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

2019Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, San Francisco, CA, ‘If stone could give’
2018Copeland Gallery, Peckham 24, London, United Kingdom, ‘Cut, Bend, Pull, Thrust’
2016Yamini Nayar, Thomas Erben Gallery and Jhaveri Contemporary at Collaborations: NADA + Art Cologne, Germany
2015Survey 2005 – 2015, Thomas Erben Gallery at India Art Fair, New Delhi
2013an axe for a wing-bone, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2012Harpoon, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2011Head Space, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
2010Yamini Nayar, Cincinnati Art Academy (solo exhibition)
2009Arrested Views: Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2006Yamini Nayar and Shrestha Premnath, Bose Pacia, New York

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018Broken Lines, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 140 Maiden Land, curated by Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CAAspirational Architectures, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2017Yamini Nayar and Asim Waqif, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2016Unsuspending Disbelief, Logan Gallery at University of Chicago, Illinois
2015Imagine 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)
2014Doublebind: 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
2012Fact/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)
2011The 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)
2009Good 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
2008Asian 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)
2007First 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
2006The 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
2005Fatal 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)
2004Territories, Gallery Arts India, New York
Blow the Conch, PS 122, New York (curator Nitin Mukul)
2003Through Customs, BosePacia, New York (curators Shamim Momin and Raina Lampkin-Fielder)
Rye Center, New York (performance with Kalikut Root)
2002Black Tea, CBGB’s 313 Gallery, New York (performance with Kalikut Root)
Women in Wartime, The Interart Annex, New York
1999RISD 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
2017Cotter, Holland, “10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side”, The New York Times, April 2017
2016Jhaveri, 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
2015Soleimani, Sheida. Young Artist Sheida Soleimani Interviews Her ‘Far-Away Mentor,’ Yamini Nayar, HuffingtonPost.com, March 31, 2015
2013Sardesai, 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
2012Pal, 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
2011Artist 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
2010Escape 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
2009World’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
2008Ten Hottest Women Artists Now, Vogue India, December
Erben Legend, TimeOut Mumbai, August, Deepanjana Pal
East Wind A’Blowin, New Times, April 30, Michael Mills
2007Zenana 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
2006Ruin / 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
2005Taking 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
 
2014Art Matters Foundation Award
2011-12
Visiting Artist Scholar at New York University, Steinhardt School of Art (2011/12)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York (2011/2012)
2010Lightborne Artist-in-Residency, Cincinnati Art Museum
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Artist Honoree, BRIC Arts and Media, NY
2007Transfixed – South Asian Experimental Video Shorts, Curator, New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival
2006In a State of Emergency, Co-Producer, Alwan for the Arts
2005Visual Artist residency, Projectile Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2004Territories, co-producer, Gallery ArtsIndia
Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship
2002-03Visual Artist Residency, Chashama, NY

 

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