Female artists from India at the San Francisco based YBCA group show - I

The San Francisco based YBCA group show, entitled ‘The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India’ features exciting works by Indian artists. We feature the female artists who feature in it:

Gauri Gill was born in Chandigarh, India and currently lives and works in New Delhi. She received BFAs at the New Delhi College of Art, New Delhi, 1992, and the Parsons School of Design, New York, 1994, as well as an MFA at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2002. Gill’s work has been exhibited widely in India and across the world.

Shilpa Gupta was born in Mumbai, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai in 1997, and was a recipient of the Transmediale 2004 Award, Berlin, 2004, the Sanskriti Prathisthan Award, New Delhi, 2004, the International Artist of the Year courtesy South Asian Visual Artists Collective, Canada, 2004. Her work has been shown at prestigious venues like Darling Fonderie, Montreal; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2010; OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, 2010; and Le Laboratoire, Paris.

Tejal Shah is a Mumbai-based visual artist working with video, photography and installation, and focusing on feminist, queer and political issues. Shah holds a BA in photography from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 2000, and an MFA from Bard College, New York, 2008. She has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and film festivals. In 2003 Tejal Shah co-founded, organized and curated Larzish, India’s first international film festival of sexuality and gender plurality.

Born in Bangalore, Pushpamala N is a video, photo and installation artist, writer, theorist, and curator living and working in Bangalore and New Delhi. After receiving a BA in Economics, English and Psychology from Bangalore University in 1977, she studied sculpture at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda where she graduated in 1985.

Pushpamala N has received several awards, including the Karnataka Shilpa Kala Akademi Award, 1998, Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Silver Jubilee Award, 1988, and Gold Medal, VI Triennale, India and Karnataka Rajyothsava Award, 1986. Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, biennials and festivals.