Reena Saini Kallat
BORN EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS HONORS AND AWARD ABOUT THE ARTIST Reena Saini Kallat is an artist absorbed in the endless cycle of nature and the fragility of the human condition in her hands. All of her works, whether installations, photographs, paintings, or sculptures, reflect the constant changes between movements of construction and collapse, birth, death, rebirth, defeat, and resurgence. There seems to be no greater inspiration in her works than the invincible and indefatigable Prakriti, or nature. A force that constantly creates and destroys, never resting as one world replaces another, only to finally end itself. Reena shows us how these dualities work all the time and how we are blind to them, whether by illustrating the transience of our consumer culture or showing us how important it is that things like food and shelter are not taken for granted. Kallat gives the mundane a surreal twist when she paints cars and houses on inflated balloons, or towering structures made of slices of bread confronted by fantastical, androgynous creatures. Balloons are fragile, so placing these aspirational things inside them is a way to convey how ephemeral the objects we most chase after are, she says. Babies and children also appear provocatively in several of Kallat's works. All of these works touch on motifs found in all of her art: the cycle of life and images presented in a very exotic and unusual way. Kallat graduated from Sir J.J. School of Art in 1996 and she belongs to the new generation of Indian artists who have successfully reinterpreted and given a new facet to abstract art. In one of her most recent installations, part of the 2002 Kala Ghoda Art Fest, she used beach sand to create seven uterine forms on the ground representative of the seven islands that came together to form the city of Mumbai. This piece, called The Seven Faces of Dust, represents once again the impermanence of everything we long for, and also of our momentary lives: we must erase it after its exhibition and return the sand to the beach. Reena also trained as a Bharatanatyam dancer for eight years, but it turned out that painting was her calling and her main love. She remembers the first sample of hers: that of some colors of posters that she painted when she was in class IX. Kallat held her first professional solo exhibition, Orchards of Homegrown Secrets, in Mumbai, in 1998, and since then she has held many more exhibitions of her work. Kallat has also received several notable honors, including the Gladstone Solomon Prize for painting. She lives and works in Mumbai. Notification - We do not usually display Reena Saini Kallat's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.
1973 New Delhi
1991-96 BFA Painting, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
2017 Earth Families, Manchester Museum, United Kingdom
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 Limo of the 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, Chemould Gallery, 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 Local Secrets, Chemould Gallery and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
2017 I Don't Want to Be There When It Happens, Institute of Contemporary Arts Perth, Australia
2017 Memories of Partition, part of the New North and South network, Manchester Museum, UK
2017 India Reframed Seventy Years of One Nation's Research, 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 Konsthall Museum, Sweden
2016 Insecurities Tracing Displacement and Shelter, organized by Sean Anderson and Arielle Dionne-Resnick, 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
Opening 2015, Indian Summer Festival, Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Vancouver
2015 A Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2015 One and one make eleven (Contemporary Art of India), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
2015 The Eye and the Mind New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2015 [en]counters 2015, Spaces in transition, CST Terminus, Mumbai
Kalaghoda Art Festival 2015, Mumbai
2014 Out of the ordinary, sir. J.J. School of Art, Bombay
2014 India Maxim City, St. Moritz Art Masters, Switzerland
2014 Encounters: Is There Love in This Air?, Cattle Depot, C&G ArtPartment, Hong Kong
2014 Floating World of Aesthetic Union, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2014 Forms of Activism, an exhibition marking 25 years of SAHMAT at Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2014 Encuentros 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 and Iconodules, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Waterways, 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 Contemporary South Asian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2008-09 Body Chatter, an exhibition of contemporary Indian art, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008 Everywhere There is War (and Rumors of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 Fire Walkers Contemporary Indian and South Asian Artists, Stux Gallery, New York
2008 Excavations Memory, Myth, Membrane, Art Reflections, Mumbai
2008 Three points 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 of India, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2007 Indian Color, Keumsan Gallery, Hetri, Korea
2007 After Shock, Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary India, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2007 Thermocline of Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 New Narratives of Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2007 Asian Soft Power 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, Tennis Palace Art Museum, 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 just like that, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Contemporary Art from India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2004 Urban Quilt, part of the Ideas and Images exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 Devotional Breach, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2004 Art and Poetry, 2004 Harvest, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2004 A tribute to Bhupen Kakkar, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Zoom Art in Contemporary India, 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, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 Interlude in Srilanka, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Crossing Generations diVERGE, Chemoulds Gallery 40th Anniversary, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Highlights of 2003, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Elephant Walks, Youth Art 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's Sake Switzerland meets India, Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2003 The Seed Tree, Contemporary Art from India, Oslo, Norway
2003 Rain, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Crosscurrents, organized by Artworks, on the occasion of 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, Windkracht 13 Gallery, Den Helder, Netherlands
2002 Seven Faces of Dust, Motwane, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2002 The Battlefield is the Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001 National Art Exhibition, 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 exhibition with Janine Raza and Kim Leong at Apollo Apparao Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Legacy of 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 Wallpaper, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Edge of the Century, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
1998 Trials 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 Arts and Culture, Mumbai
2010 Never Run Away, with Sara Rahbar at Stux Gallery, New York
2003 Print, with Jitish Kallat, Gallery 88, Kolkata
2017 Transforming Vision 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2016 Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Crowd, 10th Busan Biennale, Kiswire Suyeong Factory, Busan, South Korea
2016 Conceving Space, Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka
2012-13 India Today, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 To let the world into the narrative and beyond contemporary Indian art, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
2011-12 India Side by Side Arte Contemporanea Indiana (India Side by Side Indian Contemporary Art), part of the INDIA Exhibition presented by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil and Banco do Brasil at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, SESC Belenzinho, Sao Paulo and Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Brasilia
2011-12 India Side by Side, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Brazil
2011 Vancouver International Sculpture Biennial, 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 India Concurrent, Helsinki Museum of Art Tennis Palace, Finland
2011 Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket India's New Cultural Icons, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 Maximum India, Kennedy Center, Washington DC
2011 Intuitive Logic Revisited, from the Osians Collection at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 Rotunda, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2010 The Rising, First Asia Pacific River System Biennale, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney
2010 The Empire Strikes Back Indian Art Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists of India, at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Spectrum Indian Art, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2009 Milan Galleria, Triennial Museum, Milan
2009 Viewpoints and Viewpoints - 2009, Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2009 India Xianzai Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2009 Ventosul Biennial, 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 A Passage to India, Part II New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, in early 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 Ecological Art Festival (TEAF), Dream River, Korea
2008 Modern India, organized by Casa Asia, IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain
2008 3rd Nanjing Triennial, China
2007 FIAC 2007, represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai at Grand Palais & Cour Carree Du Louvre, Paris
2007 Incheon International Female Artists Biennale, Korea
2006 The Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2005 10th Harmony Hall, World Trade Center, Mumbai
2001 Another Look at, organized by Gallery Chemould at the 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, YB Chavan Gallery, Mumbai
Zee Indian Women Awards 2016 in Art and Culture Category
ZegnArt Audience Award 2012 in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011 YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010-11, New Delhi
2011 Iaspis Residence, Gothenburg
2005 Young Artists Award, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2005 Harmony Award, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1996 Certificate of Merit from Bombay Art Society, Mumbai
1996 Second Government Prize, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1995 First Prize, State Art Exhibition
1995 Solomon Gladstone Prize
1991-96 Merit Scholarship, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
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