Shrine Empire Gallery » Shruti Mahajan

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Education

2000-04 Post Graduate Diploma in Textile Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
1996-2000 Bachelor Degree in Painting, Maharaja Sayajii Rao University, Baroda

Selected Exhibitions

2020
Exhibited at the India Art Fair 2020 with Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2019
Three Person Show at Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
‘Dastavez’- a series of 25 Letter Books presented by Gallery Shrine Empire at Delhi Contemporary Art Week

2018
‘Spirit and Matter’- A group show at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad

2017
‘Faltungen’- A collaborative show with Alke Reeh (Sculptor), Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt
‘Migrating Identities’-A curated show by Anja Ellenberger at Westwerk, Hamburg
Open Studio, Düsseldorf
‘Seal’, Solo show at Hamburg Hall, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad

2015
Group Show at Open Eyed Dreams Kochi

2014
‘Sparsh’ a group show by Indian artists at Kunst Museum Bochum, Bochum
(Into) the middle of the stories, Group Show at Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi

2013
‘Home/Front’ Video presented at Kunstverein Pforzheim
‘Reflection’ Galerie Max Mueller, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai
‘Reflection’ Museum Siegburg
Open Studio Höherweg e.V. Düsseldorf

2012
Two person show at Kunstverein Xanten, Xanten
‘Dispatch’ Städtische Galerie Alte Post, Neuss
‘Home/Front’ Video presented at Galerie Max Mueller, Mumbai, with artist initiative nüans in an exhibition titled ‘OAR or ORE’

2011
‘Drawings’ a group show at Sugra Manzil, Colaba, An offsite project of Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

2010
‘Open studio’-Kӧlnischer Kunstverein, Kӧln
‘Reverie’- a group show at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Nets and other works- A collaboration show with Alke Reeh (Düsseldorf), Field Institut Hombroich, Neuss
‘Roots- Young Indian Art’, curated by Sandra Khare (Mumbai), Gallery White Square, Berlin

2009
L- machines, a group show curated by Kavitha Balkrishnan, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams Cochin, Kerala
Studio Practices, a group show at Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
1×1 India, a group show curated by Anupa Mehta and Sapna Kar, Mumbai

2007
Group show at British Council, New Delhi

2002
Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda

1999
‘Still Life’ curated by Jaydev Thakur at Gallery Son’ et Lumiere, Mumbai

Grants and Residencies

2019
Artist in Residence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI), Max-Planck-Institut, Florenz, Italy

2017
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus FRISE, India Week, Hamburg

2012
Artist in Residence, Höherweg 271e.V Düsseldorf, Germany

2010
Artist in Residence, Kӧlnischer Kunstverein, Kӧln supported by Kunststiftung NRW Düsseldorf, Germany

2000
Received Nasreen Mohammadi Scholarship, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda

Teaching and Presentations

Visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Paldi, Ahmedabad
Visiting faculty at NIFT Mumbai
2019 Presented works at kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
2019 Presented works at DHI Art Space, Hyderabad
2019 Conducted workshop for the students of Princess Esin Women’s Educational Centre, Hyderabad (as part of Krishnakriti Festival)
2018 Artist talk at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda
2017 Artist talk with Naini Arora and Anja Ellenberger at Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Artist talk with Alke Reeh and Nadia Ismail at Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt
2017 Kunstforum Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad
2017 Presented work at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
2017 Artist talk at Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, Hyderabad
2014 Presentation for students of design at Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld Germany
2013 Artist talk at Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2012 Artist talk at Staedtische Galerie Altepost, Neuss
2011 Presented work at Pecha Kucha Night, Mumbai
2010 Presented works at Indian Embassy, Berlin

Projects and Collaborations

Collaborative book cover design projects with Gunjan Ahlawat (Creative Head Penguin Random House, Delhi)
The project Includes cover designs for Anita Desai, Anees Salim, Kushwant Singh, Partition Box set, Premchand (series of books translated in English) are among the few.
Designed textiles for Bindu Juneja (eminent Odissi dancer) for her production Narmada Parikrama staged during Serindipity Arts Festival, Goa,2016.

Born in 1977, Shruti Mahajan studied painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Saiyaji Rao University, Baroda (2000)and Textile Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.(2004). Shruti was a recipient of Nasreen Mohammadi scholarship in the year 2000.

In 2010,she was invited for an artist in residency program by an Art foundation, Kunststiftung NRW in Cologne for six months.She worked and lived in Koelnischer Kunstverein. In 2012, Shruti lived in Duesseldorf as artist in residence at an artist house -Studio Hoeherweg 271. It was during this stay she had two person travelling shows in three cities: In galerieAlte post Neuss, Kunstverein Xanten, and Museum Siegburg. She was the artist in residence at Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz, the Max Planck Institut (2019).

Shruti has exhibited her works at India art fair with Shrine Empire in 2020, exhibited at Shrine Empire and Delhi Contempory Art Week in 2019, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, British Council Delhi, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi, Gallery White Square, Berlin, Open Studios at Koelnischer Kunstverein, Open studios at Hoeherweg 271 and has collaborated with Alke Reeh (Sculptor from Düsseldorf) for shows in Field InstitutHombroich, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, and Kunst Museum Bochum, Galerie Maurer Frankfurt. In 2017, Shruti was invited to show her works at galerieWestwerk in Hamburg.

Shruti Mahajan currently lives in Hyderabad.

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India Art Fair-2020 | Group Show

Kushala Vora, Sangita Maity and Shruti Mahajan | Group Show

Delhi Contemporary Art Week – 2019 | Group Show