Yamini Nayar
Yamini Nayar (born 1975) is a visual artist working between New York and Delhi. Her work is part of the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Saatchi Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the US Department of State Art in Embassies collection.[1][2]
Education[edit]
Nayar received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Rhode Island. Nayar is a recipient of the Lightborne Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Fellowship and an Art Matters Foundation grant.[3]
Works[edit]
Nayor creates large-scale photographs from sculptures constructed from found materials. After the construction is documented with a large-format camera, they are destroyed leaving only the photographic evidence.[1] Her works intersect photography, sculpture and architecture, with projects exploring postcolonial narratives, memory, migration, informal architecture and dwellings, modernist architecture, and alternate and imagined modernities.[4] She has been likened to a "tripped-out version of Samuel van Hoogstraten" [5] and also compared to German artist Thomas Demand.[6]
Nayar's work has been reviewed in the New York Times,[7] the New Yorker,[8] the Hindu, and Artforum.[5] Her work has been described both as exhibiting "a painstaking attention to detail" in certain pieces, and in others portraying a "sense of chaos."[5] Nayar's photographs are as much about the psychological as physical space. Her work explores the "relationship between memory and architecture while establishing a tension between the remembered and the real." Her photographs have been described as providing "a topography of the mind itself."[9]
Nayar's more recent work blends multiple exposures from various stages of construction of a single model. This technique deepens and complicates the piece's relationship with time. The combination is also said to be “reminiscent of Cubism's multi-perspectival dissolution of the static object.”[2]
Selected exhibitions [6][edit]
2020
THREE SPACES for TIME, Thomas Erben, New York[2]
2019
If stone could give, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco[10]
2018
Peckham 24, London
What's essential, Jahaveri Contemporary[11]
Aspirational Architectures, Fridman Galley[9]
2017
Crash, Dig, Dwell, Jahaveri Contemporary[12]
Archival Alchemy, Abrons Arts Center[13]
2016
Unsuspending Disbelief, Logan Center Gallery[14]
2015
Constructs/Construction, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art[15]
A Room of One's Own, Yancy Richardson[16]
2013
an axe for a wingbone, Thomas Erben, New York[17]
2011
Thomas Erben Gallery, NY
2010
Lightborne Exhibition, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Academy of Cincinnati
2011
School of Visual Arts, SVA Notable Female Alumni
Collectors Guide, Volume 2, Chelsea Art Museum
Moving Index, ArtOffice.org
Manual For Treason, Sharjah Biennial
2010
Object Lessons, New York Photography Festival
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Conspiracy’ with Raqs Media Collective and Susanta Mandal, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India
Hong Kong Art fair, Hong Kong, Japan
Punctum II, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
31 Women in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation
Bring Me A Lion, Webster University, MO
Accented, Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
NADA Art Fair, Yamini Nayar, New Works
Thomas Erben Gallery, NY, Arrested Views
Galerie Anne Barrault, France
Grey Noise Gallery, Pakistan, Good Looking
2008
Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland, By All Means
Stephen Stux Gallery, New York, Firewalkers
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FA, Exploding the Lotus
Thomas Erben, New York, First Left, Second Right
ExitArt, New York, Spring Auction
2007
ExitArt, New York, Sultana's Dream
Gallerie Barry Keldoulis, Australia, The Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity
Rush Arts Gallery, New York – Art for Life Auction – East Hampton Benefit
Queens Museum, New York, Erasing Borders
2006
Bose Pacia Modern, New York ‘Yamini Nayar and Shreshta Premnath’
Onishi Gallery, New York, The Kayu Project
Kiana Malakzadeh Gallery, New York, This One Time
BosePacia (25), New York, Friends of Fulbright India Auction
2005
Queens Museum of Art, New York Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now
Prerana Reddy
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, More or Less, Generation Meaning Through Process
Studio Museum of Harlem, NY hrlm: pictures – video installation;
PH Gallery, New York, Empire's Feast
2004
Gallery Arts India, New York, Territories
PS 122, NY, 'Blow the Conch
2003
Bose Pacia, New York, Through Customs
Rye Center, New York
2002
313 Gallery, New York, Black Tea
Interart Annex, New York, Women in Wartime
Society for Ethical Culture, New York
1999
Woods-Gerry Gallery, RI RISD Graduation Invitational
RISD Red-Eye Gallery, RI, Thesis Exhibition, Detroit
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Yamini Nayar – U.S. Department of State". Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ a b c "Yamini Nayar, THREE SPACES for TIME at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA on 13 Feb–28 Mar 2020 | Ocula". ocula.com. 2020-02-15. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
- ^ "home". yamininayar.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ Radar, Art. ""Crash Dig Dwell": intersecting art and architecture with Indian artists Asim Waqif and Yamini Nayar – in conversation | Art Radar". Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ a b c "Yamini Nayar at Thomas Erben Gallery". www.artforum.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ a b "Yamini Nayar - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery". www.saatchigallery.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (2013-12-05). "Yamini Nayar: 'An Axe for a Wing-bone'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ "Yamini Nayar". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ a b "Aspirational Architectures". Wall Street International. 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "Yamini Nayar | If stone could give". Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ "Jhaveri Contemporary — Past exhibitions". www.jhavericontemporary.com. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ "Crash Dig Dwell | Jhaveri Contemporary | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "Archival Alchemy: South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC)". Abrons Arts Center. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "Unsuspending Disbelief | UChicago Arts | The University of Chicago". arts.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "CONSTRUCTS | CONSTRUCTIONS | Kiran Nadar Museum of Art". www.knma.in. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "Elina Brotherus, Anne Collier, Jay DeFeo, Saul Fletcher, David Gilbert, Bryan Graf, Leslie Hewitt, Pello Irazu, Laura Letinsky, Yamini Nayar, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas - A Room of One's Own - Exhibitions - Yancey Richardson". www.yanceyrichardson.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "an axe for a wing-bone Press « Thomas Erben Gallery – New York, NY". Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-03-18.