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Bharti Kher
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Bharti Kher’s is an art of dislocation and transience, reflecting her own, largely itinerant life. Born and raised in England, the artist moved to New Delhi in the early 1990s after her formal training in the field, and today, like most of her contemporaries, frequently travels the world attending to exhibitions of her art. Consequently, the concept of home as the location of identity and culture is constantly challenged in her body of work....
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Bharti Kher’s is an art of dislocation and transience, reflecting her own, largely itinerant life. Born and raised in England, the artist moved to New Delhi in the early 1990s after her formal training in the field, and today, like most of her contemporaries, frequently travels the world attending to exhibitions of her art. Consequently, the concept of home as the location of identity and culture is constantly challenged in her body of work. In addition to an autobiographical examination of identity, Kher’s unique perspective also facilitates an outsider’s ethnographic observation of contemporary life, class and consumerism in urban India.
Presently, Kher uses the ‘bindi’, a dot indicative of the third eye worn by the Indian women on their foreheads, as the central motif and most basic building block in her work. Bharti Kher often refers to her mixed media works with bindis, the mass-produced, yet traditional ornaments, as ‘action paintings’. Painstakingly placed on the surface one-by-one to form a design, the multi-coloured bindis represent custom, often inflexible, as well as the dynamic ways in which it is produced and consumed today. The artist is also known for her collection of wild and unusual resin-cast sculptures, embellished with bindis, and her digital photography.
Bharti Kher was born in London in 1969. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, and went on to receive her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Painting with honours from New Castle Polytechnic, in 1988. Some of her most recent solo shows include ‘Virus’ at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, in 2008; ‘An Absence of Assignable Cause’ at Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, and at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, in 2007; ‘Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons Because You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup’ at Gallery Ske, Bangalore and Project 88, Mumbai, in 2006; ‘Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like’ at Gallery Ske, Bangalore, in 2004; and ‘Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding’ at Nature Morte, Delhi, also in 2004. She was the recipient of the Sanskriti award in 2003 and has been a part of Khoj since 1997.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1969
London
Education
1988 Foundation Course in Art and Design Newcastle Polytechnic, BA Honors, Fine Art (Painting)
1987 Middlesex Polytechnic, Cat Hill, London
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Three Decimal Points. Of a...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Three Decimal Points. Of a Minute. Of a Second. Of a Degree', Hauser and Wirth, Zurich
2014 'Misdemeanours', Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2013 'Anomalies', Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2013 'Bind the Dream State to Your Waking Life', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012 'Many, (too) many, more than before', Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
2012 'Reveal the Secrets that You Seek', SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
2012 Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
2012 'The Hot Winds that Blow from the West', Hauser & Wirth, New York
2012 'Lady with an Ermine', Nature Morte, Gurgaon
2011 'Live Your Smell', Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2010-11 'Disturbia, Utopia, House Beautiful', Gallery Ske, Bangalore
2010 ‘Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture: Bharti Kher’, St James’s Church, London
2010 'Inevitable Undeniable Necessary’, Hauser and Wirth, London
2008 'Sing To Them That Will Listen', Galerie Emanuel Perrotin, Paris
2008 ‘Virus’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK
2007 ‘New Sculptures', Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘An Absence of Assignable Cause’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons Because You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup’, Gallery Ske, Bangalore and Project 88, Mumbai
2004 ‘Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like’, Gallery Ske, Bangalore
2004 ‘Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding’, Nature Morte, Delhi
2001 ‘The Private Softness of Skin’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2000 ‘The Private Softness of Skin’, Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1999 ‘Telling Tails’, Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam
1997 Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam
1995 Art Heritage, Delhi
1993 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2013-14 'Inaugural Show', Gallery Ske, New Delhi
2013 'Seven Contemporaries', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Seduction by Masquerade', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 'Tolstoy Farm: Archive of Utopia', presented by Seven Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 'Susan Hefuna – Bharti Kher – Fred Tomaselli:Between the Worlds', Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
2010 ‘Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection’, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
2009 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2009 'Who's Afraid of the Artists?', Palais des Arts de Dinard, France
2009 'Vistaar II', presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs', Yale School of Art, Connecticut, USA
2009 'Re-Imagining Asia', The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008-09 'Mutant Beauty', Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'India - Guest in the Giant, RAIN.bow.PEARLS, organized by Swarovski at the Kristallwelten
2008 'Everywhere Is War (and rumours of war), Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 'Still Moving Image', Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi
2008 ‘Distant Nearness’, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas
2008 ‘Passage to India’, From the Frank Cohen Collection at Frank Cohen’s Initial Access Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2008 ‘Re – Imaging Asia, A Thousand Years of Separation’, The House of World Cultures, Berlin
2008 'Indian Focus', Espace Claude Berri, Paris
2008 ‘Cross Roads’, Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 ‘Urban Manners: Contemporary Artists from India’, Hangar Bicocca, spazio d’arte contemporanea, Milan in collaboration with ART for the World Europa, Milan, Italy
2007 'The Sneeze 80x80', Cape Town, Durban
2007 Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
2007 ‘Hungry God’, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2007 ‘Private Corporate IV’, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler- Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, Berlin, Germany
