Nalini MALANI NALINI MALANI Born 1946 Karachi, Pakistan Lives and works in Mumbai, India Solo exhibitions* 2002 Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi 2001 Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 2000 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 'The Sacred & The Profane', a shadow play, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1999 Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai 1997 'Mutants, Artist Books, Homage to Joseph Albers', Gallery Espace, New Delhi 'The Job', Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institut), Mumbai 1996 'Medea Installation', Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institut), Mumbai 1995 'Medeamaterial', Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institut), Mumbai 1991 'Hieroglyphs & Other Works', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1991, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1990 'Under the Skin', Gallery 7, Mumbai 1980 Art Heritage, New Delhi 1966, '70, '73, '75, '79, '80, '82, '84, '86 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai Selected group exhibitions* 2001 'Unpacking Europe', Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Secular Practice: Recent Art From India', Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2000 '7th Havana Biennale', Cuba '18th World Wide Video Festival', Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis', Tate Modern, London, UK 'Text & Subtext: Contemporary Art and Asian Women', Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle- SIA College of the Arts, Singapore; Australia; Sweden; Norway; Denmark; Malaysia; Hong Kong 'Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art: Asian Section of Kwangju Biennale 2000', Nigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, Japan 'Man + Space: 2000 Kwangju Biennale', Korea 'A Global View: Indian Artists At Home In the World', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1999 'Watermark: The Watercolour Show', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 'Voiceovers: 5th Guinness Contemporary Art Project', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 'The Sacred and the Profane', Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin, Germany 1998 '16th World Wide Video Festival', Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Private Mythology: Contemporary Art from India', Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan 'Another Landscape: History/Life/Language', Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan; India; Australia 'Global Liquidity: Fiona Hall and Nalini Malani', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai; Australia 'Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora', Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA 'Artists for a Sustainable World', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1997 'Mappings: Shared Histories ... A Fragile Self', Eicher Gallery, New Delhi 'Women Artists of India', Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, USA 1996 ‘Traditions/Tensions’, Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA; Canada; India; Singapore; Korea; Australia; Taiwan '2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia '96 Containers: Art Across the Oceans', Copenhagen, Denmark; India 'Cinemascape: An Artists' Tribute to 100 Years of Cinema', Lakeeren, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai 1995 'Inside Out : Contemporary Women Artists of India', Middlesbrough Art Gallery, UK 'Africus, 1st Johannesburg Biennale: BUTIS! TART?', South Africa 'Postcards for Gandhi', Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi 1994 'Parallel Perceptions', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1993 'Still Life', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 'A Critical Difference: Contemporary Art from India', Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK 'India Songs', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1992 'Journeys Within Landscapes', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1990 'Splash: Images on Glass', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 1989 'Artists Alert', Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi 1987 'Coups de Coeur', Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland '2nd Havana Biennale', Cuba 1985 'Les Artistes Etrangeres en France', Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France 1982 'India: Myth and Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK 'Seven Indian Artists', Galerie Bollhagen, Worpswede, Germany 'Contemporary Indian Art', Royal Academy of Art, London, UK 1980 'Place for People', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1977 'International Festival of Painting', Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France 'Pictorial Space', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1976 'Festival of Perth', Australia Qualifications, grants & awards* 2002: Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Perugia, Italy 1999: Artist-in-residence, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Artist-in-residence, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore 1989–91 Government of India Senior Fellowship 1970–72 French Government scholarship for fine arts to study in Paris, France 1969 Diploma in Fine Arts, Sir Jamshedjee Jeebhoy School of Art, Mumbai Collections* Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia British Museum, London, UK Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai * All India unless otherwise stated Selected bibliography Kapoor, Kamala. ‘Nalini Malani: ”memory stress and recall’’’. Marg, vol.48, no.2, 1996, pp.26–35. Kapoor, Kamala. ‘Nalini Malani: missives from the streets’. Art and AsiaPacific, vol. 2, no. 1, January, 1995, pp. 40–51. Kidd, Courteney. ‘Voiceovers’. Art AsiaPacific, no.27, 2000, pp.93–4. Lynn, Victoria. ‘Remembering Toba Tek Singh: a video installation by Nalini Malani’. In Reinventing Textiles: Gender and Identity, ed. Janis Jefferies, vol.2. Telos, Winchester, 2001, pp.105–15. McEvilley, Thomas. ‘Picturing India’. Art in America, vol.87, no.11, November 1999, pp.49–55. Pijnappel, Johan. ‘Nalini Malani : transgression’. In Unpacking Europe : Towards a Critical Reading [exhibition catalogue]. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; NAI Publishers, Berlin: Rotterdam, 2001, pp.368–73. Robinson, Joel David. ‘Another landscape: Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan’. Parachute, no.93, January–March 1999, p.93. Artists and Works Print friendly version