Archana Hande

Archana Hande

She holds a B.F.A in print making, from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, (1986-1991) and an M.F.A in print making from M.S University, Baroda, India (1991-1993).

She has been awarded Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Awards, Residency in Glasgow school of arts in the year 2000, Research Residency, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland 2010. Research project: Spaced 2: future recall with Spaced (Perth) and Asialink (Melbourne) reciprocal exchange program, Western Australia; 2014-16

She had many solo shows, few major ones are: ‘I am a Landscape Painter’: Bombay; ‘The Golden Feral Trail’: Perth and Laverton, WA, Australia; ‘All is Fair in Magic White’: Delhi & Rome 2010; ‘www.arrangeurownmarriage.com’: Bombay, China, Finland, Sweden 2008- 2012; ‘Relics of Grey’: Bombay

She has participated in many international and national group shows few mentioned are: ‘In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 05, Kochi (2022-23); ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’, Sharjah Biennial 15, (2023); ‘This Too, is a Map’, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, (2023); Sculpture Park Jaipur 2018-19; “Social Fabric”, INIVA, UK, Sweden, Germany, India; “Shadow Lines”, Biennale Jogja XI, Jakarta; ‘So Close Yet So Far Away’, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale; ‘SAMTIDIGT’, (concurrent), Sweden, Finland; 'Farewell to Post-Colonialism', The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial; The Edge of Desire: Recent art in India, Australia, New York, Mexico city, Monterrey; ’Art Circus’ Yokohama Triennial, Japan...

Her other projects are:

Co-Curated ‘Project Cinema City’ 2012, Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Berlin. Curated Students Biennale 4th edition 2020-2021: States of Disarray: Practice as Restitution Researched, Photographed and designed the book: “Multiplicities” urban cultures of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Published in 2021 by The MMR-HCS, Mumbai