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Sheila Makhijani
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"Crawling on the paper was now becoming a regular phenomenon, this crawl now extended to the cloth. It continued and continued as far as it could go. Never knowing what it would look like till it was ready. Or, was it? Well, not really it was time to explore the corners it could turn in and the various folds it could take while folding and sleeping. Jumping on the wall, on the ceiling, on the floor, was not new. It only made one free to extend...
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"Crawling on the paper was now becoming a regular phenomenon, this crawl now extended to the cloth. It continued and continued as far as it could go. Never knowing what it would look like till it was ready. Or, was it? Well, not really it was time to explore the corners it could turn in and the various folds it could take while folding and sleeping. Jumping on the wall, on the ceiling, on the floor, was not new. It only made one free to extend the space available and reach out to the skies."
Sheila Makhijani, an abstractionist par excellence, was born in 1962, in New Delhi. She was educated at the College of Art in New Delhi, and also received her Master's degree from the same institution. In 1993 she obtained a Diploma of Completion from Kanazawa Bijutsu Kogei Daigaku, in Kanazawa, Japan.
Makhijani's abstract works on paper display an intimate and intricate array of lines and colours. The restricted and seemingly controlled rendering of the cluster of frenzied lines is bathed in very light, almost disappearing, spreads of semi-transparent watercolours. This creates the idea of an alternate world to the one we live in. A place where the impish lines lead a life of their own, darting from one place to another, leaving and returning to the color as if it was their home and they the children who never listened. Sheila Makhijani seemed to have a similar conception of these lines when she painted then, remarking that, "They realize that maybe it is better to be a little tame and a little wild. With that they may reach a harmonious balance...and manage to create their own world. A world which has no boundaries barring them from going on the other side...a world which is full of happiness and joy...so they try, but, that is real hard so they try again and again and life goes on...maybe one day they will arrive somewhere...."
Sheila Makhijani's works have been frequently exhibited in Holland, India and Australia. In 2001, her works were shown at Gallery East in Perth Australia; in 1998 at RMIT Project Space, Melbourne and Perth and at Makerere Gallery in Uganda. Makhijani has exhibited her works in solo exhibitions at Gallery Foundation of Indian Artists in Holland in 1996 and also in 1992, 1994 and 2000 at Galerie School in Amsterdam, Holland. Makhijani's works have also been included in exhibitions at Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holland in 1993; Gemeente Museum, Arnhem, Holland in 1991; at Saline Royale d'Arc Et Senans, France in 1993.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1962
New Delhi
Education
1993 Diploma of Completion, Kanazawa Bijutsu Kogei Daigaku, Kanazawa, Japan
1988 Master of Fine Art, College of Art, New Delhi
1984 Bachelor of Fine Art, College of Art, New Delhi
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'Nothing to Really Know: Works...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'Nothing to Really Know: Works from 1992 to 2013', Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Toss', Talwar Gallery, New York
2009 'BLIP !', Talwar Gallery, New York
2009 'Scuttle', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2007 ‘>Is It’, Ananat Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Blip! Paintings and Works by Sheila Makhijani’, Talwar Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Recent Works’, Talwar Gallery, New York
2003 Art Inc., New Delhi
2002 Talwar Gallery, New York
2000 Galerie Foundation For Indian Artists, Amsterdam, Holland
2000 Art Inc., New Delhi
1996 Galerie Foundation For Indian Artists, Amsterdam, Holland
1996 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Galerie Schoo, Amsterdam, Holland
1993 Gallery 17, Kanazawa, Japan
1992 Galerie Schoo, Amsterdam, Holland
1989 Centre For Contemporary Art, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Natural Bodies, Subverted Canons', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Living of the Grid', Anant Art Centre, New Delhi
2008-09 'Mutant Beauty', Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2008 ‘Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction’, Vadehra Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006-07 Art Motif, New Delhi
2006 ‘Shadow Lines’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Journeys’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Configurations’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Are We Like This Only’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Toward Abstraction’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2005 ‘Palette 2005: Part II’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Art for Heart’s Sake’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘Fleshed Out and Lifting Off: Painting Into Relief’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Three Person Show, Ruia House, Mumbai
2004 ‘Subtley Minimally’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Art Motif, New Delhi
2003 Three Person Show, 20 x 20, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘Cross Currents’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 ‘No I.D’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2001 ‘Bollywood Has Arrived’, organized by Foundation for Indian Artist's and Jim Beard Foundation, Schipol, Amsterdam
2001 Art Motif, New Delhi
2001 Gallery East, Perth Australia
2000 Mis-Understanding, Utrecht, Holland
1999 'Bilkool', RMITPROJECT SPACE, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1999 Nature Morte, New Delhi
1998 Makerere Gallery, Uganda, Africa
1998 Galerie Schoo, Amsterdam
1997-98 'Gift for India', Exhibition organized by SAHMAT, New Delhi
1995 Emerging Trends, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1995 ‘Light and Enlightenment’, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
1995 Soeterijn Theater, Amsterdam
1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Group show of Ceramics, Galerie Schoo, Holland
1993 Kuntsthal, Rotterdam, Holland
1993 Saline Royale d’Arc Et Senans, France
1992 Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Nine Contemporary Indian Artists, Gemeente Museum, Arnhem, Holland
1991 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1990 Ambassador's Choice, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
1990 Young Artists - New Realities, CMC Gallery, New Delhi
1989 Artist’s Alert, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
1989 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1986 All India Women’s Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
Joint Exhibitions
2007 ‘Constructing / Deconstructing of My City’, with Anjum Singh, Gallery Maya, London
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2012-13 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2010 'On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century', The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Anant Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games
2009 'Art Dubai', Dubai presented by Anant Art, New Delhi
2007 Chicago Art Fair, represented by Bodhi Art, New York
1990 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan
1989, '91, '95 Annual Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi
1988,89 Annual Exhibition, Yuva Mahatosav
1986 Annual Exhibition, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
1994 UNESCO-Aschberg bursaries for artists
1991-93 Japanese Government Monbushi Scholarship
1989-91 Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture Government of India
1983-84 Fellowship, United Nations Council For Indian Youth
1994 UNESCO-Aschberg bursaries for artists
1991-93 Japanese Government Monbushi Scholarship
1989-91 Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture Government of India
1983-84 Fellowship, United Nations Council For Indian Youth
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Oil on canvas
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Gouache on paper pasted on board
7 x 9.5 in
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