VIBHA GALHOTRA
Born 1978
M.F.A. Kala Bhavan,Viswa Bharti University,Shantiniketan
B.F.A. Government College of Art, Chandigarh
AWARDS,GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS:
Jerusalem International Fellows, Jerusalem, Israel, 2022
Asia Arts Future – Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India 2019 Asia Culture Council Grant, New York, 2017
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Grant, Bellagio, Italy, 2016
Young Women Achievers Award given by Young FICCI Ladies Organisation (YFLO), 2015 Best of Discovery, 2008
Inlaks Foundation Fine Arts Award, 2004
National Scholarship by the Human Resource Department, Government of India, 2003
Artist under 30 Award, 1998 Chandigarh State, Lalit Kala Akademy Award 1998
SOLO EXHIBTIONS & PROJECTS:
2020:
Beyond the Blue- JackShainman Gallery, New York
2019
Who Owns the Water? Multi Disciplinery Dinner performance project, Asia Society, New York
Climacteric – Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, India
2017
Insanity in the Age of Reason – New Delhi, India
2016
Where do we come from ? What are we ? Where are we going ? – A Cook Book project India
Meri Kahani Aankhon ki Jubaani – a visual arts project with Apne Aap Women Worldwide
Land Art Biennial LAM 360° Mongolia
Garden of dreams – a blindfold walk project, Kathmandu, Nepal
2015
Absur –City –Pity –Dity – Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Walk for the Planet – public participatory project, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2014
The Black Cloud Project – public participatory project, Bikaner, India
2013
Sediments and Other Untitled… – Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
Alter – curated by Lucie Fontane, Mk search art gallery, Italy
2012
Utopia of Difference – Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Metropia – Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Re-BirthDay – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Cavour, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2011
Neo Monster – An on-going public art project, displayed at different locations, New Delhi, Hornbill Festival Nagaland India/“Becoming” curated by Suresh Jairam, Colombo Art Biennial, Sri Lanka /Art Riga Latvia/ San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2008
Metropia – Project 88, Mumbai, India
2006
Where Do We Come From? What are we? Where Are We Going? – New Delhi, India
2005
Between Me and Delhi – Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004
WHITE – MS University, Baroda, India
2002
Space within the Space – Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021:
We Do Not Dream Alone – Asia Society Triennale New York
2020:
Down to Earth Gropius Bau, Berlin
Zero Waste -Curated by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta and Lena Fließbach. Museum of Fine Arts -Leipzig
2019:
Brave New World – Jack Shainman Gallery – New York
2018
DELIRIUM // EQUILIBRIUM– Curated by Roobina Karode-Kiran Nader Museum of Art-Delhi,
Art-Poetry:The Last Innocences-Instituto Cervantes-Delhi,
Facing India-Curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp-The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg-Germany,
Mutations-Indo-French Image Encounters curated by Rahaab Allana & Francois Cheval-New Delhi,
Sculpture Park curated by Peter Nagy-Nahargarh Fort-Jaipur-India,
Water + Wisdom- Australia India-RMIT Gallery-Melbourne-Australia
2017
Water Line: A Creative Exchange Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver
THE DARKENED MIRROR: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WATER – San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Unfiltered: An Exhibition About Water William Benton – Museum of Art Connecticut USA Kailash
Cartographies – Sheila C. Johnson Design Center – Parsons School of Design/The New School, New York
Hold…On – Buddha Enlightened Art & World, Bodh Gaya India
2016
Abstract Chronicles – curated by Girish Shahane, OED Gallery, Cochin
Scared Himalaya – New School , New York
2015
Winter in America – The School, Kinderhook, New York
Piece by Piece – Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri
Walking on the Planet – Casa Masaccio / Centro per l’arte Contemporanea, Corso, Italy
2014
Mise En Scène –The School, Kinderhook, NY
Past Tradition – curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, New Delhi
Forms of Activism – curated by Vivan Sundaram & Sasha Altaf, L K A, New Delhi
Multiplicity – City as subject/Matter – curated by Marco Antonini, Nurture Art Gallery, New York
