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Sheba Chhachhi is a New Delhi based installation artist, photographer, activist and writer who carefully manipulates multiple media and found objects to explore and communicate the power of feminine realization. Issues surrounding women have always been the central focus of Chhachhi’s works. The artist has worked individually and in collaboration with other women artists and artisans to bring about awareness of the challenges faced by women...
Sheba Chhachhi is a New Delhi based installation artist, photographer, activist and writer who carefully manipulates multiple media and found objects to explore and communicate the power of feminine realization. Issues surrounding women have always been the central focus of Chhachhi’s works. The artist has worked individually and in collaboration with other women artists and artisans to bring about awareness of the challenges faced by women at all levels of society.

Sheba Chhachhi began her artistic journey with documentary photography, initiating a series of works based on the women’s movement in India. With every new compilation of works, she reinvents her practice, experimenting alternately with photography, video, sound and light – in an effort to make her ideologies more and more tangible to her audience.

Born in 1958 in Harare, Ethiopia, Chhachhi was educated at Delhi University after which she attended the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad. She has participated in numerous solo shows including ‘Sheba Chhachhi’ at Walsh Gallery, Chicago, in 2008-2009; ‘Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007-2008; ‘Women of the Cloth: Photographic Conversations’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007; ‘Ganga’s Daughters, Nellkanth: Poison/Nectar, When the Gun is Raised, Dialogue Stops’ at the Townsend Centre, University of California, Berkley, in 2005; and ‘Ganga’s Daughters: Meetings with Women Ascetics 1992-2004’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2004. Amongst her most recent group shows are ‘Still Moving Images’ at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon; ‘Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art from India’ at d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City; ‘Neti – Neti (or the Comforts of Cultural Determinacy)’ at Bose Pacia, New York; and ‘India Time’ at Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co., Milan, all in 2008.

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