|
|
|
|
|
Rina Banerjee was born in Calcutta, and studied at the Yale School of Art, graduating from the institution with Master’s degree in painting and printmaking in 1995. Before turning to art, Banerjee received her Bachelor’s degree in polymer engineering at the Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, in 1993. Banerjee’s multicultural environs are reflected in her art, which is based on, and critiques a variety of...
Read More
Rina Banerjee was born in Calcutta, and studied at the Yale School of Art, graduating from the institution with Master’s degree in painting and printmaking in 1995. Before turning to art, Banerjee received her Bachelor’s degree in polymer engineering at the Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, in 1993. Banerjee’s multicultural environs are reflected in her art, which is based on, and critiques a variety of influences. Nostalgia for her home country is evident in the artist’s work, with symbols from India, like the Taj Mahal being used at frequent junctures.
Moving with ease between drawing, installation art and sculpture, the artist still chooses to keep the core of her artistic practice the same. Banerjee uses everyday mundane objects, cleverly transforming them into objects of art with the introduction of decorative elements. Her large installations are replete with multiple layers of meaning; while their varied components have different connotations of their own, together, they give rise to an entirely different set of allusions. Plastic sheets, feathers, wires and ribbons are frequently used in her work. Using decoration as a means of alienation, the artist invokes surprise and interest in her viewers. Banerjee’s use of objects from different cultures also offers her work a global appeal.
Some of Banerjee’s solo exhibitions include ‘Dhiel & Project’ at Roger Hass Gallery, Moscow; ‘Project Look Book’ in London; and as show at Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, London, all in 2009; ‘Allure’ at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in 2008; and ‘Foreign Fruit’ at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, in 2006. Banerjee’s work has also been a part of several group exhibitions including ‘Anomalies’ at Rossi & Rossi, London; ‘Wonderland’ at Kade Amersfoort, the Netherlands; ‘Pretty Is As Pretty Does’ at Site Santa Fe Museum Contemporary, all in 2009. She has also participated in ‘Mythologies’ at Haunch of Venison, London, in 2009; and ‘Dessins de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain’ at the Embassy of France, New York, in 2008.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Read Less
Born
1963
Kolkata
Education
1995 Master of Fine Art (Painting and Print Making), Yale school of Art, Yale University
1993 Bachelor of Science (Polymer Engineering), Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Rina Banerjee: Chimeras of...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Rina Banerjee: Chimeras of India and the West', Musée Guimet, Paris
2011 'Imagining the Other Half of the World from Here', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2010 'Forever Foreign', Haunch of Venison, London
2009 ‘Dhiel & Project’, Roger Hass Gallery, Moscow
2009 ‘Project Look Book’, London
2009 Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, London
2009 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
2008-09 ‘Allure’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2008 ‘Art Unlimited’, Art Basel 39, Switzerland
2007 ‘Shanghai Art Fair’, Solo Show with with Galerie Nathalie Obadia at Shanghai Exhibition Center, China
2007 ‘The Wilderness Within’, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
2006 ‘Foreign Fruit’, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2006 ‘Silver Pearl Girls and Gardens’, with NP Gallery at Volta, Art Basel 37
2006 ‘Fantasies of Travel’, Amt Gallery, Como, Italy
2001 ‘Phantasmal Pharmacopoeia’, Debs & Co., New York
2001 ‘Phantasmal Pharmacopoeia’, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
2001 ‘Antenna’, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2001 ‘Auf Wiedersehen’, Admit One Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Fragility', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 'Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature',
presented by Harmony Art Foundation at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharah Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011 'Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence', Frey Norris Modern & Contemporary, San Francisco
2011 'What is Sculpture', CRG Gallery, New York
2011 'Avant Première', Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011 'EAST EX EAST', Brand New Gallery, Milan
2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri
2009 ‘Anomalies’, Rossi & Rossi, London
2009 ‘Wonderland’, Kade Amersfoort, Netherlands
2009 ‘Pretty Is As Pretty Does’, Site Santa Fe Museum Contemporary
2008 ‘The Flowers of Evil Still Bloom / Spleen: Les Fleurs du Mal’, Culto Project, New York
2008 ‘Everywhere is War’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Evolution’, Max Lang Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Indian Focus’, Espace-Claud Berri, Paris
2008 ‘6 Degrees of Separation’, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 ‘Exploding the Lotus’, Art and Culture Center for Hollywood
2008 ‘Distant Nearness’, Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kansas
2008 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
2008 ‘Dyed Roots, the New Emergence of Culture’, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2007 ‘An Archeology’, Zabludowicz Art Trust / Project 176, London
2006 ‘Sheboygan’, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
2006 ‘One in the Other, Black Moon Island’, Contemporary International Drawing, London
2005 ‘Agra’, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
2005 ‘Looking in the Eye of the Beholder’, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
2005 ‘Greater New York Show’, PS1 / MOMA, Queens, New York
2005 ‘Fatal Love: Exhibition of South Asian Contemporary Art Now’, Queens Museum Of Art, Queens, New York
2005 ‘Suspended Ornament, Suspended Place’, Suite 106 Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Sunset /Sunrise’, Smack- Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
2004 ‘Open House’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
2004 ‘Specificity’, Riva Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Yankee Remix’, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2002 ‘Atelier Space, 5x5 Contemporary Art on Contemporary Artists’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001 ‘Good Business is the Best Art’, Bronx Museum, New York
1999 ‘Bodies of Resistance’, R.A.W., Hartford, Connecticut
1997 ‘Artists in the Market Place’, Bronx Museum, New York
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art Of India', Yerba Buena center for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 'RoundAbout', Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel
2011 Yokohama Triennial- Our Magic Hour, Japan
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'FIAC 2010', Paris represnted by Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Bruxelles
2010 'Roundabout', City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2009 ‘Mythologies’, Haunch of Venison, London
2008 ‘Dessins de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain’, Embassy of France, New York
2008 ‘Art Unlimited’, Art Basel 39, Switzerland
2007 ‘Shanghai Art Fair’, with Galerie Nathalie Obadia at Shanghai Exhibition Center, China
2006 ‘Silver Pearl Girls and Gardens’, with NP Gallery at Volta, Art Basel 37
2006 ‘Tsumari-Echigo Exhibition’, 3rd Triennial, Japan
2002 ‘Whitney Biennial 2000’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000 ‘Whitney Biennial 2000’, Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York
Honours and Awards
1995 Drawing Award Norfolk, Yale University
1995 Skowhegan School of Painting Scholarship
1995 Drawing Award Norfolk, Yale University
1995 Skowhegan School of Painting Scholarship
Read More Read Less
|
|
|
|
|
PAST AUCTIONS
Showing
4
of
4
works
|
|
Lot 149
Details
Summer Online Auction
13-14 June 2018
Tamarind Girls...
Mixed media on paper
27 x 19.25 in
Winning bid
$8,400
Rs 5,54,400
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
|
|
Lot 103
Details
Summer Online Auction
8-9 June 2016
Mushroom and Moon
Mixed media on paper
29.5 x 21.75 in
Winning bid
$5,400
Rs 3,56,400
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
USD payment only. Why?
|
PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS
Showing
1
of
1
works
Need help? For more information on Indian Art, please see our Art Guide. For help
with buying through Saffronart please click here. If you have any other questions, please contact us.
|