Education
1964-69
Diploma in Fine Arts, Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art, Bombay
1964-67
While still a student, had a studio at the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, Bombay, where artists, musicians, dancers and theatre persons worked individually and as a community.
1970-72
French Government Scholarship for Fine Arts to study in Paris
1984-89
Art Fellowship, Government of India
Residencies
2005
Lucas Art Residencies , Montalvo Ca., USA
2003
Civitella Rainieri, Umbertide, Italy
1999/2000
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1999
Lasalle-SIA, Singapore
1989
USIA Fellowship at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, U.S.A.
1988
Kasauli Art Centre, Kausali, India
Selected Individual Exhibitions
2007
Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Living in Alicetime, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay and Rabindra Bhavan New Delhi, India
2005 - 06
Exposing the Source:The Paintings of Nalini Malani,A retrospective exhibition Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Ma, U.S.A. .
2004
Stories Retold, Bose Pacia, New York, U.S.A. read essay by Chaitanya Sambrani
2002/3
Hamletmachine, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
2002
Nalini Malani, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India
2000
The Sacred & The Profane, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India
1999 Remembering Toba Tek Singh, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, India
1997
The Job / 1996 Medea, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay
1992
City of Desires, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Local Stories, Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
2005
T1 – The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin , Italy
2005
51st Venice Biennale 2005 read interview by Johan Pijnappel
2005
Recent paintings at the Armory Show, New York
2005
7th Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E.
2005
Crossovers & Rewrites: Borders over Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art,
World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2004
media_city Seoul 2004, International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2004
Crossing Currents-video art and cultural identity, Lalit Kala Akademy Galleries, New Delhi, India
2004
La Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
2004
Minority Report, Aarhus Art Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
2004
Edge of Desire, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
2004
Edge of Desire, The Asia Society, New York, U.S.A.
2004
Zoom, Museu Temporario, Lisbon
2003
Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2003
Body.City, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
2003
Kalaghoda City Festival, Bombay, India
2003
Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Millenium Monument, Beijing, China
1998,
2000,
2003
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002,
1996
Asia – Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2001
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Century City, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
2000
Text & Sub-Text, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
2000,
1987
Havanna Biennial, Havanna, Cuba
2000
Gwangju Biennial, Guwangju, South Korea
2000
Hamletmachine, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1999
Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1999
The Sacred and the Profane, Theater der Welt, Berlin, Gremany
1998
Private Mythologies, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo, Japan
97-98
Out of India, Queens Art Museum, New York, U.S.A
1997
Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1997
Self & the World, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi , India
1997,
95,93,
91, 89
Sahmat exhibitions, travelling show in India
1996 Traditions/Tensions, The Asia Society, New York / 1998 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1996 Containers ’96 Art across the Oceans, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 1st Africus Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987,
88,89 Through the Looking Glass, travelling show in India
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Art, London, U.K.
1982 Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K
Videography
2003
Unity in Diversity, installation, living room setting with flat screen in golden frame on a crimson wall, two lamps and a framed photograph, sound, 7 min.
2003
Game Pieces, installation, shadow/video play of four connecting wall projections and six rotating reverse painted mylar cylinders, sound, 20 min.
2002 Transgressions, installation, shadow/video play of three connecting wall projections and four rotating reverse painted mylar cylinders, sound, 7 min.
2000
Hamletmachine, installation, three wall projections and one floor projection on a bed of salt surrounded with mirror reflecting material, 20 min.
1999
Stains, single channel animation, 8 min.
1998
Remembering Toba Tek Singh, installation, four projections on three walls with twelve monitors in twelve tin trunks surrounded with mirror reflecting material, sound, 20 min.
1997
The Job, theatre play, video projection as part of the setting
1996
Memory; Record/Erase, single channel animation, sound, 10 min.
1994
Medeamaterial, single channel recording of theatre play, 56 min.
1993
Medeamaterial, theatre play with video conference mode
1992
City of Desires, single channel documentary of a site specific installation, 30 min.
Installation/Performance Collaborations
1987
Mural at ‘Shah House’ with Bhupen Khakkar and Vivan Sundaram
1998
Global Liquidity & 23 images of the Avon Lady
Artists’ books with Australian artist Fiona Hall
1996-97
A project with Dr.Anuradha Kapur, theatre director.
Performance/installation, based on Bertolt Brecht’s short story, "THE JOB OR BY THE SWEAT OF THY BROW THOU SHALT FAIL TO EARN THY BREAD", Sponsors and producers, Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay, National Centre of Performing Arts, Gallery Chemould & Sakshi Gallery. 6 shows in Bombay, one show in New Delhi.
