Tejal Shah

Tejal Shah
तेजल शाह
Born1979 (age 45–46)
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Alma materRMIT University
Occupation(s)Visual artist, curator

Tejal Shah (Hindi: तेजल शाह; 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.[1] Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature.[2] She lives in Mumbai.[3][4][5]

Biography

Tejal Shah was born in 1979 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India.[6] Shah has identified as queer.[7] 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.[3][8][2] She was an exchange student and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1999 to 2000.[3][9]

Her 2006 Hijra Fantasy series of work highlighted the Hijra community (eunuchs, intersex people, and/or transgender people) of Bangalore and Mumbai.[2] 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.[10][11][12]

Shah's artwork has been shown widely including, "Global Feminisms" (2007) at Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York;[13][14] "India: Public Places/Private Spaces" (2008) at Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey;[15] Documenta (13) (2012) in Kassel, Germany;[10] and "Everyone Is an Artist: Cosmopolitan Exercises With Joseph Beuys" (2021) at K20 in Düsseldorf, Germany.[16] 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.[17]

Shah's work is in public museum collections include at the Centre Pompidou.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tejal Shah: Unbecoming". e-flux.com. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Verghese, Anisha (2021). "Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara". Drain Magazine, Vol. 17 (2). ISSN 2469-3022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Seid, Betty; Pijnappel, Johan (2007). New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India. Mapin Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 978-81-88204-82-3.
  4. ^ "Tejal Shah". Flash Art (magazine). Vol. 258–260. Giancarlo Politi. 2008. p. 8.
  5. ^ Sengupta, Somini (30 January 2011). "In India, a Busy Fair and a Spirited Art Scene". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  6. ^ Indian summer: la jeune scène artistique indienne : du 7 octobre au 31 décembre 2005 (in French). École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. 2005. p. 245. ISBN 978-2-84056-183-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ Art and AsiaPacific, Issues 64-65. Fine Arts Press. 2009. p. 64.
  8. ^ "Tejal Shah". Kunstinstituut Melly. 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. ^ Sinha, Gayatri; Sternberger, Paul Spencer (2007). India: Public Places, Private Spaces : Contemporary Photography and Video Art. Newark Museum. p. 157. ISBN 978-81-85026-82-4.
  10. ^ a b Smith, Roberta (14 June 2012). "Art Show as Unruly Organism". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  11. ^ Catling, Charlotte Skene (28 September 2012). "The Art of Protest". Architectural Review. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  12. ^ Pande, Alka (30 September 2012). "Indian strokes". The Tribune. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  13. ^ Muller, Dena (1 January 2008). "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. doi:10.1086/521560. ISSN 0097-9740.
  14. ^ Ehrlich, Cheri Eileen (22 December 2011). "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.
  15. ^ "Art in Review". The New York Times. 4 January 2008. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  16. ^ Woodward, Daisy (1 March 2021). "Spring Is Here: Brilliant Things To Do This March". AnOther. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  17. ^ "Reena Saini Kallat has a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg". Architectural Digest India. Condé Nast. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  18. ^ "Tejal Shah, I Love my India, 2003". Centre Pompidou.