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Surekha
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Surekha completed her diploma in Painting from the Ken School of Arts, Bangalore in 1990, and completed her MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1992.
She was also the Artist-in-Residence, at the Aarau, Switzerland in the year 1999.
Paintings, photographs or works which involve the 'needle and thread', Surekha manages to embody various new trends which serve as a performance, as the work interacts with the viewer. She has a...
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Surekha completed her diploma in Painting from the Ken School of Arts, Bangalore in 1990, and completed her MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in 1992.
She was also the Artist-in-Residence, at the Aarau, Switzerland in the year 1999.
Paintings, photographs or works which involve the 'needle and thread', Surekha manages to embody various new trends which serve as a performance, as the work interacts with the viewer. She has a number of solo shows to her credit including ones at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1993; Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore, 1996; Sista's Art Gallery, Kalayatra, Bangalore 1997 and Rathaus, Aarau, Switzerland, 1999. She has also participated in various group shows, prominent among these being Ken-90, Bangalore, 1990; 'Women Artists-94', Hyderabad, 1994 and 'Edge of the Century', New Delhi, 1999.
Surekha presently lives and works in Bangalore.
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Born
1965
Education
1992 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Vishwabharathi University, Santiniketan
1990 Diploma in Painting, Ken School of Arts, Bangalore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 ‘Unclaimed- urban f(rictions)’,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 ‘Unclaimed- urban f(rictions)’, Bangalore, traveled to 10, Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2007 ‘Flames, Flowers and Other Images’, Sculptures, photo and video installation, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 ‘Communing with Urban Heroines’, a photo and video installation, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore / Prince Claus Fund.
2004 ‘Bhagirathi and other Video Installations’, Gallery SKE, Bangalore
2003 ‘Eye of a Needle’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, travelled to Boros Museum, Sweden
2003 ‘Connecting People’, Video installation, Open Studios, CCA7 Trinidad
2001 ‘Skin Deep’, Taide Halli Museum (studio), Helsinki, Finland
2001 ‘Fragments of a Wedding Diary’, Open studio, HIAP, Helsinki
2000 ‘British-Make’, Spike Island, Art space studios, Bristol, UK
2000 Gallery Zum Komet, Switzerland
2000 Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam
1999 ‘Under the Skin’, Rathaus Aarau, Switzerland
1999 ‘Selving a Body’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai; Chitakala Parishat Gallery, Bangalore
1998 'Native Body', Chitrakala Parishat Gallery, Bangalore
1997 'Recent Works', Sista’s Art Gallery, Kala Yatra, Bangalore
1996 'Recent Works', Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore
1993 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Dolls', Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2010 Young Artist Bukarest Biennale, Rumania
2010 Video Art, Paris’, Dubai, Videoappart, Triad- Loveland Museum, USA
2009 ‘Transmediale-09, deep north’, Malmoe, Konstal & culture haus, Berlin
2009 ‘Migration’, Emami Chisel Art Gallery, Kolkata
2009 ‘Home’, Tranvacore Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'The Other (Indian) Story: Retrospecting Lakeeren-The Contemporary Art Gallery (1995-2009)', presented by Lakeeren at The Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2009 ‘ Towards New Viewership’, Bhurvaneswar; Art consult, New Delhi
2009 ‘CTRL+ALT+DEL ‘, Arushi Arts, New Delhi
2009 ‘Video Finale’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2009 Video Lounge at Indian Art Summit, presented by Latitude 28, New Delhi
2009 'Gender/ Genesis/ Genetics', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2009 ‘KIAF- Failed Plot’, Korea
2009 ‘Changing Skins’, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2009 ‘Regarding Us’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2009 ‘Media workshop/show’, Britto, Dhaka
2009 ‘FIAC-2009’, represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2008 ‘What do you want?’, Asian Triennale, Corner House Gallery, Manchester
2008 ‘Inner Vision’, The Guild, New York
2008 ‘Trends and Trivia: An Indian Story’, Mon Art Galerie, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
2008 ‘Still Moving Image’, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 ‘Six Degrees of Separation: Chaos, Congruence & Collaboration’
