Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to welcome Bharti Kher as artist-in-residence from September–December 2017. Kher has exhibited at numerous museums and institutions internationally, including the Freud Museum London, London, England (2016), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia (2016), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2016), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2014), Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (2012), the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2012); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2010); the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria (2009); the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2008); the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2007); and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (2006); among others.
Bharti Kher received the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015, was awarded the YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year in 2007 and received the ARKEN prize in 2010.
Bharti Kher lives and works in New Delhi.
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