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| Tejal Shah |
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http://www.tejals.com
Born (1979) in Bhilai, India
Lives and works in Bombay, India |
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| Education |
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| 2008 |
MFA (film/video), Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Exchange Scholar (Photo, Video, Film), School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| 1998 - 2000 |
Bachelor of Arts (Commercial Photography), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
| 2006 |
“What are You”?, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Bombay
“What are You?”, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2003 |
The Tomb Of Democracy, Gallery Alexander Ochs, Berlin |
| 2000 |
In-Transit, Viscom9 Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne |
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Selected Group Shows |
| 2008 |
Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London
Asian Triennial Manchester, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Still Moving Image, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
Subjected Culture – Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Rosario & Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Salina Art Center, Kansas and Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Click!, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Grosvenor Vadehra, London
Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis |
| 2007 |
New Delhi New Wave, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
PROSPECT - Contemporary Art from India, Parco Della Musica
Fondazione Cinema, Rome
India Art Now - Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity And Transformation,
Provincia di Milano, Milan
Résidents - Paris 2003-2007, Espace Electra, Paris
Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The
Newark Museum, New Jersey
City of Women - 13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Gallery Alkatraz and Mala Galerija, Ljubljana
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
We Love Cinema, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York & Davis Museum, Wellesley
Hijra Fantasy Series, Project Space, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2006 |
Sexwork – Art, Reality, Myths, NGBK, Berlin
Subjected Culture – Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, Museo Provincial Timoteo
Navarro, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
Maximum City, Lille 3000
Saturday Live, Tate Modern, London
Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent In Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turino
Maarkers, Bodi Art Gallery, Bombay
Summer Salon, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Bombay
Chitra Ganesh, Nicola Durvasala & Tejal Shah, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
National Review of Live Arts, Glasgow |
| 2005 |
Indian Summer, L’ Ecole Nationale Des Beaux-Arts, Paris
WAR, The National Queer Arts Festival, http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
Metrospective: Visual Representation Of Metrosexuality, Kitab Mahal, Bombay Present-Future, National Gallery Of Modern Art, Bombay |
| 2004 |
Crossing Currents: Video Art And Cultural Identity, Lalit Kala Academy Galleries, New Delhi
Zoom! The Near And The Far In Contemporary Indian Art, Culturgest Museum, Lisbon
Indian Video Art: History In Motion, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,
Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2003 |
I Love My India, Total Museum, Seoul
14th International Electronic Art Festival-Videobrasil, Southern Competitive Show, Sao Paulo
Interactiva '03, Cartodigital.Org & The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Yucatan, Mexico
The Rest of the World, Neuffer Am Park, Pirmasens, Germany |
| 2002 |
Ways Of Resisting: 92-02', Lalit Kala Academy Galleries, New Delhi
Cross-Fertilization: Contemporary Indian Video Art, Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Beijing
Reclaim Our Freedom Week, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art, Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane
Video Art Show, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
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| 2000 |
In A Plain Brown Wrapper: Pornography, Art and Video, Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago
Another Documentary, Viscom9 Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
Wink: Up & Cumming Pornographers, School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago & The Leather
Archives & Museum, Chicago
(Un)Suitable Girls Visual Arts Show, Paisley Gallery, New York
Body Language, Gallery X, SAIC, Chicago |
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Screenings |
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| 2008 |
Trans-, “there is always something absent…”: Vidéo et Après, Centre Pompidou
I Love My India: New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival; Vidéo et Après, Centre Pompidou
The City: Video Monologs, Galatina & Lecce, Italy |
| 2007 |
“What are You?”: La Nuit des 1001 videos, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva; Sommerszene 07 – China & India, Salzburg
I Love My India: Carte Blanche Screening,Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| 2006 |
Chingari Chumma: Saturday Live, Tate Modern, London
Trans- : IAWRT Film Festival, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad; Metrospective,
Alliance Française, New Delhi |
| 2005 |
Trans- : Metrospective: Visual Representation Of Metrosexuality, Kitab Mahal, Bombay
I Love My India: Expressions In Freedom Film Festival, IAWRT, India International Centre, New Delhi; Aar Paar III, Various Venues In India And Pakistan |
| 2004 |
Chingari Chumma: Queer Zagreb Fm, Croatia
