BIO
YAMINI NAYAR, US/India, is based in Brooklyn, NY.. Nayar has shown her work internationally at venues including the Museum of Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Freud Museum London, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, DeCordova Museum MA, Kiran Nadar Museum New Delhi, Sharjah Biennial in UAE, Saatchi Gallery UK, Studio Museum of Harlem and recently a presentation at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India. Her work is in many public and private collections including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum NY, Kiran Nadar Museum, Saatchi Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Hiscox and US Arts in Embassies, JP Morgan Chase. Her work is published in Global Photography: A Critical History upcoming 2019, editors Heather Diack, Erina Duganne, Terri Weissman; Chandigarh is in India, edited by Shanay Jhaveri (Shoestring Publishers, 2016), Passages: Indian Art Today (Daab Media, 2014), Lines of Control, Partition as a Productive Space (Green Cardamom 2012), Unfixed: Postcolonial Photography in Contemporary Art (Jap Sam Books, 2013); Empire Strikes Back: Contemporary Indian Art Today (Saatchi) and Manual for Treason: Sharjah Biennial edited by Murtaza Vali (2011). She has been featured in New York Times, New Yorker, Art India, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Vogue India, Artpapers, and others. Residencies and grants include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Art Academy of Cincinnati and NYU Visiting Artist Scholar. Nayar is a recipient of the Lightborne Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Fellowship at SVA, an Art Matters Foundation travel grant (to Chandigarh, India), and nominated for a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. She has been a visiting artist at many institutions and is a Thesis Advisor in the MFA Photography Dept of the School of Visual Arts. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY where she studied with Sarah Charlesworth, and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, with prior studies in philosophy and psychology at Eugene Lang College, NY.and University of Michigan. Nayar's work is represented by Thomas Erben New York, Wendi Norris San Francisco and Jhaveri Contemporary Mumbai./// news ///
BUILD AS IF STONE
GALLERY WENDI NORRIS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
FEB 21 - MAR 30, 2019
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO -
aquires 'Pursuit, 2011'***
** Artist Lecture ** to incoming students to SVA MFA Photography Department during Orientation week -
August 27, 2018
ASPIRATIONAL ARCHITECTURES
curated by Justine Ludwig
Fridman Gallery, New York
opening May 4, 2018
through June 8, 2018Visiting Artist Lecture
Yale School of Art
Photography Department
April 25, 2018
CUT BEND PULL THRUST
curated by Iona Fergusson
Peckham 24
Friday 18th - Sunday 20th May 2018Peckham 24 is back for a third edition during Photo London Week, shining a spotlight on cutting-edge contemporary photography made by artists in London and internationally.
Campbell Addy - Rhiannon Adam - Samuel Barry - Jonny Briggs - Antony Cairns - Juno Calypso - Natasha Caruana - Zoe Croggon - Jo Dennis - Lalu Delbracio - Robin Haithcoat - Hannah Hughes - Taisuke Koyama - Anouk Kruithof - Chrystel Lebas - Tom Lovelace - Ben Mcdonnell - Yamini Nayar - Laura Pannack - Baud Postma - Hannah Starkey - Dafna Talmor - Penelope Umbrico - Ruth Van Beek - Lorenzo Vitturi - Alex F Webb
ASPIRATIONAL ARCHITECTURES
curated by Justine Ludwig
Fridman Gallery, New York
opening May 4, 2018
through June 8, 2018
MONOGRAPH - FALL/WINTER 2018-19
published in collaboration with Wendi Norris Gallery, Jhaveri Contemporary and Thomas ErbenCRASH, DIG, DWELL
Yamini Nayar & Asim Waqif
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
DEC 7, 2017 - JAN !3, 2018Visiting Artist Lecture
Yale School of Art
Photography Department
April 25, 2018
LECTURE, New York University
Photography Department: Class of Lucas Blalock
April 4, 2018
CRASH, DIG, DWELL
Yamini Nayar & Asim Waqif
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
DEC 7, 2017 - JAN !3, 2018
Visiting Artist Lecture, Parsons, NY
invited by Rit Premnath
November 1, 2017Frieze Art Fair, Randalls Island, NY
with Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
May 2017Archival Alchemy
curator Saisha Grayson
Abrons Art Center
April 2017
TOMORROW WILL STILL BE OURS
by Gavin Brown Enterprise and the Tate Group
Gavin Brown Enterprise, Harlem, New York
all proceeds to benefit the ACLU
Feburary 8-22, 2017
- recent -
Listed in Artnet.com as top 500 artists born in United States after 1966
news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/08…Artist Lecture, Yale-Norfolk
invited by Sam Messer
