Tejal Shah

Tejal Shah (Hindi: तेजल शाह; born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations.[1] Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature.[2] She lives in Mumbai.[3][4][5]

Tejal Shah
तेजल शाह
Born1979 (age 43–44)
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Alma materRMIT University
Occupation(s)Visual artist, curator

Biography

Tejal Shah was born in 1979 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India.[6] Shah has identified as queer.[7] She has BA degree (2000) in photography from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia; and worked towards a MFA degree from Bard College but did not graduate.[3][8][2] She was an exchange student and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1999 to 2000.[3][9]

Her 2006 Hijra Fantasy series of work highlighted the Hijra community (eunuchs, intersex people, and/or transgender people) of Bangalore and Mumbai.[2] In 2012, for Documenta (13) in Kassel, she created the five-channel video installation "Between the Waves" featuring two women wearing horns and exploring a surreal landscape.[10][11][12]

Shah's artwork has been shown widely including, "Global Feminisms" (2007) at Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York;[13][14] "India: Public Places/Private Spaces" (2008) at Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey;[15] Documenta (13) (2012) in Kassel, Germany;[10] and "Everyone Is an Artist: Cosmopolitan Exercises With Joseph Beuys" (2021) at K20 in Düsseldorf, Germany.[16] Her work was also part of the group exhibition "Facing India" (2018) at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg, Germany; other artists included Vibha Galhotra, Bharti Kher, Prajakta Potnis, Reena Saini Kallat, and Mithu Sen.[17]

Shah's work is in public museum collections include at the Centre Pompidou.[18]

See also

References
  1. "Tejal Shah: Unbecoming". e-flux.com. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  2. Verghese, Anisha (2021). "Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara". Drain Magazine, Vol. 17 (2). ISSN 2469-3022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  3. Seid, Betty; Pijnappel, Johan (2007). New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India. Mapin Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 978-81-88204-82-3.
  4. "Tejal Shah". Flash Art (magazine). Vol. 258–260. Giancarlo Politi. 2008. p. 8.
  5. Sengupta, Somini (30 January 2011). "In India, a Busy Fair and a Spirited Art Scene". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  6. Indian summer: la jeune scène artistique indienne : du 7 octobre au 31 décembre 2005 (in French). École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. 2005. p. 245. ISBN 978-2-84056-183-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Art and AsiaPacific, Issues 64-65. Fine Arts Press. 2009. p. 64.
  8. "Tejal Shah". Kunstinstituut Melly. 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. Sinha, Gayatri; Sternberger, Paul Spencer (2007). India: Public Places, Private Spaces : Contemporary Photography and Video Art. Newark Museum. p. 157. ISBN 978-81-85026-82-4.
  10. Smith, Roberta (14 June 2012). "Art Show as Unruly Organism". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  11. Catling, Charlotte Skene (28 September 2012). "The Art of Protest". Architectural Review. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  12. Pande, Alka (30 September 2012). "Indian strokes". The Tribune. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  13. Muller, Dena (1 January 2008). "Global Feminisms curated by Maura Reilly and Linda NochlinGlobal Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560. ISSN 0097-9740.
  14. Ehrlich, Cheri Eileen (22 December 2011). "Adolescent girls' responses to feminist artworks in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum". Visual Arts Research. 37 (2): 55–70.
  15. "Art in Review". The New York Times. 4 January 2008. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  16. Woodward, Daisy (1 March 2021). "Spring Is Here: Brilliant Things To Do This March". AnOther. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  17. "Reena Saini Kallat has a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg". Architectural Digest India. Condé Nast. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  18. "Tejal Shah, I Love my India, 2003". Centre Pompidou.
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