REENA S. KALLAT

 

1973                   Born in Delhi, India

1991-96                 B.F.A. [painting], Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai


The artist lives and works in Mumbai

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2009                  Drift, Marella Gallery, Milan *

2008                  Silt of Seasons, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai *

                          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 The Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore *

                          Seven Faces of Dust, Chicago Radio, Mumbai

2000                Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi *

1998                        Orchard of Home-grown Secrets, Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai *

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010                  Never Run Away, curated by Shaheen Merali, Stux Gallery, New York*

                          The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London

                          Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists from India, curated by Adelina 

                          Von Furstenberg in collaboration with Peter Nagy, at SESC Pompeia, Sao

                        Paulo, Brazil

2009                  View Points and Viewing points - 2009 Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan
                          Museum of Fine Arts

                          Milan Galleria, curated by Georgio Verzotti, Triennale Museum, Milan

                          Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil 

                          Passage to India Part II at Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection,

                          Wolverhampton, UK

                          Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, 

                          Korea and Essl Museum, Vienna *

                          INDIA XIANZAI : Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,     

                          Shanghai *

                          Indian Narratives in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History,

                             Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain 

2008                  Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan *

                          India Moderna, curator: Juan Guardiola, organized by Casa Asia, IVAM   

                          Museum, Valencia, Spain *

                             3rd Nanjing Triennale, curators: Fumihiko Sumitomo, Jaeyoung Kang, China

                             TEAF (Taehwagang Eco Art Festival )- Dream River, Korea   * 

                          Everywhere is War (And Rumours of it), Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai *

                          Fire Walkers, Stefan Stux gallery, New York

                          Three Points of view, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrucke, Mumbai *

                          Excavation: Memory / Myth / Membrane, Museum Gallery, Mumbai *

2007                  International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea *

                          Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai *

                          Urban Manners, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg, at Hangar

                          Bicocca, Milan 

                          INDIA NOW: Contemporary Indian Art, Between Continuity and transformation,

                             curated by Daniela Palozzoli at Spazio Oberdan, Milan *

                          New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India, curated by Betty Seid,    

                          Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago *

                          Thermocline Of Art- New Asian Waves, curated by Wonil Rhee and Peter    

                          Weibel at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany *

2006                  Modern Indian Works On Paper, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia and the

                   Georgia Museum of Art, USA *        

                          Lille 3000 ( Maximum City-Mumbai), Lille, France *

                          Hungry God- Indian Contemporary Art, curated by Yun Chaegab and June      

             Gwak, Arario Gallery, Beijing and Busan MoMA*                 

                          India Express – Art and Popular Culture, Art Museum Tennispalace,

                          curators: Tuija Kuutti and Erja Pusa, organized by the Helsinki City Art Museum,     

                          Finland *

2005                  Mom and Pop Art, Walsh Gallery, Chicago

                          Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

                          Indian Paintings of the New Millenium, curated by Helen Asquine Fazio        

                          at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, USA*

2004                  Zoom! Art in Contemporary India. Curators: Nancy Adajania and Luis

                          Serpa, The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, Portugal *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

              2003                   Crossing generations: diVERGE, Gallery Chemould’s 40th anniversary,

                          Curators: Geeta Kapoor and Chaitanya Sambrani, National Gallery of Modern       

                          Art, Mumbai *

                          Tiranga, curator: Peter Nagy, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, *

                          Elephant Walks, Youth Arts Project in collaboration with Jitish Kallat as part of  

                    Indians + Cowboys exhibition, Curators: Aaron Seetu and Ruth Watson

                    Gallery 4A, Sydney *                     

                          The Tree From The Seed, Contemporary Art from India, curator: Gavin Jantjes          

                          Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), Norway *

2002                         Reclaim Our Freedom, organized by Open Circle, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 

2001                          Big River 2, CCA7 Gallery, Port Of Spain, Trinidad *

                           AOM- Art on the move, organized by Sahmat, New Delhi *    

1999                   Edge of the Century, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Academy of Fine Arts                               

                           and Literature, New Delhi *

 

* exhibition catalogue published

 

SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES

 

