SHRIMANTI SAHA
b. 1987, West Bengal, India
she/her, Indian
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Education
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2011 MVA (Painting) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara, IN
2009 BVA (Painting) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara, IN
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Achievements
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2023 Shortlisted for Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
2019 Amol Vadehra Art Grant, The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi
2015 Inlaks Fine Arts Award, Mumbai
2013 Qualified National Eligibility Test for Lectureship by UGC & Junior Research Fellowship
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Residencies
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2022 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Nebraska, USA
2019 Vermont Studio Centre (with Barbara White Fellowship), Johnson, USA
2018 Artist-in-Residence, OMI International Arts Centre, New York
2015 Taj Residency and Ske Project, Bangalore
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Solo Exhibition
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2023
Reveries in the Atelier, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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Selected Group Exhibtions
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2023
Alternate Evolutions (Solo project), Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, India Art Fair, New Delhi
Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalists exhibition, H Queen's, Hong Kong
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2022
Frieze no.9 Cork street viewing room, Vadehra Art Gallery, London
Frieze Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery, Seoul
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2021
(ME)(MORY), curated by Dipti Anand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Box Politics and its Poetry, Sunaparanta Goa Center for the Arts, Goa
Cloudburst, Delhi Contemporary Art week, Bikaner House, New Delhi
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2020
India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
The River turns before the Ocean, Vadehra Art Gallery (online), New Delhi
Fire in the Greenhouse and Other Stories, (solo project) Vadehra Art Gallery (online), New Delhi
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2018
Remembering the Present, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Imitating Atmosphere, curated by Shreyas Karle and Hemali Bhuta, The Sculpture Park (second edition), Jaipur
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2017
Tales of Expulsion, (solo project) Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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2016
Young Subcontinent, curated by Riyas Komu, Serendipity Art Festival, Panjim, Goa
At the Turn of a Page, curated by Shivangi Singh, Vadehra Art gallery, New Delhi
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2015
Barter Collection, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai
Baroda Redux, Art Konsult, New Delhi
Woven in time, space, material, Allaince Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi
Back to College, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara
Thinking Lines, Knots, Vadodara
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2014
Group show, Nature Morte, Gurgaon
Summer Show, Gallerie 88, Kolkata
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2012
Art city project at StudioX, Mumbai
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Other experiences
2017-18 External Jury for BVA Painting (first yr.), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara
2017 Conducted workshop - Imagining Spaces – Illustration and Narrative, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai
2017-18 17 x 9 feet commissioned Painting Project for J M Baxi group reception area, New Delhi
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2016 Conducted workshop - Collage and Image making, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara
2015 Participated in workshop by artist Joelle Tuerlinckx, Cona Foundation, Mumbai
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2014 Conducted workshop - Story and Image making, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara
2013 Worked as a Project assistant for artist Nilima Sheikh
2012 Worked as a Project assistant for artist Anant Joshi
2012 Book illustration project under Prof. Shilpa Ranade at Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Mumbai
2012-14 Book illustration Projects for Scholastic publishers, New Delhi
2011-13 Worked as a freelance illustrator for ad agencies
2010 Participated in workshop Negotiating Individual Subjectivities and other Excesses by artist Rakhi Peswani, M.S. University, Vadodara
2010 Participated in Book making workshop by Katsushi Goto and Vishwa Shroff, M.S. University, Vadodara
2010 Internship in wooden toy making from Channapatna, Karnataka
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Dissertation: Flights from fixity - Exploring surreal humour in Art and Illustration
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Collections
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Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, USA
Motwani Jadeja Foundation Collection, California, USA
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Lives and works in Vadodara, India
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