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Vibha Galhotra Vibha Galhotra born in 1978, Haryana, Educated in Chandigarh Galhotra now makes New Delhi her home, and her relationship with it appears to be a conflicted one.” conceptual artist whose large-scale sculptures address the shifting topography of the world under the impact of globalization and growth. She sees herself as being part of the restructuring of culture, society and geography – of New Delhi, and the world. Responding to the rapid environmental changes and re-zoning of land, Galhotra embodies the dense urbanization and jungles of steel and concrete through intricately sewn metal ghungroo tapestries – fusing historical grandeur with shimmering veils of steel. Her concern with globalization and those that are left behind in i ts wake is reflected in her studio practice. She has shown extensively in India and internationally, including at the Columbo Art Biennial, Sri Lanka; San Jose Museum of Art, U.S.A.; Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China; Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kazakhstan; Gutgasteil, Austria; Europas Parkas, Lithuania and Max Mueller Bhavan, India. Galhotra’s public collections include the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy; Devi Art Foundation, India and the Saga Art College, Japan. She has been awarded the Inlaks Foundation Award, HRD National Scholarship, Artist Under 30 Year Award, Chandigarh State Lalit Kala Academy award to name a few. The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art recently mounted a solo exhibition of her work, Vibha Galhotra: Metropia (2013). In Art in America review of Galhotra’s exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, A.M. Weaver says this: “Upon entering the gallery, viewers were confronted by a sprawling, 53-foot photographic mural of an expansive stretch of New Delhi, with houses and buildings squeezed together in a chaotic, cluttered urban landscape. Seven mannequins wearing military or security uniforms—made of fabric printed with the same design as the mural—stood before the metropolis, at once presiding over and merging with it. In this 2008 installation, appropriately titled Neo Camouflage, artist Vibha Galhotra criticizes the state of urban development in India.

VIBHA GALHOTRA B: 1978 Haryana, lives and works in New Delhi EDUCATION: 1995 - 1999: B.F.A. (Printmaking) Govt. College of Arts Chandigarh 1999 - 2001: M.F.A. (Printmaking) Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Santiniketan SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2013 “Sediments and Other Untitled” in Collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery, Exhibit 320, New Delhi “Alter”, Lucia Fontaine, MK Search Art, Italy 2012 “Utopia of Difference”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA 2011 “Neo- Monster”, An on-going public art project, displayed at different locations 2008 “Metropia” ,Project 88, Mumbai, India 2006 “Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where Are We Going?” Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2014 “Past Tradition” Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Exhibit320, New Delhi 2012 “Becoming”, Colombo Art Biennale 2011 Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, USA 2010 India Awakening Under the Banyan Tree, Essl Museum, Austria

2009 “Aluminium”, 4th BAKU biennale, Azerbaijan “India Xianzai” ,Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai Curated by Alexander Keefe and Diana Freundl, Shanghai, China “Space Invader”, Aicon Art Gallery, London 2008 “Mutant Beauty”, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India “Zeitgeist”, Pallete Art Gallery, New Delhi, India “Everywhere Is War (and Rumours of War)”, Curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art,Mumbai, India “Destination Asia: Flying over Stereotypesʼ Conversation- 1”– artists from Central Asia and South Asia, Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai “ Walk The Line”, Avanthy Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland, “Rethinking Materiality” Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2007 “City Cite Site”, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India “Urban Simlies Transforming Cities”,Gallery Project 88, Mumbai “ Destination Asia: Non-strict Correspondence Artists from Central Asia and South Asia” organized by Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kazakhstan 2006 “Shadow Lines”, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi “International Exchange” by LKA at Cyria 2005 “Unclaimed Luggage” , Artrageous Group, Cyprus “ The Chair Project”, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara 2004 “The Twilight Zone of Digital Divide” –West-end, New Delhi, India 46th National Annual Art Exhibition 2003 Lionel Went Art Gallery, Colombo, Srilanka Bharat Bhavan Intl. Print Biennial, Bhopal International Mini print de Sarajev 45th National Annual Art Exhibition 2002 44th Annual National Arts Exhibition Gut Gasteil – An organization for art in landscape, Austria

2001 Europas Parkas, Sculptures symposium, Lithuania Group Show at Saga Art College, Japan Bharat Bhavan Intl Print – Biennial, Bhopal AIFACS All India Annual Art Exhibition, New Delhi Birla Academy Annual Art Exhibition, Kolkata ART FAIR PRESENTATIONS:

2014

“Sediments and other untitled...” HK Art Basel, Hongkong Curated booth with Exhibit320, India Art Fair, New Delhi “Bright Noise” Curated by Girish Shahane, Art Chennai-Lalit Kala Acadmey “Citizens of Time”, Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Dhaka Art Summit 2013 Curated Section, Dubai Art Fair India Art Fair, Group Exhibition, Exhibit320 2011 India Art Summit, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India 2010 Art Basel Miami, Jack Shainman Gallery, USA Armory Show, Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2009 India Art Summit-II, Outdoor Sculpture Park, India 2008 Best of Discovery, SH Contemporary , Shanghai, China RECSIDENCIES AND AWARDS: 2011 Workshop around Khirkee village with Urban Typhoon, Khoj, New Delhi, India 2003

Inlaks Foundation Fine Arts Award 2001 Honored with National scholarship from H.R.D. Dept.Govt.0f India 2001 Europas Parkas, Lithuania (Europe) for a symposium COLLECTIONS:

Sangeeta Jindal Gates Foundation, U.S.A. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Essl Museum, Austria Devi Art Foundation, India Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy Gut Gasteil, an Openair Art Museum, Austria, Saga Art College, Japan Europas Parkas, Lithuania

Beirut Art Fair Modern and contemporary art from South and South-east Asia and the Middle East

2014

“Bright Noise” Curated by Girish Shahane, Art Chennai - Lalit Kala Acadmey

2014

Bright Noise adopts the language of electronic communication, in which what is transmitted is referred to as a signal, and anything that distorts

the transmission is called noise. Expanding this beyond the field of communications, everything that is unwanted or discarded by society can be

thought of as noise. A number of contemporary artists utilise such noise and convert it into their signal. They employ glitches, throwaways, bits

of demolished buildings, electronic and electrical junk as their medium, and create something that is striking and often beautiful.

