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BHARTI KHER

Born in 1969, London

Lives and works in Delhi

EDUCATION

1988

B.F.A., Honors, Painting, Foundation Course in Art and Design Newcastle Polytechnic

1987

Middlesex Polytechnic, Cat Hill, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Sing to Them That Will Listen, Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

Virus, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

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, GALLERYSKE and Project 88, Mumbai

2004

Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore

Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2001

The Private Softness of Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

The Private Softness of Skin, Bose Pacia Modern, New York (cat)

1999

Telling Tails, New Delhi

Telling Tails, Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam

1997

Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam

1995

Art Heritage, New Delhi (cat)

1993

AIFACS, New Delhi

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010

Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, OH

2009

GROUP SHOW: Bharti Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild and Mindy Shapero, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

Who's Afraid of the Artists?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, France

Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2008-09

Chalo! India: New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2008

Distant Nearness, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

2006

With Love, curated by GALLERYSKE and Tilton Gallery, at Miami Design District

2005

Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, curated by Simone Wilke, IFA Galerie Berlin and Stutgard. (cat)

Mom and Pop, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
Indian Summer, curated by Deepak Anand and Jany Luga (cat)
Summer, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Het offer/ an intimate I: droom en werkelijkheid, De Beverd Museum voor Grafische Werkeljkheid, Breda

2004

Contemporary Art From India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

Vanitas Vanitatum, curated by Peter Nagy for Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

the SNEEZE, a Featured Film 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, Athens, Greece

Adrogyne, curated by Alka Pande at India Habitat Center, New Delhi

2003

Crossing Generations: diverge, curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani for 40 years of Gallery Chemould. (cat)

The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary Art from India, Henie Onstad

Kunstsenter, Norway, Curated by Gavin Jantjes (Cat)
Sirpur Paper Mills, workshop Exhibition, at Art Inc, New Delhi
Bad Taste, Apparao Gallery, at The Apeejay New Media Centre, New Delhi

2002

Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo and Japan

Foundation. (cat)

Khoj Residency Show, Khoj Studios, New Delhi
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, New Delhi (cat)
Photosphere, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Playgrounds and Toys, ART for The World, Geneva. In Delhi with

Nature Morte.
Cutting Edge Contemporary, curated by Art Edge, NGMA Mumbai;

Interiors Espana,Delhi.

GLUE, curated by Peter Nagy at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
Borderless Terrain, curated by Alka Pande, Habitat Center, New Delhi (cat)
Silence Violence, NSA Gallery, Durban and NieBethesda and Stellenbosch. South Africa.

Pulse Project, curated by Greg Streak.
MANGO, A SAWCC show for Talwar Gallery, New York.
Anant Gallery, New Delhi
Sorry For The Inconvenience, curated by Gridthya Gaeweewong for Japan Foundation, At Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Tokyo. (Cat)
Sidewinder, curated by Gerard Hemsworth for CIMA Gallery, Kolkata.

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Coomaraswamy Hall, Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai

2001

Art On The Move, a Sahmat Project curated by Vivan Sunderam , in 5 venues in Delhi

Kitch kitch Hota Hai, curated by Madhu Jain for Gallery Espace, India Habitat Center, Delhi (cat)

2000

Open Circle Exhibition at Lakeeren art Gallery, Mumbai (cat)

of, based on, or obtained by (Tradition), Nature Morte, New Delhi

Aar Paar, an exchange between five Indian and Pakistani artists

Mulji.at Kundan Pan Shop, Karachi, Pakistan

1999

Impact, curated by Jim Beard Gallery, Amsterdam at CCA New Delhi

Embarkation, curated by Yashodra Dalmia at Sakshi Gallery Mumbai (cat)

Icons of The Millenium, curated by Lakeeren Art Gallery, Nehru Centre, Mumbai. (Cat)

Boxwallahs, Art in a Public Space with De Ego.

A collaborative work with Subodh Gupta at Sahay Filling Station, Gurgaon/ Mehrauli Road, N.H.8

Hed end aagse Kunst uit India, Central Bureau Vande Hogeschool, Amsterdam Nature Morte

1998

Edge of The Century, curated by Amit Mukopadya, British Council, New Delhi (cat)

Cryptograms, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai (cat)

1996

Royal Overseas League Open Exhibition, Overseas House London: Edinburgh College of Art

Of Women Icons/Stars/Feasts, Eicher Gallery, New Delhi (cat)

1995

6th Bharat Bhawan Biennal of Contemporary Indian Arts, Bhopal Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

Postcards for Gandhi, A Sahmat Exhibition in five cities in India

1993

Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, Art Heritage, New Delhi.

1991

Aspects of British Figurative Painting (1988-93), Milton Gallery, London

1990

Fresh Art, National Fine Art Degree Fair, the Business Design Center, London Squires Gallery, Newcastle Polytechnic Newcastle upon Tyne

AWARDS

2003

The Sanskriti Award