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Rakhi Peswani |
Date of Birth: 14th October 1977Female, Indian |
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Solo Exhibitions
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2015 |
In Continuum Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. September October 2015. http://www.vadehraart.com/exhibition/viewDetails/143
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2013 |
Anatomy of Silence at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, January-March 2013. http://www.guildindia.com/SHOWS/Anatomy-RakhiPeswani/works.htm
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2011 |
Matters Under the Skin under Asia One, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Guild Art Gallery. May 2011 |
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2009 |
Intertwinings at Vadehra Art Gallery, Okhla, New Delhi. August-September 2009. http://www.vadehraart.com/exhibition/viewDetails/37 |
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2007 |
Sonnet for Silent Machines at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery & The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. Nov 2007. http://www.guildindia.com/SHOWS/RakhiPeswani/works-1.htm
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2006 |
Recent works at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, India. Dec 2006
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Group Exhibitions
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2016 |
Final Review, at G-159 art space, Yelahanka N.T, Bangalore. (April 9-18)
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2016 |
Trans- Feminism, Alternative Perspective and Beyond. Curated by Narae Jin, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi. (February- March 2016)
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2015 |
Inbox Curated by George Martin PJ. Hill Fort palace, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad. October 2015.
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2015 |
Impulses in Drawing curated by Shivangi Singh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi,July-August 2015.
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2015 |
Memoir at The Loft at Lower Parel. August 2015.
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2015 |
The Guild Collection II - Outremer. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug, Mumbai. March to May, 2015
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2015 |
India Art Fair, with The Guild Art Gallery, Vadehra Art Gallery, The Loft Gallery, at New Delhi.
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2014 |
Drawing 2014, Curated by Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura Jois. Espace Art Gallery, New Delhi
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2014 |
The LOFT Anniversary Show.
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2014 |
START Art Fair at Saatchi Art Gallery, London, with The Loft Art Gallery, Mumbai
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2014 |
Colombo Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan-Feb 2014.
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2014 |
India Art Fair, with Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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2013 |
Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC.
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2013 |
Ghar Ghar ki Baat (Tales from Two Homes), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia. September , 2013.
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2013 |
'Zones of Contact' curated by Vidya Sivadas, Akansha Rastogi and Deeksha Nath, at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, UP.
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2012 |
'Porous' a group show Curated by Vidya Sivadas, at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. September 2012
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2011 |
"Generation in Transition: New Art from India," at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Vilnius Art Centre, Lithuania.
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2011 |
'Drawings' at Chemould Art Gallery, Mumbai. August |
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2011 |
'Turn of the Tide' with Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore. July |
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2011 |
India Art Summit, January 2011, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai |
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2011 |
Art Stage Singapore, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. |
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2010 |
"Notes on the (Dis)appearance of the Real" ,at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, October 2010. |
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2010 |
"I Think, Therefore Graffit...", at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, New York, August |
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2010 |
Reverie , a group show at Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai. July 2010 |
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2010 |
Triad: Introspection, Observation and Tradition, an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, at Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Colorado. June-Aug. 2010 |
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2010 |
Bring me a Lion; an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, at Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. Curated by Jeffrey Hughes and Dana Turkovic . March-April 2010. |
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2010 |
Roots; Group show commemorating 25 years of Sakshi Gallery, at The Park, Chennai Jan 2010 |
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2009 |
Sculpture at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. Dec 09- Jan 2010 |
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2009 |
The New Vangaurds, at The Guild Art Gallery New York and Saffron Art, September- October |
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2009 |
Analytical Engine Group Show Curated by Heidi Fitchner. At Bose Pacia, Kolkata. Jan-Feb |
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2008 |
Participated at Art Asia Miami, with the Guild Art Gallery, Booth 160. December 4-7, Miami, Florida. |
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2008 |
The Ego, The Persona, The Shadow, And the Old Man or was it The Great Mother? A group show curated by Ombretta Agro at The Guild New York. November 20th-December 20th |
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2008 |
Parables of the Thread. A group show curated by Jayaram Poduval. At The Loft, Mumbai. November 2008 |
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2008 |
Through a Glass, Darkly; Reflections on the Self Portrait. Group Show at The Guild Art Gallery. October 2008 |
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2008 |
Filament A group show commemorating 5 Years of Peers Residency at Khoj, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, August 2008. |
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2008 |
Participated in the Hong Kong Art Fair with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art(FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery, May 2008 |
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2008 |
Inner Vision, Group show curated by Subbalakshmi Shulka, at The Guild Art Gallery, New York, March 2008 |
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2007 |
Beyond Images, Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Gujarat, India, October 2007 |
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Qualifications |
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2003 |
Qualified the National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India.
