Chila Kumari Burman

Chila Kumari Burman (Born 1957) is a British artist. Her work explores not only her immediate family but the problematic representations of South Asian women and their histories in the UK, through the lens of self-representation and identity politics. She was born in Liverpool and attended the Southport College of Art, the Leeds Polytechnic and Slade School of Fine Art, where she graduated in 1982. Burman works in printmaking, painting, installation and film, and was part of the Black British Art movement of the 1980s. She draws on fine and pop art imagery in works which explore Asian femininity and her personal family history, merging Bollywood bling with childhood memories.Burman was one of the first British Asian female artists to have a monograph written about her work: Lynda Nead’s Chila Kumari Burman: Beyond Two Cultures (1995) and a second monograph by Rina Arya was published in 2012.

Artworks

She was born in 1957 in Bootle, near Liverpool. Her parents were Punjabi Hindus and they moved to the UK in the 1950s. This fact of biography has provided Burman with the means to critically examine the situation of South Asian women through herself, her family, her parents and her grandparents, as a second-generation artist of Pakistani origins in the UK. Her work – particularly her prints from the 1980s – were shown with other Black British artists and part of their political protest in the 1980s and 1990s against the police, against racism in British society and particularly stereotypes of South Asian women. In the 1980s her work was shown in many black British artists shows from: Four Indian Women Artists (UK Artists Gallery, 1982); to ‘Black Women Time Now’ Battersea Arts Centre, London (1983); ‘The Thin Black Line’ ICA, London, 1985;  ‘Black Art: New Directions’ Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery, 1989; and the feminist exhibition ‘Along the Lines of Resistance’ Rochdale Art Gallery and touring, 1989. In the 1990s and 2000s her work has explored her family history and her father’s work as an ice-cream seller in Bootle (In her exhibitions CANDY-POP & JUICY LUCY Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, 2006; Ice Cream and Magic The Pump House, People’s History Museum, Manchester, 1997 ). In the 1990s, her work began to be shown internationally and she was in the Fifth Havana Biennale (1994); in Transforming the Crown Studio Museum, Harlem and Bronx Museum, New York (1997); Genders and Nations (with Shirin Neshat) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York State (1998). Her retrospective touring show,‘28 Positions in 34 Years’, went to Camerawork, London; Liverpool Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Oldham Art Gallery; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Street Level Gallery, Glasgow; Cardiff Technical College, Cardiff; Watermans Arts Centre, London. In 2000s, she has increasingly shown between UK and Asian sub-continent taking part in key feminist and South Asian women artists’ exhibitions which explore the diaspora of South Asian identities: e.g. ‘South Asian Women of the Diaspora’ Queens Library, New York, 2001 and ‘Text and Subtext’ Earl-Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA University, Singapore (2000) toured to Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia in 2000 and Ostiasiataka Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities) Stockholm in 2001, Sternersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; X-ray Art Centre (Rui Wen Hua Yi Shu Zhong Xin), Beijing, China in 2002. (exhibition catalogue).

Writing/Publications

In 1987, she wrote ‘There have always been Great Blackwomen Artists’, exploring the situation of black women artists in relation to Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay ‘Why have there been no Great Women Artists?’ (first published in Women Artists Slide Library Journal no. 15 (Feb 1987) and then in Hilary Robinson (ed) Visibly Female (Camden Press, London, 1987); also reproduced in Collective Black Women Writers Charting the Journey: An Anthology on Black and Third World Writers (Sheba Publishers London). Her work appeared on the bookjacket of Meera Syal’s two novels on first publication: Anita and Me (Doubleday/Transworld, 1996); Life isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (Doubleday/Transworld, 1999) as well as the covers of James Proctor (ed) Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998 (Manchester University Press, 2001);   Roger Bromley (ed) Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (Edinburgh University Press, 2000); and Peter Childs and Patrick Williams An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory (Prentice Hall, 1998).

