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Reena Saini Kallat is an artist wholly absorbed by the never-ending cycle of nature, and the fragility of the human condition in its hands. All of her works, whether installations, photographs, paintings or sculptures, reflect the constant shifts between building and collapsing movements, birth, death and rebirth and defeat and resurgence. There seems no greater inspiration in her works than the undefeatable and un-fatigable 'prakriti,' or...
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Reena Saini Kallat is an artist wholly absorbed by the never-ending cycle of nature, and the fragility of the human condition in its hands. All of her works, whether installations, photographs, paintings or sculptures, reflect the constant shifts between building and collapsing movements, birth, death and rebirth and defeat and resurgence. There seems no greater inspiration in her works than the undefeatable and un-fatigable 'prakriti,' or nature. A force that is constantly creating and destroying, never resting as one world replaces another, only to end eventually itself.
Reena shows us how these dualities are functioning all the time, and how we are blind to them, by either illustrating the transience of our consumerist culture or by showing us how important it is that givens like food and shelter not be taken for granted.
Kallat gives the mundane a surreal twist, when she paints cars and houses in filled balloons, or towering structures made out of slices of bread faced by androgynous and fantastic creatures. "Balloons are fragile so putting these aspirational things inside them is a way of putting across how ephemeral are the objects we most chase," she says.
Babies and children also feature provocatively in several of Kallat's works. All these works touch on motifs found throughout her art - the cycle of life, and images presented in a highly exotic and unusual manner.
Kallat graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1996, and belongs to the new generation of Indian artists who have successfully reinterpreted and given a new facet to abstract art. In one of her more recent installations, a part of the 2002 Kala Ghoda Art Fest, she used beach sand to create seven uterine forms on the floor representative of the seven islands that came together to make the city of Mumbai. This piece, called the 'Seven Faces of Dust,' once again represents the transitory nature of all the things we long for, and of our momentary lives as well - it is to be effaced after the showing, and the sand returned to the beach.
Reena also trained as a Bharatanatyam dancer for eight years, but as it turned out, painting was her calling and foremost love. She recalls her first showing - that of some poster colours she painted when she was in class IX. Kallat held her fist professional solo show called ' Orchards of Homegrown Secrets' in Mumbai, 1998, and has since held many more exhibitions of her work. Kallat has also been the recipient of several notable honours, including the Gladstone Solomon Award for painting.
She lives an works in Mumbai.
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Born
1973
New Delhi
Education
1991-96 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'Earth Families', Manchester...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'Earth Families', Manchester Museum, UK
2015 'Porous Passages', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2015 'Hyphenated Lives', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2015 Offsite, Public Art Project, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2014 Anatomy of forking paths, Art Houz, during Art Chennai
2013 ZegnArt Public project with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011 'Labyrinth of Absences', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2009 'Drift', Marella Gallery, Milan
2008-09 'Silt of Seasons', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2008 'Subject to Change Without Notice', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2006 ‘Rainbow of Refuse’, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Singapore
2005 ‘Black Flute (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004 ‘Black Flute’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘The Battlefield Is In The Mind’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2002 ‘Seven Faces of Dust’, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2000 ‘Skin’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc., New Delhi
1998 ‘Orchard of Home-Grown Secrets’, Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 'I don’t want to be there when it happens', Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia
2017 'Memories of Partition', part of the New North and South network, Manchester Museum, UK
2017 'India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation', Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai
2017 'Contemporary Art Acquisitions', Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2017 Nuit Blanche Toronto at Drake Commissary, Toronto, Canada
2017 Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
2017 'Borders: Us and Them', NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, China
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Columbus, Ohio
2017 'Make a Change and Crossroads No 2', Norrtalje Museum + Konsthall, Sweden
2016 'Insecurities: tracing Displacement and Shelter', organized by Sean Anderson and Ariele Dionne-rosnick, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
2016 'Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India', CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya), Mumbai
2016 'Make a Change', Cultural Ronneby, Sweden
2016 'The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
2015 The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai
2015 Aperture, Indian Summer Festival, Old Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Vancouver
2015 A Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2015 One and one make eleven (Contemporary Art From India), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
2015 The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2015 [en]counters 2015, Spaces in Transition, CST Terminus, Mumbai
2015 Kalaghoda Art Festival, Mumbai
2014 Off the wall, Sir. J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
2014 India: Maximum City, St. Moritz Art Masters, Switzerland
2014 Encounters:- Is There Love in This Air?, Cattle depot, C & G ArtPartment, Hong Kong
2014 Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2014 Forms of Activism, exhibition marking 25 years of SAHMAT at the Lalit Kala Akademi galleries, Rabindra bhavan, New Delhi
2014 Encounters 2014 – Is there love in the air?, Public project with Art Oxygen in Mumbai
2013 'Spell of Spill', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'The Contemporary Sultanate', presented by Exhibit 320 at One Style Mile, Olive, New Delhi
2011 'Reprise', Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 'Iconoclasts & Iconodules', Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Water Ways', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri
2010-11 'In Transition: New Art from India', Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2009 ‘Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion’, Stux gallery, New York
2009 'In the Mood for Paper', F2 Gallery, Beijing
2009 'My Little India', Marella Gallery, Beijing
2009 'Threshold: Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008 ‘Everywhere Is War (and Rumors of War)’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 'Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India and South Asia', Stux Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Excavations: Memory, Myth, Membrane’, Art Musings, Mumbai
2008 'Three Dots Three Points of View Under One Roof', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2008 'A Mazing', for RPG Academy of Art and Culture at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007-08 ‘Urban Manners: Contemporary Artists from India’, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2007 ‘Indian Color’, Keumsan Gallery, Hetri, Korea
2007 ‘After Shock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary India’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2007 ‘Thermocline of Art’, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art form India’, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