Citizens of Time – curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Dhaka art summit
Bright Noise – curated by Girish Shahane, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
Is there love in this air – Art Oxygen, Mumbai
2013
ICASTICA – Arezzo Biennial – Arezzo Italy
Souvenir – curated by Lucie Fontane, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Sculpture on the Beach – curated by Chus Martinez
Haein Art Dubai, Art project – curated by Art O2 Haeinsa temple, Korea
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post)modern Moment – Gallery OED, Cochin, India
2012
Contemporary Renaissance – Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) Italy
Becoming – Colombo Art Biennale – Sri Lanka “Theertha International Artists Collective”- Colombo, Srilanka
2011
The Indian Parallax or the Doubling of Happiness – curated by Shaheen Merali, Calcutta, India
Modern and Contemporary Art from India – San Jose Museum of Art, California, USA
2010
India Awakening Under the Banyan Tree – Essl Museum, Austria
2009
Aluminum – 4th BAKU Biennale, Azerbaijan
Space Invader – Aicon Art Gallery, London, UK India Xianzai – Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
2008
Best of Discovery – Sh Contemporary, Shanghai, China
Destination Asia: Flying over Stereotypes – Conversation: Artists from Central Asia and South Asia, Dubai
Everywhere Is War (and rumours of war) – curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
Mutant Beauty – curated by Gayatri Sinha, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Rethinking Materiality – Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Walk The Line – Avanthy Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Zeitgeist – Pallete Art Gallery, India. Curated by Latika Gupta
2007
City Cite Site – Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Destination Asia: Non-strict correspondence – organized by Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kazakhstan
2006
Bronze – Gallery Espace, New Delhi
International Exchange exhibition organized by LKA at Syria
Brazier International Artists Workshop UK
2005
Unclaimed Luggage – Artrageous Group Cyprus
Group Exhibiton – Fordsburg Artist Studio (Bag Factory), South Africa
2004
The Twilight Zone of Digital Divide – West-end, New Delhi, India 46th National Annual Art Exhibition
2003
International Mini print de Sarajevo
Lionel Went Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Bharat Bhavan Intl. Print Biennial, Bhopal 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
Public Collections:
Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, India
The Margulies Collection at the WareHouse, Miami, U.S.A. Pizzuti Collection, U.S.A.
Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, Italy Gates Foundation, U.S.A.,
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Essl Museum, Austria
Devi Art Foundation, India
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy Gut Gasteil, an open-air Art Museum, Austria Saga Art College, Japan
Europas Parkas, Lithuania
Residencies, Workshops and Camps
Contemporary Renaissance Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) Italy, 2012 Theertha International Artists Collective,Colombo, Sri lanka, 2012
Workshop Around Khirkee village with Urban Typhoon, Khoj, Delhi, India, 2011 International Sculpture workshop, ITM Universe, Gwalior, India, 2008
Brazier International Artists Workshop, UK, 2006 Fordsburg Artist Studio (Bag Factory) South Africa, 2005 Site specific Workshop at Samode, Jaipur, India, 2004
Gut Gasteil – An organization for art in landscape Austria, 2002 Europas Parkas, Lithuania (Europe) for a symposium, 2001
Lectures and Talks:
2018:
Decolonial aestheSis lab Art History and Visual Culture School of Fine Art Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa
2017
Talk-Art Forum Department of Art and Design Montclair State University, New Jersey USA Presence of an Absence Talk – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Upstream Downstream – William Benton Museum of Art Connecticut, USA Artist Talk: Pizzuti Collection Columbus, OH,United States
2015
ACAW (Asia Contemporary Art Week) Field Meeting, New York
2013
Wake Forest University, North Carolina. South-eastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) , North Carolina
Seminar on the New Media Practices, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, India Pecha Kucha night Kathmandu Art Festival Manthan, Delhi Religare Art Initiative, Delhi