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Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal was born in Mumbai. He graduated from Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Art, Mumbai. He has been a recipient of many prestigious international residencies and won the Forbes Award for Debut Solo Show, 2014.

His body of work is a growing narrative that draws upon mythical beings, and brings them into a dialogue with the present. Within this narrative, these beings perform absurd acts in derelict corners of the city, transforming them into liminal sites of ritual. The temporal act and its residue become primary motifs in his practice.

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b. 1988

Education:
2011    Diploma in Fine Arts, Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and   Crafts, Mumbai, IN

Selected Solo Exhibitions :

2022    Mythmachine, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2022    Ancestors, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai, IN
2019    Juggernaut, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2018    The Dekkan Trap, MAC, Birmingham, UK
2017    Barricadia, CCA, Glassgow, UK
2017    Dry Salvages, PRIMARY, Nottingham, UK
2016    Adversary Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2013    Forerunner, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2011    Hardboiled Wonderland, Solo exhibition at Kunst(Zeug) Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions :

2022    Lost in Space, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2022    Manifesta 14, Pristina Kosovo
2021    Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2021    Head in the Clouds, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2020    Outside, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2020    Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2019     Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2018     D/CODE, Mumbai, IN
2018     Assymetrical Objects,Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IN
2018     India Art Fair, New Delhi, IN
2017     The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2016     Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA
2016     Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2016     The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016     Temporal Turn, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2016     Setouchi Triennial, Shodoshima Island, Japan
2016     Other Species, Other Times: New Video Art from India, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
2016     IFA@Delhi: Film Screening of The Common Task, School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi, IN
2016     Ideas travel faster than light, NIV Art Center, New Delhi, IN
2015     Sights and Sounds: Film and Video Programme, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
2015     Monitor 11: South Asian Experimental Film + Video, Toronto, CANADA
2015     The Foveal Experiment, Cinéma La Clef and L’Etna film lab, Paris, FRANCE
2014     Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN
2014     Spheres 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
2014     Missing Pavillion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IN
2014     Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2014     Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Art Festival 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014     India Platform, Art Stage Singapore 2014, Singapore
2014     Bright Noise, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, IN
2014     Sacred/Scared, Latitude 28, New Delhi, IN
2014     Mumbai International Film Festival, NCPA Mumbai, IN
2014     Translucent Video Art Festival, Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, Goa, IN
2014     Listen Up! Public Sound Art, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, IN
2013     We Are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, KHOJ, New Delhi, and Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, IN
2013    Spheres 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
2013    Residency Open Studios, Macro Museum Rome, Italy
2013    Imitation/Recognition, 15th Mumbai Film Festival, Mumbai, IN
2013    Take Me Elsewhere, Vanity Projects, Chelsea, NY
2013    Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913-2013), Retrospective of Indian cinema and video at Films Division, Mumbai, IN
2013    Duende, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
2013    The Arena, the Imagination and the Body, KHOJ Studios New Delhi, IN
2013    Residencies Open Studio Weekend, GASWORKS, London, UK
2012    Simple Tales III, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2012    fiVe ,Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2011    Maximalism, Lessing1 Artespace, Zurich, Switzerland
2011    Project India Group show at False Ceiling gallery, Mumbai, IN in collaboration with 1percenters artist collective UK
2011    Live Art hosted by BAR1 Bangalore, IN
2010    Final year exhibition, Rachana Sansad AFAC, Piramal Gallery Mumbai, IN

Live performances:
2012    Bhramana, Mumbai, IN
2012    Bhramana II, presented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2011    Vetala, NGMA, Bengaluru, IN

Awards and Achievements:
2012    Recipient of INLAKS Fine Art Award, IN
2011    Recipient of fellowship to the FUTUR Foundation artist’s residency programme, Switzerland

C & L Shows

Lost In Space
Lost In Space
21 April - 2 July
2022
Head In The Clouds
Head In The Clouds
14 January - 27 March
2021
OUTSIDE
OUTSIDE

2020
Juggernaut
Juggernaut
16 January - 2 March
2019
Adversary
Adversary
23 January - 12 March
2016
Forerunner
Forerunner
9 September - 28 September
2013
fiVe
fiVe
10 August - 22 September
2012

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