2007 ‘Soft Power: Asian Attitude’, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2006 ‘Lille 3000’, Lille, France
2006 ‘Hungry God’, Contemporary Art from India, Arario Gallery, Beijing
2006 ‘India Express – Art and Popular Culture’, organized by the Helsinki City Art Museum, Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
2005 ‘Mom and Pop Art’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005 ‘Confluence, Trends In Contemporary Indian Art’, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2005 ‘Span’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Change of Address’, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Indian Paintings of the New Millennium’, Thomas J Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, USA
2005 ‘Ways of Seeing’, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘We Are Like This Only’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Contemporary Art from India’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Urban Quilt’, part of the exhibition ‘Ideas and Images’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 ‘Devotional Breach’, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2004 ‘Art and Poetry, Harvest 2004’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2004 ‘A Tribute to Bhupen Khakkar’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘Zoom! Art in Contemporary India’, The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2004 ‘Generation I’, organized by Guild Art Gallery and Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘The Making of India’, organized by Sahmat, New Delhi
2004 ‘Bombay x 17’, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2003 ‘Tiranga’ , India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 ‘Interlude in Srilanka’, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘Crossing Generations : diVERGE’, Gallery Chemould’s 40th Anniversary, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2003 ‘Highlights’, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘Elephant Walks’, Youth Arts Project in collaboration with Jitish Kallat as part of the Indians + Cowboys Exhibition, Aaron Seetu and Ruth Watson Gallery 4A, Sydney
2003 ‘Art for Art / Switzerland Meets India’, Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2003 ‘The Tree from The Seed, Contemporary Art from India’, Oslo, Norway
2003 ‘Rain’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Crosscurrents’, organized by Artworks, for the fiftieth anniversary of Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘Words and Images’, organized by Guild Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2002 ‘The New Paradigms’, organized by Gallery Threshold, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Reclaim Our Freedom’, organized by Open Circle, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Exhibition for Gujarat Relief Fund organized by Sahmat, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘Creative Space’, organized by Sakshi Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Crossing Borders’ , Gallery Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Holland
2002 ‘Seven Faces of Dust’, Motwane, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2002 ‘The Battlefield Is the Mind’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001 'National Exhibition Of Art', organized by Lalit Kala Academy, Bangalore.
2001 ‘Through The Eyes of an Akansha Child’, Coomaraswamy Hall, Chattrapati Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2001 ‘Against the Tide’, organized by Swayam, Kolkata
2001 ‘Big River 2’, CCA7 Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad
2001 ‘AOM- Art on the Move’, organized by SAHMAT, New Delhi
2000 ‘Extreme Gourmet’, organized by Lakeeren Gallery at Indigo Restaurant, Mumbai
2000 ‘The Mumbai Metaphor’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Tea’, a three person show with Janine Raza, Kim Leong at the Apollo Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Legatee-The J J. School of Art’, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
1999 ‘Art for Charity’, organized by Art Inc., Oberoi International, New Delhi
1999 ‘Young Artists’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
1999 ‘Wall Paper’, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
1998 ‘Essays in Time, Kinetic Sculptures’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1997 ‘India in Harmony 1947-1997’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1997 ‘A Page From My Diary’, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 ‘Fresh Work’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2010 ‘Never Run Away’, with Sara Rahbar at Stux Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Hard-Copy’, with Jitish Kallat, Gallery 88, Kolkata
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2016 'Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude', 10th Busan Biennale, Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan, South Korea
2016 'Conceiving Space', Colombo Art Biennial, Sri Lanka
2012-13 'India Today', ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
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
2011-12 'India Side by Side', Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro; Sao Paulo; Brasislia, Brazil
2011 The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
2011 'Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever', Goteborg International Biennale 2011; Goteborg and Uddevalla, Sweden
2011 'Red', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Concurrent India', Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Maximum India', The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Roundabout', City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isreal
2010 'The Rising', The First Asia Pacific Bienniale of River System , Campbelltown Art Center, Sydney
2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', The Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 ‘Urban Manners 2’, Contemporary Artists from India, at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 ‘Spectrum: Indian Art’, at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2009 ‘Milan Galleria’, Triennale Museum, Milan
2009 'Viewpoints and Viewing Points- 2009', Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2009 Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2009 'Passage to India, Part II: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection', at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
2009 'Vistaar II', presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Essl Museum, Vienna
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Taehwagang Eco Art Festival (TEAF), Dream River, Korea
2008 ‘India Moderna’, organized by Casa Asia, IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain
2008 3rd Nanjing Triennale, China
2007 ‘FIAC 2007’, represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai at Grand Palais & Cour Carree Du Louvre, Paris
2007 International Incheon Woman Artists’ Biennale, Korea
2006 ‘The Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 ‘The Tenth Harmony Show’, World Trade Centre, Mumbai
2001 ‘Another Look at….’, organized by Gallery Chemould at Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2000 ‘The Miniature Format Show’, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai
1997 ‘The Miniature Format Show’, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai
1996 ‘Monsoon Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995 ‘Varsha ‘95’, Y. B. Chavan Gallery, Mumbai
Honours and Awards
2016 Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category
2012 ZegnArt...
2016 Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category
2012 ZegnArt Public Award in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011 YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010-11, New Delhi
2011 Iaspis Residency, Gothenburg
2005 Young Artists Award, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2005 Harmony Award, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1996 Bombay Art Society Merit Certificate, Mumbai
1996 Second Prize Government Award, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1995 First Prize, State Art Exhibition
1995 Solomon Gladston Award
1991-96 Merit Scholarship, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
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