Selected Writings by Chia Kumari Burman

Selected Writings by Chila Burman

2000 ‘Storm in a D-Cup’ Artists Newsletter [http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/artists_stories/single/59679]

1999   Artist’s statements in Frances Borzello ‘Women and Self Portraiture’ (Thames and Hudson)

Artist's Statement in West Coast Line Here and There Between South Asia’s, New Writing from Canada and India, no. 26 and 27

'Crossing Cultures', artist's statement in ‘KHOJ International Workshops’, Artists Newsletter Magazine, Jan

1998  'Objects of Désireé', Artists Pages with Lucretia Knapp n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Volume 1, Jan

Artist's statement in Sue Golding, Eight Technologies of Otherness (Routledge, London)

1995 ‘Automatic Rap’ in Catherine Ugwu (ed) Let’s Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance (ICA, London and Bay Press, Seattle) p. 113

‘Right to Hope’ in One World Art (UNESCO)

1993 'Enough is Enough' Feminist Art News  Vol 4, No 5

1992 ‘Power to the People: Fear of a Black Community’ Feminist Art News Vol 3, no.9

‘Ask How I feel/ Automatic Rap/ My New Work’ Third Text No. 19 Summer

1991 'Ask How I Feel' Feminist Arts News Vol 3, No 6

(also guest editor for this issue on ‘Working Class Women Artists’)

Burman, C.K. 'Power to the people: fear of a black community' Feminist Arts News vol. 3, no. 9 pp. 14-15

1990  ‘Talking in Tongues’ in Maud Sulter (ed) Passion: Discourses on Black Women’s Creativity (Hebden Bridge:Urban Fox Press)

‘Mash it up’ in Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement, 1970-1985 (Pandora Press, London)

Selected Reviews, Articles, Broadcasts, Publications on Chila Burman

2012  Kahu Kochar ‘Challenging stereotypes’, interview with C.K. Burman, Platform magazine review, 27 February 2012 Leslie Goodwin ‘Brilliant portrait of artist’ Leicester Mercury 8 Mar 2012 p.11

Drawing paper number #6 (Tate Liverpool) in conjunction with the Liverpool biennale 2012, co-curated by Mike Carney, Jon Barraclough, Gavin Delahunty

2011 Cheah Ui–Hoon ‘Piecing together the Fragments’, Singapore Business Times, 29 August 2011

Ryan ‘In the Mix’, Indian Express, 20 March 2011

'Exotic Edge' Blindspot exhibition Home (Hong Kong) Dec p.47

'Review of Blindspot exhibition' Ming Pao Weekly (Hong Kong) 3 Dec 2011 p.119

2010  Richard Appignanesi (ed.) Beyond Cultural Diversity: The Case for Creativity (Third Text)

Guardian online, Feminist postcard art auction at the Aubin Gallery, London, October

Coline Milliard 'A Missing History: The Other Story revisited' Art Monthly no. 339 pp. 30-31

2009 Katy Deepwell ‘Feminist art practice rewind, remix, and pump up volume’ Axis: Curated Collections 29 July 2009

‘Interview with Chila Burman’ Space Studios online, 1 Nov

2007  ‘Close-up: Interview with Imogen Fox’ The Guardian 9 June 2007

Barbara Chandler ‘Indian summer in the city’ Evening Standard (London) 08 Aug 2007 p.1

Hannah Pool ‘Change your mind: When it comes to creativity there really are no limits: The artist: Chila Kumari Burman’ The Guardian

(London) 2 June 2007 p.7

BBC Radio 4 Mid-Week, Radio interview with Libby Purvis

BBC Asian Network, Radio Interview with Nikki Bedi

2006 Review of 'Candy Pop and Juicy Lucy' in Timeout

Stephen Pettifor 'The layering of self' Asian Art News vol. 16 no. 6 pp. 78-81

Richard Noyce Printmaking at the Edge (London: A and C Black)