1993-94
A project with Alaknanda Samarth, theatre actress and director, performance/installation based on Heiner Mueller’s "MEDEAMATERIAL" A Max Mueller Bhavan production, in Bombay.
Selected Bibliography
2005
Pijnappel, Johan, Nalini Malani Interview, iCon India Contemporary. 51 Venice Biennale Bose Pacia
Contemporary Art of India series Vol. 25.
2004
Devenport, Rhana, Phantasmagoria and the Lanternist, The video/shadow plays of Nalini Malani.
Bose Pacia Contempoaray Art of India series vol.20.
2004
Sambrani, Chaitanya, Apocalypse recalled,
The Historical Discourse of Nalini Malani.
Bose Pacia Contemporaray Art of India series vol.20.
2004
Pijnappel, Johan, Indian Video Art: History in Motion, Fukuoka
2004
Sigwart, Ann, n.paradoxa, vol. 13, London
2003
McEvilly, Thomas, Nalini Malani at the New Museum - New York, Art in America, November
2003
Kapur, Geeta, Body.City, House of World Culture, Berlin
2003
Hoffie, Pat Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights. ANU Humanities Research Centre and Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
Subramaniam, Radhika. Nalini Malani: Introduction , Artists Pages Remembering Toba Tek Singh. The Wall 2002 , CONNECT 4 .An Arts International Inc. New York
Publication.
2002 Pijnappel, Johan, Video Art in India, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Spilling Out: Nalini’s recent Video’s Installations, Third Text Nr 62 Vol17 Issue 1 read essay by Ashish Rajadhyaksha
2003,
2000,
1998
Pijnappel, Johan, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
2002
Barragan Paco, El arte que viene, (The art to come), Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid
2002
Raffel, Suhanya, Asia – Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2001
Pijnappel, Johan, Unpacking Europe, Towards a Critical Reading, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2001 Chadwick Whitney, Women, Art and Society, Thames & Hudson, London
2001 Pijnappel, Johan, Nalini Malani-a Doomsday Oracle, Art & Asia Pacific Magazine, issue 30, Sydney
2001 Lynn, Victoria. Reinventing Textiles: Gender and Identity, vol.2. Telos, Winchester
2000 Sambrani, Chaitanya, Text & Sub-Text, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
2000 Kapur, Geeta, When was Modernism, Tulika Press, New Delhi
2000 Tani, Arata, Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju
2000 Kidd, Courteny. Voiceovers. Art AsiaPacific Quarterly, no.27
2000 Hamletmachine, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
2001 Pijnappel, Johan, Gallerie, Vol. 7, Bombay
1999 Robinson, Joel David. Another Landscape: Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan. Parachute, no.93, January–March, Tokyo
1999 Pijnappel. Johan, Beam, Bombay English Association Magazine, Vol. 18,January, Bombay
1999 Lynn, Victoria, Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 McEvilley, Thomas. ‘Picturing India’. Art in America, vol.87, no.11, November, New York
1999 Sambrani, Chaitanya, catalogue essay, Another Landscape, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo.
1998 Tatehara, Akira Private Mythologies, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo
1997 Kapoor, Kamala, Medeaprojekt, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay
1996 Poshyananda, Apinian, Traditions/Tensions, The Asia Society, New York / 1998 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1996 Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Second Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane
1996 Kapoor, Kamala, Free Trade, Containers ‘96, Art Across The Oceans, Copenhagen
1996 Kapoor, Kamala, Expressions & Evocations, Contemporary Women Artists of India. Marg, vol.48, no.2.
1995 Kapur, Geeta 1st Africus Biennial, Johannesburg
1995 Kapur, Geeta, Body as Gesture, India International Centre, New Delhi
1995 Kapoor Kamala, Missives from the Streets, Art & Asia Pacific Quarterly, Sydney vol. 2, no. 1, January
1993 Kapur, Geeta, A Critical Difference, 1993
1991 Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, The City of Desires, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
1990 Gokhale, Shanta, Under the Skin, Gallery 7, Bombay
1987 Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, Through the Looking Glass, Roopankar Museum of Contemporary Art, Bhopal
1982 Elliot, David and Alkazi, Ibrahim, Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1980 Kapur, Geeta, His Life, Art Heritage, New Delhi
Films on the Artist
1990 Khopkar, Arun, " Figures Of Thought" Bhupen Khakhar, Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Malani.
1990 Mahler-Wein, Lutz, Film Series "One World Art"
2001 Lall Ein “The Broken Spine” A Documentary Film On The Artist.
Bedi, Nandini On Going Project On The Artist "A Biography”
Guest Advisor At The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Selected Public Collections
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
British Museum, London
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
Kawaguchi Museum, Saitama
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma. USA