I Love My India: Discursive Camping: Dwelling On The Move, Rooseum Centre Of Contemporary Art and Public Space Of Malmö; 0110 Digital Film Festival, Bombay/ Delhi/ Calcutta/ Bangalore/Chennai/ Ahmedabad/ Hyderabad; Video Art Road Show 3, PVR Ansal Plaza, New Delhi |
| 2003 |
Untitled III: Larzish, 1st International Film Festival Of Sexuality & Gender Plurality, India
Chingari Chumma: Sarai New Media Lab, Friday Screening, New Delhi
I Love My India: Video Art Road Show - 2, Carter Road Amphitheatre, Bandra, India |
| 2001 |
Chingari Chumma: Lesben Film Festival, Berlin; Flaming Film Festival, Playing With Ourselves, Intermedia Arts Centre, Minneapolis; Grrrls Uninterrupted, 19th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival |
| 2000 |
Untitled I: Jagriti: A South Asian Arts Festival, Tufts University, Boston
Chingari Chumma: Mix, The 14th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, New York; Diasporadics: An Arts & Social Activism South Asian Diaspora Festival, New York; Reeling: The 20th Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, Chicago; 6th Annual Pride Night: Women In Director's Chair, Chicago |
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| Artist Presentations & Residencies |
| 2008 |
Co-organiser and participant, International Artist Residency, Kashi Art, Cochin, http://www.kashiartgallery.com/html/ResidencySpaces.htm |
| 2007 |
Artist in Residence, Point Ephémère, Paris, http://www.pointephemere.org/
Artist Presentation, Cultural Practice and Discourses of the Minor, School of Fine Arts, Baroda & Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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Artist in Residence, Khoj International Artist Residency, Delhi
Out Of Order: The Political is Personal, Artist Talk at Beacon House School of Fine Arts, Lahore, Pakistan |
| 2003 |
Out Of Order: The Political is Personal, Artist Talk at The National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay & B-books, Berlin |
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Published Articles, Books and Catalogues |
Maya Kovskaya, Asian Triennial Manchester, ART iT, May 2008,
Jerome Neutres, New Delhi New Wave, Damiani Publishing, 2007
Gayatri Sinha & Paul Sternberger, India: Public Places, Private Spaces – Contemporary Photography and Video Art, The Newark Museum and Marg Publications, 2007
Betty Seid, New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Mapin Publishing, 2007
ART iT, Winter/Spring, 2007, pp. 62 – 63
“What are You?”, Solo Catalogue, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 2007
Carey Lovelace, Art in America, October 2006, pp. 195
Priya Malhotra, Asian Art News, May/June 2007, pp. 102 - 103
Rafael Risemberg, Roses of India, The New York Blade, 2006
Johan Pijnappel, Video Week, Art India, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 90 – 92
Karen Miller-Lewis, Women on Top, Art India, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 90 – 91
Maarkers, Catalogue, Bodhi ART, Bombay, 2006
Subcontingent - The Indian Subcontinent In Contemporary Art, Electa Publishing & Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Milano, 2006, pp. 142 – 147
Mary Brennan on NRLA, The Herald, 2006, http://www.theherald.co.uk/56118.shtml
Jennie Klien, National Review Of Live Art, 2006, http://www.newmoves.co.uk/essaysnrla06.aspx
Johan Pijnappel, Crossing Currents: Video Art And Cultural Identity, New Delhi, 2006, pp. 122 – 131
Deepak Ananth, Changing Planes, Indian Summer, Ecole Nationale Des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2005,
pp. 66 - 67, 244 – 251
Johan Pijnappel, Art in Exile?, Art India, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2005, pp. 32 – 38
Johan Pijnappel, Indian Video Art: History In Motion, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, 2004, pp. 9 – 15, 32 - 33
Nancy Adajania, Bifocal Vision: The Near And The Far In Contemporary Indian Art, Zoom! Art in
Contemporary India, Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, 2004, pp. 39 – 41, 114 – 117
Nicole Wolf, Tranzitional Zones: Nicole Wolf Interviews Tejal Shah, N.Paradoxa - International Feminist Art Journal Out of Order, Volume 12, 2003,
pp. 59 – 67 |
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| Projects / Collaborations |
Man to Man – Theatre & Video Collaboration with Rehaan Engineer & Jyoti Dogra, Max Muller Bhavan, Bombay, 2006
Sakhi Ri: Electro Acoustic Multimedia Performance, Collaborative Project with Drfloy, Natasha Mendonca and Sumathi, Alliance Française (Bangalore, Pune, Bombay), 2005
Larzish, International Film Festival Of Sexuality & Gender Plurality (Co-Founder/Organiser/Curator), India, 2003 - 04
Open Circle Artist Initiative, India, 2002 – 2003 |
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Videography |
There is a spider living between us, Single channel video, 6 min, colour & b/w, sound, digital video, 2008
“there is always something absent…”, Single channel video, 12 min, colour & b/w, sound, digital video, 2007- 8
“What are You?”, Dual channel video installation, 12 min, colour, sound, digital video & Super-8, 2006
The City/Famila’s Famila/Anando’s Doors, Single channel video, colour, sound, digital video, 2005 (in collaboration with Dr. Floy & Natasha Mendonca)
Trans-, Dual channel video installation, 12 min, colour, sound, digital video, 2004-5 (in collaboration with Marco Paulo Rolla)
I Love my India, Single channel video, 10 min, colour, sound, digital video, 2003
Chingari Chumma/Stinging Kiss, Single channel, 8 min 30 sec, colour, sound, digital video & Hi-8, 2000 (in collaboration with Anuj Vaidya)
Untitled III, Single channel video, 3 min, colour, silent, Hi-8, 2000
Untitled II, Single channel video, 10 min, colour, sound, Hi-8, 2000
Untitled I, Single channel video, 3 min, colour, sound, 16mm transferred to digital video, 1999 |
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