2009                  Vanishing Point, children’s project at the Celebrate Bandra Festival, Mumbai    

2007                    Collaborative workshop as part of the exhibition Aftershock at the Sainsbury                

                          Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

2003                  Elephant Walks, Youth Arts Project at the Casula Power House

Arts Centre, Liverpool, Australia

2002                  Khoj 2002, International Artists Workshop, Mysore, India

                          Identity and Landscape, residency in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the

                          Boreal Art/Nature Centre, Canada

2001                  Big River 2, International Artists Workshop organized by CCA7 and the Triangle        

                          Arts Trust at Grand Riviere, Trinidad, West Indies

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

2009

 

THE ARCHIVES OF THE HEART

Nancy Adajania, Indian Contemporaray Art Journal, Volume 1, Issue III,

Front Cover, pgs 42-45, 2009

 

GLOBALE KUNST MIT WURZELDUFT

Von Almuth Speigler, Die Presse, Feuilleton, 2nd September 2009

 

LANDSCAPES OF LOSS

Beth Citron, The Art News Magazine of India, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 2009

 

 

2008

 

NAME CALLING

Deepanjana Pal, Timeout Mumbai, December 2008

 

FOCUS INDIA

Megha Ralapati, Flash Art, pg 114, January February 2008

 

Artist of the fortnight

Maria Louis, Outlook, Profit, dated 18th April 2008.

 

 

2007

 

Corruptions of Power

Shiladitya Sarkar, The Art News Magazine of India, Volume XI, issue IV, pgs98-99, 2007

 

2006

 

Over the Rainbow

Maria Louis, Interview, Verve Magazine, pg 78, November 2006

 

Her crowning achievement

Clara Chow, The Straits Times, 18th November, 2006

 

In a state of perennial siege

Nancy Adajania, The Hindu, Hyderabad, 29th October, 2006

 

      UNDER ATTACK

      Gitanjali Dang, HT Mumbai, 22nd September 2006

 

 

2004

 

The Flower and the Sword

      Girish Shahane, pg 93, The Art News magazine of India, volume X issue I, 2004

 

INDIA’S TOP 100 ACHIEVERS

Society Magazine, pg 137, December 2004

 

Caught between demons

Nancy Adajania, The Hindu, 19th December 2004

 

 

2003

 

EN REISE TIL INDIA

Harald Flor, Dagbladet, Kultur, 2nd February 2003

 

SIGNS OF RESISTANCE

Nancy Adajania, The Hindu, 5th January 2003

 

OF THE GODDESS AND DEMON IN THE MIND

Debbie Rodgers, Sunday edition Vijay Times, Bangalore, 5th January 2003

 

 

2002

 

EMPATHIC ANGER

Marta Jakimowicz, Deccan Herald, 23rd December 2002

 

MYSORE EK KHOJ

Cross Fertilization of Culture, Interview in Star of Mysore, 27th October 2002

 

DIFFERENT STROKES

Georgina L Maddox, The Indian Express, Mumbai Newsline, 24th July, 2002

 

CREATING TO DESTROY

Jasmine Shah Varma, The List, Mid Day, 22nd February 2002

 

Linking islands

Menaka Jayasankar, Indian Express, Mumbai Newsline, 15th February 2002

 

 

2000

 

 

Of faith and hunger

Abhay Sardesai, The Art News Magazine of India, Vol.V, issue IV, pgs 88-89, December 2000

 

AN ARTIST’S WORLD: ROTI, MAKAAN & ABSTRACT ART

Poonam Goel, HT City, 23rd December 2000

 

Scintillating skin

Vaibhav Purandare, The Asian Age, 14th October 2000

 

THE MURMUR OF SKIN

      Nupur Mahajan, Bombay times, Times of India, 12th October 2000

 

INSIDE OUT

Menaka Jayasankar, Indian Express, Mumbai Newsline, 11th October 2000

 

NOT JUST SKIN DEEP

Jasmine Shah Varma, The list, Mid-day, 4th October 2000

 

 

1998

 

 

Interactive Medium

Karen Pereira, Indian Architect & Builder, pgs 102-104, October 1998

 

Farming intrirue

Jerry Pinto, The Times of India, Bombay Times, 3rd September 1998

 

WITHIN YOU, without you

Anu Kumar, Indian Express, Express Newsline, 2nd September 1998