1946, Karachi, (Undivided India). Lives and works in Bombay/Amsterdam. Nalini Malani secured a Diploma in Fine Arts from Sir JJ School of Arts, Bombay, 1969 and the French Government Scholarship for Fine Arts to study in Paris from 1970 to 1972. In 2010 she was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2013 she won the Fukuoka Prize for Art and Culture.

Museum Retrospectives:

2014 Nalini Malani: You can’t keep Acid in a Paper Bag, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2010 Nalini Malani: Splitting the Other, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne
2005 Exposing the Source: The Paintings of Nalini Malani, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Ma

Museum Solo Exhibitions:

2014 Nalini Malani: Transgressions, Asia Society Museum, New York
2013 Nalini Malani: Fukuoka Prize, Dr Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Bombay
2013 Nalini Malani: Beyond Print - Memory, Transference, Montage, Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière 2013 Nalini Malani, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka 2012 Mother India: Video Plays by Nalini Malani, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2009 Nalini Malani, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 2007 Nalini Malani, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2002 Nalini Malani: Hamletmachine, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 1999 Nalini Malani: Remembering Toba Tek Singh, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay

Biennials:

2014 3rd Asia Triennial Manchester, Imperial War Museum, Manchester
2013 1st Kochi- Muziris Biennale, Aspinwall House, Kochi
2012 13th dOCUMENTA, Documenta Halle, Kassel
2011 1st Haein Art Project, Haeinsa Temple, Haeinsa
2008 1st Prospect New Orleans, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
2008 16th Sydney Biennale-Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
2007 52nd Venice Biennale-Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind – Art in the Present Tense, Italian Pavilion, Venice
2006 7th Sharjah Biennale, U A E
2006 5th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2005 1st Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2005 51st Venice Biennial, Icon-India Contemporary, Venice
2004 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2003 8th Istanbul Biennial, Poetic Justice, Yerabatan Cistern, Istanbul
2002 4th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2000 7th Havana Biennial, Havana
2000 3rd Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju
1996 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1995 1st Africus Biennial, Johannesburg
1986 2nd Havana Biennial, Havana
1968 1st Triennale India, New Delhi

Selected Museum Collections:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Asia Society Museum, New York
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
British Museum, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Kawaguchi Museum, Saitama
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Musée de la Gravure, La Louvière
Musée de la FFT, Paris
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi/Bombay
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Schoenenmuseum SONS, Kruishouten
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana