Ranjani Shettar

Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977 in Bangalore, India. She is a visual artist, who is known for her large-scale sculptural installations (see exhibitions). She currently lives and works in Karnataka, India.

Career

Artworks by Ranjani Shettar can be found in a number of leading public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) and the Walker Art Center.

Shettar received her Bachelors of Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1998 and her Masters of Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 2000, from the College of Fine Art Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath and the Institute of Advanced Studies Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore respectively.

Work

Shettar's projects are mostly sculptural, however she has experimented in other forms as well. One such project is Varsha, an artist's book in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art (New York). The covers are made of zinc-alloy with silver inlay and the pages consist of 16 prints accordion book inspired by different Monsoon rains in India and a special text by Anita Desai. There are silkscreen and wood block prints, etching and laser prints. Shettar's works have been the subject of various publications from National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and galleries lik
Talwar Gallery
and Marian Goodman Gallery. Shettar has also been awarded with the Hebbar Foundation award in 1999 and 2003, as well as the Charles Wallace Trust Award in 2004, the Sanskriti award in 2008, and the Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar in 2011 for her works.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

; 2019 : The Phillips Collection, ''Earth Songs for a Night Sky,'' Washington DC, US
; 2018 :The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ''Seven ponds and a few raindrops,'' New York, NY, US

Talwar Gallery
''On and on it goes on'', New York, NY, US
; 2017
Talwar Gallery
''Bubble trap and a double bow'', New Delhi, India
;2014
Talwar Gallery
''Night skies and daydreams'', New York, New York

Talwar Gallery
''Between the sky and earth'', New Delhi, India
; 2012 : Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, ''High tide for a blue moon'', India
:Museum of Modern Art, ''Varsha'', Artist's Book in New York City "Ranjani Shettar, Varsha"
Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 3 February 2017.
; 2011 : National Gallery of Victoria, ''Dewdrops and Sunshine'', in Melbourne, Australia
: Hermes Foundation, ''Flame of The Forest'', in Singapore

Talwar Gallery
''Present Continuous,'' New Delhi, India
; 2009 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ''New Work,'' in San Francisco, California (2009)
; 2008 : The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, ''FOCUS'', in Fort Worth, Texas
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, ''Momentum 10'', in Boston, Massachusetts
; 2007
Talwar Gallery
''Epiphanies,'' New York, New York
; 2004
Talwar Gallery
''Indian Spring'', New York, New York:

Group Exhibitions
; 2017 : Pizzuti Collection, ''Visions from India,'' Columbus, OH, US
; 2013 : 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Seven Contemporaries, New Delhi, India
; 2012 : Henry Art Gallery, Now Here is also Nowhere, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US
: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Crossings, New Delhi, India
; 2011 : Pizzuti Collection, Teasers, Columbus, OH, US
: Museum of Contemporary Art, barely there (Part III), Detroit, Michigan, US
: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Time Unfolded, New Delhi, India
: Art Tower Mito, Quiet Attentions, Mito, Japan
; 2010 : Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), On Line, New York, NY, US
: 10th Liverpool Biennial, Touched, Liverpool, England
; 2009 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Garden Inaugural Exhibition, CA
; 2008 : Carnegie Museum of Art, Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
; 2007 : 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
: 8th Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, UAE
; 2006 : XV Sydney Biennale, Zones of Contact, Sydney, Australia
: Marian Goodman Gallery, Freeing the line, New York, NY, US
: ARTPACE, Artist in Residence, San Antonio, TX, US
; 2005 : Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Transition & Transformation, MA, US
: Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, J'en reve (Dream on), Paris, France
: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Out There, Norwich, UK

Talwar Gallery
(desi)re, New York, NY, US
: Wexner Center for the Arts, Landscape Confection, Columbus, Ohio and travel
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, US
: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, US
; 2004 : Khoj International, New Delhi, India
; 2003 : Walker Art Center, How Latitudes Become Forms, Minneapolis, MN and travel
: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Torino, Italy
: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, US
; 2000 : Synergy Art Foundation, Concept Shop, Bangalore, India

Publications

2017- Ranjani Shettar:
Between the sky and earth
', text by Catherine de Zegher, Ranjani Shettar, Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery

2011- Ranjani Shettar: ''Dewdrops and Sunshine'', Essay by Alex Baker, National Gallery of Victoria,

2009- ''Epiphanies'', Essay by Marta Jakimowicz
Talwar Gallery

''Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation'', Editors of Phaidon Press Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation
from the Editors of Phaidon Press.

2006- ''Freeing the Line'', Essay by Catherine de Zegher, Marian Goodman GalleryFreeing the Line
, Marian Goodman Gallery.

2005''- Transition and Transformation: A. Balasubramaniam and Ranjani Shettar'', Essays by Loretta Yarlow and Deepak Talwar, Published by University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, MA, US

References

External links

Washington City Press, Ranjani Shettar's Earth Songs for a Night Sky, June 2019

The New York Times Style Magazine, The South Asian Artists Making Their Mark on the Western Scene, December 2018.

Artforum, Ranjani Shettar The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2018.

Mint, Ranjani Shettar: Making Waves with Wood, July 2017.

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1977 births
Living people
Artists from Bangalore
Indian women sculptors
21st-century Indian women artists
21st-century Indian sculptors
Women artists from Karnataka