Reena Saini Kallat
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Reena Saini Kallat is an artist based in Mumbai
, India
.
Kallat was born in Delhi
. She works in photography
, sculpture
, installation
and painting
. Her work often brings the intimate imagery of - and objects associated with - the human body into the expanse of the public and political arena.
Reena Kallat is represented by Chemould Prescott Road .
Kallat is married to fellow artist Jitish Kallat
.
India side by side, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
India Today, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai,
Pandemonium: Art in a time of creativity fever, Goteborg International Biennale 2011, Goteborg and Uddevalla, Sweden
Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Right to Dissent, Clark House, Colaba, Mumbai, India
Labyrinth of Absences, Nature Morte, New Delhi (SOLO)
Maximum India, The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket - The New cultural Icons of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Samtidigt, Helsinki City Art museum, Finland
Iconoclasts and Iconodules, curated by Ombretta Agro, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
The Intuitive: Logic Revisted, from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010
La Route de la Soie / The Silk Road, Lille 3000, France
Samtidigt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
The River Project, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney
Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Waterways, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
In Transition: New Art from India, Richmond Art Gallery Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
Bring Me a Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art at Webster University, curated by Jefferey Hughes and Dana Turkovic, Cecile R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Never Run Away, 2 person exhibition 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, São 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
Passage to India Part II show at Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Essl Museum, Vienna
Drift, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (SOLO)
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
Silt of Seasons, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (SOLO)
Subject to Change without Notice, Walsh Gallery, Chicago (SOLO)
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 Won-il 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
Rainbow of Refuse, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Singapore (SOLO)
2005
Indian Paintings of the New Millenium, curated by Helen Asquine Fazio at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, USA
Black Flute (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi (SOLO)
2004
Black Flute, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (SOLO)
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
The Tree From The Seed, Contemporary Art from India, curator: Gavin Jantjes Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), Norway
2002
The Battlefield Is The Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (SOLO)
Seven Faces of Dust, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2001
Big River 2, CCA7 Gallery, Port Of Spain, Trinidad
2000
Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi (SOLO)
1998
Orchard of Home-grown Secrets, Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (SOLO)
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Kallat was born in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. She works in photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
and painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. Her work often brings the intimate imagery of - and objects associated with - the human body into the expanse of the public and political arena.
Reena Kallat is represented by Chemould Prescott Road .
Kallat is married to fellow artist Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....
.
Upcoming exhibitions
2011India side by side, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
India Today, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai,
Selected exhibitions
2011Pandemonium: Art in a time of creativity fever, Goteborg International Biennale 2011, Goteborg and Uddevalla, Sweden
Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Right to Dissent, Clark House, Colaba, Mumbai, India
Labyrinth of Absences, Nature Morte, New Delhi (SOLO)
Maximum India, The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket - The New cultural Icons of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Samtidigt, Helsinki City Art museum, Finland
Iconoclasts and Iconodules, curated by Ombretta Agro, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
The Intuitive: Logic Revisted, from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010
La Route de la Soie / The Silk Road, Lille 3000, France
Samtidigt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
The River Project, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney
Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Waterways, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
In Transition: New Art from India, Richmond Art Gallery Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
Bring Me a Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art at Webster University, curated by Jefferey Hughes and Dana Turkovic, Cecile R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Never Run Away, 2 person exhibition 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, São 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
Passage to India Part II show at Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Essl Museum, Vienna
Drift, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (SOLO)
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
Silt of Seasons, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (SOLO)
Subject to Change without Notice, Walsh Gallery, Chicago (SOLO)
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 Won-il Rhee
Won-il Rhee
Won-il Rhee was a Korean digital art curator. He was born and died in Seoul.Rhee was the artistic director in 2002 and 2006 of the Media City Seoul Biennale. He was the leading curator of the Total Museum of Art and co-ordinator of the Korean Pavilion for the 1995 Venice Biennale...
and Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel is an artist, curator and theoretician.Raised in Upper Austria he started to study French and cinematography in Paris...
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
Rainbow of Refuse, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Singapore (SOLO)
2005
Indian Paintings of the New Millenium, curated by Helen Asquine Fazio at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, USA
Black Flute (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi (SOLO)
2004
Black Flute, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (SOLO)
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
The Tree From The Seed, Contemporary Art from India, curator: Gavin Jantjes Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), Norway
2002
The Battlefield Is The Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (SOLO)
Seven Faces of Dust, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2001
Big River 2, CCA7 Gallery, Port Of Spain, Trinidad
2000
Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi (SOLO)
1998
Orchard of Home-grown Secrets, Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (SOLO)
External links
- Reena Kallat's Official Website http://www.reenakallat.com
- More information and images from the Saatchi Gallery
- Art Radar Interview with Reena Kallat http://artradarasia.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/indian-contemporary-artist-reena-kallat-art-radar-exclusive-interview/
- Reena Saini Kallat on www.artconcerns.com http://artconcerns.com/mywork.php
- Chemould Prescott rd, Mumbai
- Nature Morte, New Delhi http://www.naturemorte.com/artists/reena-saini-kallat/
- Primo Marella, Milan http://www.primomarellagallery.com/it/catalogue/scheda.asp?id=530
- Walsh Gallery, Chicago http://www.walshgallery.com/reena-kallat/
- Article from Hinduonnet.com
- Reena Saini Kallat on ArtNet.com
- Reena Saini Kallat on Art Slant http://www.artslant.com/ind/articles/show/22573