Reena Saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat was born in 1973 in Delhi, India. She graduated from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in 1996 with a B.F.A. in painting.

Kallat is based in Mumbai, India, but she created many exhibitions in venues all over the world including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Tate Modern, London; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; to name a few.^[1]

• Orchard of Home-grown Secrets, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (1998)^[2]
• Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi (2000)^[2]
• Seven Faces of Dust, Chicago Radio, Mumbai (2002)^[2]
• The Battlefield Is The Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (2002)^[2]
• Black Flute, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 2004
• Black Flute (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi (2005)^[2]
• Rainbow of Refuse, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai (2006)^[2]
• Subject to Change without Notice, Walsh Gallery, Chicago (2008)^[2]
• Silt of Seasons, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2008)^[2]
• Drift, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (2009)^[2]
• Labyrinth of Absences, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2011)^[2]
• Anatomy of forking paths, Art Houz, Art Chennai (2014)^[1]
• ZegnArt Public project with Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2013)
• Falling Fables, part of Maximum India at the Kennedy Centre, Washington 2011
• Offsite, Public Art Project, Vancouver Art Gallery (2015)^[3]
• Porous Passages, Nature Morte, New Delhi
• Hyphenated Lives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai^[4]
• Blind Spots, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
• Shifting Ecotones, Moca London, London (2019)^[5]
• Common Ground, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2022)^[6][7]
• Leaking Lines, Firstsite, Colchester (2022)^[8]
• Deep Rivers Run Quiet, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2023)^[9][10]
• Fluid Geographies, Outdoor Project for the 75th anniversary of Geoffrey Bawa’s Estate at Lunuganga, Bentota, Sri Lanka (2023^[11])^[12][13]

