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Samanta Batra Mehta is a banker turned artist having pursued degrees in Economics and Information Systems from St Xavier’s College, Bombay and the London School of Economics, London before her foray into art. She has attended various art-making classes and workshops including the year long Aesthetics of Indian Visual Art at the Bombay University and Summer School in Drawing and Painting at the Central St. Martins, London. She has also been...
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Samanta Batra Mehta is a banker turned artist having pursued degrees in Economics and Information Systems from St Xavier’s College, Bombay and the London School of Economics, London before her foray into art. She has attended various art-making classes and workshops including the year long Aesthetics of Indian Visual Art at the Bombay University and Summer School in Drawing and Painting at the Central St. Martins, London. She has also been trained in traditional Byzantine icon-making at the Prosopon School of Iconology, New York. Samanta’s drawings, photo and installation based art maps connections between the human condition and the environment we inhabit. Using the body and abstracted organic forms as metaphor for land/earth/people, her work investigates themes in personal history, gender constructs, social order and colonization. She draws from a broad range of influences including history, myth, the natural world, antiquarian illustration, religious iconography and mystical philosophies. Her work has been exhibited at various international venues including at the Queens Museum, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, AIR Gallery and Guild Art in New York, the Hunterdon Museum and the Visual Arts Center in New Jersey, Gallery BMB and Bodhi Art Gallery in Bombay and at the Salon Du Dessin Contemporain 2010 in Paris with Galerie LMD where she was invited to make a 24 foot long site-specific mural. Most recently her work will be seen at Art Stage, Singapore 2012 and at the India Art Summit in January 2011. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show with Shrine Empire Gallery in New Delhi slated for December 2011. She lives and works in New York City.
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Born
1975
New Delhi
Education
1998 Master of Science- Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), UK
1997 Post Graduate Diploma in World Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
1996 Bachelor of Arts (Economics), St. Xavier’s College, University of Bombay, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'Skin Deep', Religare Art...
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'Skin Deep', Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 ‘A Place of Their Own’, Gallery BMB, Mumbai
2010 ‘Wish you were here 9’, A.I.R Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 ‘Botanica’, Hunterdon Museum, Clifton, NJ
2010 ‘A Delicate Point’ Images from a South Asian Diaspora at Osilas Gallery, Concordia College New York, Bronxville, NY
2009 ‘Wish you were here 8’, A.I.R Art Gallery, New York, NY
2009 ‘Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices’, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 ‘Generations XI’, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
2008 ‘Suckers and Biters’, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
2008 ‘The Election Show’, University Galleries, State University of Illinois, Normal, IL
2008 ‘Night of 1000 Drawings’, Artists Space, New York, NY
2007 ‘Wish you were here 6’, A.I.R Art Gallery, New York, NY
2007 ‘The Insider’, Bodhi Art Gallery, Bombay, India
2007 South Asian Women’s Creative Collective 10th Anniversary Curated Auction, New York, NY
2007 ‘Night of 1000 Drawings’, Artists Space, New York, NY
2006 ‘(Ad)dress’ with the Gaia Art Collective, Hoboken NJ
Participations
2011 'Erasing Borders 2011', New York
2011 India Art Summit, New Delhi
2011 Art Stage, Singapore
2010 ‘The Miniature Format Show 2010’, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai
2010 ‘Erasing Borders 2010’ Guild Art Gallery, New York, NY
2010 ‘Erasing Borders 2010’ Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 The Salon Du Dessin Contemporain Art Fair 2010, Carousel Du Louvre, Paris, France (booth of Galerie L MD)
2010 ‘Erasing Borders 2010’, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2009 Indo-American Arts Council’s (IAAC) ‘Erasing Borders 2009: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora’, at Dowd Fine Art Gallery, State University of New York College, SUNY, Cortland, NY
2009 Erasing Borders 2009 continues at Crossing Art Gallery as part of the Asian Contemporary Art Week 2009 (ACAW), New York, NY
2009 ‘Erasing Borders 2009’ continues at the Project Space, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2009 ‘Erasing Borders 2009’ continues at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2009 ‘Erasing Borders 2009’ continues at the Gallery in Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
2008 Indo-American Arts Council’s (IAASC) ‘Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora’, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2008 ‘Erasing Borders 2008’ continues at the Guild Art Gallery, New York, NY
2008 ‘Erasing Borders 2008’ continues at the Manhattanville College Art Gallery, Purchase, NY
2008 ‘Erasing Borders 2008’ continues at the Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
2008 SAWCC Annual Visual Art Show ‘Rods and Cones’ Abrons Art Centre,
Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
2008 ‘Erasing Borders 2008’ continues at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY
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