Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973) is an Indian

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

. She currently lives and works in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

."Biography of Reena Kallat"
Retrieved 19 October 2014.

Early life

Reena Saini Kallat was born in 1973 in

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...

, India. She graduated from

Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art The Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art (Sir J. J. School of Art) is the oldest art institution in Mumbai, India, and is affiliated with the University of Mumbai. The school grants bachelor's degrees in fine art and sculpture, and Master's de ...

in 1996 with a ''B.F.A. in painting''. Her practice spanning drawing,

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

and

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syst ...

engages diverse materials, imbued with conceptual underpinnings. Her works reference history, collective memory and identity. Using the motif of the rubberstamp both as object and imprint, signifying the bureaucratic apparatus, Reena has worked with officially recorded or registered names of people, objects, and monuments that are lost or have disappeared without a trace, only to get listed as anonymous and forgotten statistics. Lines of Control is a recurring element in her works led by the impact that partition had on her family who were displaced from Lahore. In her works made with electrical cables, wires usually serving as conduits of contact that transmit ideas and information, become painstakingly woven entanglements that morph into barbed wires like barriers, while another series where she uses salt as a medium explores the tenuous yet intrinsic relationship between the body and the oceans, highlighting the fragility and unpredictability of existence. To expose the arbitrariness of territorial-skirmishes, Reena frequently draws attention to ecosystems and indigenous vegetation.

Career

She has widely exhibited across the world in venues such as

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

(MOMA), New York; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Tate Modern, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Vancouver Art Gallery;

Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London art gallery, gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, mov ...

, London; SESC Pompeia and SESC Belenzino in São Paulo; Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona; ZKM Karlsruhe in Germany; Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; IVAM Museum, Spain; Busan MOMA; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland; Chicago Cultural Centre amongst many others. She lives and works in Mumbai.

Select solo exhibitions

* ''Orchard of Home-grown Secrets'', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (1998)"Reena Saini Kallat - Artist's Profile"
Saatchi Gallery, Retrieved 19 October 2014. * ''Skin'', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi (2000) * ''Seven Faces of Dust'', Chicago Radio, Mumbai (2002) * ''The Battlefield Is The Mind'', Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (2002) * ''Black Flute'', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 2004 * ''Black Flute'' (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi (2005) * ''Rainbow Of Refuse'', Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai (2006) * ''Subject to Change without Notice'', Walsh Gallery, Chicago (2008) * ''Silt of Seasons'', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2008) * ''Drift'', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (2009) * ''Labyrinth of Absences'', Nature Morte, New Delhi (2011) * ''Anatomy of forking paths,'' Art Houz, Art Chennai (2014) * ''ZegnArt Public project with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum'', Mumbai (2013) * ''Falling Fables'', part of Maximum India at the Kennedy Centre, Washington 2011 * ''Offsite, Public Art Project'', Vancouver Art Gallery (2015) * ''Porous Passages'', Nature Morte, New Delhi * ''Hyphenated Lives'', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai * ''Blind Spots'', Chemould Prescott Road
Mumbai
*''Shifting Ecotones,'' Moca London, London (2019) * ''Common Ground'', Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2022) *Leaking Lines,

Firstsite Firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex, which opened in 2011. It was the national Art Fund's Museum of the Year in 2021. The building Firstsite occupy as tenants was designed by Rafael Viñoly and the freehold is r ...

, Colchester (2022)

Select group exhibitions

* ''Varsha ’95'', Y. B. Chavan Gallery, Mumbai (1995) * ''Monsoon Show'', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (1996) * ''Fresh Work'', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai (1997) * ''Essays in Time'', Kinetic Sculptures, Nehru Centre, Mumbai (1998) * ''Edge of the Century'', Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi (1999) * ''AOM- Art on the move'', New Delhi (2001) * ''Big River 2'', CCA7 Gallery, Port Of Spain, Trinidad (2001) * ''Crossing Borders'', Gallery Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Holland (2002) * ''Reclaim Our Freedom'', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (2002) * ''Crosscurrents'', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2002) * ''Contemporary Art from India'', Oslo, Norway (2003) * ''Indians + Cowboys'', Gallery 4A, Sydney (2003) * ''Tiranga'', India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2003) * ''Hard Copy'', Gallery 88, Calcutta (2003) * ''Crossing generations: diVERGE'',

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai was opened to the public in 1996. It hosts various exhibitions and art collections of famous artists, sculptors and different civilizations. It is situated in the Cowasji Jehangir Hall, near Regal Cinema ...

