Reena Saini Kallat

Early life

Career

Select solo exhibitions

• Shifting Ecotones, Moca London, London Common Ground, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
• Leaking Lines, Firstsite, Colchester Deep Rivers Run Quiet, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
• ''Fluid Geographies, Outdoor Project for the 75th anniversary of Geoffrey Bawa’s Estate at Lunuganga, Bentota, Sri Lanka''

Select group exhibitions

• Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, South Korea Excavation: Memory/Myth/Membrane, Museum Gallery, Mumbai Three Points of view, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrucke, Mumbai
• 3rd Nanjing Triennale, China India Moderna, IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan Indian Narratives in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History, Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion, Stux gallery, New York INDIA XIANZAI: Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
• Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
• Milan Galleria, Triennale Museum, Milan View Points and Viewing points – Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists from India, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London In Transition: New Art from India, Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, Goteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Maximum India, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington Samtidigt, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland] India: Art Now, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark JJ's 90s – The Time of Change, Mumbai Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai] Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Minsheng Art Museum, BeijingAperture, Indian Summer Festival, Old Canadian Pacific Railway Station, VancouverThe Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, China Art Museum, ShanghaiA Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, MumbaiOne and one make eleven , Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China counters 2015, Spaces in Transition, CST Terminus, MumbaiKalaghoda Art Festival, MumbaiInsecurities: tracing Displacement and Shelter, organized by Sean Anderson and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, 10th Busan Biennale, curated by Cheagab Yun, Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan, South Korea Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennial, curated by Alnoor Mitha, Sri Lanka Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Cultural Ronneby, Sweden Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India, curated by Ratan Vaswani, CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya), Mumbai The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, NGMA- Jaipur House, New Delhi
• I don't want to be there when it happens, curated by Eugenio Viola Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia
• Memories of Partition, part of the New North and South network, Manchester Museum, UK
• Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai
• On the Horizon the Shadow Speaks another story' title Nuit Blanche Toronto at Drake Commissary curated by November Paynter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
• Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
• Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Norrtalje Museum + Konsthall, Sweden
• Borders: Us and Them, curated by Qian Lin, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, China
• Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
• CONNECTING THREADS: Textiles in Contemporary Practice, Curated by Tasneem Mehta and Puja Vaish, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, CityU Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
• Untold Stories Manifesto, Curated by Valentina Levy, 2nd edition of Something Else OFF Biennale Cairo, Egypt
• Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Curated by Peter Nagy, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Art Gallery of Alberta
• Fearless: Contemporary South Asian Art, curated by Natalie Seiz, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Modus Operandi, curated by Shireen Gandhy, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
• Tate Exchange – Building an Art Biennale, curated by Sunil Maghnani and Ed D’Souza, Tate Modern London
• Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• Facing India, curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• Asymmetrical Objects, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• Sensorium: The End is Only the Beginning, Sunaparanta, Goa
• 2020 Horniman Circle Gardens, Mumbai, India
• When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• 5 Artists 5 Projects, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
• Tomorrow's Tigers, Specially Commissioned Rugs, Royal Academy of Art, Academicians Room, London
• 'Open Borders', 14th Curitiba International Biennial, curated by Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda, Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil
• MODUS OPERANDI II, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
• Fracture/Fiction: Selections from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Malaysia
• Continental Shift: Contemporary Art and South Asia, curated by Rodney James, Bunjil Place Gallery, Victoria, Australia
• The Construction of the Possible, curated by the team at Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art, 13TH Havana Biennial, Cuba
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
• Alteration/Activation/Abstraction, curated by Betty Seid, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, National Gallery of Canada
• Making Art: Materials & Technology, Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai
• Distilled Blueprints, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Alembic group, Baroda
• Tomorrow's Tigers, Specially Commissioned Rugs, Laura Culpan + Susie Allen co-directors Artwise Sotheby's, London
• ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, National Palace Museum, Taiwan
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, The Art Museum of the University of Toronto
• The Idea of the Acrobat, Bikaner House, New Delhi Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories, curated by Heike Munder and Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront The Global Refugee Crisis, curated by Irene Hofmann and Brandee Caoba, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico Unflattening, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea TRILOGY: After Hope, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA Escape Routes, curated by Apinan Poshyananda, Bangkok Art Biennale Visions from India: 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Curated by Catherine Walworth, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, The McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 3rd International Biennial of Asuncion Paraguay Curatorial team: Dannys Montes de Oca, Bettina Brizuela, Damian Cabrera and Omar Estrada, Paraguay Women artists from Asia: Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery Cheonan Holding Space, South South Veza, Online Viewing Rooms by 50+ galleries On l Site, Collaborative project organised by four Indian galleries, presented by Nature Morte at Bikaner House, New Delhi After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Lee Gallery, South Carolina, USA Tree Story curated by Charlotte Day, MUMA Melbourne When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, Cantor Arts Centre at Stanford University Making Worlds, Sydney Modern Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Tomorrow’s Tigers, Sotheby's, UK Yet, With Love curated by Seolhui Lee, Podo Museum, South Korea Inner life of things: Around Anatomies and Armatures curated by Roobina Karode, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida Modus Operandi lll: Together Alone Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Legal Alien curated by Meera Menezes, Bikaner House, New Delhi Back to the Roots – Reena Kallat & Melanie Siegel, curated by Julia Berghoff, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany What POWER does to us – About privileges, risks and opportunities, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland CheMoulding FRAMING FUTURE ARCHIVES No But Where Are You Really From?, Public Art Project supported by The Gallery and Artichoke Trust, UK Between Borders, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands Traces of Place, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai A Demonstration of Ornamentation, Nature Morte, New Delhi RHIZOME Tracing Ecocultural Identities, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, USA Thinking Historically in the Present Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
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Artist residencies

Awards

• Gladstone Solomon Award
• Bombay Art Society Merit Certificate
• Second Prize Government Award, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art
• Harmony Award
• YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010–11, Delhi
• ZegnArt Public Award in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category, Delhi

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