Reena Saini Kallat
Born 1973, Delhi, India
The Artist Lives and Work in Mumbai
Education: 1991-96 B.F.A. (Painting), Sir J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Labyrinth of Absences”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2009
”Drift”- Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
2008
”Silt of Seasons”- Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
“Subject to Change without Notice”- Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2006
“Rainbow of Refuse”- Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Singapore
2005
“Black Flute”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
“Black Flute”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002
“The Battlefield Is The Mind”- Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
“Seven Faces of Dust”- Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2000
“Skin”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi
1998
“Orchard of Home grown Secrets”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Group Exhibitions
2012
"India- Lado A Lado"- SESC Belezinho, Brazil
2011
“Red”- Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
“India side by side”- Sao Paulo, Brazil
“The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale”- Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
“Of Gods and Goddesses Cinema Cricket- The New Cultural Icons of India”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Maximum India”- The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
“Samtidigt”- Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
“Roundabout”- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isreal
“Roundabout”- City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
“Iconoclasts and Iconodules”- Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Concurrent India”- Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
“Pandemonium: Art in a time of creativity fever”- Goteborg and Uddevalla, Sweden
“India side by side”- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“India Today”- Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
“La Route de la Soie”- Tri Postal, Lille
“Samtidigt”- Kulterhuset, Stockholm
“Waterways”- Walsh Gallery, Chicago
“The River Project”- Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney
“Roundabout”- City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
“In Transition New Art from India”- Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver
“Bring Me a Lion”- Cecile R. Hunt Gallery, Missouri
“Never Run Away”- Stux Gallery, New York
“The Empire Strikes Back”- Saatchi Gallery, London
“Urban Manners 2”- SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo
2009
“View Points and Viewing points”- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
“Spectrum”- Abu Dhabi
“Milan Galleria”- Triennale Museum, Milan
“Passage to India Part II”- Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba
“Chalo! India A New Era of Indian Art”- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Essl Museum, Vienna
“India Xianzai Contemporary Indian Art”- Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
“Low Blow and Other Species of Confusion”- Stux Gallery, New York
“Indian Narratives in the 21st Century between Memory and History”- Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona
“Body Chatter”- Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008
“Chalo! India A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Japan
“India Moderna”- Ivam Museum, Valencia
“3rd Nanjing Triennale”- Jaeyoung Kang, China
“TEAF” (Taehwagang Eco Art Festival) - Dream River, Korea
“Everywhere is War (And Rumours of it)”- Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Fire Walkers”- Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
“Three Points of View”- Gallery Mirchandani & Steinrucke, Mumbai
“Excavation Memory Myth Membrane”- Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2007
“International Incheon Women Artists”- Biennale, Korea
“Soft Power Asian Attitude”- Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
“Urban Manners”- Hangar Bicocca, Milan
“India Now Contemporary Indian Art between Continuity and transformation”- Spazio Oberdan, Milan
“New Narratives Contemporary Art from India”- Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
“Thermocline of Art New Asian Waves”- ZKM, Germany
2006
“Modern Indian Works on Paper”- Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
The Georgia Museum of Art, USA
“Lille 3000 Maximum City Mumbai”- Lille
“Hungry God Indian Contemporary Art”- Arario Gallery, Beijing
Busan Moma
“India Express Art and Popular Culture”- Art Museum Tennispalace, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
2005
“Mom and Pop Art”- Walsh Gallery, Chicago
“Span”- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
“Indian Paintings of the New Millenium”- Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University
2004
“Contemporary Art from India”- Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
“Zoom! Art in Contemporary India”- The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon
2003
“Crossing Generations Diverge”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
“Hard Copy”- Gallery 88, Kolkata
“Tiranga”- India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Elephant Walks”- Gallery 4A, Sydney
“The Tree from the Seed Contemporary Art from India”- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo
2002
“Crosscurrents”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Reclaim Our Freedom”- Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Crossing Borders”- Gallery Windkracht 13, Holland
2001
“Big River 2”- CCA7 Gallery
“Port of Spain”- Trinidad
“Aom Art on the Move”- Sahmat, New Delhi
1999
“Edge of the Century”- Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
Selected Workshops and Residencies
Vanishing Point, children’s project at the Celebrate Bandra Festival, Mumbai 2009
Collaborative workshop as part of the exhibition Aftershock at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich 2007
Elephant Walks, Youth Arts Project at the Casula Power House Arts Centre, Liverpool, Australia 2003
Collaborated on a Billboard project with Jitish Kallat, Kala Ghoda Art District, Mumbai 2002
Khoj International Artists Workshop, Mysore 2002
Identity and Landscape, residency in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the Boreal Art Nature Centre, Canada 2002
Big River 2, International Artists Workshop organized by CCA7 and the Triangle Arts Trust at Grand Riviere, Trinidad 2001
Talks and Presentations
Talk as part of The River Project at The Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney 2010
Panel discussion moderated by Maria Lantz along with the other participating artists during the exhibition Samtidigt, Kulturhuset, and Stockholm 2010
Panel discussion with artist Gulam Sheikh, co-chair: Sabine B. Vogel, art critic at the Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna 2009
Slide presentation followed by a panel discussion with Nalini Malani and Jayshree Chakravarty, moderated by Nancy Adajania at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai 2008
Slide presentation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2008
Panel discussion with Nalini Malani, Sheba Chhachhi, moderated by Betty Seid at the Chicago Cultural Centre 2007
Lecture at the University Boccini, Milan 2007
Slide presentation at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia USA 2006
Talk at the Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art USA 2006
Slide presentation at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway 2003
Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai 2000