• Varsha '95, Y. B. Chavan Gallery, Mumbai (1995)^[1]
• Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (1996)^[1]
• Fresh Work, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai (1997)^[1]
• Essays in Time, Kinetic Sculptures, Nehru Centre, Mumbai (1998)^[1]
• Edge of the Century, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi (1999)^[1]
• AOM- Art on the move, New Delhi (2001)^[1]
• Big River 2, CCA7 Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad (2001)^[1]
• Crossing Borders, Gallery Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Holland (2002)^[1]
• Reclaim Our Freedom, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (2002)^[1]
• Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2002)^[1]
• Contemporary Art from India, Oslo, Norway (2003)^[1]
• Indians + Cowboys, Gallery 4A, Sydney (2003)^[1]
• Tiranga, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2003)^[1]
• Hard Copy, Gallery 88, Calcutta (2003)^[1]
• Crossing generations: diVERGE, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2003)^[1]
• Zoom! Art in Contemporary India, The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2004)^[1]
• Contemporary Art from India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2004)^[1]
• Indian Paintings of the New Millennium, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, USA (2005)^[14]
• Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2005)
• Mom and Pop Art, Walsh Gallery, Chicago (2005)^[15]
• India Express – Art and Popular Culture, Art Museum Tennis palace, (2006)
• Hungry God- Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery, Beijing and Busan MoMA (2006)
• Lille 3000 (Maximum City-Mumbai), Lille, France (2006)
• Modern Indian Works on Paper, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia and the Georgia Museum of Art, USA (2006)
• Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2007)^[1]
• New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago (2007)
• INDIA NOW: Contemporary Indian Art, Between Continuity and transformation, Spazio Oberdan, Milan (2007)
• Urban Manners, at Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2007)
• Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2007)
• Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, South Korea (2007)
• Excavation: Memory/Myth/Membrane, Museum Gallery, Mumbai (2008)
• Three Points of view, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrucke, Mumbai (2008)
• 3rd Nanjing Triennale, China (2008)
• India Moderna, IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain (2008)
• Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan (2008)^[16]
• Indian Narratives in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History, Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain (2009)
• Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion, Stux gallery, New York (2009)
• INDIA XIANZAI: Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (2009)^[17]
• Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil (2009)
• Milan Galleria, Triennale Museum, Milan (2009)
• View Points and Viewing points – Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2009)
• Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists from India, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil (2010)
• The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010)
• In Transition: New Art from India, Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver (2010)^[18]
• Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011)
• Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, Goteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, (2011)^[19]
• Maximum India, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington (2011)^[20]
• Samtidigt, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland] (2011)
• India: Art Now, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012)^[21]
• JJ's 90s – The Time of Change, Mumbai Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai] (2013)
• Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2014)
• The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
• Aperture, Indian Summer Festival, Old Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Vancouver
• The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai
• A Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai^[22]
• One and one make eleven (Contemporary Art From India), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland (2015)
• The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2015)
• [en]counters 2015, Spaces in Transition, CST Terminus, Mumbai(2015)
• Kalaghoda Art Festival, Mumbai(2015)
• Insecurities: tracing Displacement and Shelter, organized by Sean Anderson and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015)^[23]
• Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, 10th Busan Biennale, curated by Cheagab Yun, Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan, South Korea (2016)^[24]
• Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennial, curated by Alnoor Mitha, Sri Lanka (2016)
• Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Cultural Ronneby, Sweden (2016)
• Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India, curated by Ratan Vaswani, CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya), Mumbai (2016)
• The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, NGMA- Jaipur House, New Delhi(2016)
• I don't want to be there when it happens, curated by Eugenio Viola Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia (2017)
• Memories of Partition, part of the New North and South network, Manchester Museum, UK (2017)
• Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2017)
• India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai (2017)
• On the Horizon the Shadow Speaks another story' title Nuit Blanche Toronto at Drake Commissary curated by November Paynter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2017)
• Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur (2017)
• Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Norrtalje Museum + Konsthall, Sweden (2017)
• Borders: Us and Them, curated by Qian Lin, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, China (2017)
• Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio (2017)
• CONNECTING THREADS: Textiles in Contemporary Practice, Curated by Tasneem Mehta and Puja Vaish, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2018)
• ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, CityU Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong (2018)
• Untold Stories Manifesto, Curated by Valentina Levy, 2nd edition of Something Else OFF Biennale Cairo, Egypt (2018)
• Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Curated by Peter Nagy, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur (2018)
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Art Gallery of Alberta (2018)
• Fearless: Contemporary South Asian Art, curated by Natalie Seiz, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2018)
• Modus Operandi, curated by Shireen Gandhy, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2018)
• Tate Exchange – Building an Art Biennale, curated by Sunil Maghnani and Ed D’Souza, Tate Modern London (2018)
• Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2018)
• Facing India, curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2018)
• Asymmetrical Objects, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2018)
• Sensorium: The End is Only the Beginning, Sunaparanta, Goa (2018)
• 2020 Horniman Circle Gardens, Mumbai, India (2018)
• When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019)^[25]
• 5 Artists 5 Projects, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2019)
• Tomorrow's Tigers, Specially Commissioned Rugs, Royal Academy of Art, Academicians Room, London (2019)
• 'Open Borders', 14th Curitiba International Biennial, curated by Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda, Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil (2019)
• MODUS OPERANDI II, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2019)
• Fracture/Fiction: Selections from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Malaysia (2019)
• Continental Shift: Contemporary Art and South Asia, curated by Rodney James, Bunjil Place Gallery, Victoria, Australia (2019)
• The Construction of the Possible, curated by the team at Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art, 13TH Havana Biennial, Cuba (2019)
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada (2019)
• Alteration/Activation/Abstraction, curated by Betty Seid, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York (2019)
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, National Gallery of Canada (2019)
• Making Art: Materials & Technology, Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai (2019)
• Distilled Blueprints, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Alembic group, Baroda (2019)
• Tomorrow's Tigers, Specially Commissioned Rugs, Laura Culpan + Susie Allen co-directors Artwise Sotheby's, London (2019)
• ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, National Palace Museum, Taiwan (2019)
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, The Art Museum of the University of Toronto (2019)
• The Idea of the Acrobat, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2020)^[26]
• Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories, curated by Heike Munder and Suad Garayeva-Maleki, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2020)
• Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront The Global Refugee Crisis, curated by Irene Hofmann and Brandee Caoba, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2020)^[27][28]
• Unflattening, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2020)
• TRILOGY: After Hope, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA (2020)
• Escape Routes, curated by Apinan Poshyananda, Bangkok Art Biennale (2020)^[29]
• Visions from India: 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Curated by Catherine Walworth, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina (2020)
• When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA (2020)^[30][31]
• Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, The McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (2020)
• 3rd International Biennial of Asuncion Paraguay Curatorial team: Dannys Montes de Oca, Bettina Brizuela, Damian Cabrera and Omar Estrada, Paraguay (2020)
• Women artists from Asia: Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery Cheonan (2020)
• Holding Space, South South Veza, Online Viewing Rooms (OVR's) by 50+ galleries (2021)
• On l Site, Collaborative project organised by four Indian galleries, presented by Nature Morte at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2021)
• After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Lee Gallery, South Carolina, USA (2021)
• Tree Story curated by Charlotte Day, MUMA Melbourne (2021)
• When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, curated by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson, Cantor Arts Centre at Stanford University (2021)
• Making Worlds, Sydney Modern Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2022)
• Tomorrow’s Tigers, Sotheby's, UK (2022)
• Yet, With Love curated by Seolhui Lee, Podo Museum, South Korea (2022)
• Inner life of things: Around Anatomies and Armatures curated by Roobina Karode, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (2022)
• Modus Operandi lll: Together Alone Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2022)^[32]
• Legal Alien curated by Meera Menezes, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2022)
• Back to the Roots – Reena Kallat & Melanie Siegel, curated by Julia Berghoff, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany (2023)^[33]
• What POWER does to us – About privileges, risks and opportunities, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland (2023)^[34]
• CheMoulding FRAMING FUTURE ARCHIVES (2023)^[35]
• No But Where Are You Really From?, Public Art Project supported by The Gallery and Artichoke Trust, UK (2023)^[36]
• Between Borders, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands (2023)^[37]
• Traces of Place, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2023)^[38]
• A Demonstration of Ornamentation, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2023)^[39]
• RHIZOME Tracing Ecocultural Identities, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai (2023)
• After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, USA (2023)^[40]
• Thinking Historically in the Present Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2023)^[41]
• Aesthetic Responses, The Culture Story, Singapore (2024)^[42]

In 2002 Kallat was an artist-in-residence in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the Boreal Art and Nature Centre in Canada.^[1] In 2011 she was awarded an IASPIS residency to work and study in Gothenburg, Sweden.^[1]

Kallat has been the recipient of a number of awards, including:

• Gladstone Solomon Award (1995)^[43]
• Bombay Art Society Merit Certificate (1996)
• Second Prize Government Award, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art (1996)
• Harmony Award (2005)
• YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010–11, Delhi (2011)
• ZegnArt Public Award in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2012)
• Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category, Delhi (2016)
• Artist Of The Year: Hello Fame of Awards (2019)