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Neerja Kothari

Bio CV Exhibitions

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Murmuration (# 5) at 4600, 5000, 6500 & 5500
Murmuration (# 2) at 51,900
Murmuration (# 1) at 1,24,800
Stuck in Minute Johnson Vermont
In fear of losing color
Gathering evidence on one’s trace (5900)
Coming apart (1765)
Ode to a False Stance
Each Sameness Carrying Its Own Difference (4290 to 1)
Charting the Evening Sky 1 to 43300
Adrift at 9,405
Metamorphosis (movement 2) – 20620
Holding on to Elements in Blue
Holding onto 1,30,022 Circles of Blue
Untitled (Heel and Toe)
Holding onto 1,06,900 Lines of Blue
An Investigation of a Lyrical Movement by the Self (80330)
Trepid Traces (6750)

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Education

2013 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, USA 

2011 Studio Diploma Certificate Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2010 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2002 Bachelor of Commerce (Honors), Calcutta University, Kolkata, India Artist in

Residence

 2016 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

2015 La Napoule Art Foundation, France

2014 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia (Jane Geuting Camp Fund Fellowship)

2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Exhibitions

2018 Caressing history, Prameya Art Foundation, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi,
India
Lapses II, Sakshi Gallery and Shrine Empire Gallery, Mumbai, India
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
Delhi Contemporary Art Weekend, New Delhi

2017 Delhi Contemporary Art Weekend, SaffronArt, New Delhi, India 
Lapses, Shrine Empire Gallery at The Harrington Street Art Center, Kolkata,
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India

2016 India Art Fair, New Delhi, India

2013 Drawing Connections:23rd Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the
Arts, Boston, MA
en(countering) impossibilities, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fourth Wall
Gallery,Boston,MA 
Graduating Students + Award Recipients, Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery,
SMFA, Boston, MA
Deciphering Identity, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, MA
Pieces Apart: Quantifying Experience, Huret & Spector Gallery, Boston,
MA

2012 Museum School Art Sale, SMFA, Boston, MA
Summer Camp, Mission Hill Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
Invited to assist as a drafter for the Sol LeWitt Wall drawing #118,
Something along those lines, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
Museum Council Summer Party Juried Auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SMFA Medal Award Gala and Juried Auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Proof of Purchase, Samson Projects Gallery, Boston, MA
Violence Transformed 2012: The Artist’s Voice, Resnikoff Gallery, Boston,MA
Annual Juried Drawing Show, SMFA, Boston, MA
SMFA graduate open studios, SMFA, Boston, MA

2011 Annual Juried Drawing Show, SMFA, Boston, MA
Student Annual Photo Show, SMFA, Boston, MA

2010 Proof of Purchase, Samson Projects Gallery, Boston, MA
December Sale, SMFA, Boston, MA
Post-Baccalaureate Spring Group Show, SMFA, Boston, MA
All School Juried Drawing Show, SMFA, Boston, MA
Student Annual Show, SMFA , Boston, MA

Awards/Nominations

2017 Aparajita You Shine Art award, Kolkata, India

2016 FID Prize (Nominee)

2013 Montague International Travel Grant 
Nominated (Finalist) for Blance E Colman Award, Boston 
Dana Pond Award in Painting (Honorable mention) SMFA, Boston

2011  Scholarship, MFA Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Award winner, Annual Juried Drawing Show, SMFA, Boston 
Scholarship, Post-Baccalaureate Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston

Bibliography

2017 The strange ways of memory, Soumitra Das, Telegraph Kolkata, India 
https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170603/jsp/opinion/story_154794.jsp

2016 The tiny dancer, Melissa Woods, PEM Connected, MA 
http://connected.pem.org/tiny-dancer/ 

2014  365artists365days project, featured artist, December 6 2014
New American Paintings #110 NE
 Manifest International Drawing Annual INDA 8

Neerja Kothari (b.1980, Kolkata) is an artist currently living and working from Kolkata, India. She holds a B.Com from Calcutta University, India and a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, USA. In 2016 she was awarded fellowships at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico and the Corporation of Yaddo, New York. Previously, she has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center and the La Napoule Art Foundation. Her work has also been published in the New American Paintings (NE#110) journal and the Manifest International Drawing Annual.