Reshavan Naicker is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Johannesburg. Working across photography, installation, and performance, Naicker's practice examines the infrastructures of memory and the processes through which personal and collective histories are constructed, legitimised, and transmitted.


Education

Bennington College
(BA) Visual Arts, Art History, and Museum Studies
2022


My work is grounded in an extensive family archive — most significantly, photographs made by my grandfather, who spent decades documenting everyday life within our South African Indian family in Durban between the 1960s and 1990s. I treat this archive as a living, unfinished thing rather than a fixed record, recomposing and annotating photographs alongside objects, text, and installation to explore what it means to inherit and care for someone else's memories.

Alongside my studio practice, I'm Associate Director of Programs at STILL Artist Residency and Studio Manager for Ayana V. Jackson.



Exhibitions

2026
Our Collective Memory, Haus Vischer Weber, Basel, Switzerland

2022
Dovetail, Usdan Gallery,  
Bennington, VT, USA
Progressions in Photography, W. Collective, Bennington, VT, USA

2021
Cityscapes, Blank Wall Gallery,
Athens, Greece

2020
Bennington and Williams College Student Exhibition,Cynthia Reeves Gallery, North Adams, MA, USA

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