south asia exhibition, Anant art gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Fiac-Paris’, presented by Shireen Gandhy, Chemould
2008 ‘Public Places, Private Spaces’, Minneapolis art Institute
2008 ‘ Harvest’, Arushi Arts, New Delhi
2008 ‘Second Sex’, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong
2008 ‘India Moderna’, Ivam Museum,Valencia,Spain
2008 ‘ Video Mix’, India, La Casa Encendida cultural centre, Madrid
2007 ‘Indian Photo and Media Art: A Journey of Discovery’, Fluss-Photo-initiative, Austria
2007 ‘Horn-Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art’, Kunst Museum
Bern, Switzerland
2007 ‘The Zero Edition’, Al’mamal Foundation, Jerusalem
2007 ‘Public Places, Private Spaces’, Newark Museum, New Jersey
2007 ‘Grid’, Bodhi Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Follow the Arrows, Investigating Movement’, WSF, Nairobi
2007 ‘Vanity Fair’, Mon Art Gallerie, Kolkata
2007 ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, Nunnery Art Gallery, London
2007 ‘VO7- 2nd International Venice Video Art Fair’, represented by Contact Metropolart, Paris 2007 Instructions for films: Zoo Art Fair (no.where project), Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006 ‘A Moment of Strange Stillness’, Theertha International Workshop, Srilanka
2006 Diva, Paris/ New York represented by Gallery Contact Metropolart, Paris
2006 ‘Ghosts in the Machine and Other Fables’, Apeejay Media Center, New Delhi
2006 ‘No.w.here’, Video screenings at Portobello and Edinburgh Film Festivals
2006 ‘Myrrh’, under the aegis of Art edge at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Complexities of Life’, Aboa Arsanova Museum, Turku & Lappenrenta Museum, South Karelia, Finland
2005 ‘Video Festival’, Lund Art Hall & Krognos House, Lund
2005 ‘ Ko Video’, Durban presented by Open Circle
2005 ‘Inverted Tree’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Tree Woman/Tree Walkers’, Video and Sculpture Installation, Aarau, Switzerland
2005 ‘ Indian Summer’, Ecole de Beaux arts, Paris
2004 ‘Crossing Generations: Diverge’, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 ‘Rights/Rites/ Rewrites’, Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome, Cornell university, NY and touring to John Hope Franklin Center: Duke University , Mason Grove Gallery, New Jersey
2004 ‘Fair & Furious’, Jabiwool Art Museum & Gallery, South Korea
2004 ‘Another Passage to India’, Ethnographic Museum, Geneva
2004 ‘WSF’, Mumbai Open Circle
2004 ‘We are the Environment’, a public bus project, Bangalore
2003 ‘Artist Proof’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2003 Show at Khoj International Studios
2003 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2003 ‘Sites of Recurrence’, Dakshina Chitra,Chennai/ Boras Museum, Sweden
2003 ‘ Mahatma Gandhi Road, Do Not Urinate’, a site specific work, M.G. Road, Bangalore
2003 ‘Quilted’, Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore
2002 ‘Fragrance of Jasmine’, Khoj International Workshop, Mysore
2002 ‘Emptiness’, Art Workshop, Phool Mahal, Kishangarh
2002 ‘Other Side of the Sky’, UNESCO, Paris
2002 ‘ Enchanting the Icon’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2002 ‘Migration, City, Home’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2001 ‘Camouflage’, Nehru Center, London
2001 ‘Self: Contemporary Video Art from India’, IMA, Brisbane, Australia
2001 ‘On the Edge of Volume’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001 ‘Excerpts from my Diary Pages’, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 ‘Erotica’, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, New Delhi
1998 ‘Retracing the Lost Terrain’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 ‘Territories: An Art Event’, Installation at Shankara, outskirts, Bangalore
Participations
2015 'Postdate: Photography and Inherited History of India', organized collaboratively by the San Jose Museum of Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2010 'Go See India', part of India-Sweden Cultural Exchange Program presented by Emami Chisel, Kolkata at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata; Vasa Konsthal and Gallery-Scandinavia, Gothenburg
Honours and Awards
2006 Film workshop No.w.here, London, Art council, UK
2003/2005 CCA7-Trinidad
2001 Vermont studio Center,USA
2001 HIAP, Helsinki UNESCO-Aschberg award
2000-01 Spike Island studios, Bristol, UK Charles Wallace Trust
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Aarau, Switzerland
2006 Film workshop No.w.here, London, Art council, UK
2003/2005 CCA7-Trinidad
2001 Vermont studio Center,USA
2001 HIAP, Helsinki UNESCO-Aschberg award
2000-01 Spike Island studios, Bristol, UK Charles Wallace Trust
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Aarau, Switzerland
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