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Tejal Shah
Tejal Shah (; born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations. Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature. She lives in Mumbai. Biography Tejal Shah was born in 1979 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. Shah has identified as queer. She has BA degree (2000) in photography from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia; and worked towards a MFA degree from Bard College but did not graduate. She was an exchange student and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1999 to 2000. Her 2006 Hijra Fantasy series of work highlighted the Hijra community (eunuchs, intersex people, and/or transgender people) of Bangalore and Mumbai. In 2012, for Documenta (13) in Kassel, she created the five-channel video i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhilai
Bhilai is a city in Durg district of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in eastern central India. With population exceeding 1 million, it is the second-largest urban area in Chhattisgarh after Raipur. Bhilai is a major industrial city as well as an education hub of central India. The Bhilai metropolis contains three municipal corporations: Bhilai Municipal Corporation, Bhilai-Charoda Municipal Corporation and Risali Municipal Corporation. The city is home to several industries like Bhilai Steel Plant, Jaypee Group, Jaypee Cement, CK Birla Group, Orient Cement, NSPCL Bhilai Power Plant, Steel Authority of India, FSNL and ACC (company), ACC Cement. The city is home to IIT Bhilai, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai. Jama Mosque, Bhilai, Jama Masjid in Bhilai is one of the largest mosques in India. The state's oldest zoo is Maitri Bagh in Bhilai. Etymology It is believed that the name "Bhilai" is derived from the Bhil people, Bhil tribe w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vibha Galhotra
Vibha Galhotra, born 1978 is an Indian conceptual artist based in New Delhi. Her work includes large-scale installations, sculptures, drawings, films that explore themes of ecological and Environmental issue, environmental concerns. Her works address the shifting topography of the world under the impact of globalization and growth. She sees herself as being part of the restructuring of culture, society and geography – of New Delhi, and the world. Early life and education Vibha Galhotra was born in Kaithal, Haryana in 1978. In 1999 she completed Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts, Chandigarh. In 2002 she completed her Master in Fine arts from Kala Bhavana, Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan. She currently lives in New Delhi. Career Galhotra is a conceptual artist. According to ''Art in America'', Galhotra's work is concerned with urban development, global concerns and ecological issues. ''The Hindu'' has called her work about environmental issues "sharp and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Indian Women Artists
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Indian LGBT Artists
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Artists From Mumbai
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bhilai
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Living People
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1979 Births
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indian Women Artists
Following is a list of Indian women artists were born in India and or have a strong association with India. A * Dhruvi Acharya, visual artist * Iloosh Ahluwalia (b. 1970s), painter * V. Anamika, contemporary artist B * Bhuri Bai (b. 1968), artist * Lado Bai, Bhil people, Bhil tribal artist * Uma Bardhan (b.1945), painter * Atasi Barua (1921–2016), painter * Madhuri Bhaduri (b. 1958), painter * Dimpy Bhalotia (1987), street photographer * Pamella Bordes, photographer * Vasundhara Tewari Broota (b. 1955), painter * Maya Burman (b. 1971), ink and watercolour painter, based in France C * Shanthi Chandrasekar, visual artist * Anju Chaudhuri (b.1944), artist * Manimala Chitrakar, Bengal patua artist D * Prafulla Dahanukar (1934–2014), painter * Bharti Dayal (b.1961), painter * Baua Devi, Mithila painter * Pratima Devi (painter) (1893–1969), painter, dance teacher * Anita Dube (1958), contemporary artist G * Opashona Ghosh, illustrator * Sheela Gowda (b. 1957) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the centre is known locally as Beaubourg (). It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d'Esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithu Sen
Mithu Sen is an Indian conceptual artist. Born in West Bengal in 1971. Early life and education Sen was born in 1971 in West Bengal and obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in painting from Kala Bhavan at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Later, she completed a post-graduate program (visiting) at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom on the Charles Wallace India Trust Award for 2000–2001. Sen's Bengali poetry has been published in collected volumes, as well as in magazines and journals since she was a young adult. Work Sen’s conceptual practice with a varied set of surfaces, materials, and processes that emerge in the wake of her regular negotiations with her milieu. Her work often deals with the complexities of the body in its physical, basal, erotic and sexless forms. A lot of her works deal with the self as a matrix of identities and myths – questioning societal norms, fixed beliefs, and categorisations. Sen's material art work, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reena Saini Kallat
Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973) is an Indian visual artist. She currently lives and works in Mumbai. * ''Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, 10th Busan Biennale, curated by Cheagab Yun'', Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan, South Korea (2016) * ''Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennial, curated by Alnoor Mitha'', Sri Lanka(2016) * ''Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand'', Cultural Ronneby, Sweden(2016) * ''Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India, curated by Ratan Vaswani'', CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya), Mumbai(2016) * ''The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art'', NGMA- Jaipur House, New Delhi(2016) *''The Idea of the Acrobat'', Bikaner House, New Delhi (2020) Artist residencies In 2002 Kallat was an artist-in-residence in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the Boreal Art and Nature Centre in Canada. In 2011 she was awarded an IASPIS residency to work and study in Gothenburg, Sweden. Awards Kallat has been the recipient of a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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