Tejal Shah
Tejal Shah (born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations. Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature.
Tejal Shah
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- Name
- Tejal Shah
- Born
- 1979
- Birthplace
- Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
- Education
- RMIT University
- Occupation
- Visual artist, curator
- Nationality
- India
- Languages
- English
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Tejal Shah (born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations. Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature.
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• Name — Tejal Shah • Native Name — तेजल शाह • Born — 1979 • Birthplace — Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India • Education — RMIT University • Occupation — Visual artist, curator
Biography
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Tejal Shah was born in 1979 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. Shah has identified as queer. She has BA degree (2000) in photography from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia; and worked towards a MFA degree from Bard College but did not graduate. She was an exchange student and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1999 to 2000. Her 2006 Hijra Fantasy series of work highlighted the Hijra community (eunuchs, intersex people, and/or transgender people) of Bangalore and Mumbai. In 2012, for Documenta (13) in Kassel, she created the five-channel video installation "Between the Waves" featuring two women wearing horns and exploring a surreal landscape. Shah's artwork has been shown widely, including Global Feminisms (2007) at Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York; "India: Public Places/Private Spaces" (2008) at Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey; Documenta (13) (2012) in Kassel, Germany; and "Everyone Is an Artist: Cosmopolitan Exercises With Joseph Beuys" (2021) at K20 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her work was also part of the group exhibition "Facing India" (2018) at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg, Germany; other artists included Vibha Galhotra, Bharti Kher, Prajakta Potnis, Reena Saini Kallat, and Mithu Sen. Shah's work is in public museum collections include at the Centre Pompidou.
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- 1.Tejal Shah: Unbecoming. e-flux.com.
- 2.Verghese, Anisha. Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara. Drain Magazine, Vol. 17 (2). 2021. 2469-3022.
- 3.Seid, Betty. New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India. Mapin Publishing. 115. 2007. 978-81-88204-82-3.
- 4.Giancarlo Politi. Tejal Shah. Flash Art (magazine). 258-260. 8. 2008.
- 5.Sengupta, Somini. In India, a Busy Fair and a Spirited Art Scene. The New York Times. 2011-01-30. 0362-4331.
- 6.Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. Indian summer: la jeune scène artistique indienne : du 7 octobre au 31 décembre 2005. 245. 2005. 978-2-84056-183-5.
- 7.Fine Arts Press. Art and AsiaPacific, Issues 64-65. 64. 2009.
- 8.Tejal Shah. Kunstinstituut Melly. 2013.
- 9.Sinha, Gayatri. India: Public Places, Private Spaces : Contemporary Photography and Video Art. Newark Museum. 157. 2007. 978-81-85026-82-4.
- 10.Catling, Charlotte Skene. The Art of Protest. Architectural Review. 2012-09-28.
- 11.Pande, Alka. Indian strokes. The Tribune. 30 September 2012.
- 12.Muller, Dena. Global Feminisms curated by Maura Reilly and Linda NochlinGlobal Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 33. 2. 471–474. 2008-01-01. 0097-9740.
- 13.Ehrlich, Cheri Eileen. Adolescent girls' responses to feminist artworks in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Visual Arts Research. 37. 2. 55–70. 2011-12-22.
- 14.Art in Review. The New York Times. 2008-01-04. 0362-4331.
- 15.Smith, Roberta. Art Show as Unruly Organism. The New York Times. 2012-06-14. 0362-4331.
- 16.Woodward, Daisy. Spring Is Here: Brilliant Things To Do This March. AnOther. 2021-03-01.
- 17.Condé Nast. Reena Saini Kallat has a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Architectural Digest India. 2018-04-13.
- 18.Tejal Shah, I Love my India, 2003. Centre Pompidou.
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