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BiographyYamini Nayar, 1975, Detroit, MIEducation 2005 MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Photography & Related Media 1999 BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Photography & Related Media Awards and Residencies 2011-12 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, NY 2010 CPW Photography Residency, Woodstock, NY LightBorne Residency, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH BRIC Arts and Media, NY, Artist Honoree 2004 Aaron Siskind Scholarship, School of Visual Arts 2002-03 Chashama Artist-in-Residence Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2012 Amrita Jhaveri Gallery, Mumbai, India, Solo Exhibition (upcoming) 2011 ?omas Erben, NY, Solo Exhibition (upcoming) 2009 ?omas Erben, NY, 'Arrested Views, Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar? Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 School of Visual Arts, ??e In"uentials?, curator Amy Smith-Stewart Invisible-Exports, NY, ?LOST?, curated by Amy-Smith Stewart Higher Pictures, NY, ?Always the Young Strangers? ArtOffice.org, ?Moving Index?, curator Courtney Martin Sharjah Biennial, ?Manual for Treason?, editor Murtaza Vali 2010 Cincinnati Art Museum, ?Tough Pictures?, curator James Crump New York Photography Festival, NY, ?Object Lessons?, curator Vince Aletti Saatchi Gallery, UK, 'Empire Strikes Back-Contemporary Indian Art Today' Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India, ?Conspiracy? Art Academy of Cincinnati, ?Yamini Nayar?, Lightborne Exhibition Kyunbrook National University Art Museum, Korea, ?New Photography? Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong, ?omas Erben Gallery Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India, ?Punctum II?, curator Arshiya Lokhandwala '31 Women in Art Photography', curators Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein Webster University, MO, ?Bring me a Lion?, curator Dr. Jeffery Hughes Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 'Accented' curator Murtaza Vali 2009 Galerie Anne Barrault, France, 'We would like to thank (again) the curators, who wish to remain anonymous' Grey Noise Gallery, Pakistan, ?Good Looking?, curator Atteqa Ali Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, India 798 Bienniale, Beijing, curators Jaishri Abichandani and Alexandra Hungerbuhler Travancore Museum, Delhi, ?Monument as Moment? 106 Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 'Whitey on the Moon', curator Kanishka Raja 2008 Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 'By All Means' Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai, India Stephen Stux Gallery, NY, 'Firewalkers' Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FA, 'Exploding the Lotus' 2007 ?omas Erben, NY, 'First Left, Second Right' with Kiran Subhaiah & Abishek Hazra ExitArt, NY, 'Sultana's Dream', curator Jaishri Abichandani Gallery Barry Keldoulis, AU, '?e Young Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity', curator Peter Nagy 2006 Bose Pacia Modern, NY, 'Yamini Nayar and Shresta Premnath' Onishi Gallery, NY, '?e Kayu Project', curator Carol Pereira Kiana Malakzedeh Gallery, NY, '?is One Time' 2005 Queens Museum of Art, 'Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now', curators Jaishri Abichandani and Prerana Reddy Visual Arts Gallery, NY, ?See What I Mean? MFA Photo ?esis Exhibition, curator Marvin Heiferman Rush Arts, NY, 'More or Less: Generating Meaning ?rough Process' Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, 'hrlm: pictures' - collaboration with Greg Tate PH Gallery, NY, 'Empire's Feast' 2003 Bose Pacia, NY, '?rough Customs', curators Shamim Momin & Raina Lampkin-Fielder 1999 Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, ?RISD Graduation Invitational? Red-Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, ?esis Exhibition Woods-Gerry Gallery, ?Photography and Sculpture? Lectures 2011 Pratt Institute Tyler School of Art 2010 Cincinnati Art Museum, Lightborne Lecture Art Academy of Cincinnati New York Photography Festival, NY Webster University, MO MOMA, ?New Generations?, NY New School for Social Research, NY 2009 Indian Art Summit, ?Mapping Alternative Networks: Artists and Communities?, New Delhi 2008 Eugene Lang College, NY 2007 Exit Art; Asian American Writer?s Workshop 2006 Empire State College, NY 2005 Rush Arts Gallery Asian American Art Centre Queens Museum, NY University of Illinois, IL Juries 2011 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Artist in Residence Program 2010 Adelphi University, NY, jury for %rst year Photography students New York Scholastic Art Awards, Photography Jury Publications UNFIXED: Postcolonial Perspectives in Photography, Amsterdam, editors Sara Blokland and Asmara Pelupessy, upcoming 2011 Sharjah Biennial 2011, ?Manual for Treason', editor Murtaza Vali New York Times, Holland Cotter, ?Art In Review: Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures?, June 10, 2011 New Yorker, Vince Aletti, ?Always the Young Strangers?, June 1, 2011 Art Papers Magazine, Yamini Nayar, Reviews Section, Matt Morris, Mar/Apr 2011 Take On Art, OUEVRE, Jan 11 Republic of Brown, Ten to Watch, Jan 11 Citybeat, ?Escape to Experimental Places?, Matt Morris, Dec 10 PhotoPages, Feature, James Crump, Dec 10 ArtSlant India, ??e Real Deal?, Anirvan Dasguta, Aug 10 Calcutta Telegraph, ?Imposters of Evidence?, Aveek Sen, Aug 10 Verve Magazine, A Lens-Worthy Construction, Artist Pro%le, Sitanshi Talati-Parikh, March 10 Philips de Pury Magazine, Vince Aletti, ?Photography Now?, Feb 10 ?e Guardian, Adrian Searle, ?Empire Strikes Back? review, Feb 10 Free Art London, ?Empire Strikes Back?, Jan 10 ArtIndia Magazine, Abhay Sardesai, ?World?s Coming Apart?, Lead Review, July 09 Artpulse Magazine, ?Artists of the Diaspora?, Sharmistha Ray, Oct 09 MW Magazine, India, Sharmistha Ray, ?Diasporic Artists?, Aug 09 New Yorker, Vince Aletti, ?Yamini Nayar?, exhibition reviews, Apr 09 New York Times, Holland Cotter, ?Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar?, May 09 Artpulse Magazine, Sharmistha Ray, ?Yamini Nayar: Intimate ?eater?, artist feature, May 09 Timeout Beijing, Stacey Duff, exhibition reviews, Mar 09 Wallstreet Journal, Swapan Seth, Mar 09 Vogue India, ?Ten Artists to watch? Dec 08 Verge Magazine, ?Sunny Side Up?, Sept 08 Wynwood Art Magazine, Uzma Rizvi, ?Zenana as the Public Sphere?, Sept 07 Shifter Magazine, ?Ruin?Monument?, shiftermagazine.net, Fall 06 TimeOut NY, ?Yamini Nayar and Shreshta Premnath?, exhibition reviews, Aug 17, 06 Flavorpill NYC, Dawn Chen, ?Yamini Nayar and Shreshta Premnath?, issue #323 Flash Art International, Courtney Martin, ?Fatal Love? review, May 05 Ego Magazine, Kiran Chandra, ?Fatal Love? review, Apr 05 Art AsiaPaci%c, Peter Nagy, ??rough Customs? review, Winter 04 Anokhi Vibe, Lavina Melwani, ?Territories? review, Oct 04 Curatorial Projects 2007 ?Trans%xed: Video from the South Asian Diaspora?, New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival 2006 ?In a State of Emergency?, Alwan for the Arts, NY 2004 ?Territories?, Aicon Gallery, NY |