Jaishri Abichandani

 

Abichandani was born in Bombay, India in 1969. She lives and works in Brooklyn, USA

 

Education

2005

Masters in Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

2003

Post Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

1991

Bachelor of Arts, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Dirty Jewels, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

2008

Reconciliations, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India

Bijli: Heart of a Drag Queen, Kran Film Collective Space, Brussels, Belgium

2007

Reconciliations, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Signs of the Times, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA

2004

The Enchanted Life of…, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India

2002

Mind’s Desire, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India

Mind’s Desire, NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Institute Gallery, New York, USA

Under Western Skies, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Selected Exhibitions

2011

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Rossi and Rossi, London, UK

2010

The Waste Land, White Box Gallery, New York, USA

Malleable Memory, AICON Gallery, New York, USA

Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, Rossi and Rossi, London, UK

Hong Kong Art Fair, Rossi and Rossi, Hong Kong

Dubai Art Fair, Guild Art Gallery, Dubai

The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Bring Me a Lion, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Untitled Project: Thingamajigs, Gallery OED, Kochi, India

2009

Frontiers of Time, IVAM, Valencia, Spain

Conflicting Tales, Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany

Gender and Performativity, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria, Egypt

Anomalies, Rossi & Rossi London, UK

Indian Popular Culture, and Beyond: The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, Sala Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Transitional Aesthetics, Beijing 798 Biennale, Dashanzi Arts District, Beijing, China

Artists in Exile, Arario Gallery, New York, USA

Re- Imagining Asia, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

Contemporary India, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs, Yale School of Art, Connecticut, USA

Have We Moved Away From What’s Hotter Than Curry Yet, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi, India

Gen Next IV, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India

Through Customs, Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, New York, USA

2002

Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Aar Paar, Public Art exhibit in Mumbai, India and Karachi, Pakistan

Mango, Talwar Gallery, New York, USA

Borderless Terrains, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India

2001

Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Rebellion of Space, DUMBO Arts Center, New York, USA

Enfoco New Works 2001, Bronx River Arts Center, New York, USA

Under the Western Sky, National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India

 

Awards

2006

Urban Artist’s Initiative, New York, USA

2002

Invited Artist, 2nd Biennial Capetown Month of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa

2000

En Foco 2000 New Works Photography Award, New York, USA

 

Other Experiences

2011

Project curator to Shapeshifters and Aliens, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

2009

Project curator to Anomolies, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

Project curator to Artists in Exile, Arario Gallery, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Yale University, New Haven, USA

Project curator to Transitional Aesthetics, Beijing 798 Biennial, Beijing, China

2008

Project curator to Exploding the Lotus, Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida, USA

Panels and Workshop to Columbia University, New York, USA

Curatorial Consultant to Fire Walkers, Stux Gallery, New York, USA

2007

Project curator to Sultana’s Dream, Exit Art, New York, USA

Panels and workshop to New School University, New York, USA

Panels and workshop to Pratt University, New York, USA

Panels and workshop to College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2006

Project curator to Queens International 2006, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Cornell University, Ithaca New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA

2005

Project director to Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Asia Society, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London, UK

2004

Panels and Workshop to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

2003

Panels and Workshop to Barnard College, New York, USA

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2008

Re-Imagining Asia, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

The Tea Pavillion, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Everywhere is War (and Rumours of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India

Korea International Art Fair, Avanthay Contemporary, Seoul, Korea

Stories We Tell, NYSAFF, Art in General, New York, USA

Global Honking Ground, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

The B Sides, Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, USA

Emerging Discourse…of the Diaspora, Bodhi Art, New York, USA

The Ego, The Persona, The Shadow and The Old Man, The Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA

Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Fire Walkers, Stephen Stux Gallery, New York, USA

Exploding the Lotus, Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida, USA

Recent Acquisions to Momenta Art’s Video Library, Momenta Art Gallery, New York, USA

Moving Beyond the Frame, Gallery Espace, Delhi, India

Critical Studio, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA

A Wrinkle in Time, Rotunda Gallery, New York, USA

Real Fiction, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA

Kunst 08, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland

2007

Emergency Room, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, USA

Hobby Horse, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland

Arte Nuevo Interactiva 07, Galleria del Teatro Peon Contreras, Merida, Mexico

Photoimagen 07, French Embassy Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

As if I had seen it with my own eyes and said it with my own voice, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

