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RUMMANA HUSSAIN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 Talwar Gallery, Breaking Skin, New York, NY, US
2015 Talwar Gallery, Breaking Skin, New Delhi, India
2012 Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US
2010 Talwar Gallery, Fortitude from Fragments, New Delhi, India
1998 Art in General, In Order to Join, New York, NY, US
1996 Gallery Chemould, Home/Nation, Mumbai, India
1994 Gallery Chemould, Fragments/Multiples, Mumbai, India and travel to
L.T.G. Gallery, New Delhi, India
1991 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India
1986 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India
1984 Triveni Gallery, New Delhi, India
1983 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 58th Venice Biennale, Our time for a future sharing, India Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2014 Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Is it what you think?, New Delhi, India
2013 Museum Abteiberg, In Order to Join, Monchengladbach, Germany
Smart Museum, The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989 Chicago, IL, US and travel to
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
2009 Talwar Gallery, Excerpts from Diary Pages, New York, NY, US
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, IMAGE MUSIC TEXT, SAHMAT (20 Years), New Delhi, India
2007 The Rose Art Museum, Tiger by the Tail!, Waltham, Massachusetts, US and travel to
Lowe Art Museum, FL, US
Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., US
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, US
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US
2004 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Perth and travel to
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India
Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Asia Society, New York, NY, US
2002 Vancouver Art Gallery, Moving Ideas: A Contemporary Cultural Dialogue with India, Canada
2001 Tate Modern, Century City, London, UK
1999 Queensland Art Gallery, The Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
1997 Victoria Art Gallery, Telling Tales, British Council, Bath, UK
Royal Norweigian Embassy, Crosscurrents: Museums of Ethnography, New Delhi, India
Mills College Art Gallery, Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence, Oakland, CA, US
1995 Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), Postcards for Gandhi, New Delhi, India
Middlesborough Art Gallery, Inside Out: Contemporary Women Artists of India, UK
1993 Husain Ki Sarai, Exhibition in Aid of Earthquake Victims, Faridabad, India
1992 Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), Images and Words, India
1984 TATA Centre, Calcutta, India
SELECTED PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO
1998 In Between, a video film
Kaskadenkondensator,  Is It What You Think?, Basel, Switzerland
1997 Galerie Foundation for Indian Artists, Textured Terrain, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 N.C.P.A, Living on the Margins, Mumbai, India
AWARDS & GRANTS
1998 Art in General, Residency, New York, NY, US
1997 Artspace Studios, Residency, Bristol, UK
1996 Ministry of Human Resource Development Senior Fellowship (Visual Arts), New Delhi, India
The Estate of Rummana Hussain is represented by Talwar Gallery.
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