- MFA (Sculpture), M.S.University, Baroda.
- BFA (Painting), M.S.University, Baroda.
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Awards and
Scholarships |
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2007 |
Emerging Artist Award by Foundation for
Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Vadehra
Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. Sep 2007 |
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2006 |
Inlaks Scholarship for the UNIDEE in
residence at Cittadellarte, Fondazione
Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. May 2006 |
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2003 |
National Merit Scholarship from the
Ministry of Culture, HRD, Govt.of India.
2003 - 2005 |
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Teaching
Experience |
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Currently |
Visiting Associate Professor at School of Culture and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi. |
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2015 & 16 |
Final year Jury for BFA and MFA students, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. |
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2015-16 |
Visiting Faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.
Visiting Faculty at Acharya Institute of Art and Design, Bangalore. |
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2012-2014 |
Full time faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. |
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2004-2012 |
Guest Faculty at Fine Arts Department, S N School of Arts and Communication, Hyderabad Central University, February 2004- May 2006; July 2007- May 2011, Jan 2012- May 2012 |
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2011 |
Visiting Faculty at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, for a workshop titled 'Presence of the Past'. March 2011 |
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2010 |
Conducted a workshop titled, 'Negotiating Individual Subjectivities and other Excesses', For Masters' students of Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Aug, 2010 |
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2009 |
Guest Faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology. August-Dec 2009 |
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2009 |
Conducted workshop on the dynamics of a Pin Hole Camera, at Deepalaya School, Okhla, New Delhi, in support with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art |
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2009 |
Visiting faculty at Government college of Fine Arts, Trissur, University of Calicut. |
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2009 |
Visiting Faculty at Raja Ravi Verma College of Fine Art, Mavelikara, Feb 2009 University of Kerala. |
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2007 |
Part Time project Fellow with Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. March-August 2007 |
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Presentations |
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2016 |
Materials, Processes, Objects, Environment: Notes on Materiality and the Physical
Experience of Language. Presentation of selected works at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru. March 6th, 2016 |
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2011 |
Presentations and display of work from the project Bodies/Subterrain, at Vrije Akademie, Den Haag, The Netherlands. October 2011. |
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2008 |
Presented a visual essay titled Hands between the Eyes and the Mind: Some Reflections on the hand made in craft practices in the seminar
Visual Culture: Mapping the terrain. Held at Hyderabad Central University under UGC DSA, Hyderabad, India. March 2008 |
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Residency
Invitation |
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2013 |
Artist in residence with Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC. |
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2013 |
Artist in residence with Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
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2011 |
Artist in Residence with Kosmopolis Den
Haag, at The Hague, The Netherlands.
Sep-Dec 2011 |
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2007 |
Artists' residency at Sanskriti Kendra,
Sanskrithi Pratishthan, New Delhi. Dec
2007-Feb 2008 |
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2006 |
UNIDEE in residency, at Cittadellarte,
Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. July-
October 2006.
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/unidee2006/index.htm |
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2003 |
'PEERS-2003', residency invitation from
KHOJ, New . Delhi. June - August 2003 |
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Projects |
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2013 |
Fruits of Labor (A Monument to Exhaustion) at Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC |
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2011 |
Bodies/Subterrain (Eurydice and Sita). A
collaboration with Miranda Lakerveld,
(Opera Director, Amsterdam) to situate
the voices of two literary characters.
