Nalini Malani


		Malani's work is influenced by her experiences as a refugee of the Partition of India. She places inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes under pressure. Her point of view is unwaveringly urban and internationalist, and unsparing in its condemnation of a cynical nationalism that exploits the beliefs of the masses. Hers is an art of excess, going beyond the boundaries of legitimized narrative, exceeding the conventional and initiating dialogue. Characteristics of her work have been the gradual movement towards new media, international collaboration and expanding dimensions of the pictorial surface into the surrounding space as ephemeral wall drawing, installation, shadow play, multi projection works and theatre.


	Education

	1964-69	Diploma in Fine Arts, Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art, Bombay
	1964-67	While still a student, had a studio at the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, Bombay, where artists, musicians, dancers and theatre persons worked individually and as a community.
	1970-72	French Government Scholarship for Fine Arts to study in Paris
	1984-89	Art Fellowship, Government of India

	Residencies

	2005	Lucas Art Residencies , Montalvo Ca., USA
	2003	Civitella Rainieri, Umbertide, Italy
	1999/2000	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
	1999	Lasalle-SIA, Singapore
	1989	USIA Fellowship at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, U.S.A.
	1988	Kasauli Art Centre, Kausali, India

	Selected Individual Exhibitions

	2009	Cassandra, Galerie Lelong, Paris
	2008	Listening to the Shades, Arario Gallery, New York
	2007	Nalini Malani, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
	2007	Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
	2006	Living in Alicetime, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay and Rabindra Bhavan New Delhi, India
	2005 - 06	Exposing the Source:The Paintings of Nalini Malani,A retrospective exhibition Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Ma, U.S.A. .
	2004	Stories Retold, Bose Pacia, New York, U.S.A. read essay by Chaitanya Sambrani
	2002/3	Hamletmachine, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
	2002	Nalini Malani, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India
	2000	The Sacred & The Profane, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India
	1999	Remembering Toba Tek Singh, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, India
	1997	The Job / 1996 Medea, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay
	1992	City of Desires, Gallery Chemould, Bombay

	Selected Group Exhibitions

	2009	MATER, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
	2009	National Galleries of Modern Art, New Delhi/Bangalore/Bombay
	2008/09	The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Kyoto, Seoul
	2008/09	Prospect 1, CAC, New Orleans
	2008	India Moderna, IVAM, Valencia
	2008	Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London
	2008	Revolutions- Forms that Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
	2008	Video Shortlist, Vocatif, Passage de Retz, Paris
	2008	Excavations: Memory/Myth/Membrane, Art Musings Gallery, Bombay
	2007	Frame, Grid, Cell, BodhiArt, Bombay
	2007	Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind – Art in the Present Tense, Italian Pavilion, Giardini, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
	2007	Urban Manners, Hangar Biocca, Milan
	2007	New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
	2006	Cinema of Prayoga, Tate Modern, London
	2006	Local Stories, Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
	2005	T1 - The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin , Italy
	2005	51st Venice Biennale 2005 read interview by Johan Pijnappel
	2005	Recent paintings at the Armory Show, New York
	2005	7th Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E.
	2005	Crossovers & Rewrites: Borders over Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil
	2004	media_city Seoul , International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
	2004	Crossing Currents-video art and cultural identity, Lalit Kala Akademy Galleries, New Delhi, India
	2004	La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
	2004	Minority Report, Aarhus Art Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
	2004	Edge of Desire, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
	2004	Edge of Desire, The Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.
	2004	Zoom, Museu Temporario, Lisbon
	2003	Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
	2003	Body.City, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
	2003	Kalaghoda City Festival, Bombay, India
	2003	Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Millenium Monument, Beijing, China
	1998, 2000, 2003	World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	2002, 1996	Asia - Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
	2001	Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	2001	Century City, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
	2000	Text & Sub-Text, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
	2000, 1987	Havanna Biennial, Havanna, Cuba
	2000	Gwangju Biennial, Guwangju, South Korea
	2000	Hamletmachine, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
	1999	Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
	1999	The Sacred and the Profane, Theater der Welt, Berlin, Gremany
	1998	Private Mythologies, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo, Japan
	997-98	Out of India, Queens Art Museum, New York, U.S.A
	1997	Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
	1997	Self & the World, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi , India
	1997, 95,93, 91, 89	Sahmat exhibitions, travelling show in India
	1996	Traditions/Tensions, The Asia Society, New York / 1998 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
	1996	Containers ’96 Art across the Oceans, Copenhagen, Denmark
	1995	1st Africus Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
	1987, 88,89	Through the Looking Glass, travelling show in India
	1982	Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Art, London, U.K.
	1982	Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K

