Biography
Yamini Nayar (b. 1975, Rochester, NY)
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Education
| 2005 1999 | MFA, Photography School of Visual Arts, New York, NY BFA, Photography Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2019 | Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, San Francisco, CA, ‘If stone could give’ |
| 2018 | Copeland Gallery, Peckham 24, London, United Kingdom, ‘Cut, Bend, Pull, Thrust’ |
| 2016 | Yamini Nayar, Thomas Erben Gallery and Jhaveri Contemporary at Collaborations: NADA + Art Cologne, Germany |
| 2015 | Survey 2005 – 2015, Thomas Erben Gallery at India Art Fair, New Delhi |
| 2013 | an axe for a wing-bone, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2012 | Harpoon, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai |
| 2011 | Head Space, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (solo exhibition) |
| 2010 | Yamini Nayar, Cincinnati Art Academy (solo exhibition) |
| 2009 | Arrested Views: Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Yamini Nayar and Shrestha Premnath, Bose Pacia, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2018 | Broken Lines, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 140 Maiden Land, curated by Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CAAspirational Architectures, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2017 | Yamini Nayar and Asim Waqif, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai |
| 2016 | Unsuspending Disbelief, Logan Gallery at University of Chicago, Illinois |
| 2015 | Imagine Reality, RAY 2015 Biennial, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, Ritter Art Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida Formal Relations, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York (curators Kamrooz Aram & Murtaza Vali) A Room of One’s Own, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Approaching Abstraction, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai The Return to Reason, Gallery Wendy Norris, San Francisco, California Enhanced, University of South Florida Institute for Research in Art, Tampa, Florida (curator Noel Smith) |
| 2014 | Doublebind: Art of the South Asian Diaspora, William Paterson University, New Jersey |
| 2013 | if color, then also dimension; if flatness, then texture, etc., LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California |
| 2012 | Fact/Fission, Aicon Gallery, New York (curator Nitin Mukul) Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia second nature: abstract photography then and now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts What Do You Believe In, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, New York (curator Amy Smith-Stewart) |
| 2011 | The Influentials: SVA Notable Female Alumni, School of Visual Arts, New York (curator Amy Smith-Stewart) Moving Index, ArtOffice.org (curator Courtney Martin) Collectors Guide Vol. 2, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (curators Jon Feinstein and Amani Olu) Manual for Treason, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (editor Murtaza Vali) |
| 2010 | Tough Pictures, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (curator James Crump) The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London New Photography, Kyunbrook National University Art Museum, Korea Object Lessons, New York Photography Festival, New York (curator Vince Aletti) Conspiracy (with Raqs Media Collective and Susanta Mandel), Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India Punctum II, Lakereen Gallery, Mumbai (curator Arshiya Lokhandwala) 31 Women in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, New York (curators Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein) Bring me a Lion, Webster University, Webster Groves, Missouri (curators Dr. Jeffrey Hughes and Dana Turkovic) Accented, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (curator Murtaza Vali) |
| 2009 | Good Looking, Grey Noise Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan (curator Atteqa Ali) We Would Like to Thank (Again) the Curators Who Wish to Remain Anonymous, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris My Little India, Marella Gallery, Beijing |
| 2008 | Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York Thomas Erben at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai Firewalkers, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York Exploding the Lotus, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida (curators Jaishri Abichandani and Jane Hart) ExitArt, New York (Benefit Auction) SAWCC, New York (Benefit Auction) |
| 2007 | First Left, Second Right, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (with Abhishek Hazra and Kiran Subbaiah) Sultana’s Dream, ExitArt, New York (curator Jaishri Abichandani) Young Indian Artists, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Australia (curator Peter Nagy) Erasing Borders, Queens Museum, New York SAWCC, New York (Benefit Auction) Rush Arts Benefit, Rush Arts, New York |
| 2006 | The Kayu Project, Onishi Gallery, New York (curator Carol Pereira) This One Time, Kiana Malakzadeh Gallery, New York Friends of Fulbright India Auction, BosePacia, New York |
| 2005 | Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, New York (curators Jaishri Abichandani and Prerana Reddy) More or Less: Generating Meaning Through Process, Rush Arts Gallery, New York (curator Derrick Adams) hrlm: pictures, (video installation in collaboration with Greg Tate), Studio Museum of Harlem, New York Empire’s Feast, PH Gallery, New York (curator Jenny Ham) |
| 2004 | Territories, Gallery Arts India, New York Blow the Conch, PS 122, New York (curator Nitin Mukul) |
| 2003 | Through Customs, BosePacia, New York (curators Shamim Momin and Raina Lampkin-Fielder) Rye Center, New York (performance with Kalikut Root) |
