zarina-bio
| 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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