	Videography

	2007	Remembering Mad Meg, video shadow play, two single channel animations, a series of lights and 8 rotating reverse painted Lexan cylinders, sound, 3 min.
	2005	Mother India-Transactions in the Construction of Pain, five channel video play, sound, 5 min.
	2003	Unity in Diversity, installation, living room setting with flat screen in golden frame on a crimson wall, two lamps and a framed photograph, sound, 7 min.
	2003	Game Pieces, installation, shadow/video play of four connecting wall projections and six rotating reverse painted mylar cylinders, sound, 20 min.
	2002	Transgressions, installation, shadow/video play of three connecting wall projections and four rotating reverse painted mylar cylinders, sound, 7 min.
	2000	Hamletmachine, installation, three wall projections and one floor projection on a bed of salt surrounded with mirror reflecting material, 20 min.
	1999	Stains, single channel animation, 8 min.
	1998	Remembering Toba Tek Singh, installation, four projections on three walls with twelve monitors in twelve tin trunks surrounded with mirror reflecting material, sound, 20 min.
	1997	The Job, theatre play, video projection as part of the setting
	1996	Memory; Record/Erase, single channel animation, sound, 10 min.
	1994	Medeamaterial, single channel recording of theatre play, 56 min.
	1993	Medeamaterial, theatre play with video conference mode
	1992	City of Desires, single channel documentary of a site specific installation, 30 min.

	Installation/Performance Collaborations

	1987		Mural at ‘Shah House’ with Bhupen Khakkar and Vivan Sundaram
	1998		Global Liquidity & 23 images of the Avon Lady Artists’ books with Australian artist Fiona Hall
	1996-97		A project with Dr.Anuradha Kapur, theatre director. Performance/installation, based on Bertolt Brecht’s short story, "THE JOB OR BY THE SWEAT OF THY BROW THOU SHALT FAIL TO EARN THY BREAD", Sponsors and producers, Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay, National Centre of Performing Arts, Gallery Chemould & Sakshi Gallery. 6 shows in Bombay, one show in New Delhi.
	1993-94		A project with Alaknanda Samarth, theatre actress and director, performance/installation based on Heiner Mueller’s "MEDEAMATERIAL" A Max Mueller Bhavan production, in Bombay.