2006 ‘With Love’, conducted by Galleryske and Tilton Gallery, at Miami Design District
2006 'Inside Outside', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006 'Hungry Gods', Arario Gallery, Beijing
2006 'Made By Indians', Galerie Enrico Navarra, Art On The Beach, St Tropez, France
2006 'Long Happy Hours Thereby Happiness and Other Stories', organized by Gallery Chemould at The Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Her Offer/ An Intimate I: droom en werkelijkheid ‘, De Beverd Museum voor Grafische werkeljkheid , Breda
2005 'Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen’, Institute for Auslandsbeziehunge Galerie, Berlin and Stuttgart
2005 ‘Mom and Pop’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, Nature Morte, Delhi
2005 ‘Indian Summer’, ENSBA, Paris
2004 ‘Contemporary Art From India’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Vanitas Vanitatum’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘The Sneeze’, a Featured Film 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes’, Athens, Greece
2004 ‘Adrogyne’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 ‘Crossing Generations : diverge’, 40 Years of Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2003 ‘The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary Art form India’, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
2003 ‘Sirpur Paper Mills, Workshop Exhibition’, Art Inc., New Delhi
2003 ‘Bad Taste’, conducted by Apparao Gallery, at The Apeejay New Media Centre, Delhi
2002 ‘Under Construction’, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo and Japan Foundation
2002 ‘Khoj Residency Show’, Khoj Studios, Delhi
2002 ‘Creative Space’, conducted by Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, Delhi
2002 ‘Photosphere’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2002 ‘Playgrounds and Toys: ART for The World’, Geneva and Nature Morte, Delhi
2002 ‘Cutting Edge Contemporary’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Interiors Espana, Delhi
2002 ‘GLUE’, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2002 ‘Borderless Terrain’, Habitat Center, Delhi
2002 ‘Silence Violence’, NSA Gallery, Durban and NieBethesda and Stellenbosch, South Africa
2002 ‘A Pulse Project curated by Greg Streak
2002 ‘MANGO’, A SAWCC show for Talwar Gallery, New York, Anant Gallery, Delhi
2002 ‘Sorry For The Inconvenience’, Project 304, Bangkok, and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2002 ‘Sidewinder’, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, Habitat Centre, Delhi, Coomaraswamy Hall, Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai
2001 ‘Art On The Move’, a Sahmat Project,, in 5 venues in Delhi
2001 ‘Kitsch kitsch Hota Hai’, Gallery Espace, India Habitat Center, Delhi
2000 ‘Open Circle Exhibition’ , Lakeeren art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Of, based on, or obtained by (Tradition)’, Nature Morte, Delhi
2000 ‘Aar Paar’, an exchange between five Indian and Pakistani artists, Karachi, Pakistan
1999 ‘Impact ‘, CCA, Delhi
1999 ‘Embarkations’, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai
1999 ‘Icons of The Millennium’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
1999 ‘Boxwallahs’, Art in a Public Space with De Ego
1999 ‘Hed end aagse Kunst uit India, Central Bureau Vande Hogeschool, Amsterdam, Nature Morte, Delhi
1998 ‘Edge of The Century’, British Council, Delhi
1998 ‘Cryptograms’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 ‘Royal Overseas League Open Exhibition’, Overseas House London: Edinburgh College of Art, UK
1996 ‘Of Women Icons/Stars/Feasts’, Eicher Gallery, Delhi
1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1995 ‘Postcards for Gandhi’, A Sahmat Exhibition in five cities in India
1993 ‘Trends in Contemporary Indian Art’, Art Heritage, Delhi
1991 ‘Aspects of British Figurative Painting (1988-93) Milton Gallery, London
1990 Fresh Art at the National Fine Art Degree Fair, the Business Design Center, London Squires Gallery, Newcastle Polytechnic Newcastle upon Tyne
Joint Exhibitions
1999 A collaborative work with Subodh Gupta at Sahay Filling Station, Gurgaon, Uttar Pradesh, India
Participations
2013 'The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989', Smart Museum of Art at University of Chicago, Chicago
2012 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art', First International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2012 'Indian Contemporary Art', Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken, Denmark
2012 'Massive/Intensive: Contemporary Art from India', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011 ‘The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 ‘Festival der Tiere’, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2011 Art Brussels, Belgium presented by Gallery Ske, Bangalore
2011 'Maximum India', The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 '21st Century: Art in the First Decade', Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2010 'FIAC 2010', Paris represented by Hauser and Wirth, Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin
2010 ‘Gothenburg Culture Festival’, Gothenburg City Hall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2010 ‘Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2010 ‘Sign of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art’, Anniversary Show at Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2010 ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 ‘Pattern ID’, 'Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 'Frieze Art Fair', presented by Hauser and Wirth, London
2009 'Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1)', Burger Collection, Berlin
2009 'Art Basel', Basel represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Hauser & Wirth, London
2009 'Nature | Nation', Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain represented by Hauser and Wirth, London
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2009 'Contemporary Art from India', Palais Benedictine, Fecamp, France supported by Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Presented by Jack Shainman Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach, Basel
2008 'Art Basel', represented jointly by Bose Pacia, New York and Nature Morte, New Delhi; Gallery Continua, Italy; Jack Shainman, New York
2008 ‘The Armory Show’, represented by Nature Morte, New Delhi
2007 'Open2007 10: International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations', organized by Arte Communications and the Department of Culture of the Venice City Council
2007 'Indian Photo and Media Art: A Jouney of Discovery', FLUSS - NÖ Initiative for Photo-and Media Art, Weinviertel, Austria
2006 APT5 - The 5th Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
2006 'Fuori Uso 2006- Altered States. Are you experienced?', Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy
2006 Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2006 'Le troisième Oeil', Lille 3000, Lille, France
1995 ‘6th Bharat Bhawan Biennale of Contemporary Indian Arts’, Bhopal
Honours and Awards
2010 ARKEN Art Prize
2007 YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year
2004 French Government Residency, Paris
2003 The Sanskriti Award, India
2010 ARKEN Art Prize
2007 YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year
2004 French Government Residency, Paris
2003 The Sanskriti Award, India
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