Nasreen Mohamedi

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Nasreen Mohamedi (* 1937 in Karachi ; † 1990 in Kihim , Maharashtra ), grew up in Mumbai , was an Indian artist .

Life

Mohamedi studied at the St. Martins School of Art in London from 1954 to 1957 . She had her first exhibition in 1961 at Galerie 59 in Bombay. She then attended the Guillards Atelier in Paris until 1963 . From 1972 to 1988 she taught at the Faculty of Arts in Baroda , India. The media of her art are drawing and photography. She exhibited at the 1975 Triennial in New Delhi and the 1985 exhibition Indian Artists in France at the Center National de Arts Plastiques in Paris. Mohamedi died of Parkinson's disease in 1990 .

Group exhibitions

  • 1975 Third Triennial, New Delhi, India
  • 1985 Artists Indiens en France, Center National de Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
  • 1997 Out of India, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • 2000 Drawing Space, inIVA, London, UK
  • 2003–2004 Description and image The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960–1982–0 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • 2005 The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960–1982 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
  • 2006 Description and image APT5 - The 5th Asia – Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art - Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD
  • 2007 Description and image Documenta 12 - Documenta, Kassel
  • 2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US and travel to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2008–9; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US, 2008; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, US, 2007
  • 2007 Lines, Grids, Stains, Words (Selected drawings from the Museum of Modern Art), New York, NY, US and travel to Museu Serralves , Porto, Portugal, 2008 and Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2008–9
  • 2007 Contemporary Photography from South Asia, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • 2008 India Moderna - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
  • 2008 Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2009 Excerpts from Diary Pages - Talwar Gallery, New York, NY

Solo exhibitions

In addition to numerous group exhibitions, you could see her works among others:

  • 1961 Gallery 59, Bombay, India
  • 1991 Nasreen in Retrospect, Jehangir Art Gallery , Bombay, India
  • 2003 Nasreen Mohamedi - Photographs 1960s to 1980s - Talwar Gallery - New York, New York, NY
  • 2004 Nasreen Mohamedi - Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
  • 2005 Nasreen Mohammedi - Nature Morte, New Delhi
  • 2005 Nasreen Mohamedi - Lines among Lines - The Drawing Center, New York, NY
  • 2008 the grid, unplugged. Important Drawings from the 1970 - Talwar Gallery - New York, New York, NY

The works of art are traded at Chatterjee & Lal , Mumbai , Chemould Prescott Road , Mumbai, Talwar Gallery in New Delhi and New York .

Works

  • The Grid Unplugged: Drawings of Nasreen Mohamedi , with essays by Geeta Kapur, John Yau, Anders Kreuger, Deepak Talwar; 2009, New York: Talwar Gallery Publication. ISBN 9788190877855 (hardcover)
  • Lines among lines: The Drawing Center , with essays by Susette Min, 2005, New York, NY: Drawing Center Publication
  • Drawing space: contemporary Indian drawing (with Sheela Gowda, NS Harsha), London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2000, ISBN 1899846298 (pbk.)
  • Nasreen in retrospect , Bombay: Ashraf Mohamedi Trust, 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Mohamedi, Nasreen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Kihim , Maharashtra