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Nasreen Mohamedi

Nasreen Mohamedi was an artist and educator, active from the early 1960s until her early death in 1990. Having trained in London and Paris, she pursued her career mainly in India. Recognised as a leading abstractionist of her generation, her legacy has only grown since her death. Nasreen Mohamedi’s works have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Liverpool; and The Reina Sofia in Madrid.

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b. 1937-1990

Education
1961     Monsieur Guillard’s Atelier Paris
1954    St. Martin’s School of the Arts, London

Solo Exhibitions:

2022     Autobiography of a Line, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2016     Nasreen Mohamedi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, @ MET Breuer, New York, NY
2015     Nasreen Mohamedi, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2014     Nasreen Mohamedi, Tate, Liverpool, UK
2013     Becoming One, Talwar Gallery, New York, US
2013     Nasreen Mohamedi: A View to Infinity/A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New  Delhi, IN
2010     Nasreen Mohamedi, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2009     Nasreen Mohamedi, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2009     Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes – Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1), Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway
2008     the grid, unplugged, Talwar Gallery, New York, US
2005     Lines among Lines, Drawing Center, New York, US
2004     A Retrospective, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2003     Photoworks, Talwar Gallery, New York, US
1991      Nasreen in Retrospect, Jehangir Art Gallery,Mumbai, IN
1987     Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1986     Exhibition of Drawings, Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi
1985     Artists Indiens en France, Centre National de Arts Plastiques , Paris, France
1982     Prithvi Art Gallery, Mumbai
1981     Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1961     Gallery 59, Bombay, IN

Group Exhibitions:

2017      The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2015      Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014      Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
2014      Lines, Hauser & Wirth,  Zurich, Switzerland
2013      Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg,  Monchengladbach, Germany
2013      Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,  Kansas City, MO
2012      Gallery, Lightness & Gravity, Queensland Art Brisbane, Australia
2012      Lines of Thought, Parasol Unit Foundation,  London, UK
2012      Crossings, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, IN
2012      Five, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2010      On Line, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, New York, US
2010      Orientations: Trajectories in Indian Art, Foundation ‘De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
2010       Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London
2010       Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009      Actuality of an Idea, Stuart Shave/Modern Art,  London, UK
2009      Excerpts from Diary Pages, Talwar Gallery, New York, New York, US
2008      A Tale of Two Cities, (Part I), Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara
2008      Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
2008      Fluid Structures: Gender and Abstraction, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007      Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany
2007      WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US and travel to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada,2008-9, Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US,2008 and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, US
2007       India Art Now: Between Continuity and Transformation, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy
2007       Lines, Grids, StainsWords, Museum of Modern Art, NY and travel to Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal and and Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2008-9
2006     Contemporary Photography from South Asia, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA
2006      Fifth Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2006      Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005      Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2004      Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
2003     The Last Picture Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US and travel to Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
2003    Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
2003    Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

C & L Shows

Autobiography of a Line
Autobiography of a Line
14 July - 3 September
2022
Here, It Is Still
Here, It Is Still
22 May - 13 July
2019
A retrospective
A retrospective
25 September - 23 October
2004
fiVe
fiVe
10 August - 22 September
2012

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