Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher (born 1969) is an artist based in Dehli.

Kher was born in London. In her work, Kher repeatedly uses manufactured versions of traditional Indian bindi to adorn cast sculptures – often of animals – and wall-hung panels. Her work references identity through consumer culture, gender and race, reflecting her own background.

Selected exhibitions

2008

• Sing to them that will listen Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
• BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

2007

• An absence of assignable cause, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
• An Absence of Assignable Cause, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi

2006

• Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup, GALLERYSKE and Project 88, Mumbai

2005

• Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA Galerie, Berlin and Stutgard
• Mom and Pop, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
• Het offer/ an intimate I: droom en werkelijkheid, De Beverd Museum voor Grafische Werkeljkheid, Breda

2004

• Contemporary Art From India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
• Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
• Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2002

• Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo and Japan Foundation

2001

• The Private Softness of Skin, Bose Pacia Modern, New York

1999

• Telling Tails, Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam

1996

• Royal Overseas League Open Exhibition, Overseas House London: Edinburgh College of Art

External links

• Information and images of Bharti Kher at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin [1]
• Review of Bharti Kher's recent work at Saatchi galleryThe Arts Trust Magazine
• Bharti Kher on ArtNet.com
• Bharti Kher – images, texts – Saatchi Gallery
• Further information from Jack Shainman
• Information, images, biography and bibliography of Bharti Kher from Hauser & Wirth