Artists > 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
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Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes Reflections on Indian Modernism | Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
5 September - 15 November