Tara Sabharwal


Tara Sabharwal is an Indian-born, US-based painter and printmaker. Known for her colorful, subtly layered paintings, Sabharwal has had 42 solo shows in the UK, US, India, among others. She has received several awards, including the Joan Mitchell CALL, The British Council Scholarship, and the Gottlieb Foundation awards. Her work is in the collection of The British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum among others.
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Education and career

Sabharwal studied painting at M.S University 1975–1980, and received her master's degree at the Royal College of Art in 1982–1984. She returned to India from 1985 to 1988 and had shows in Delhi and Mumbai and London. From 1988 to 1990 she returned to UK for fellowships, teaching and solo shows. In 1990 Sabharwal visited New York and settled there, while continuing to work and show in the UK and India. She has taught at the Guggenheim museum, Rubin museum, CUNY, Studio in a school, and The Cooper Union in New York City.

Selected exhibitions

An Ocean of Galaxies, Aidron Duckworth Museum, New Hampshire, Float, Wilmer Jennings gallery, New York The Open Window, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi A PARTners, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Georgia US  In Other Rooms, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi Such Different Paths, Galerie Martina Janzen, Düsseldorf Light and the Labrynth, Center for International Cultural exchange, Katsuyama, Japan Life Journeys, V.M. gallery, Karachi, The Dream of Waking Consciousness, Art Heritage Gallery New Delhi Wandering, Michael Oess Galerie, Konstanz, Germany Gentle Shade, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Visions, Laing Art Gallery,
  • Recent Works, Art Heritage Gallery New Delhi

Selected awards

  • 1982    British Council Scholarship and travel grants.
  • 1988    Myles Meehan fellowship
  • 1989    Durham Cathedral fellowship.
  • 2015    CALL, Joan Mitchell foundation,
  • 2016    Individual support grant, Gottlieb Foundation.
  • 2017    Artist in Residence, Atelierhaus Beisinghoff
  • 2018    Belt and Road Project, Guanlan printmaking base,
  • 2019    Visiting Artist Vermont Studio Center,
  • 2019    Residency, MassMoca,

Selected collections

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