Photographer, film maker and graphic designer, Shah graduated in 1986 with a diploma in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC).
Having grown up in a family of artists, and through his own professional training, he brings an interesting intersection of art, photography and design to his work. He is...
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Photographer, film maker and graphic designer, Shah graduated in 1986 with a diploma in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC).
Having grown up in a family of artists, and through his own professional training, he brings an interesting intersection of art, photography and design to his work. He is interested in image perception and representation. His visual journeys have led him into working with communities which are finding a mainstream voice.
Shah’s photographs have been exhibited at leading world galleries, including the Durban Art Gallery and Sandton Art Centre, South Africa; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Chhobi Mela, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Photo-Expo Asia-2, Bangkok, as well as in India, Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Russia, and the U.S. His
photographs are in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Minge Kan, Japan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.; University of California,
U.S.; Australian Arts Council, Australia; Philadelphia Museum of Art, U.S., as well as in private collations, such as Christo, New York, and Issey Miyake, Japan. His books include Figures, Facts, Feelings:
A Direct Diasporic Dialogue, published by CMAC, 2000; Working in the Mill No More, published by the Oxford University Press and Amsterdam University Press, 2004; Kaaya - Beyond Gender, published by CMAC, 2005; and Art as Witness, written with Sana Das and published by Tulika Books, 2010. Shah was invited as visiting scholar at the SOAS, London
University, and at the University of California, Davis. He has been awarded the Charles Wallace fellowship and a Fulbright Lectureship Award. Shah lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1962
Education
1986 Diploma in Visual Communication, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 'Images for change', World Fair...
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 'Images for change', World Fair Trade Week, Kolkata
2009 'Voices of Dignity', Amnesty International India, New Delhi
2008 'Ananya', Bajaj Capital Art House, New Delhi
2008 'Make Your Own History', SAHMAT, New Delhi
2008,09 'Satyagrah', South Africa, Spain
2007 'Vision Beyond', Art Indus, New Delhi
2006 'Street Walking', India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2005 'Ways of Resisting', SAHMAT, New Delhi
2004-06 'Working in the Mill No More', Max Muller Bhavan, New Delhi; SEWA, Ahmedabad; Trade Union Museum, Amsterdam
2001 'Art Folio, Chandigadh, 2001', India Alive, Dresden
2000 'Digital Art Photos', Bilefield and Bonn, Germany
2000 'Figures, Facts, Feelings: A Diasporic Dialogue', British Council, New Delhi
1997 'Gift for India', SAHMAT, New Delhi
1999 '7 Cities of World', La Boca Del Lobo, Madrid
1995 'Postcard for Gandhi', SAHMAT, Six cities in India
1993 'India Songs', Australian Arts Council, Sydney
1993 'Tradition and Modernity in India', Aliance Francaise, New Delhi
1990 'Images and Words', SAHMAT, Traveling exhibition in India
Patrticipations
2009 SAHMAT 20, M F Husain Gallery, New Delhi
2009 PhotoART Asia Expo, Bangkok
2009 Chhobi Mela V, DRIK, Bangladesh
2005 Chhobi Mela, DRIK, Bangladesh
1998 India Photo Biennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1989 Artist Alert, SAHMAT, New Delhi
1988 'The Art of The Adivasis', Festival of India, Tokyo, Kumamoto, Saitama, Hyogo, Japan
1987-88 'My Land My People', Festival of India, Tashkent, Alma Ata and Moscow
1986 'Pratibimba', Festival of India, Moscow
1985,86 Form and Many Forms of Mother Clay, Crafts Museum, Minge International, India and USA
1982 'Aditi', Festival of India, USA and U.K.
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