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Reena Saini Kallat was born in New Delhi (1973). She pursued her Bachelors Degree (Painting) from the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai (1996). She was awarded the prestigious Solomon Gladston award in 1995.

Kallat’s first solo show, Orchard of Home-Grown Secrets exhibited in Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery Mumbai (1998) displayed her flair for drawing upon varied media to present complex ideas encased in sensuous forms. Reena Saini’s second solo show, Skin at Gallery Chemould, Bombay and Vis-a-vis Art Inc New Delhi (2000) and her recent show Rainbow of Refuse, Bodhi Art, Mumbai (2006) garnered much critical acclaim. Her group shows include Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, (1996 ), A Page From My Diary, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Bombay (1997), India in Harmony 1947-1997, Nehru Centre, Bombay (1997), Women for Wise, an auction by 50 women artists, organized by Christies, New Delhi (1999), Edge of the Century curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Academy of Fine Arts and literature, New Delhi (1999), Wall Paper, Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay (1999), The Battlefield Is the Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (2002), Seven Faces of Dust, Motwane, Chicago Radio, Mumbai, (2002). Legatee-The J.J.School of Art, The Fine Art Company, Bombay (2000), The Mumbai Metaphor, curated by Anupa Mehta at the Tao Art Gallery, Bombay (2000), Extreme Gourmet organized by Lakeeren Gallery, at Indigo restaurant, Bombay (2001) Edge of the Century, Academy of Fine Arts and literature, New Delhi (1999), Tea, a three person show with Janine Raza, Kim Leong at the Apollo Apparao Gallery, Bombay (2000), Art on the move , Sahmat, New Delhi, Mumbai (2001), Another Look at, organized by Gallery Chemould, Kala Ghoda Festival, Bombay (2001), AOM- Art on the Move, organized by Sahmat, New Delhi (2001), Crossing Borders , Gallery Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Holland (2002), Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery/India Habitat Centre, Delhi (2002), Hard-Copy, a two-person show with Jitish Kallat at Gallery 88, Calcutta (2003), Rain, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2003) Tiranga , India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2004), Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, ‘National Exhibition Of Art’, organized by The Lalit Kala Academy, Bangalore.

She has also participated in workshops like Big River 2, organized by CCA7 and the Triangle Arts Trust, Port Of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies (2001) and Elephants Walk , Youth Arts Workshop part of the Indians + Cowboys project, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney(2003), Reena Saini Kallat’s oeuvre comprising paintings, sculptural installations and public art projects, explores the dynamics of narrative expression, fusing topical, social themes that are informed by mythology and history. “I try to understand the workings of society and articulate what I feel. One is always attempting to correct the errors one encounters. That is what my art tries to do,” she feels. She extracts images of anonymous people from a variety of social milieus and political contexts; and invests a symbolic resonance into them by the simple act of selection and isolation. Moving between the intimacy of the body and the public nature of political space, Saini’s art-works act as sites where disease and benediction, trauma and grace compete for dominance. Her canvases often sites also for a collision of the mythic, with the imaginary and the mundane. In the series of painted panels, Sword Swallowers, deliberately worked upon to look street-soiled – the artist employed portraits of ordinary people that lead into the lotus chakra, and mythological figures like the Narasimha, sword-wielding asuras like Sumbha, Nisumbha and so on. PArticualrly interesting was her ironic use of rubber stamps in, Birthmark with Tattoos, comprising 64 photographic prints in a large wall-installation. Each of the partial forms is stamped with an identity, and in a complementary piece, the rubber stamps themselves, appear in the colors of the Indian flag – issuing perhaps an indictment of the invasive, meddlesome presence of the Indian state in the definition of a nations’s social identity. – See more at: http://br.blouinartinfo.com/artists/95452-reena-saini-kallat#sthash.nkAKdNJl.dpuf
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Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973, Delhi, India) graduated from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Mumbai in 1996 with a B.F.A. in painting. Her practice – spanning painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation, often incorporates multiple mediums into a single work. She frequently works with officially recorded or registered names of people, objects, and monuments that are lost or have disappeared without a trace, only to get listed as anonymous and forgotten statistics. One of the recurrent motifs in her work is the rubber stamp, used as an object and an imprint, signifying the bureaucratic apparatus, which both confirms and obscures identities.

Her work has been widely exhibited across the world in venues such as Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Saatchi Gallery, London; SESC Pompeia and SESC Belenzino in Sao Paulo; Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Arken Museum in Denmark; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona; ZKM Karlsruhe in Germany Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; IVAM Museum, Spain; Busan MOMA; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Chicago Cultural Centre amongst many others while closer home she’s shown at the Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum and the NGMA, Mumbai.