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Pushpamala N

Return of the Phantom Lady #5 ( Sinful City)

Pushpamala N , Return of the Phantom Lady #5 ( Sinful City) , 2012 , Archival inkjet print Archival frame , 30" x 45”

Pushpamala N, born Bangalore, India. Education: Bangalore University 1976-77 under noted sculptor Balan Nambiar. Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Vadodara. Bachelors and Masters, 1985. Select work: Paris Autumn, video and photo installation, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, 2006. Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, USA, 2006. Nature Morte, New Delhi, India, 2006. Pushpamala N, photo-performance work, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia, Milan, Italy 2010. Paris Autumn, video and photo installation, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France 2010. The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2010. Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2010. Select Group shows: Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2009. Essl Museum, Vienna Austria, 2009. Mori Museum Tokyo, Japan, 2009. The Self and the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography, La Virreina Centre de la Image, Barcelona and Artium, Vitoria, Spain, 2009. Modern India: Art and Culture in the Indian Sub-Continent 1857- 2007, Institut Valencia dModern, Spain, 2008. Recipient of honors including: National Award Gold Medal, 1984 Sixth New Delhi Triennale 1986 Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship for residency at St. Martin`s School of Art, London 1992-93 Senior Fellowship, Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development 1995-97. She has taught and lectured widely on the arts and is especially known for incorporating popular culture into her work, adopting various popular personas and iconic roles as a vehicle for examining issues of gender, place and history. The comic aspect of her work carries a particularly sharp edge in her photo-based installations and projections, exposing cultural and gender stereotyping while exploring the complex terrain of contemporary urban life in India. Pushpamala lives and works between Bangalore and Mumbai, India.

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