Nalini Malani

Nalini Malani (born 1946, in Karachi, undivided India is a contemporary Indian artist, who extends the concept of painting beyond the frame into video plays and video/shadow plays.

Born in Karachi in 1946, she came to India as a refugee from the Partition of India.[1] Malani moved to the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, shortly before partition. Her family's experience of leaving behind their home and becoming refugees during that time informs much of her art. Malani studied Fine Arts in Mumbai.[2]

Over the past four decades, Malani has broken through in India's male-dominated art world, to gain a towering reputation not only as a pioneer of video art in the country, but as an organizer. In 1985, she put together the first exhibition of Indian female artists, in Delhi, and this year she became the first Asian woman to receive the Arts & Culture Fukuoka Prize for her "consistent focus on such daring contemporary and universal themes as religious conflict, war, oppression of women and environmental destruction."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Sharma, Meara; Peck, Henry (7 March 2013). "A Conversation With: Video Artist Nalini Malani". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Seervai, Shanoor. "A Retrospective of the Works of Nalini Malani Who Paints in Reverse". Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ Mallonee, Laura C. "Nalini Malani on Her Career and Bringing Her Documenta 13 Shadow Play". Observer.
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