Rakhi Peswani
2015
Sep - Oct : Continuum Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
http://www.vadehraart.com/exhibition/viewDetails/143
2013
Jan - Mar : Anatomy of Silence at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
http://www.guildindia.com/SHOWS/Anatomy-RakhiPeswani/works.htm
2011
Matters Under the Skin under Asia One, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Guild Art Gallery. May 2011
2009
Intertwinings at Vadehra Art Gallery, Okhla, New Delhi. August-September 2009.
http://www.vadehraart.com/exhibition/viewDetails/37
2007
Recent works at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, India. Dec 2006
2016
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* Final Review, at G-159 art space, Yelahanka N.T, Bangalore. (Apr 9th - 18th)
* Trans- Feminism, Alternative Perspective and Beyond. Curated by Narae Jin, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi. (Feb - Mar)
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2015
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* Inbox Curated by George Martin PJ. Hill Fort palace, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad. (Oct)
* Impulses in Drawing curated by Shivangi Singh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. (Jul - Aug)
* Memoir at The Loft at Lower Parel. (Aug)
* The Guild Collection II - Outremer. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Guild Art Gallery, Alibaug, Mumbai. March to May,
* India Art Fair, with The Guild Art Gallery, Vadehra Art Gallery, The Loft Gallery, at New Delhi.
2014
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* Drawing 2014, Curated by Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura Jois. Espace Art Gallery, New Delhi
* The LOFT Anniversary Show.
* START Art Fair at Saatchi Art Gallery, London, with The Loft Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Colombo Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Jan - Feb)
* India Art Fair, with Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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2013
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* Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC.
* Ghar Ghar ki Baat (Tales from Two Homes), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia. (September)
* 'Zones of Contact' curated by Vidya Sivadas, Akansha Rastogi and Deeksha Nath, at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, UP.
2012
* 'Porous' a group show Curated by Vidya Sivadas, at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. September 2012
2011
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* "Generation in Transition: New Art from India," at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Vilnius Art Centre, Lithuania.
* 'Drawings' at Chemould Art Gallery, Mumbai. August
* 'Turn of the Tide' with Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore. July
* India Art Summit, January 2011, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
* Art Stage Singapore, with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2010
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* "Notes on the (Dis)appearance of the Real" ,at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, October 2010.
* "I Think, Therefore Graffit...", at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, New York, August
* Reverie , a group show at Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai. July 2010
* Triad: Introspection, Observation and Tradition, an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, at Lovel and Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Colorado. (June-Aug)
* 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. (Mar -Apr)
* Roots; Group show commemorating 25 years of Sakshi Gallery, at The Park, Chennai Jan 2010
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2009
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* Sculpture at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. Dec 09- Jan 2010
* The New Vangaurds, at The Guild Art Gallery New York and Saffron Art, September- October
* Analytical Engine Group Show Curated by Heidi Fitchner. At Bose Pacia, Kolkata. Jan-Feb
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2008
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* Participated at Art Asia Miami, with the Guild Art Gallery, Booth 160. December 4-7, Miami, Florida.
* 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
* Parables of the Thread. A group show curated by Jayaram Poduval. At The Loft, Mumbai. November 2008
* Through a Glass, Darkly; Reflections on the Self Portrait. Group Show at The Guild Art Gallery. October 2008
* Filament A group show commemorating 5 Years of Peers Residency at Khoj, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, (Aug)
* Participated in the Hong Kong Art Fair with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art(FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery (May)
* Inner Vision, Group show curated by Subbalakshmi Shulka, at The Guild Art Gallery, New York (Mar)
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2007
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Beyond Images, Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda, Gujarat, India, October 2007
2003
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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.
2007​
Emerging Artist Award by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. Sep 2007
2006​
Inlaks Scholarship for the UNIDEE in residence at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. May 2006
2003​​
National Merit Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, HRD, Govt. of India. 2003 - 2005
Currently
Visiting Associate Professor at School of Culture and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
2015-16
Final year Jury for BFA and MFA students, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda.
2015-16
Visiting Faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.
Visiting Faculty at Acharya Institute of Art and Design, Bangalore.
2012-2014
Full time faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.
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
2011
Visiting Faculty at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, for a workshop titled 'Presence of the Past'. March 2011
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
2009
Guest Faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology. August-Dec 2009
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
2009
Visiting faculty at Government college of Fine Arts, Trissur, University of Calicut.
2009
Visiting Faculty at Raja Ravi Verma College of Fine Art, Mavelikara, Feb 2009 University of Kerala.
2007
Part Time project Fellow with Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. March-August 2007
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
2011
Presentations and display of work from the project Bodies/Subterrain, at Vrije Akademie, Den Haag, The Netherlands. October 2011.
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
2013
Artist in residence with Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC.
2013
Artist in residence with Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2011
Artist in Residence with Kosmopolis Den Haag, at The Hague, The Netherlands. Sep-Dec 2011
2007
Artists' residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Sanskrithi Pratishthan, New Delhi. Dec 2007-Feb 2008
2006
UNIDEE in residency, at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy. July- October 2006. http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/unidee2006/index.htm
2003
'PEERS-2003', residency invitation from KHOJ, New . Delhi. June - August 2003
2013
Fruits of Labor (A Monument to Exhaustion) at Fiber Visions Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, PRC
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.
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.
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
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.
2006
Real Memories, Imaginary Places. A project in collaboration with Liron Shua (Photographer, Barcelona) at Cittadellarte for Botto Giuseppe Textile industry, Valle Mosso, Italy.
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.
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
2014
A Sharp Needle, Interview with Giridhar Khasnis, Indian Contemporary Art Journal, Volume 13, 2014
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
2011
Santosh Sakhinala Matters Under the Skin, A Review, published in Art etc, volume 3, no.1
2010
An Anagram of Making Meanings, an article in the section Understanding Art, Time Out, Mumbai, January 08-21, 2010.Rakhi Peswani
2009
Featured in Younger than Jesus: The artist directory co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon.
2009
Janice Pariat reviews the show Intertwinings in Art India Magazine, Vol XIV, Issue III, Quarter III, 2009
2009
Review, Of material and the 'stitched word' Art Concerns, Dec 2009-Jan 2010, Akanksha Rastogi, http://artconcerns.com/html/review5_akansha.htm
2009
Review, Flash Art International, November-December 2009, Rajashree Biswal.
2009
Matters of Art, e magazine. Woven Dreams, by Lina Vincent
http://mattersofart.net/August07/exhireview/131.html September 15
2009
Growing from the Middle... 'Catalogue Text for Intertwinings, Parul Dave Mukherjee, Published Cat; Vadehra Art gallery ISBN 978-93-80001-09-8
2009
Images, Text and Mutagenesis, Catalogue Text for Intertwinings, by Avijna Bhattacharya, 2007
Matters of Art, e magazine. My work : Re-winding the modern
http://www.mattersofart.com/features80.html February 21, 2007
Indian Express, National Newspaper. Arts New Clothes by Georgina Maddox,
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/20290.html Sunday, January 07, 2007
2007
Matters of Art, e magazine. Pointing at Cognitive Experiences by Subbalakshmi Shukla http://moaseptember.nucleation.net/jan2007rev/5.html
2006
Time Out, Mumbai. Girl Talk by Deepanjana Pal. December 2006
2005
Art India, National art News Magazine. Salient Liaison reviewed by Susie Tharu, Volume X, Issue ii, 2005
2004
The Hindu, Hyderabad. Novel Dimension by Deepa Alexander . December 2004 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/06/stories/2004120600720300.htm