| 2002 | Black Tea, CBGB’s 313 Gallery, New York (performance with Kalikut Root) Women in Wartime, The Interart Annex, New York |
| 1999 | RISD Graduation Invitational, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Detroit, Michigan Thesis Show: Detroit, 1974, Red-Eye Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island |
Bibliography
| 2018 | “Raiders of the new art”, livemint, February, 2018 |
| 2017 | Cotter, Holland, “10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side”, The New York Times, April 2017 |
| 2016 | Jhaveri, Shanay, ed. Chandigarh is in India, Mumbai: The Shoestring Publisher, April 2016 Cultural Theorist Timotheus Vermeulen’s Favorite Works From NADA + ART COLOGNE COLLABORATIONS 2016, Artspace.com, April 6 Mahajan, Esha. Harper’s Bazaar India, April 2016 Ray, Sharmistha. Hit List, Elle India, January 2016 |
| 2015 | Soleimani, Sheida. Young Artist Sheida Soleimani Interviews Her ‘Far-Away Mentor,’ Yamini Nayar, HuffingtonPost.com, March 31, |
| 2013 | Sardesai, Abhay. A Heap of Broken Images, Art India, Volume XVII, issue III, Quarter III Akel, Joseph. Yamini Nayar, Artforum.com, December 13 Cotter, Holland. Yamini Nayar; ‘An Axe For a Wing-bone,’ Art in Review, The New York Times, December 6 Aletti, Vince. Yamini Nayar, Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, December 2 Knoblauch, Loring. Yamini Nayar, an axe for a wing-bone @ Thomas Erben, Collector Daily, November 26 Lee, Denise. Migrating Identities, The Daily Californian, July 11 |
| 2012 | Pal, Deepanjana. 25 to Watch: Yamini Nayar, Elle India, November 2012 Sand, Olivia. Yamini Nayar, The Asian Art Newspaper, May 2012 Blokland, Sara and Asmara Pelupessy, eds. UNFIXED: Postcolonial Perspectives in Photography, Amsterdam, UNFIXED Projects and Jap Sam Books, April 2012 D’Mello, Roselyn. Photographer Yamini Nayar on Her New Show at Amrita Jhaveri Projects, Blouin Artinfo.com, March 30, 2012 Nagree, Zeenat. Boom and Bust, TimeOut Mumbai, March 16-29, 2012 Gunnupuri, Aarthi. The Break-Up: Four Words to Drop at Yamini Nayar’s First Solo Show in India, Vogue India, March 2012 McGrath, Daniel. Yamini Nayar at Amrita Jhaveri Projects, Mumbai Boss, March 28, 2012 Yamini Nayar: New York, Art Papers, January/February Doran, Anne. Yamini Nayar: Thomas Erben, Art in America, February Thirukode, Meenakshi. Yamini Nayar: Head Space, Whitewall Magazine, January 9 Hall, Emily. Yamini Nayar: Thomas Erben, Artforum, January |
| 2011 | Artist to Watch, Howard Hurst, Art Economist Magazine, volume 1, issue 10 Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, November 21 Manual for Treason, editor Murtaza Vali, Sharjah Biennial Art In Review: Always the Young Strangers, Holland Cotter, New York Times, June 1 Always the Young Strangers, Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, June 1 Yamini Nayar, Matt Morris, Art Papers Magazine, Reviews Section, Mar/Apr Take On Art, OUEVRE, January Ten to Watch, Republic of Brown, January |
| 2010 | Escape to Experimental Places, Matt Morris, Citybeat, December Feature, James Crump, PhotoPages, December Impostors of Evidence, Aveek Sen, The Telegraph India, August 7 A Lens-Worthy Construction, (artist profile) Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, Verve Magazine, March Out of the Darkroom, Vince Aletti, Now Phillips de Pury, p. 47, March 6 The Empire Strikes Back, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, February 2 The Empire Strikes Back, Free Art London, January |
| 2009 | World’s Coming Apart, (lead review) Abhay Sardesai, Art India Magazine, volume XIV, issue 1, July Yamini Nayar, Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, May 4 Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, May 8 Yamini Nayar; Intimate Theater: A Soliloquy of Dislocations, Wynwood Art Magazine, April, Sharmistha Ray International Spotlight: Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar at Thomas Erben, InvestartIndia.com, May Swapan Seth, Wallstreet Journal, March |
| 2008 | Ten Hottest Women Artists Now, Vogue India, December Erben Legend, TimeOut Mumbai, August, Deepanjana Pal East Wind A’Blowin, New Times, April 30, Michael Mills |
| 2007 | Zenana as the Public Sphere, Wynwood Art Magazine, September, Uzma Rizvi Gay City News, Andrew Robinson, February 16 South Asian Art: Global Citizen Artists, Mood Indico, Winter 2007, Terence Donnellan |
| 2006 | Ruin / Monument, Shifter Magazine, Fall 2006 Yamini Nayar and Shreshta Premnath, TimeOut NY, August 17-23 Yamini Nayar and Shreshta Premnath, Flavorpill NYC, Dawn Chen, issue #323 A Multitude of Voices Asian Art News, January, Priya Malhotra |
| 2005 | Taking a Magical Flight through Modern India, NY Times, March 5, Holland Cotter Fatal Love, Flash Art, International, May-June, Courtney Martin Fatal Love, Ego Magazine, April, Kiran Chandra Through Customs, Art AsiaPacific, Winter, Peter Nagy Territories, Anokhi Vibe, October, Lavina Melwani, Anokhi Vibe, October |
Projects / Residencies / Awards
| 2014 | Art Matters Foundation Award | |
| 2011-12 |
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| 2010 | Lightborne Artist-in-Residency, Cincinnati Art Museum Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY Artist Honoree, BRIC Arts and Media, NY |
| 2007 | Transfixed – South Asian Experimental Video Shorts, Curator, New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival |
| 2006 | In a State of Emergency, Co-Producer, Alwan for the Arts |
| 2005 | Visual Artist residency, Projectile Arts, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | Territories, co-producer, Gallery ArtsIndia Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship |
| 2002-03 | Visual Artist Residency, Chashama, NY |
