India. Born 1974
Painting, sculpture, installations
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As ancient symbol of beauty, marital status and spiritual awareness, millions of women across the Indian subcontinent apply the bindi to their foreheads every day. Multi-media conceptual artist... Read full biography
As ancient symbol of beauty, marital status and spiritual awareness, millions of women across the Indian subcontinent apply the bindi to their foreheads every day. Multi-media conceptual artist Bharti Kher says she began applying bindis to much of her recent work following a revelation in 1995,... Read full biography
As ancient symbol of beauty, marital status and spiritual awareness, millions of women across the Indian subcontinent apply the bindi to their foreheads every day. Multi-media conceptual artist Bharti Kher says she began applying bindis to much of her recent work following a revelation in 1995, when she encountered a woman wearing a serpent-shaped bindi on her forehead. Since then, she has appropriated and redeployed the bindi as powerful signifier, a means of transfiguring and... Read full biography
As ancient symbol of beauty, marital status and spiritual awareness, millions of women across the Indian subcontinent apply the bindi to their foreheads every day. Multi-media conceptual artist Bharti Kher says she began applying bindis to much of her recent work following a revelation in 1995, when she encountered a woman wearing a serpent-shaped bindi on her forehead. Since then, she has appropriated and redeployed the bindi as powerful signifier, a means of transfiguring and recontextualizing the dreamy and beastly images and objects that populate her dense, swirling sculptures, paintings and installations. Overlaid upon objects big and small, sacred and divine, they invoke a sense of migratory flow, building and dissipating in complex... Read full biography
As ancient symbol of beauty, marital status and spiritual awareness, millions of women across the Indian subcontinent apply the bindi to their foreheads every day. Multi-media conceptual artist Bharti Kher says she began applying bindis to much of her recent work following a revelation in 1995, when she encountered a woman wearing a serpent-shaped bindi on her forehead. Since then, she has appropriated and redeployed the bindi as powerful signifier, a means of transfiguring and recontextualizing the dreamy and beastly images and objects that populate her dense, swirling sculptures, paintings and installations. Overlaid upon objects big and small, sacred and divine, they invoke a sense of migratory flow, building and dissipating in complex and cosmic rhythms. Kher's work often barters in the grotesque: Sometimes the grotesquerie is obvious, even violent; others, it is merely a... Read full biography
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India. Born 1956
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India. Born 1966
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India. 1972 - 2015
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India. Born 1974
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India. Born 1961
Painting, sculpture, installations
India. Born 1937
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India. Born 1964
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Sri Lanka, India. 1901 - 1993
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India. 1941 - 2008
Figurative and mythology themed painting, silk screen, teaching
India. Born 1937
Painting images symbolic of urban Indian life, violence vs. civility
India, France. 1922 - 2011
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India. 1934 - 2003
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India, England. 1925 - 2009
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India. Born 1976/1979
Collaborative work in painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic design, music and fashion
India. 1929 - 2013
Iconic, symbolic figure, genre, townscape and still life painting, teaching
India. 1928 - 2020
Painting, film making, sculpture, photography and printmaking
India. Born 1956
Painting
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Abstract painting and sculpture
India. Born 1939
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India. Born 1937
Painting
India. Born 1941
Painting
India, England. 1913 - 2011
Large scale Indian history and culture painting
India. Born 1964
Painting and sculpture
France, India. Born 1935
Symbolic, mythological, romantic paintings, lithograpjy
India. 1928 - 1993
Painting and sculpture