Artists

Vibha Galhotra


Vibha, (b 1978), received her B.F.A from Government College of Arts, Chandigarh and Masters from Kala-Bhavan, Santiniketan. Vibha Galhotra's art addresses transcultural in the global local specificity. She had presented in biennales as well as national and international solo exhibitions and collaborations. Galhotra’s work focuses on the context of displacement, nostalgia, identity, existence construction or deconstruction, the banal cultural condition in, around environment of negotiations in the new constant changing urban atmosphere.?Her work crosses the dimensions of art, ecology, economy, science, spirituality and activism. Though she claims that she is an artist but not an activist, but I feel there is a hint of activism or should say social responsibility. Galhotra's works in varied mediums through photography, animation, found object, per formative objects, installation and sculpture to create experiential spaces. She has been awarded with Inlaks Foundation Award, HRD National Scholarship, Artist Under 30Yr Award, Chandigarh State Lalit Kala Academy award and number of residencies, solo shows and group shows in India and abroad. She is versatile in her work. One can see her ability of experimentation through her installation, sculptures, photography, paintings and graphics prints.
WORK

Altering Boon
by Vibha Galhotra
Glass beeds, wire and wood
2011

Untitled
by Vibha Galhotra
Found branch and concrete
From the series Concrete Burden

Landscape Remade
by Vibha Galhotra
Metal ghungroos on fabric
2012

ESSAYS

Making Art Amidst the Death of an Immortal River

by  Adrian Muoio

Amidst the thousands of ghungroos on the walls and floors, the muted and meditative essence of Vibha Galhotra’s exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City is curiously contradictory. It’s somewhat illogical, too. Yet in a show titled Absur -City -Pity -Dity, it makes perfect sense that

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Vibha Galhotra

by  Lucie Fontaine

Prologue - my very private utopia

Once upon a time humans lived under the shadow of big utopias. Called with names like Religion or

Ideology, these big utopias brought masses of individuals together who would live, love and die for them.

This time has passed and now big utopias have been

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