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Sheba Chhachhi
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Sheba Chhachhi is a New Delhi based installation artist, photographer, activist and writer who carefully manipulates multiple media and found objects to explore and communicate the power of feminine realization. Issues surrounding women have always been the central focus of Chhachhi’s works. The artist has worked individually and in collaboration with other women artists and artisans to bring about awareness of the challenges faced by women...
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Sheba Chhachhi is a New Delhi based installation artist, photographer, activist and writer who carefully manipulates multiple media and found objects to explore and communicate the power of feminine realization. Issues surrounding women have always been the central focus of Chhachhi’s works. The artist has worked individually and in collaboration with other women artists and artisans to bring about awareness of the challenges faced by women at all levels of society.
Sheba Chhachhi began her artistic journey with documentary photography, initiating a series of works based on the women’s movement in India. With every new compilation of works, she reinvents her practice, experimenting alternately with photography, video, sound and light – in an effort to make her ideologies more and more tangible to her audience.
Born in 1958 in Harare, Ethiopia, Chhachhi was educated at Delhi University after which she attended the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad. She has participated in numerous solo shows including ‘Sheba Chhachhi’ at Walsh Gallery, Chicago, in 2008-2009; ‘Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007-2008; ‘Women of the Cloth: Photographic Conversations’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007; ‘Ganga’s Daughters, Nellkanth: Poison/Nectar, When the Gun is Raised, Dialogue Stops’ at the Townsend Centre, University of California, Berkley, in 2005; and ‘Ganga’s Daughters: Meetings with Women Ascetics 1992-2004’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2004. Amongst her most recent group shows are ‘Still Moving Images’ at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon; ‘Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art from India’ at d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City; ‘Neti – Neti (or the Comforts of Cultural Determinacy)’ at Bose Pacia, New York; and ‘India Time’ at Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co., Milan, all in 2008.
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Born
January 1, 1958
Harare, Ethiopia
Education
Studied at Delhi University
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008-09 ‘Sheba Chhachhi’, Walsh...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008-09 ‘Sheba Chhachhi’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2007-08 ‘Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2007 ‘Women of the Cloth: Photographic Conversations’, Sheba Chhachhi, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Ganga’s Daughters, Nellkanth: Poison/Nectar, When the Gun is Raised, Dialogue Stops’, Townsend Centre Fellow, University of California, Berkley
2004 ‘Ganga’s Daughters: Meetings with Women Ascetics 1992-2004’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2002 Tejaskaya, Light India Festival, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
1999 ‘Buri Nazar Walae, Tera Bhi Bhala: Public Art Project’, Boxwallahs, at a petrol pump with DeEgo, Gurgaon
1998 ‘Seven Lives and a Dream: Narratives of Women Activists’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1994 ‘The Mirror is the Witness: Wild Mothers II’, MaxMueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 'Diary Entries', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2013 'Seven Contemporaries', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2013 'ZONES OF CONTACT: Propositions on the Museum', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2012 'Slipping Through The Cracks', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011-12 'Your Name is Different There', Volte, Mumbai
2011 'Staging Selves: Power, Performativity & Portraiture', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Asianart: Sustain', Nature Morte, Berlin in partnership with Asia Pacific Weeks 2011
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Excrescence', The Guild, Mumbai
2011 'Concepts & Ideas 2011', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'Water Ways', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2010 'Punctum 1: A Critical Look at The Body in South Asian Photography', Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2009 'Dear Jabir', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'India 3: New Delhi- Republic of Illusions', Galerie Krinzinger, Wein
2009 'Dreaming In Public', Gallery Soulflower, BangKok
2008-09 'Nature of the City', Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 ‘Still Moving Images’, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 ‘Panel Discussion Today: Indian Art Today’, d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
2008 ‘Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art from India’, d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
2008 ‘Neti – Neti (or the Comforts of Cultural Determinacy’, Bose Pacia, New York
2008 ‘India Time’, Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co, Milan
2008 'Click! Contemporary Photography form India', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and London
2007 ‘Urban Manners: Contemporary Artists from India’, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2007 ‘Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves’, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 ‘Tiger by the Tail!: Women Artists of India Transforming Culture’, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago Cultural Center, US
2007 ‘Indian Photography: Four Voices’, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2007 ‘Mulher Mulheres’, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007 ‘India Sulla Pele, Homage to Indian Women Photographers’, Milan
2007 New Media Art from India, Fluss Fotoinitiative, Vienna
2007 ‘Private/Corporate IV’, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2007 ‘Foto Fluss, Indian Photo and Media Art: A Journey of Discovery’, Vienna, Austria
2007 ‘River: Photo and Media Art from India’, Vienna, Austria
2006 ‘My Space, Your Space’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2006 ‘Myrrh’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘Devi Diva 7 Veils of Bollywood’, Musee des Arts Asiatic, Nice, France
2004 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
2004 ‘Identity, Memory, Amity’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘Townsend Centre Fellow’, University of California, Berkley
2004 ‘Another Passage to India’, Musée d‚Ethnographie Geneva, Switzerland
2004 ‘Middleage Spread: Imaging India from 1947 -2004’, National Museum, New Delhi
2003 ‘SubTerrain: Artworks in The City Fold- Body/City’, House of World Cultures, Berlin
2002 ‘Cinema Still’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Ways of Resistance’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2002 ‘Transfigurations’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Life in The Time of Cholera’, Apeejay New Media Gallery, New Delhi
1999 ‘Woman/Goddess’, British Council, New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, New York
1998 ‘In Black & White: What has Independence Meant for Indian Women?’, LalitKala Akademi, New Delhi; Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and New York
1997 ‘Mappings’, Eicher Gallery (and touring), New Delhi
1993 'Disrupted Borders', Arnolfini (and touring), Bristol
1990 ‘An Economy of Signs’, The Photographers Gallery, London
1988 ‘Four Women Photographers’, Spectrum Photography Festival, Horizon Gallery, London
Joint Exhibitions
2000 When the Gun is Raised, Dialogue Stops…Women's Voices from Kashmir’, collaboration Sonia Jabbar, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Participations
2012 'Sub-topical Heat: New Art from South Asia', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011-12 'Shadow Lines: India Meets Indonesia', part of Biennale Jogja XI at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta
2011 'Concurrent India', Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh', Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2010 'Urban Manners 2', SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009-10 'The Self & the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian photography', Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona; Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2009 'Viewpoints and Viewing Points- 2009', Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2009 'Beyond Globalization', Beyond Art Space, Beijing
2009 'Armory Show', New York presented by Bose Pacia / Nature Morte
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2008-09 'The Audience and the Eavesdropper: New Art from India and Pakistan', Phillips de Pury & Company, London and New York
2008 '48°C Public. Art. Ecology', Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
2006 Singapore Biennale, “Belief”, Singapore
2004 ‘How Can You Resist?’, LA Freewaves 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Los Angeles, USA
2000 7th Havana Biennale, Cuba
1999 First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan
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