June 2016Art Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Collaborative presentation by Jhaveri Contemporary and Thomas Erben Gallery
April 13-17, 2016Dallas Art Fair
Dallas, Texas
Presented by Gallery Wendi Norris
April 14-17, 2016Chandigarh is in India
Edited by Shanay Jhaveri
Shoestring Publishers
Book Launch: Dhaka Art Summit, 2016Independent Art Fair
Jackie Gendel, Yamini Nayar, Dona Nelson
Presented by Thomas Erben, New York
March 3-7, 2016Art Dubai
March 16-19, 2016Solo Survey, Indian Art Fair
New Delhi, India
Presented by Thomas Erben, New York
January 28-31, 2016*Unsuspending Disbelief*
Logan Gallery, University of Chicago
curated by Laura Letinsky
January 15 - March 13, 2016Artist Talk, Adelphi University
New York, NY
December 1, 2015Artist Talk, John Jay College of Art & Music
invited by Roberto Visani
New York, NY
December 3, 2015Artist talk at Penumbra Foundation
New York, NY
November 24, 2015CONSTRUCTS/CONSTRUCTIONS
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India
Curator: Roobina Karode
April 23 - December 20, 2015
Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Japsam BooksSolo Survey, Indian Art Fair
New Delhi, India
Presented by Thomas Erben, New York
January 28-31, 2016*Unsuspending Disbelief*
Logan Gallery, University of Chicago
curated by Laura Letinsky
January 15 - March 13, 2016
Artist talk at Penumbra Foundation
New York, NY
November 24, 2015
Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Japsam Books
Imagine Reality, RAY 2015 Foto Triennial
Museum fur Moderne Kunst am Main
Frankfurt, Germany
June 20 - September 20, 2015
Sonja Braas, Barbara Breitenfellner, Sophie Calle, David Claerbout, Jonas Dahlberg, Hans Op de Beeck, Cristina De Middel, Klaus Elle, Jan Paul Evers, Lucas Foglia, Joan Fontcuberta, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Beate Gütschow, Barbara Kasten, Annette Kelm, Cinthia Marcelle, Maix Mayer, Sanaz Mazinani, Abelardo Morell, Yamini Nayar, Miguel Rio Branco, Viviane Sassen, Kathrin Sonntag, Simon Starling, Anoek Steketee, John Stezaker, Jan Tichy, Wolfgang Zurborn.A Room of One's Own
Yancey Richardson Gallery
Frankfurt, Germany
July 1 - August 19, 2015
Elina Brotherus, Anne Collier, Jay DeFeo, Saul Fletcher, David Gilbert, Bryan Graf, Leslie Hewitt, Pello Irazu, Laura Letinsky, Yamini NayarFormal Relations
curators Murtaza Vali and Kamrooz Aram
Taymour Grahne Gallery
New York, NY
July 2 - August 20, 2015
Abdolreza Aminlari, Doug Ashford, Fayçal Baghriche, Eva Berendes, Ala Ebtekar, Michelle Grabner, Yamini Nayar and Zarina.CONSTRUCTS/CONSTRUCTIONS
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
New Delhi, India
Curator: Roobina Karode
April 23 - December 20, 2015
The Return to Reason
Curated by Allie Haeusslein
Wendi Norris Gallery
San Francisco, CA
January 15 - March 7, 2015
Stephen Gill, Yamini Nayar, Chloe Sells, Lorenzo Vitturi and Hannah Whitaker
Enhanced!
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida
Curated by Noel Smith
January 16 – March 7, 2015,
Symposium: James Casabere, Robert Draskin, Yamini Nayar; January 16, 2015
Yoan Capote, James Casebere, Jerome Favre, Adam Fuss, Debbie Grossman, Kalup Linzy, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Yamini Nayar, Roman Signer, and Peter Tscherkassky
altarations: BUILT, BLENDED, PROCESSED
University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University
November 21, 2014 - February 28, 2015
Ilit Azoulay, Ellen Carey, Lisa Gwilliam & Ray Sweeten (DataSpaceTime), Barbara Kasten, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Matthew Porter, Eileen Quinlan, Hugh Scott-Douglas, James Welling, Penelope UmbricoErica Baum, Joshua Dildine, Noriko Furunishi, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Cassandra C. Jones, John Mann, Yamini Nayar, Asbjørn Skou, Travess Smalley, Lucie Stahl, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Hannah Whitaker, Jennifer WilliamsIndian Art Fair
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
New Delhi, India
January 29 - February 1, 2015
http://www.indiaartfair.in/Artist talk at RISD, Photography Department
November 19, 2014September 2014
Art Matters Foundation - travel grant
Chandigarh, Punjab
Chicago Expo Sept 18-24 with Gallery Wendi Norris
Leonora Carrington, Helen Garber, Yamini Nayar, Dorothea Tanning and Yves Tanguy
Doublebind, William Patterson University Galleries
Yamini Nayar: an axe for a wing-bone - new works at Thomas Erben, November 7 - December 21, 2013
if color, then also dimension; if flatness, then texture, etc, curated by Melissa Levin, June 15-July 14, 2013
MIGRATING IDENTITIES, Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, June 28-Sept 30, 2013
Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art Edited by Sara Blokland and Asmara Pelupessy, published by Japsam Books