Reena Saini Kallat

Indian artist
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Reena Saini Kallat
Born1973
New Delhi, India
Resting place48.8584 N,2.2945 E
NationalityIndian
Alma materSir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art
Known forVisual arts, installation art, Contemporary Art
SpouseJitish Kallat
Websitewww.reenakallat.com

Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973) is an Indian visual artist. She currently lives and works in Mumbai.[1]

Early life

Reena Saini Kallat was born in 1973 in Delhi, India. She graduated from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in 1996 with a B.F.A. in painting. Her practice spanning drawing, photography, sculpture and video engages diverse materials, imbued with conceptual underpinnings. Her works reference history, collective memory and identity. Using the motif of the rubberstamp both as object and imprint, signifying the bureaucratic apparatus, Reena has worked with officially recorded or registered names of people, objects, and monuments that are lost or have disappeared without a trace, only to get listed as anonymous and forgotten statistics. Lines of Control is a recurring element in her works led by the impact that partition had on her family who were displaced from Lahore. In her works made with electrical cables, wires usually serving as conduits of contact that transmit ideas and information, become painstakingly woven entanglements that morph into barbed wires like barriers, while another series where she uses salt as a medium explores the tenuous yet intrinsic relationship between the body and the oceans, highlighting the fragility and unpredictability of existence. To expose the arbitrariness of territorial-skirmishes, Reena frequently draws attention to ecosystems and indigenous vegetation.

Career

She has widely exhibited across the world in venues such as Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Tate Modern, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Vancouver Art Gallery; Saatchi Gallery, London; SESC Pompeia and SESC Belenzino in São Paulo; Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona; ZKM Karlsruhe in Germany; Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; IVAM Museum, Spain; Busan MOMA; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland; Chicago Cultural Centre amongst many others. She lives and works in Mumbai.

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Artist residencies

In 2002 Kallat was an artist-in-residence in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the Boreal Art and Nature Centre in Canada.[1] In 2011 she was awarded an IASPIS residency to work and study in Gothenburg, Sweden.[1]

Awards

Kallat has been the recipient of a number of awards, including:

Collections

Reena's work is held in the following public and private collections:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Biography of Reena Kallat", Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Reena Saini Kallat - Artist's Profile", Saatchi Gallery, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Offsite:Reena Saini Kallat". Vancouver Art Gallery. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Hyphenated Lives | 11 September - 10 October 2015". Chemould Prescott Road. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Web Exhibition Reena Saini Kallat". MOCA. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  6. ^ Williamson, Beth (13 January 2023). "Reena Kallat". Sculpture. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Reena Saini Kallat: Common Ground". Compton Verney. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Reena Saini Kallat: Leaking Lines". Firstsite. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  9. ^ Ayaz, Shaikh (15 August 2023). "Reena Saini Kallat's Switzerland debut poses questions about disaster and conflict". The National. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Kunstmuseum Thun | Reena Saini Kallat. Deep Rivers Run Quiet". Kunstmuseum Thun | Reena Saini Kallat. Deep Rivers Run Quiet. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Record-breaking visitor numbers at Lunuganga | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  12. ^ "When all roads led to Lunuganga". Print Edition - The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Fluid Geographies — To Lunuganga". lunuganga.garden. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Indian painting exhibition to open at Fairfield University", Fairfield University, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  15. ^ "Mom and Pop". Walsh Gallery. 2005. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  16. ^ "Chalo! India: About the exhibition", Mori Art Museum, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  17. ^ "India Xianzi: Contemporary Indian Art at MoCA Shanghai", Art Culture, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  18. ^ "Reena Saini Kallat: Vancouver Biennale", Vancouver Biennale, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  19. ^ "Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever", e-flux, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  20. ^ "Artists - Maximum India", Kennedy Center, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  21. ^ "India: Art Now is the biggest exhibition in Danish art museum Arken's History", Art Daily, Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  22. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ^ "Woven Chronicle". 10 January 2017.
  24. ^ "BUSAN BIENNALE | Busan Biennale 2016 | Artist & Artworks | Project 2". busanbiennale.org. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017.
  25. ^ "An Exhibition on Migration Hits Home at the ICA Boston". Boston Art Review. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  26. ^ "The Idea of The Acrobat | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  27. ^ Levin, Jennifer (18 September 2020). "Bringing the world home: "DISPLACED: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crisis"". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  28. ^ "Out of Place". Santa Fe Reporter. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  29. ^ "The Bangkok Art Biennale Returns with 'Escape Routes'". The Artling. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  30. ^ "Ai Weiwei's 'Safe Passage' Debuts in U.S. With 'When Home Won't Let You Stay: Art and Migration' Group Exhibition and a Postcommodity Commission at Minneapolis Institute of Art". ArtfixDaily. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  31. ^ "Burlington Contemporary - Reviews". contemporary.burlington.org.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  32. ^ "Modus Operandi III: Together Alone | 11 August - 10 September 2022". Chemould Prescott Road. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  33. ^ "[KVRT] Back to the Roots – Reena Kallat & Melanie Siegel". Kunstverein Reutlingen (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  34. ^ "Was MACHT mit uns macht". Vögele Kultur (in Swiss High German). 14 November 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  35. ^ "Reena Saini Kallat, Untitled, 2023". Chemould Prescott Road. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  36. ^ "No But Where Are You Really From? – new UK-wide public art show examines identity". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  37. ^ "Tussen grenzen | Museum Arnhem". www.museumarnhem.nl. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  38. ^ "Traces of Place | 13 July - 19 August 2023". Chemould Prescott Road. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  39. ^ "Nature Morte". Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  40. ^ "After Hope: Videos of Resistance". pem.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  41. ^ "Birds beyond borders". www.indulgexpress.com. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  42. ^ "The Culture Story - Art Salon of the 21st Century". theculturestory.co. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  43. ^ Bailey, Stephanie (27 July 2023). "Reena Saini Kallat's Complex Hybridity". Ocula. Retrieved 27 July 2023.

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