Reena Saini Kallat (b. 1973, New Delhi) graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Art, in Bombay. She frequently works with officially recorded or registered names of people, objects, and monuments that are lost or have disappeared, only to get listed as anonymous and forgotten statistics. Her work has been widely exhibited in important venues such as the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Saatchi Gallery, London; SESC Pompeia and SESC Belenzino in Sao Paulo; Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Arken Museum in Denmark; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona; ZKM Karlsruhe in Germany; Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; IVAM Museum, Spain; Busan MOMA; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Chicago Cultural Centre amongst many others.

WORK

Measurement from evaporating oceans
by Reena Saini Kallat
FRP, steel, salt
2013

Untitled (column)
by Reena Saini Kallat
Acrylic, rubber stamps, wood
2001

Walls of the Womb
by Reena Saini Kallat
Tied-and-dyed silk, brass, bonded marble, handwrit
2007

ESSAYS

Woven Chronicle

by Diana Freundl

At Offsite, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s public art space, Mumbai-based artist Reena Saini Kallat provides a unique platform for generating dialogues about geographical movements and ensuing conflicts. Woven Chronicle traces human migration and cultural diaspora throughout the world. Handwoven

Beyond Resolution: The Art of Reena Saini Kallat

by Murtaza Vali

I The dramatic expansion of mass media - print, televisual and cybernetic - that followed economic liberalization in the early 1990s, has profoundly shifted the terrain of the visual in India. The growing ubiquity of media images has forced artists to reexamine the changing status, role and power of

Reena Saini Kallat

Woven Chronicle

Beyond Resolution: The Art of Reena Saini Kallat

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