	Selected Bibliography

	2009	Doris von Drathen, Galerie Lelong, Paris.
	2009	Christopher Hart Chambers, Nalini Malani, Flash Art January.
	2008	Robert Storr, Listening to the Shades, Charta, Milan.
	2008	Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 October.
	2007	Aidan Dunne, Looking at India from the Outside, The Irish Times, 31 August.
	2007	Thomas McEvilley and Chaitanya Sambrani, Nalini Malani, IMMA/Charta, Dublin.
	2007	Robert Storr, Nalini Malani, 52nd Venice Biennial.
	2005	Pijnappel, Johan, Nalini Malani Interview, iCon India Contemporary. 51 Venice Biennale Bose Pacia Contemporary Art of India series Vol. 25.
	2004	Devenport, Rhana, Phantasmagoria and the Lanternist, The video/shadow plays of Nalini Malani. Bose Pacia Contempoaray Art of India series vol.20.
	2004	Sambrani, Chaitanya, Apocalypse recalled, The Historical Discourse of Nalini Malani. Bose Pacia Contemporaray Art of India series vol.20.
	2004	Pijnappel, Johan, Indian Video Art: History in Motion, Fukuoka
	2004	Sigwart, Ann, n.paradoxa, vol. 13, London
	2003	McEvilly, Thomas, Nalini Malani at the New Museum - New York, Art in America, November
	2003	Kapur, Geeta, Body.City, House of World Culture, Berlin
	2003	Hoffie, Pat Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights. ANU Humanities Research Centre and Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
		Subramaniam, Radhika. Nalini Malani: Introduction , Artists Pages Remembering Toba Tek Singh. The Wall 2002 , CONNECT 4 .An Arts International Inc. New York Publication.
	2002	Pijnappel, Johan, Video Art in India, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
	2003	Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Spilling Out: Nalini’s recent Video’s Installations, Third Text Nr 62 Vol17 Issue 1 read essay by Ashish Rajadhyaksha
	2003, 2000, 1998	Pijnappel, Johan, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
	2002	Barragan Paco, El arte que viene, (The art to come), Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid
	2002	Raffel, Suhanya, Asia – Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
	2001	Pijnappel, Johan, Unpacking Europe, Towards a Critical Reading, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
	2001	Chadwick Whitney, Women, Art and Society, Thames & Hudson, London
	2001	Pijnappel, Johan, Nalini Malani-a Doomsday Oracle, Art & Asia Pacific Magazine, issue 30, Sydney
	2001	Lynn, Victoria. Reinventing Textiles: Gender and Identity, vol.2. Telos, Winchester
	2000	Sambrani, Chaitanya, Text & Sub-Text, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
	2000	Kapur, Geeta, When was Modernism, Tulika Press, New Delhi
	2000	Tani, Arata, Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju
	2000	Kidd, Courteny. Voiceovers. Art AsiaPacific Quarterly, no.27
	2000	Hamletmachine, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
	2001	Pijnappel, Johan, Gallerie, Vol. 7, Bombay
	1999	Robinson, Joel David. Another Landscape: Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan. Parachute, no.93, January–March, Tokyo
	1999	Pijnappel. Johan, Beam, Bombay English Association Magazine, Vol. 18,January, Bombay
	1999	Lynn, Victoria, Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	1999	McEvilley, Thomas. ‘Picturing India’. Art in America, vol.87, no.11, November, New York
	1999	Sambrani, Chaitanya, catalogue essay, Another Landscape, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo.
	1998	Tatehara, Akira Private Mythologies, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo
	1997	Kapoor, Kamala, Medeaprojekt, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay
	1996	Poshyananda, Apinian, Traditions/Tensions, The Asia Society, New York / 1998 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
	1996	Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Second Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane
	1996	Kapoor, Kamala, Free Trade, Containers ‘96, Art Across The Oceans, Copenhagen
	1996	Kapoor, Kamala, Expressions & Evocations, Contemporary Women Artists of India. Marg, vol.48, no.2.
	1995	Kapur, Geeta 1st Africus Biennial, Johannesburg
	1995	Kapur, Geeta, Body as Gesture, India International Centre, New Delhi
	1995	Kapoor Kamala, Missives from the Streets, Art & Asia Pacific Quarterly, Sydney vol. 2, no. 1, January
	1993	Kapur, Geeta, A Critical Difference, 1993
	1991	Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, The City of Desires, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
	1990	Gokhale, Shanta, Under the Skin, Gallery 7, Bombay
	1987	Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Through the Looking Glass, Roopankar Museum of Contemporary Art, Bhopal
	1982	Elliot, David and Alkazi, Ibrahim, Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
	1980	Kapur, Geeta, His Life, Art Heritage, New Delhi

	Films on the Artist

	1990	Khopkar, Arun, " Figures Of Thought" Bhupen Khakhar, Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Malani.
	1990	Mahler-Wein, Lutz, Film Series "One World Art"
	2001	Lall Ein “The Broken Spine” A Documentary Film On The Artist.
		Bedi, Nandini On Going Project On The Artist "A Biography” Guest Advisor At The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

	Selected Public Collections

	Museum of Modern Art, New York Asia Society Museum, New York The Burger Collection, Hong Kong Hauser and Wirth, London National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai British Museum, London Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Kawaguchi Museum, Saitama Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma. USA

Nalini Malani lives and works in Bombay

Email nalinim2@gmail.com