Surekha
Surekha, a visual/video artist from India,is exploring artistic forms through installations, video & photography since last two decades. Her works investigates how visuality can engage with gender/ ecology/socio-political aesthetics, negotiating public and private spaces.
Surekha has done her education from Kalabhavan, Vishwabharati University Santiniketan and Ken school of arts, Bangalore.
Her work has been shown in Indian and International galleries and museums like, Ocean flower Island museum (Hainan,China), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Sanjose Museum & Ulrich museum (USA), Kunsthaus (Langenthal), Museum Guimet (Paris), EAWAG (Zurich), National Gallery of modern art (Bangalore), Devi Art Foundation & Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (New Delhi), Chemould Prescott Road & Lakeeren art gallery (Mumbai), Kastrupgard Samlingen (Copenhagen), Herbert J.Foundation (Cornell University), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, (Rio de Janeiro), Fondacio La Caixa (Barcelona), Bucharest Biennale, Pleasure Dome (Toronto) , Loveland Museum (USA), New media festival (Dhaka), Alharama Art Center, Lahore / Karachi, Minneapolis art Institute/Newark Museum , Ivam Museum (Spain), Videonnale-Malmo Museum (Stockholm), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Jerusalem Show- Al'mamal Foundation, Asia Triennale (Manchester), Royal academy (London), Fluss (Austria), Kunst Museum (Bern) , Ecole Beaux Arts (Paris), Dakshina Chitra & Boros Museum (Sweden ), Ethnographic Museum (Geneva), Aboa Arsanova/Lappenrenta Museum (Finland) and IMA (Brisbane).
She has had many solo shows since 1996 ( Venkatappa Art Gallery, Gallery Ske, Sistas art gallery, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat &Sumukha, Vishweshwariah science Museum, Samuha collective etc.,)
Surekha has been to many international art residencies and the recipient of Charles Wallace trust award, UK art council fund, Unesco, Prince claus fund etc.
Surekha taught art (Workshops) in art universities like SMI (Srishti Art Design & Technology), Malmo art academy (Sweden), Boros Textile school (Sweden), Art university (Goteberg), Vishwabharati University (Shantiniketan), SN College of art (Hyderabad), CAVA (Mysore), KCP and Ken School of arts (Bangalore) and many more. She has presented many talks and part of the panel in Malmo University, Tate Modern etc., She has been involved in visual art collectives like BAR1, Khoj, VAG Forum and was a founder curator of Rangoli Metro Art Center, Bangalore.
Surekha lives and works in Bangalore.
Works
She is a kidSurekha
Digital print on archival paper
75 x 110 cms
2010
Evolving patterns 14Surekha
Resin sculpture framed in a box
26 x 26 x 4
2024
Evolving patterns 13Surekha
Resin sculpture framed in a box
26 x 26 x 4
2024
Eye of a needle 1Surekha
Fabric, thread, needles & fake jasmine
48 x 7
2002
Sea Watchers 2Surekha
Archival print on paper
NA
2019
Sea Watchers 3Surekha
Archival print on paper
NA
2019
Sea Watchers 1Surekha
Archival print on paper
NA
2019
Eye of a Needle 4Surekha
Fabric, thread, needle and fake jasmine
2002
Eye of a Needle 3Surekha
Fabric, thread, needle and fake jasmine
2002
Eye of a Needle 2Surekha
Fabric, thread, needle and fake jasmine
2002
Eye of a Needle 1Surekha
Eye of a Needle 1
2002
Every artist dream of creating a magnum opus until they wake up and sleep againSurekha
Mysore gold leaf on Hahnemuhle photo rag bright white 300 gsm paper
2024
Everyday we dream to change the world yet we dream and sleep againSurekha
Mysore gold leaf on Hahnemuhle photo rag bright white 300 gsm paper
2024
Every lover dream of falling in love and dream with their dream loversSurekha
Mysore gold leaf on Hahnemuhle photo rag bright white 300 gsm paper
2024
Sea WatchersSurekha
Archival print
2019
Sea WatchersSurekha
Archival print
2019
Sea WatchersSurekha
Archival print
2019
display imagesSurekha
display imagesSurekha
display imagesSurekha
Display imagesSurekha
Threading the threadsSurekha
Fabric, thread, needles, fake jasmine
2002
The ShieldSurekha
Archival print on paper
2007
Artist imitating sculpture -ISurekha
Archive print on paper
2008
Sky scrapersSurekha
Archival print on paper
2009
Sky scrapersSurekha
Archival print on paper
2009
VeilSurekha
Fabric, thread, fake jasmine
2002
Sky scrapersSurekha
Archival print on paper
2009
Not to be seen (3)Surekha
Archival print on paper
2008
Not to be seen (2)Surekha
Archival print on paper
2008
(installation shot) A moment of strange stillnessSurekha
A moment of strange stillnessSurekha
