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Tejal Shah
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Born in 1979, in Bhilai, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh and moved to Mumbai in 1995. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in photography from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000. During her last year at the RMIT, she was an exchange scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2008, she received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from Bard College, New York.
Shah is a visual artist who primarily works with...
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Born in 1979, in Bhilai, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh and moved to Mumbai in 1995. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in photography from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000. During her last year at the RMIT, she was an exchange scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2008, she received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from Bard College, New York.
Shah is a visual artist who primarily works with video, photography, performance, sound and installation. She expresses her ideologies through her work which mainly focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, identity and politics. The protagonists of her work are often women and transgendered or transsexual individuals who have been marginalized by society. Using the bodies of her subjects, she references and transcends ‘otherness’ in her work. Other than exploring gender and sexuality, Shah also explores concepts of religion, national identity, self and community often countering India’s celebrated status of being the world’s largest democracy.
Shah’s work has been exhibited in several solo shows including ‘the incidental self’ at Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, and 'There is a spider living between us' at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal in 2011; 'Pentimento' at Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, in 2009; 'What are You?' at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, and Galerie Mirchandani & Steinreucke, Mumbai, in 2006; 'The Tomb Of Democracy' at Gallery Alexander Ochs, Berlin, in 2003; and 'In-Transit' at Viscom9 Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, in 2000. Shah also participated in the joint exhibition 'A Cry from the Narrow Between', with Han Bing at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in 2010. She was a co-organiser and participant of ‘Current InterruptUs’, an international artist residency program at Kashi Art in Kochi.
A few of Shah’s most recent honours include the 2009 Sanskriti Award in Visual Arts; a residency at Point Ephémère, Paris; and presentations at the School of Fine Arts, Baroda, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, in 2007.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai.
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Born
1979
Bhilai
Education
2008 MFA program, Bard College, New York
1999-2000 Exchange Scholar (Photo, Video, Film), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1998-2000 Bachelor of Arts (Photography), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'The Incidental Self', Barbara...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'The Incidental Self', Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
2011 'There is a spider living between Us', La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
2009 'Pentimento', Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2006 'What are You?', Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Galerie Mirchandani & Steinreucke, Mumbai
2003 'The Tomb Of Democracy', Gallery Alexander Ochs, Berlin
2000 'In-Transit', Viscom9 Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
SDelected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Staging Selves: Power, Performativity & Portraiture', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Punctum I: A critical look at the body in South Asian Photography', Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Changing Skins', Chattrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2010 'Black + White', Gallery Mirchandani & Steinreucke, Mumbai
2010 'Incursions: Contested Spaces', Seven Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Id/entity', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Gender - Genesis - Genetics', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2009 'Images of Desire: Queer Fantasy', The Nigah Queer Fest, New Delhi
2009 'My Little India', Marella Gallery, Beijing
2008 'Synonymous', Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Anxious', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2008 'Emerging Discourse I', Bodhi Art Gallery, New York
2007 'Hijra Fantasy Series', Project Space, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2006 'Maarkers', Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 'Summer Salon', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006 'Chitra Ganesh, Nicola Durvasala & Tejal Shah', Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2005 'Metrospective: Visual Representation of Metrosexuality', Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2002 'Reclaim Our Freedom Week', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 'Video Art Show', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2000 '(Un)Suitable Girls Visual Arts Show', Paisley Gallery, New York
2000 'Body Language', Gallery X, SAIC, Chicago
Joint Exhibitions
2010 'A Cry from the Narrow Between', with Han Bing at Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Participations
2012 'dOCUMENTA (13)', Kassel
2012 'Indentity VIII', Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2012 'Human Frames: Ten physchological states', Werkstatt de Kuturen, Berlin
2012 'Indian Highway VI', Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2011 'The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India', Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 'Crossroads: India Escalate', Prague Biennale, Prague
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 'Human Frames: Ten physchological states', Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