2005  BBC2 DESI DNA TV Arts programme

2004  Amit Roy 'Review' Calcutta and Bombay Times;

Derwent May 'A Medicine Show perks up' Time September 2004

'Mind, Body, Spirit' British Medical Journal

Amit Roy 'Ice-Cream Van Girl Cometh' Eastern Eye and Daily Telegraph

Ali Hussein 'Dazzling' Times of India (Britain)

Review of 'Points of View' solo exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, A-N

Magazine (January 2004)

Derwent May ‘A medicine show perks up’ The Times (London) 02 Nov 2004 p.16

Rasheed Araeen ‘The success and the failure of Black Art’ Third Text (2004)

2003  'Interview with Nancy Hynes' Atlantica 35

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown ‘Our multicultural society is transforming Britart’ The Independent (London) 17 Mar 2003 p.15

BBC Radio 4  New BRIT Series,  Radio Interview with Yasmin Aalibhai Brown

2002

John Cornall ‘Fashioning lessons out of art ; Stitched Up’ Leamington Art Gallery & Museum, Royal Pump Rooms Birmingham Post

(Birmingham) 30 Jan 2002 p. 14

2001  Stuart Hall and Mark Sealy Different Phaidon

LXE 9 – ‘Art and Light on Homerton High Street’

Massimo Tommaso Mazza, 1st Valencia Biennial, Video Showroom,

Christina Kasrlstam ‘Text + Subtext’ Stockholm Times 20-25 October

Franklin Sirmins New York Time Out 7 February

‘Flirt’, ‘Storm in a D-Cup’, Admit 1 Gallery, Art in Review by Holland Cotter New York Times 9 Feb

S.Valdez 'Chila Kumari Burman at Admit One' Art in America vol. 89 no. 10 pp. 169-169

Victoria Lu 'Text + Subtext' Artists Magazine, Singapore

Meena Alexander 'Post-Colonial Theatre of Sense: The Art of Chila Kumari Burman' n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal issue 14 Feb pp. 4-13

2000  Wish You Were Here Scottish Multicultural Anthology, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Pocket Books Publication

Ann Donald ‘A fresh look at the writer’ Review of Wish You were Here The Herald (Glasgow) 18 Sep 2000 p.12

En Young Ahn  ‘Text + Subtext Exhibition, Lasalle-Sia’ Art Monthly Australia

Rachel Jacques 'Hello Girls'  Wasafiri vol 16 no 32 Autumn 2000 pp.25-26

Rachel Jacques 'The Wonder of the Bra' Singapore Arts Magazine

Radio 4  Women's Hour, Radio Interview with Jenny Murray (13 Sept)

1999  Martin Longley ‘Sisters doing it for a chosen few: Sister India’ Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall  Birmingham Post (Birmingham) 19 Oct 1999 p. 15

Eastern Mix (Carlton TV / Central TV programme) includes an interview with Chila Kumari Burman

1998  Lavini Melwani, review of 'Transforming the Crown' exhibition American Revisions (New York)

Owusu, K., Tharani, N., Parmar, P., Odusina, J., Piper, K., Rodney, D., Bailey, D.A., Hamid, R., Francis, A. & Ntuli, P. (Eds) Storms of the heart: an anthology of black arts & culture Camden Press.

