Hema Upadhyay

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Hema Upadhyay

Hema Upadhyay , until 1998 Hema Hirani (* 1972 in Baroda , India ; † December 11, 2015 in Mumbai ), was an Indian artist who worked with photography , sculpture and installation , among other things .

Life

Upadhyay studied art at the university in her hometown. There she completed the subject of painting with a bachelor's degree and the subject of printing with a Master of Fine Arts in 1997 . Since 1998 she has lived and worked in Mumbai under her new name. There she had her first solo exhibition in the Chemould Gallery that same year . Afterwards she became known through numerous solo and group exhibitions both in India and internationally.

Upadhyay was murdered along with her lawyer in Mumbai on December 11, 2015.

Works

  • 2009: Installation: Indian Highway , 2.4 m × 3.6 m, Serpentine Gallery , London.
  • 2011: Installation: Think Left, Think Right, Think Low, Think High , Center Pompidou , Paris.

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Extra Ordinary Solo Exhibition in Baroda, Faculty of Arts and New Delhi , Vadehra Art Gallery.
  • 2011: Paris-Delhi-Bombay , Center Pompidou, Paris. Group exhibition by 50 Indian and French artists.
  • 2009: Where the Bees Suck, There Suck I , solo exhibition, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome.
  • 2006: Bombay, Maximum City , group exhibition in Tri Postal , Lille , France.
  • 2001: The Nymph and the Adult , solo exhibition, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane , Western Australia and Art Space, Sydney , New South Wales , Australia.

Web links

Commons : Hema Upadhyay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hema Upadhyay murder: UP man confesses, police track ex-husband's calls , indianexpress.com, December 15, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ Indian Summer. The Pompidou looks East for the Season's Best Show in Time Magazine July 11, 2011, pages 44 and 45
personal data
SURNAME Upadhyay, Hema
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirani, Hema (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian artist who worked with photography and installation
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Baroda , India
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2015
Place of death Mumbai , India