2011 'Beyond the Self', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2011 'Generation in Transition', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2011 'Indian Highway V', MAXXI, Rome
2011 'Indian Highway IV', Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2010 'The 11th Hour', Tang Contemporary, Beijing
2010 'Cityscapes', Kala Ghoda Café, Mumbai
2010 'Re/Gendered', Platform Artist Group Inc., Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne
2010 'Indian Highway III', Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
2010 'Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh', Whitechapel Gallery, London & Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2009 'The Self and the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography', Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona and Artium Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art
2009 'INDIA: Auteur Cinema, Video art and the independent documentary (1899-2008)', La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2009 'Shifting Shapes/Unstable Signs', 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven
2009 'Everywhere – LGBTQ Politics in Art', Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2009 'Littoral Drift', University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Sydney
2009 'Indian Highway II', Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2009 'Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive', Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen and Buildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden
2008 'Click!', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2008 'Indian Highway', Serpentine Gallery, London
2008 'Video Monologs', GalerÃa Animal, Santiago, Chile
2008 'Still Moving Image', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 'Where in the World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 'Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India', Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
2008 'New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India', Salina Art Center, Kansas and Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 'Subjected Culture – Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Rosario & Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008 'Asian Triennial Manchester', Cornerhouse, Manchester
2007 '1 x 1 Anniversary Show', Galerie Mirchandani & Steinreucke, Mumbai
2007 'New Delhi New Wave', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
2007 'PROSPECT Contemporary Art from India', Fondazione Cinema, Rome
2007 'Résidents - Paris 2003-2007', Espace Electra, Paris
2007 'We Love Cinema', Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
2007 'Global Feminisms', Brooklyn Museum, New York & Davis Museum, Wellesley
2007 'New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India', Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
2007 'Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India', The Newark Museum, New Jersey
2007 'India Art Now: Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity And Transformation', Provincia di Milano, Milan
2007 '13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women', Gallery Alkatraz and Mala Galerija, Ljubljana
2006 'Subjected Culture: Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness', Museo Provincial Timoteo Navarro, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
2006 'National Review Of Live Arts', Glasgow
2006 'Sexwork: Art, Reality, Myths', NGBK, Berlin
2006 'Maximum City', Lille 3000
2006 'Saturday Live', Tate Modern, London
2006 'Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent In Contemporary Art', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2005 'Indian Summer', L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2005 'WAR', The National Queer Arts Festival
2005 'Present-Future', National Gallery Of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 'Crossing Currents: Video Art And Cultural Identity', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2004 'Zoom! The Near And The Far In Contemporary Indian Art', Culturgest Museum, Lisbon
2004 'Indian Video Art: History In Motion, Crossing Vision-II', Artists' Gallery, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 'I Love My India', Total Museum, Seoul
2003 'Southern Competitive Show, 14th International Electronic Art Festival-Video', Brasil, Sao Paulo
2003 'Interactiva '03', Cartodigital.Org & The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Yucatan, Mexico
2003 'The Rest Of The World', Neuffer Am Park, Pirmasens, Germany
2002 'Ways Of Resisting: 92-02', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2002 'Cross-Fertilization: Contemporary Indian Video Art', Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, China Millennium Monument, Beijing
2002 'Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art', Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane
2000 'In A Plain Brown Wrapper: Pornography, Art And Video', Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago
2000 'Another Documentary', Viscom9 Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
2000 'Wink: Up & Cumming Pornographers', School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago & The Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago
Honours and Awards
2010 Connections through Culture, initial collaborative artist grant from...
2010 Connections through Culture, initial collaborative artist grant from British Council India
2009 Sanskriti Award in Visual Arts, India
2008 Co-organiser and participant, Current InterruptUs- International Artist Residency, Kashi Art, Kochi
2007 Artist in Residence, Point Ephémère, Paris
2007 Artist Presentation, Cultural Practice and Discourses of the Minor, School of Fine Arts, Baroda & Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2004 Artist in Residence, Khoj International Artist's Residency, New Delhi
2004 'Out of Order: The Political is Personal', Artist Talk & Presentation of Works, Beacon House, School of Fine Arts, Lahore
2003 'Out of Order: The Political is Personal', Artist Talk & Presentation of Works, National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai & B-books, Berlin
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