Deirdre Hanna 'Salvation Artists Escape Tourist Trap' XTARI No 357 (Toronto)

Namiti Bhandare 'Bohemian Rhapsody' New Delhi Times (New Delhi) No 24

Anshul Avijit 'Fun and Vision' Hindustan Times (New Delhi) 28 November

Kum Kum Dasgupta 'Khoj Artists of the World Unite' Asian Age (New Delhi)

Alka Pande 'Artlinei' The Indian Express 21 November, Chundigarh

Geeta Sharma 'The Search Within' The Telegraph Calcutta Weekend 28 November, Calcutta

Nilanjana S Roy 'The Miracle at Muldinager' New Delhi Times 21 November

Frances Borzello (ed) Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-portraits Thames & Hudson

1997 John Holt 'Chila Kumari Burman: A Martial Artist Beyond Two Cultures' Third Text no 41, Winter 1997/98 pp. 96-8

Holland Cotter review of 'Out of India' at the Queens Museum, New York Times 26 December

Sonali Fernando 'Indian Women Photographers', Photographers International No 35 SE Asia

Balraj Khanna ‘Review of Indian Women Photographers’ Artists and Illustrators (1997)

Interview in TV programme by Stuart Hall on Black British Photography (Channel 4)

1996 Marsha Meskimmon The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self- Portraiture in the Twentieth Century Scarlet Press, London & New York

Iain Gale/Rupert Goodwins/Sarah Hemming Julian May/Steven Poole/Ian Shuttleworth ‘Review of Ice-Cream and Magic II’ The Independent (London) 13 Jan 1996: 2, 13 Jan 1995: 2.

1995  Tanya Guha 'Camerawork - Chila Kumari Burman' Time Out 27 September 1995

Channel 4  I'M BRITISH BUT by Pratibha Parmer, TV programme interview

1994  Review of 'Portrait of My Mother' The Times 15 October, London

‘Chila Kumari Burman’ Versus (1994)

1993 Shirini Sabratham, review of 'Transition of Riches', The Observer (London) 20 December

Allan de Souza, review of 'Confrontations' exhibition Creative Camera February

Jacques Rangasamy, review of 'Confrontations' exhibition Third Text No 22

Joseph Williams  'Colours Enter the Picture' The Times 25 Aug 1993

Review of 'Transition of Riches' Asian Times 27 November;

Review of 'Transition of Riches' The Birmingham Post (Birmingham) 20 November

Robert Clark ‘South Asian Visual Arts Festival Birmingham’ The Guardian (Manchester) 09 Oct 1993

Keith Piper ‘Separate spaces’ Variant (1993)

1992 Lynda Nead The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity & Sexuality Routledge, London

Tim Hilton, review of Radical Hair Gallery exhibition, The Guardian 25 July

‘Identikit, Profile on Chila Burman’ Bazaar Magazine (London) no. 15

Janice Cheddie ‘Body Rites: the Self-Portraits of Chila Burman’ Women’s Art Magazine (London) no. 49

1990 Hiroko Hagiwara Black Women Artists Speak Out (PQ Books, Osaka, Japan, Japanese text)

Nina Perez ‘Review of Horizon Gallery’ exhibition Women’s Art Magazine no.36 and in Feminist Art News London, vol 3 no.6

1989  Hiroko Hagiwara Feminist Art News Vol 3, No 1 (London)

1989 Four Indian Women Artists (BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham) TV programme about Chila Kumari Burman

1988  Andrew Hope Race Today Vol 18, No 2, London

Chambers, E. & Lamba, J.  The artpack: a history of black artists in Britain Haringey Arts Council

Owusu, Kwesi; Tharani, Nadir; Parmar, Pratibha; Odusina, Jide; Piper, Keith; Rodney, Donald; Bailey, David A; Hamid, Ruhi; Francis, Armet; Ntuli, Pitika (Eds) Storms of the heart: an anthology of black arts & culture (Camden Press, 1988)

1985 Waldemar Januszczak 'Anger At Hand' The Guardian (London) 29 June

Errol Lloyd, review of 'The Thin Black Line' Art Rage (London) November

1982  C. Collier 'Four Indian Women Artists: Bhajan Hunjan, Naomi Iny, Chila Kuman Burman, Vinodini Ebdon (Indian Artists UK Gallery, London: Exhibition Review)' Arts Review (U.K.) Vol.34 No.2 (15 Jan 1982) p.18

Collections

Works by Chila Kumari Burman are in the following public and private collections: Alfredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba; Arts Council Collection Great Britain, London; BBC Bush House , London; Berge Collection, Spain; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; Sir Richard Branson; British Council, London; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Devi Foundation, New Delhi; Linda Goodman, Johannesburg; Leicester New Walk Art Gallery, Leicester; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Rotary Club of Art, Chennai; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Wellcome Trust, London .

