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Jaishri Abichandani was born in Bombay, but moved to New York when she was fifteen. In 1991, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Queens College, City University of New York. Almost a decade later, she moved to London, where she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in 2003, before going on to complete a Master’s degree there in 2005.
Abichandani’s varied background provides nodal reference points...
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Jaishri Abichandani was born in Bombay, but moved to New York when she was fifteen. In 1991, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Queens College, City University of New York. Almost a decade later, she moved to London, where she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in 2003, before going on to complete a Master’s degree there in 2005.
Abichandani’s varied background provides nodal reference points for her work, which subtly mixes social and political activism with art. She has successfully used her art time and again to make bold statements for a cause – the wellbeing and rights of South Asian women – often challenging stereotypes and looking for innovative ways to represent the minority. Working closely with gender related issues, including abuse, startling objects make their way into Abichandani’s art. Abichandani’s art practice, however, is not expressly bound to her foundation, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and also explores the politics of the city-state, and the interactions between global and local.
Abichandani’s art moves fluidly across genres and styles including photography, painting, video and installation art. Frequently, the artist appropriates images from the internet, from news media or from popular culture, and reinvents them, creating new images that evoke questions about war, foreign policy, and heroic survival.
Abichandani has had numerous solo shows some of which include 'Reconciliations' at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, in 2008; 'Bijli: Heart of a Drag Queen’ at Kran Film Collective Space, Brussels, in 2008; 'Signs of the Times’ at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 2007; and ‘The Enchanted Life of…’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2004. Her works have also been featured in group shows like 'Have We Moved Away From What’s Hotter Than Curry Yet?' at Gallery OED, Kochi; 'Gender and Performativity’ at the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt; 'Indian Popular Culture, and Beyond’ at Sala Alcalá, Madrid; and 'Artists in Exile’ at Arario Gallery, New York, all in 2009. Her other group shows include 'Everywhere is War (and Rumors of War)’ at Bodhi Art, Mumbai, in 2008; 'Global Honking Ground’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in 2008; 'Hobby Horse’ at Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, in 2007; 'The Love Show’ at Hans Weiss New Space Art Gallery, Connecticut, in 2006; ‘The Crystal Land’ at Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, in 2004; and ‘Only Skin Deep: A National Survey’ at the International Center for Photography, New York, in 2003.
In 2002, Abichandani was an invited artist at the 2nd Biennial of Cape Town’s Month of Photography; and in 2006, she was awarded the Urban Artist's Initiative Prize, New York.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Born
1969
Mumbai
Education
2005 Masters in Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2003 Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts. Goldsmiths College, University of London
1991 Bachelor of Arts, Queens College, City University of New York
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Dirty Jewels', Rossi and Rossi,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 'Dirty Jewels', Rossi and Rossi, London
2008 'Reconciliations' Gallery Sumukha. Bangalore
2008 'Bijli: Heart of a Drag Queen’, Kran Film Collective Space, Brussels
2007 'Reconciliations’, Queens Museum of Art. New York
2007 'Signs of the Times’, Williams College. Massachusetts
2004 ‘The Enchanted Life of…’, Nature Morte Gallery. New Delhi
2002 ‘Mind’s Desire’, Gallery Chemould. Mumbai
2002 ‘Mind’s Desire’, NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Institute Gallery, New York
2002 ‘Under Western Skies’, Castle of Good Hope, Capetown
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Be/Longing', Artists from the South Asian Women's Creative Collective at Smith Center for the Arts, Joan Hisakoa Gallery, Washington
2013 'Salaam Bombay: Beauty & Chaos in the Urban Environment', Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia
2012 'Stargazing', Rossi and Rossi, London
2011 'Fragility', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 'The Pill', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2010 'Malleable Memory', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri
2010 'Untitled Project - I - THINGAMAJIGS', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi
2009 'Have We Moved Away From Whats Hotter Than Curry Yet?', Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi
2009 'Some Wrinkles in Time’, VAM, Valencia
2009 'Gender and Performativity’, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria, Egypt
