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ZARINA BHIMJI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 The New Gallery, Yellow Patch, Walsall, UK
Whitechapel Gallery, Zarina Bhimji, London, UK & travel to
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2010 Hamburger Bahnhof, Who Knows Tomorrow, Berlin, Germany
2009 The Art Institute of Chicago, Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue, Chicago, IL, US
2007 Haunch of Venison, Zarina Bhimji, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Lumen Travo, Love, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Haunch of Venison, Zarina Bhimji, London, UK
2004 inIVA, Zarina Bhimji, Archive Season, London, UK
2003 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Matrix 150, Hartford, CT, US
Tate Britain, Art Now, Out of Blue, London, UK
2001 Talwar Gallery, Cleaning the Garden, New York, NY, US
1998 Harewood House-Terrace Gallery, Cleaning the Garden, Leeds, UK
1995 Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
1992 Ikon Gallery, I will always be here, Birmingham, UK & travel
1989 Tom Allen Community Art Centre, London, UK
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London [Postgraduate Studies]
1986 Goldsmiths’ College, University of London [B.A. Graduation]
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Nottingham Contemporary, Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham, UK
CCA-NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Paradise Lost, Singapore
2013 De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nature Morte Berlin, Poses and Views, Berlin, Germany
2011 De Hallen Museum, HE DISAPPEARED INTO COMPLETE SILENCE, Haarlem, Netherlands
Kouvola Art Museum, ARS11 – Africa in Kouvola, Kouvola, Finland
Göteburg International Biennal, Göteburg, Sweden
2010 Pavilhã o Ciccillo Matarazzo, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 The Kadist Art Foundation, Capturing Time, Paris, France
2008 The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
2007 Tate Liverpool, Turner Prize 2007, Liverpool, UK
2006 Hayward Gallery, How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, London, UK
Sydney Biennale XV, Zones of Contact, Sydney, Australia
ICP, Snap Judgments, New York, NY, US
2005 Talwar Gallery, (desi)re, New York, NY, US
50 Years of Documenta 1965-2005, Kassel, Germany
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, British Art Show 6, Gateshead, UK & travel
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Experiments with Truth, Philadelphia, PA, US
2004 Leeds City Art Gallery, strangerthanfiction, Leeds, UK
Moderna Museet, In Our Time, Works from the Moderna Museet Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
50th Venice Biennale, Fault Lines, Venice, Italy
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001 Museum Villa Stuck, The Short Century, Munich, Germany & travel to
Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, US
Norwich Gallery, East 2001, Norwich, UK
1997 Hayward Gallery, The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, London, UK & travel
Walker Arts Centre, No place (like home), Minneapolis, MN, US
Stadthaus Ulm, Public Relations, Ulm, Germany
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Life’s Little Necessities, Cape Town, South Africa
Photo 98, UK Year of Photography & the Electronic Image, Leeds, UK & travel
Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Strange Day, Milan, Italy
NGBK Photography Group, Contemporary Photography, Berlin, Germany
Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Inserts, Collaboration with QJM Magazine and Lab, Oxford, UK
Queens Museum of Art, Out of India, New York, NY, US
1996 Guggenheim Museum, In/Sight, New York, NY, US
1995 The Photographers’ Gallery, The Impossible Science of Being, London, UK
1994 Kulturhuset, Revir/Territory, Stockholm, Sweden
INIVA, Inauguration exhibition, London, UK
1993 MUHKA Museum, Antwerp ’93, Antwerp, Belgium
1992 Whitechapel Open, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, Critical Decade, Oxford, UK
1991 The Showroom, A Place for Art? 2, London, UK
European Photography Award 1991, Berlin, Germany
1990 Biennial exhibition from Polaroid Collection, Photokina ’90, Selections 5, Cologne, Germany
Photographers Gallery, Intimate Distance, London, UK & travel
Leeds City Galleries and Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Fabled Territories (New Asian Photography in Britain), Leeds, UK & travel
Acton community workshop, The women in my life, London, UK & travel
Horizon Art Gallery, In Focus, London, UK
Watershed Media Centre, From object to image – Photo sculpture, Bristol, UK
Cornerhouse Gallery, Black Markets, Manchester, UK
Arts Council Collection, Shocks to the System ’90s Political Art, UK
1989 Whitechapel Art Gallery, Whitechapel Open, London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, Towards a Bigger Picture, London, UK & travel
1988 Chisenhale Gallery, The Essential BLACK ART, London, UK & travel
Battersea District Library, Insights, London, UK
1987 Kettle’s Yard, Dislocation, Cambridge, UK
Chelsea School of Art, The Devil’s Feast, London, UK
Cornerhouse Gallery, The Image Employed: The Use of Narrative in Black Art, Manchester, UK
South London Art Gallery, The South London Open Exhibition, London, UK
Camden Arts Centre, Black Women Photographers, London, UK
1986 Camerawork, Darshan, London, UK & travel
Whitechapel Gallery, From Two Worlds, London, UK & travel
Greenwich Peoples Gallery, Jagrati, London, UK
1985 Brixton Gallery, Mirror Reflecting Darkly, London, UK
Jubilee Garden, Struggle & Success, London, UK
Artists Against Apartheid, South Bank, London, UK
Chelsea School of Art, F Stops
EDUCATION
1989 Higher Diploma in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, London, UK
1983 Art Foundation, Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, UK
RESIDENCIES
2000 National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
1993 Kettle’s Yard artist in residence, Darwin College, Cambridge, UK
1992 India Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Plymouth Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Highbury Islington secondary school, London, UK
AWARDS
2007 Tate Gallery, Nominee for Turner Prize, London, UK
2003 Art International Center of Photography, ICP Infinity Award, New York, NY, US
2002 DAAD, Artist-in-Residence 2002, Berlin, Germany
2001 EAST International, Norwich, UK
SciArt Award, London, UK
1999 The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, London, UK
1989 Whitechapel Open, Coopers & Lybrand Award, London UK
Slade School of Art, Julian Sullivan Award, London, UK
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