Recognition

In 2012, she was artist in residence at ART CHENNAI and produced the exhibition, pREpellers, curated by Kavita Balakrishnan for Art Chennai, Art and Soul gallery, Chennai, curated by Kavita Balakrishnan (online catalogue).[i] In 2011-2012 her residency at the Poplar HARCA centre, London concluded with a major solo exhibition in this local community centre. Her residency from Feb 2009 to Mar 2010 at the University of East London, was the result of a Leverhulme Award. For 3 years, Jan 2006 to Dec 2009, she was artist in residence at Villiers High School, Southall, London. From Jan 2004-2016, she has been a Board member at Richmix London (and was Vice-Chair, 2008-2010). In 1986, she took part in producing the The Roundhouse Mural Project, Camden, London and in 1985 produced The Southall Black Resistance Mural, in collaboration with Keith Piper.

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[i] [www.artchennai.com/appln/galleries2012/Gallery_Art_Soul.pdf]

Chila Kumari Burman
Born	1957 Bootle, Liverpool, UK
Nationality	British
Known for	Prints, painting, installation
Notable work
Awards
Website	www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk

External Links

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[i] first published in Women Artists Slide Library Journal no. 15 (Feb 1987) and then in Hilary Robinson (ed) Visibly Female (Camden Press, London, 1987). Also reproduced in Collective Black Women Writers Charting the Journey: An Anthology on Black and Third World Writers (Sheba Publishers London)

www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk

2012 Rina Arya Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindis KT press, London

1995 Lynda Nead Chila Kumari Burman: Beyond Two Cultures Kala Press, Iniva, Arts Council

TV Documentaries about Chila Kumari Burman

2008  BBC 1  Northwest Inside Out first broadcast 2 May 2008

1995 BBC Bristol  ‘Right to Hope’ a documentary on Chila Kumari Burman's work

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

2011 Fragments of my Imagination, Paradox Gallery, Singapore, toured to Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (exhibition catalogue)

2006 CANDY-POP & JUICY LUCY Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, UK (Iniva education project) (exhibition catalogue) 2005-2007 Damascus and Aleppo British Council touring exhibition

2005 Chila Kumari Burman, 1995-present, Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

2004 Material Serendipity, Plymouth Arts Centre (exhibition catalogue, Lynn Nead) toured to Cecil Higgins Gallery + Museum, Bedford, Nottingham: New Art Exchange (Apna Arts)

2003 Points of View, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings, UK

2003 Enchanting the Icon, Sakshi Gallery. (exhibition catalogue, Marta Jakimowi(c))

2002 Visual Autobiographies, Rich Mix, London (exhibition catalogue, Leverhulme artist-in-residence)

1999 Hello Girls!, [[Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK; Northbrook College of Technology; Bretton Hall, Leeds University, UK; Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, UK

1999 28 Positions in 34 Years, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

1998 Genders and Nations(with Shirin Neshat), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York State (exhibition catalogue, Katy Deepwell)

1997 Ice Cream and Magic, The Pump House,People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK

1996 Between the Visible and Invisible, National College of the Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

1995 28 Positions in 34 Years (retrospective touring show) Camerawork, London, UK; Liverpool Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK; Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, UK; Cardiff Technical College, Cardiff, UK; Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK

Group exhibitions:

2010 Seeing In Colour, British Council Touring Show, Bottega-Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine; Centre for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine; Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia; Academy of Fine Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan (exhibition catalogue)