(2003) * ''Zoom! Art in Contemporary India'', The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2004) * ''Contemporary Art from India'', Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2004) * ''Indian Paintings of the New Millennium,'' Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, USA (2005) * ''Span'', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2005) * ''Mom and Pop Art'', Walsh Gallery, Chicago (2005) * ''India Express – Art and Popular Culture'', Art Museum Tennispalace, (2006) * ''Hungry God- Indian Contemporary Art'', Arario Gallery, Beijing and Busan MoMA (2006) * ''Lille 3000'' (Maximum City-Mumbai), Lille, France (2006) * ''Modern Indian Works On Paper'', Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia and the Georgia Museum of Art, USA (2006) * ''Thermocline Of Art- New Asian Waves'',

Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former mun ...

, Germany (2007) * ''New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India'', Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago (2007) * ''INDIA NOW: Contemporary Indian Art'', Between Continuity and transformation, Spazio Oberdan, Milan (2007) * ''Urban Manners'', at Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2007) * ''Soft Power: Asian Attitude'',

Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai Himalayas Museum ( zh, 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆), formerly known as Shanghai Zendai MoMA (), is a privately funded, non-profit art institute in Pudong, Shanghai, China, focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and ...

, Shanghai (2007) * Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

(2007) * ''Excavation: Memory/Myth/Membrane'', Museum Gallery, Mumbai (2008) * ''Three Points of view'', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrucke, Mumbai (2008) * 3rd Nanjing Triennale, China (2008) * ''India Moderna'', IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain (2008) * ''Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art'',

Mori Art Museum The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan. The exterior architect of the museum's ga ...

, Japan (2008) * ''Indian Narratives in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History'', Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain (2009) * ''Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion'', Stux gallery, New York (2009) * ''INDIA XIANZAI: Contemporary Indian Art'',

Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai; ) is a contemporary art museum in the city of Shanghai, China. It is located within People's Park, north of People's Square, the location of a former racecourse that now holds the central ad ...

(2009) * Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil (2009) * Milan Galleria, Triennale Museum, Milan (2009) * ''View Points and Viewing points'' – Asian Art Biennale,

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA; ) is a museum in West District, Taichung, Taiwan. NTMoFA was established in 1988 and is the first and the only national-grade fine arts museum in Taiwan. The major collections are works by Taiw ...

(2009) * ''Urban Manners 2'', Contemporary Artists from India, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil (2010) * ''The Empire Strikes Back'',

, London (2010) * ''In Transition: New Art from India'', Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver (2010) * ''Roundabout'',

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

, Israel (2011) * ''Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever'', Goteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, (2011) * ''Maximum India'',

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...

, Washington (2011) * ''Samtidigt'',

Helsinki City Art Museum Helsinki Art Museum ( fi, Helsingin taidemuseo, sv, Helsingfors konstmuseum), abbreviated as HAM, is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in Tennispalatsi in Kamppi. The museum reopened after renovations and rebranding (as HAM) in 20 ...

, Finland] (2011) * ''India: Art Now'',

Arken Museum of Modern Art ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( da, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst) is a private non-for-profit charity, state authorised, contemporary art museum in Ishøj near Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The museum is amongst Denmark's major contemporary a ...

, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012) * ''JJ's 90s – The Time of Change'', Mumbai Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai] (2013) * ''Aesthetic Bind: Floating World'', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2014) * ''The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art'', Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing * ''Aperture'', Indian Summer Festival, Old Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Vancouver * ''The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art'', China Art Museum, Shanghai * ''A Summer Mix,'' Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai * ''One and one make eleven (Contemporary Art From India)'', Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland (2015) * ''The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art'', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2015) * '' nounters 2015, Spaces in Transition'', CST Terminus, Mumbai(2015) * ''Kalaghoda Art Festival'', Mumbai(2015) * ''Insecurities: tracing Displacement and Shelter, organized by Sean Anderson and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick'', The Museum of Modern Art, New York >> * ''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 IASPIS, ''The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm'', is a cultural exchange program financed by the Swedish Government. IASPIS facilitates a creative dialogue between visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as paintin ...

residency to work and study in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Awards

Kallat has been the recipient of a number of awards, including: * Gladstone Solomon Award (1995) * Bombay Art Society Merit Certificate (1996) * Second Prize Government Award,

(1996) * Harmony Award (2005) * YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010-11, Delhi (2011) * ZegnArt Public Award in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2012) * Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category, Delhi (2016)

Collections

Reena's work is held in the following public and private collections: *

, Taiwan *

Vancouver Art Gallery The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size. Designed by Franc ...

, Canada * Dr. Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Mumbai *

National Gallery of Modern Art National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

, New Delhi
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Manchester Museum
UK
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
New Delhi *Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden *Musee de Beaux Arts, Ottawa, Canada

References

External links

*
Gallery Chemould
Mumbai
Nature Morte, New Delhi
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