2009 'Anomalies’, Rossi and Rossi, London
2009 'Artists in Exile’, Arario Gallery, New York
2009 'Re- Imagining Asia’, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
2009 'Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs’, Yale School of Art, Connecticut
2009 'Indian Popular Culture, and Beyond: The Untold (the rise of) Schisms’, Sala Alcalá, Madrid
2008 'Re Imagining Asia’, House of World Cultures, Berlin
2008 'Everywhere is War (and Rumors of War)’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 'Stories We Tell’, NYSAFF. Art in General. New York
2008 'Global Honking Ground’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2008 'The B Sides’, Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey
2008 'Emerging Discourse…of the Diaspora’, Bodhi Art, New York
2008 'The Ego, The Persona, The Shadow and The Old Man’, The Guild Art Gallery, New York
2008 'Declaration of Immigration’, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago. Illinois,
2008 'Fire Walkers’, Stephen Stux Gallery, New York
2008 'Exploding the Lotus’, Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida
2008 'Recent Acquisions to Momenta Art's Video Library’, Momenta Art Gallery, New York
2008 'Moving Beyond the Frame’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2008 'Critical Studio’, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2008 'A Wrinkle in Time’, Rotunda Gallery, New York
2007 'Emergency Room’, P.S.1/ MOMA, New York
2007 'Hobby Horse’, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich
2007 'Femme Fantastique’, Volitant Gallery, Austin
2007 'Transfixed’, NYSAFF, Alwan for the Arts, New York
2007 'Sultana's Dream’, Exit Art, New York
2006 'Deuces ex Machina’, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2006 ‘Dangling Between the Real Thing and the Sign in the Window’, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, New York
2006 'Believe’, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2006 'Wild Girls’, Exit Art, New York
2006 'The Love Show’, Hans Weiss New Space Art Gallery, Connecticut
2006 'Deviant Bodies’, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2006 ‘60 Seconds of Play’, Saltworks Gallery & Forum Gallery of Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Georgia
2005 ‘Brooklyn Shakers’, Wooster Arts Space, New York
2004 ‘The Crystal Land’, Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey
2004 ‘Coming Soon..’, Siskil Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2004 'Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art’, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Connecticut
2003 ‘Only Skin Deep: A National Survey’, International Center for Photography, New York
2003 ‘BQE’, White Box Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Through Customs’, Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, New York
2002 ‘Queens International’, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2002 ‘Aar Paar’, Public Art exhibit in Mumbai & Karachi, India and Pakistan
2002 ‘Mango’, Talwar Gallery, New York
2002 ‘Borderless Terrain’s’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2001 ‘Crossing the Line’, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2001 ‘The Rebellion of Space’, DUMBO Arts Center, New York
2001 ‘Enfoco New Works 2001’, Bronx River Arts Center, New York
2001 ‘Under the Western Sky’, National Center for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
Participations
2011 'Generation in Transition: New Art from India', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', The Saatchi Gallery, London
2009 'Domestic Policy', South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) 12th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, The Guild, New York
2009 'Gen Next IV', Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2008 'Korea International Art Fair’, Avanthay Contemporary, Seoul
2008 'The Tea Pavillion’, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2008 'Real Fiction’, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York
2008 'Kunst 08’, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich
2007 'Arte Nuevo Interactiva 07’, Galleria del Teatro Peon Contreras, Merida, Mexico
2007 'Photoimagen 07’, French Embassy Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2007 ‘As If I Had Seen It With My Own Eyes and Said It With My Own Voice’, Impakt Festival Utrecht, Netherlands
2007 'Enfoco New Works 10th Anniversary Exhibition’, Longwood Art Gallery, New York
2007 'Momenta Art Auction 2007’, Momenta Art Gallery and White Columns Gallery, New York
2006 'Momenta Art Auction 2006’, Momenta Art Gallery and White Columns Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Monitor 2: Contemporary South Asian Film and Video’, National Film Board of Canada, Toronto
2005 ‘Post Graduate Exhibition’, Goldsmiths College, London
2003 ‘Post Graduate Degree Exhibition’, Goldsmiths College, London
Honours and Awards
2006 Urban Artist's Initiative. New York
2002 Invited Artist, 2nd Biennial Capetown Month of Photography. Capetown
2000 En Foco 2000 New Works Photography Award. New York
2006 Urban Artist's Initiative. New York
2002 Invited Artist, 2nd Biennial Capetown Month of Photography. Capetown
2000 En Foco 2000 New Works Photography Award. New York
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