2010 ORIENTATIONS trajectories in Indian Art, Foundation DE11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium (exhibition catalogue)

2010 NINE: Her magic square, The Viewing Room Gallery, Mumbai

2009 British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA

2007 Candy Culture/Confectionaries and Conurbations, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok

2007 BECKS FUTURES, Manchester,UK

2006 Bollywood, Scunthorpe Art Gallery, UK

2005 Angels in the Studio. Slade Women Artists, Cecil Higgins Gallery, London, UK

2003 Women and Representation’ Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, India

2003 History Revision’ Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK

2002 Art of Nations, Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire, UK

2002 A Thousand Ways of Being: Memory and Presence in the Arts of Diaspora, October Gallery, London, UK

2001 First Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain

2001 South Asian Women of the Diaspora, Queens Library, New York, USA

2000 Text and Subtext, Earl-Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA University, Singapore; toured to Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia in 2000; Ostiasiataka Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities) Stockholm, Sweden in 2001; Sternersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; and X-ray Art Centre (Rui Wen Hua Yi Shu Zhong Xin), Beijing, China in 2002. (exhibition catalogue)

2000 A Grand Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

1999/2000 Sister India exhibition, club night of Asian performers and artists, touring the UK

1999 Crown Jewels, Berlin, NGBK; Hamburg, Kampnagel, Germany (exhibition catalogue)

1999 000 Zero Zero Zero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1998 Out of India, Queens Museum, New York, USA

1998 Art in Freedom, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1998 Revelations and Performance, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK

1998 Tourists in our own Lands, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada (exhibition catalogue)

1998 You and Me, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK

1998 North Current, Museum of Varberg, Sweden and Gedok-Haus, Lubeck, Germany

1997 Transforming the Crown, Studio Museum, Harlem and Bronx Museum, New York, USA

1997 South Asian Artists, Transcultural Gallery, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK

1996 Portrait of our Mothers, French Institute, London, UK, touring to Paris and Edinburgh (exhibition catalogue)

1996 Uncommon Thread, Civic Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa

1995 Under Different Skies Oksenhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 Photo-Genetic, Review the Lens of History, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, UK

1995 Cominex Camera, Withzenhaufen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995 Digital Equinox Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK

1994 With Your Own Face On It, Plymouth Arts Centre, Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, Watermans Art Centre, London, UK (exhibition catalogue)

1994 Fifth Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

1994 Femme Noir 21st Century, British Council, Manchester, UK

1994 My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself, Southampton City Art Gallery and Sandton Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (exhibition catalogue)

1993 Transition of Riches, Southampton City Art Gallery, Birmingham City Art Gallery and touring (exhibition catalogue)

1992 Fine Material for a Dream, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK, and touring (exhibition catalogue)

1992 Confrontations, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (exhibition catalogue)

1992 Back of Beyond/ Keeping Together, The Pavilion, Leeds, UK (exhibition catalogue)

1991 The Circular Dance, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, and touring (exhibition catalogue)

1990 Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces, Coventry City Art Gallery, UK, and touring

1990 Heroes and Heroines’ Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

1990 Fabled Territories, Leeds City Art Galleries and touring (exhibition catalogue)

1989 Black Art: New Directions, Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery, UK

1989 Along the Lines of Resistance’ Rochdale Art Gallery and touring (exhibition catalogue)

1989 Animal Liberation: The Centre of the Circle’ Rochdale Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue)

1988 The Medium and the Message, Five Women Printmakers’ Rochdale Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue)

1988 Numaish Lalit Kala’ Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK (exhibition catalogue)

1987 The Devils Feast’ Chelsea School of Art, London, UK

1987 The Image Employed, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (exhibition catalogue)

1985 Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

1985 The Thin Black Line, ICA, London, UK

1983 Indian Artists UK Festival of India’, The Barbican, London, UK

1983 Black Women Time Now’ Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK

1983 Creation for Liberation, Brixton Art Gallery, London, UK

External links

www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk