Indian female artists at the YBCA group show - II

Here’s a quick look at other talented female artists from India whose work gets featured at the San Francisco based YBCA group show, entitled ‘The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India’ that compiles their recent creations.

Born in Lucknow, Anita Dube currently lives and works in New Delhi. She graduated with honors with a BA in History from the University of New Delhi in 1979, and with an MFA in Art Criticism from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, where she was trained as an art historian and critic. The artist has presented numerous solo exhibitions, including ‘Recent Works’, Bose Pacia, New York, 2008; ‘Inside Out’, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2007; and ‘Phantoms of Liberty’, Gallery Almine Rech, Paris, 2007.

Born in Kolkata, Rina Banerjee is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New York City. Banerjee graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1993 and later, in 1995, completed the MFA degree program at the Yale University School of Art, where she won the Skowhegan-Yale Painting scholarship.

Rina Banerjee’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions that include ‘Chimeras of the India & the West’, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2011; ‘Forever Foreign’, Haunch of Venison, London, 2010; ‘Look into my eyes and you will see a world unexplainable, out of place’, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2009; apart from featuring in many important group exhibitions.

Ayisha Abraham was born in London and currently lives in Bangalore. She received her BFA in Painting at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 1987. In 1995 she completed her MFA at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

The talented artist has had several solo exhibitions in New York and India and has been exhibited in numerous group shows. A member of the Bangalore artists’ collective BAR1 she works as a visual arts consultant at the Bangalore based Srishti School of Art, Design &
Technology.

(Information courtesy: YBCA, San Francisco)