Vibha glues sediment onto paper, describing the flow of a river while evoking calligraphic techniques.

“Sediments and Other Untitled” in Collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery, Exhibit 320, New Delhi

2013

VIBHA GALHOTRA'S ART ADDRESSES TRANSCULTURAL IN THE GLOBAL LOCAL SPECIFICITY. SHE HAD PRESENTED IN BIENNALES AS WELL AS NATIONAL AND

INTERNATIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS. GALHOTRA'S WORK FOCUSES ON THE CONTEXT OF DISPLACEMENT, NOSTALGIA, IDENTITY, EXISTENCE CONSTRUCTION OR DECONSTRUCTION, THE BANAL CULTURAL CONDITION IN, AROUND ENVIRONMENT OF NEGOTIATIONS IN THE NEW

CONSTANT CHANGING URBAN ATMOSPHERE. HER WORK CROSSES THE DIMENSIONS OF ART, ECOLOGY, ECONOMY, SCIENCE, SPIRITUALITY AND ACTIVISM. THOUGH SHE CLAIMS THAT SHE IS AN ARTIST

BUT NOT AN ACTIVIST, BUT I FEEL THERE IS AN HINT OF ACTIVISM OR SHOULD SAY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. GALHOTRA'S WORKS IN VARIED MEDIUMS THROUGH

PHOTOGRAPHY, ANIMATION, FOUND OBJECT, PER FORMATIVE OBJECTS, INSTALLATION AND SCULPTURE TO CREATE EXPERIENTIAL SPACES.

““Utopia of Difference”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

2012

In an Art in America review of Galhotra’s exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, A.M. Weaver says this: “Upon entering the gallery, viewers were confronted by a sprawling, 53-foot photographic mural of an expansive stretch of New Delhi, with houses and buildings squeezed together in a chaotic, cluttered urban landscape. Seven mannequins wearing military or security uniforms—made of fabric printed with the same design as the mural—stood before the metropolis, at once presiding over and merging with it. In this 2008 installation, appropriately titled Neo Camouflage, artist Vibha Galhotra criticizes the state of urban development in India. Her concern with globalization and those that are left behind in its wake is reflected in her studio practice. In a 2012 interview with Artinfo.com she explains, “I’ve moved to one of the urban villages in Delhi, and employ the local women. Many of them don't have jobs and their husbands don't let them work outside, but they come to me since I am a woman.”

“Neo- Monster”, An on-going public art project, displayed at different locations

2011

‘Neo Monster‘ is a new installation project by Vibha Galhotra (b.1978) involving a larger than life size earth mover machine made out of an inflated balloon. This work is a continuation of the artist’s half a decade long engagement with New Delhi’. New Delhi‘s complex legacy of colonialism, unresolved religious tensions , conflicts of power has slowed down the city’s path into modernity. The RAQS Media Collective collective commented that this city’s endeavor to rebuild and improve infrastructure often takes form of the Jugaad Urbanism.

Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, USA 2011

SAN JOSE, California (February 9, 2011)—The San Jose Museum of Art will present a landmark exhibition of modern and contemporary art from India from February 25 through September 4, 2011. Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India is drawn entirely from eleven private collections in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exhibition showcases important works of modern and contemporary South Asian art that are rarely seen on the West Coast. Included are paintings by renowned modernists such as Maqbool Fida Husain, Tyeb Mehta, Francis Newton Souza, and Sayed Haider Raza. Today’s contemporary generation of rising talents and global trendsetters is represented by Rina Banerjee, Zarina Hashmi, Jitish Kallat, G.R. Iranna, Bari Kumar, and Surendran Nair, among others. “The dramatic economic and social transformation of India since 1947, when it gained independence from British rule, has bred a similar explosion of activity in the visual arts,” said Kristen Evangelista, curator of the exhibition and associate curator at SJMA. “These artists embrace both the international art world (with its penchant for artistic innovation) and the spiritual roots of Indian art. They draw on a multifaceted artistic heritage of political engagement, popular culture, classical mythology, and folk traditions.” Contemporary artists represented include: Dhruvi Acharya (b. 1971); Rina Banerjee (b. 1963); Ashutosh Bhardwaj (b. 1981); Anju Dodiya (b. 1964); Vibha Galhotra (b. 1978); Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975); Zarina Hashmi (b 1937); G.R. Iranna (b. 1970); Jitish Kallat (b. 1974); Anish Kapoor (b. 1954); Suhasini Kejriwal (b. 1973); Alexis Kersey (b. 1977); Bari Kumar (b. 1966); Sheila Makhijani (b. 1962); Surendran Nair (b. 1956); Aparna Rao (1978) and Soren Pors (b. 1974); Kaz Rahman (b. 1973); K.P. Reji (b. 1972); Rekha Rodwittiya (b. 1958); Nilima Sheikh (b. 1945); Valay Shende (b. 1980); Anjum Singh (b. 1967); and Chintan Upadhyay (b. 1972).