painted metal)
2020 BATTER AND PITCHER: Outdoor sculpture for Poplar Bluff, MO (painted metal)
JOY: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Chesterfield, MO (painted metal)
FILL THE VOID: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Lee Summit, MO (painted metal)
THE THREE: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Brentwood, MO (painted metal)
2019 JOY: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Manchester, MO (painted metal)
FILL THE VOID: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Brentwood, MO (painted metal)
KICK: Outdoor sculpture, Sculpture on loan to City of Ballwin, MO (painted metal)
MICRO AND MACRO: Outdoor sculpture for Poplar Bluff Parks, MO (painted metal)
2018 BLUE: Site specific outdoor mural for Ballwin Aquatic center, Ballwin, MO
SOLO/ TWO PERSON EXHIBITS/ TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS
2024 IAPMA PAPER ART BIENNALE-REBLOOM: International Juried exhibit at Hagan. Germany
ON PAPER OF PAPER: International Juried exhibit at delhi, India
KALA, CONFLUENCE OF ART: Invitational virtual show at Indian American Artists Association
CUT AND LAYERED- EXPLORING IDENTITY: Invitational exhibit at Coral Green Gallery, St Louis MO
CARE: Invitational exhibit at Red Gate Gallery, St Louis, MO
2023 BESIDE BETWEEN BEYOND (II): Invitational solo show at Mid America Arts Alliance Gallery, Kansas City,MO
LIFE WITHIN SHADOW: Invitational solo show at Gretchen Brigham Gallery St Louis, MO
CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: Site specific show show at Michigan State University as funded by the Mellon Foundation
TRY TO GET CLOSER: Juried site specific installation at True/False film festival in Columbia, MO
2022 WEIGHT OF SHADOWS: Solo show for teen museum studies at Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO
NESTS: Invitational solo show at Manchester Parks, Manchester, MO
BESIDE BETWEEN BEYOND: Site specific juried show at Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 TRY TO GET CLOSER: Selected to create site specific installation at St Louis Lambert for FLyStL
SOLAH SHRINGHAR: Site specific juried show at Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI
VISUALIZING HOPE: Site specific installation for Gretchen Bingham Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020 FOLD UNFOLD: SIte specific installation at City of Ellisvile’s CIty hall and Parks office
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 McClure-Scanlin Visual Artist Residency Award
2023 Regional Arts Commission Grant
Honorary Chair for Bread and Roses’ Off the Clock: Arts and Activism After Hours
2022 Futures Fund Grant from The Luminary, a partner of the Andy Warhol Foundation
Regional Arts Commission Grant recipient
River Front Times Changemaker Award
Midwest Artist Project Services Mock Panel Grant
2021
Missouri featured artist Dec 2021
TEDX STL speaker 2021
Visualizing Hope” Invitational exhibit for Gretchen Bingham Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020
Awarded Dreams Live Digitally Scholarship for CodaWORX Public Art Summit
“Together/ Apart”- Honorarium prize for Global Impact, Foundry Art Center’s show
“Our voting daughters” - Juried, Foundry Art Center’s show,
2019- 2013
“Micro and Macro” - solo show, Kranzberg Arts Center
“Art is Labor”- Invitational exhibit, Webster Art Gallery
“Flores” - Invitational exhibit, Missouri History Museum
“Symbols and Stories”- Invitational exhibit at Erica Popp Gallery
Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition- Juried winner of “Richard Silverman award,” St. Louis Artist Guild
Featured Artist- solo show, Renaissance hotel lobby
Selected to create public art sculptures for Artica festival
Selected to create outdoor sculptures for St Louis fringe festival
Selected to create public art sculptures for Artica festival
“The three”- solo show, City of Chesterfield
Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant to create a Public Art Commission
Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant awarded for marketing and website
Selected by University City to create two Traffic Boxes as part of a public art project
RESIDENCIES AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-2014
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, City of Ellisville, City of Manchester- Basics of papercutting
Juror for “Paperworks” Art show for Foundry Arts Center
St. Louis Artist Guild- Introduction to papercutting
Lead teaching Artist for CAM’s teen LEAP program
Presenter at Summer Institute workshop for Arts Integration at COCA STL
Lead Summer workshop at MO History Museum
Conducted multiple “Mandala” workshops for Winter school
Lead teen leaf program at the Contemporary Art Museum
Conducted workshops and residencies as a teaching artist and presenter at St Louis County Library
Conducted workshops and residencies as a teaching artist and storyteller at International Institute
Conducted Workshop as a visiting artist at St.Louis Art Museum
PRESS
Art Restart, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the UNC School of the Arts: https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/art-restart/sukanya-mani-restart.aspx#Q5
TEDX StL talk- https://youtu.be/cEHLRK5Im4g
RAC documentary- https://youtu.be/5PWNZObxdDo
Wood TV- https://youtu.be/xM2AobOGBeE
https://speakingofthearts.transistor.fm/episodes/a-masters-exhibit-paper-cutting-that-illuminates-physics-and-haunting-paintings-of-teddy-bears
HEC TV Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnvIo3fYss&t=106s
Paperworks VII Gallery Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR5yd11FIM
https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/visual-art/gallery-exhibitions/micro-and-macro/
STLPR Interview: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2019-11-26/light-bends-so-does-paper-how-sukanya-mani-merges-art-and-science
The 2019 Ann Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition: https://youtu.be/iObchKJmR2g