Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher
Born1969 (age 55–56)
London, England
EducationNewcastle Polytechnic
SpouseSubodh Gupta
Websitebhartikher.com

Bharti Kher is an Indian contemporary artist. She has worked across painting, sculpture and installation.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Kher was born in London, England, in 1969. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic, London,[5] from 1987 to 1988, and then attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newcastle Polytechnic from 1988 to 1991, receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art, Painting. She moved to India in 1993, where she lives and works today.[6][7]

Selected works and themes

Bindi

The Skin Speaks a language not its own(2006)

The Skin Speaks a language not its own (2006) is one of her numerous work. It is a sculpture that represents a life size female elephant made from fiberglass and adorned by numerous bindis. This sculpture combine two of the most common symbols of Indian tradition (bindi) and the Hindu religion (the elephant). This sculpture can be seen as the archetype of India.[8]

Intermediaries

Her "Intermediaries" series is exemplary of the idea of transformation, where the artist collects brightly painted clay figurines traditionally displayed in South India during the autumn festive season, which she shatters and then puts back together in order to create fantastical creatures: animal hybrids, irregular and strange people.

Bharti Kher has worked in a variety of media creating paintings, sculptures, installations, and text.[5][9] Kher's primary material is manufactured versions of traditional Indian bindi.[10][11] Throughout her career Kher has kept some repeating patterns in her paintings from her student years from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.[12] Kher considers how the realities of human life is perceived in our current time.[13] Her works displays fondness towards human drama, as well as intrinsic love.[12]

Exhibitions

An Absence Of Assignable Cause
  • The Body is a Place, Arnolfini, Bristol (2022-23)[14]
  • A Consummate Joy, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2020)[15]
  • In the Company of Artists, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2019)[16]
  • Desire: A revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2019)[17]
Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, 2004

Collections

Kher's work is in the Tate Modern in London, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Walker Art Center.[18]

Bharti Kher, Sans Titre

References

  1. ^ "Bharti Kher: Evoking Social And Psychological Thought Through Her Art". iDiva. 7 March 2017.
  2. ^ Bhuyan, Avantika (6 July 2024). "Bharti Kher: Always an alchemist at heart". mint.
  3. ^ "Bharti Kher's sculpture gets under a million pounds at Sotheby's". Hindustan Times. 29 June 2010.
  4. ^ Rau, Rewati (1 January 2022). "Chaos, life, regeneration and power of women: Bharti Kher is back with Strange Attractors". The New Indian Express.
  5. ^ a b "Bharti Kher". Perrotin. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Bharti Kher". Arken. Archived from the original on 28 June 2014.
  7. ^ Rastogi & Karode, Akansha & Roobina (2013). Seven Contemporaries. New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. pp. 76–95. ISBN 978-81-928037-2-2.
  8. ^ "Bharti Kher THE SKIN SPEAKS A LANGUAGE NOT ITS OWN". Sotheby's. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Bharti Kher". Nature Morte.
  10. ^ Queensland Art Museum, Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  11. ^ Soin, Himali Singh (12 May 2016). "These 8 Women Are Leading the Indian Art World". Artsy. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Bharti Kher: Misdemeanours". Rockbund Art Museum. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  13. ^ Diana Augaitis; Daina Freundl, eds. (2016). Bharti Kher: matter. Black Dog. ISBN 978-1-910433-97-3. OCLC 936534445.
  14. ^ Judah, Hettie (26 October 2022). "The Body is a Place review – a furiously energetic cultural vomiting". The Guardian.
  15. ^ "Bharti Kher, A Consummate Joy". artguide.artforum.com.
  16. ^ "In the Company of Artists | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum". www.gardnermuseum.org.
  17. ^ "How Has Desire Evolved in the Digital Age? A New Museum Show in Dublin Explores the Art of Lust—See Pictures Here". Artnet News. 17 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Bharti Kher". ArtNet. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
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