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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