The project took shape as an expanding site, with multiple installations, performance and music, in three public spaces in the city of The Hague. |
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2010 |
Designed Sets and Costumes for Opera
production titled 'Orfeo in India'. A
collaboration between Les Autres
Musictheatre, Amsterdam and Darpana,
Ahmedabad. An opera adapted from
Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. |
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2008 |
Illustrated children's book titled
Chakuprantham The Sack Cloth Man,
written by Jayashree Kalathil, part of a
larger project titled, Different Tales,
Stories from Marginalised cultures,
Anveshi Womens studies and Research
Centre. Published by DC Books, ISBN: 978-81-264-2032-2 |
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2007 |
Won the design competition for an entry in the project Cubes in Motion,
an ongoing traveling design project collaborating local entrepreneurship
and craftsmanship from Biella, at Cittadellarte, Italy. |
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2006 |
Real Memories, Imaginary Places.
A project in collaboration with
Liron Shua (Photographer, Barcelona) at Cittadellarte for
Botto Giuseppe Textile industry, Valle Mosso, Italy. |
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2004 |
'Salient Liaison', a self curated, collaborative exhibition project with Shaila Nambiar, Textile Designer based in Hyderabad. Funded by the Department of Culture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, The French Embassy in India & Alliance Francoise de Hyderabad, India. |
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Reference texts |
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2015 |
Zakkir Hussain and Rakhi Peswani Review by Georgina Maddox, Studio International, 16/09/2015 http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/zakkir-hussain-translating-the-silence-rakhi-peswani-in-continuum-review-india |
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2014 |
A Sharp Needle, Interview with Giridhar Khasnis, Indian Contemporary Art Journal, Volume 13, 2014 |
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2013 |
Weaving tales with no end or beginning, Robert Nelson, The Age, Review of Ghar Ghar Ki Baat, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/weaving-tales-with-no-end-or- beginning-20130917-2tx44.html |
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2011 |
Santosh Sakhinala Matters Under the
Skin, A Review, published in Art
etc, volume 3, no.1 |
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2010 |
An Anagram of Making Meanings, an
article in the section Understanding
Art, Time Out, Mumbai, January 08-21,
2010.Rakhi Peswani |
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2009 |
Featured in Younger than Jesus: The
artist directory co-published by the New
Museum and Phaidon. |
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2009 |
Janice Pariat reviews the show
Intertwinings in Art India Magazine, Vol XIV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2009 |
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2009 |
Review, Of material and the 'stitched
word' Art Concerns, Dec 2009-Jan 2010,
Akanksha Rastogi,
http://artconcerns.com/html/review5_akansha.htm |
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2009 |
Review, Flash Art International,
November-December 2009, Rajashree Biswal. |
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2009 |
Matters of Art, e magazine. Woven
Dreams, by Lina Vincent
http://mattersofart.net/August07/exhireview/131.html
September 15, 2009 |
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2009 |
Growing from the Middle... 'Catalogue Text
for Intertwinings, Parul Dave Mukherjee,
Published Cat; Vadehra Art gallery ISBN
978-93-80001-09-8 |
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2009 |
Images, Text and Mutagenesis, Catalogue
Text for Intertwinings, by Avijna
Bhattacharya, 2007
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2007 |
Matters of Art, e magazine. Pointing at Cognitive Experiences by Subbalakshmi Shukla
http://moaseptember.nucleation.net/jan2007rev/5.html |
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2006 |
Time Out, Mumbai. Girl Talk by
Deepanjana Pal. December 2006 |
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2005 |
Art India, National art News Magazine.
Salient Liaison reviewed by Susie Tharu,
Volume X, Issue ii, 2005 |
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2004 |
The Hindu, Hyderabad. Novel Dimension by
Deepa Alexander . December 2004 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/06/stories/2004120600720300.htm |
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