Artists > 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 :
2023 Anhad | The unscalable, JUNGE AKADEMIE, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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 :
2024 A Cosmic Movie Camera, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
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