Femme Fantastique, Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA

Enfoco New Works 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Longwood Art Gallery, New York, USA

Transfixed NYSAFF, Alwan for the Arts, New York, USA

Momenta Art Auction 2007, Momenta Art Gallery; White Columns Gallery, New York, USA

Sultana’s Dream, Exit Art, New York, USA

2006

Deuces ex Machina, Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Dangling between the real thing and the sign in the window, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, New York, USA

Believe, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, USA

Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York, USA

The Love Show, Hans Weiss New Space Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA

Deviant Bodies, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

Momenta Art Auction 2006, Momenta Art Gallery; White Columns Gallery, New York, USA

60 Seconds of Play, Saltworks Gallery & Forum Gallery of Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Georgia, USA

Monitor 2: Contemporary South Asian Film and Video, National Film Board of Canada, Toronto, Canada

2005

Post Graduate Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Brooklyn Shakers, Wooster Arts Space, New York, USA

2004

The Crystal Land, Al Jira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, USA

Coming Soon, Siskil Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, William Benton Museum of Art, University

of Connecticut, USA

2003

Only Skin Deep: A National Survey, International Center for Photography, New York, USA

BQE, White Box Gallery, New York, USA

2002

Panels and Workshop to International Center for Photography, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to New York University APA Studies Institute, New York, USA

2001

Panels and Workshop to Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, USA

Panels and Workshop to National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India

 

Selected Bibliography

Aric Chen, Globespotters: Another Biennial? Yes, but in Beijing, New York Times (11 Aug 2009) New York, USA

Tom Finkelpearl, What’s Sauce for the Gander, Art News Magazine of India Volume XIV (2009)

Sharmistha Ray, Way in the World, Art News Magazine of India Volume XIV (2009)

Meenakshi Thirukode, Artists in Exile, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine (Number 64 July/ August, 2009)

Benjamin Genoccio, For a Fresh Gallery Space, Contemporary Indian Art, The New York Times Art

in Review (2009)

Neha Bajpai, Toying with Art, The Week (2009), New Delhi, India

Jaideep Sen, Despise Route: Interview with Jaishri Abichandani, Time Out Bengaluru (2008), Bangalore, India

Marta Jakimowicz, Disquieting Similarities, Deccan Herald (2008), Bangalore, India

Pariat Janice, Moving Beyond the Frame: A Space for Alternative Readings,Time Out Delhi (2008),

New Delhi, India

Neha Bhatt, In Search of Power and Roots, Business Standard (2008), New Delhi, India

Natasha Bissonauth, SAWCC: A Grassroots Sisterhood, ArtIndia Vol XIII, Issue II (2008), Bombay, India

Michael Mills, East Wind A’blowin, New Times (2008), Florida, USA

Maxwell Heller, Sultana’s Dream and the SAWCC, Brooklyn Rail (2007), New York, USA

RC Baker, Best in Show, Village Voice (2006), New York, USA

Martha Schwendener, Art From Everywhere, All from Queens, New York Times (2006), New York, USA

Holland Cotter, Taking a Magical Flight Through India, The New York Times (2005), New York, USA

Amy Finnerty, South Asia as Ethnic Foreground, Artistic Background, Wall Street Journal (2005) New York, USA

Sasha Altaf, Inscriptions of the Feminine, International Gallerie, Vol.7, Issue 1 (2004), Mumbai, India

Holland Cotter, Mango, The New York Times (2002), New York, USA

Ken Johnson, A Pluralistic Exhibition in the Plural Borough, The New York Times (2002), New York, USA

Merrily Kerr, Queens International, Flash Art (Nov-Dec 2002), USA

Georgina Maddox, Navigating Spaces, Indian Express (2002), Mumbai, India

Judith Staines, Mumbai Mix, (a.n) magazine for artists (2002), UK

A. Mandalas-Sudhakar, A Global Take, Art News Magazine of India, Vol. 7, Issue I (2002), Mumbai, India

Sue Williamson, Eye Catching Moments in the Month of Photography, www.arthrob.co.za (2002)

Capetown, South Africa

Nancy Adajania, Sky Floating Islands, Art News Magazine of India, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (2001), Mumbai, India

 

Selected Collections

Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Florian Peters Messers Collection, Berlin, Germany

Burger Collection, Hong Kong

Anupam Poddar Collection, Delhi, India

Momenta Art Video Library, New York USA