Rina Banerjee

(Indian, born 1963)

hanuman’s flight is evolution’s climb by rina banerjee

Rina Banerjee

Hanuman’s flight is evolution’s climb, 2017

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Rina Banerjee

Like honourable apparel, sunny clouds would change her and some windless net in motion would engage her figure forwards; braids will often wander, stealing air as treasure, 2011

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searching for greener pastures and even greener (nicer) people by rina banerjee

Rina Banerjee

Searching for greener pastures and even greener (nicer) people, 2011

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taste my tongue by rina banerjee

Rina Banerjee

Taste My Tongue, 2014

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Biography

Timeline

1963
Born in Kolkata, India
1993
Case Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, Polymer Eng., Bachelor of Science
1995
Yale University, Yale school of Art, Painting and Print Making, Master of Fine Art
Drawing Award Norfolk-Yale University

Exhibitions

2015
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Eye Contact, Improvised Showboat, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Making Movement, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
Tropical Urban, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
Migration’s Breath, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Human Traffic, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Astralis, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Des Hommes, Des Mondes, College des Bernardins, Paris, France
Cross Section: Recent Acquisitions, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Kaleidoscopic India, Maison Guerlain, Champs Elysées, Paris, France
Disgust, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
White Light / White Heat, 55th Venice Biennale, Glasstress Museum, Academy Bridge, Venice, Italy
Smithsonian Sackler Galleries, Washington DC
Vivid Strata: New Representations of Asia, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
Tender Mahal – Lifted, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bowerbirdnest, Future Perfect, Singapore
A world lost, Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA
What am I made of and How do you know my name?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Creationism's Kiss - Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
A World of Lies, Galerie Espace, Hong Kong, China
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
RH Gallery, New York City
Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crossings: Time Unfolded- II, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Misunderstood, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Chimeras of the India & the West - Musée Guimet, Paris
Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Modern & Contemporary, San Francisco, USA
Avant Première, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
EAST EX EAST, Brand New Gallery, Milan
What is Sculpture, CRG Gallery, New York
Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature, Coomaraswamy Hall, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India
Facets of the Figure, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
-12 Fragility, Art Alive, Gurgaon, India
The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art Of India, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
RoundAbout, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Imagining the other half of the world from here, Project room, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale, BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan 13.0.0.0.0, RH Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Forever Foreign, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (solo)
Without Face: Cultivating the foreign, Armory Show, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, New York, USA (solo)
Roundabout, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Bring Me a Lion, group show, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis USA Devi Foundation, Delhi, India
Fantasmagoria, La Monde Mythique, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
The Road of Marvels, Path of Elegance, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Pretty Is As Pretty Does, Group Show Curated By Laura Heon, Site Santa Fe Museum Contemporary
Mythologies - Haunch & Venison, London
Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, curated by Robert Roos, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands
Anomalies, curated by Jaishri Abhichandani, Rossi & Rossi, London
Dhiel & Project, Roger Hass Gallery Moscow (Solo)
Project Look Book Zurich (Solo)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd London (Solo)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels Belgium (Solo)
Marvellous Reality, curated by Sunil Mehra, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
Rina Banerjee & Raqib Shaw, Thomas Gibson Ltd, London, UK
Look into my eyes and you will see, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
Allure , Gallery Espace, New Delhi India (Solo)
2008
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Dyed Roots, the New Emergence of Culture, curated by Camila Singh,Museum of Contemporary Canadian
Group show, Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels
Distant Nearness, curated by Bruce Hartman, Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kansas
Exploding the Lotus, Co-curated by Jaishri Abichandani and Jane Hart, Art and Culture Center for Hollywood
6 Degrees of Separation, Group show curated By Gayatri Sinha, Bodhi Art Mumbai
Dessins de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Embassy of France New York
Indian Focus, Espace-Claud Berri Paris
Evolution, Group show curated by Marc Wellman, Max Lang Gallery New York
Everywhere is war (and Rumours of War), curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
The flowers of Evil still Bloom/Spleen: Les Fleurs du Mal, Culto Project New York
Group show, Sackler Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC., USA
Art Unlimited, Galerie Obadia, Paris, France (solo)
Art Basel 39, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2007
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Shanghai Art Fair, Solo Show with Galerie Nathalie Obadia, China-Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China (solo)
The Wilderness Within, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Foreign Fruit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France (solo)
An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Art Trust / Project 176, London, UK
I fear I believe, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
The wilderness within, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Tokyo Wonder Site, curator Kayoko Lemura, Shibuya- Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2006
Rina Banerjee Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Black Moon Island, One in the Other, Contemporary International Drawing, London, UK
Galerie Nathalie Obadia (solo)
Frieze Art Fair, Galerie Obadia, London, England
Berlin Art Forum, represented by Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Sheboygan, John Micheal Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
Tsumari-Echigo Exhibition, 3rd Triennial, curated by Fram Kitwaga, Japan
One in the Other, Black Moon Island, Contemporary International Drawing London, England
Silver pearl girls and Gardens, VOLTA, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Fantasies without travel will travel, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy (solo)