YAMINI NAYAR

YAMINI NAYAR, US/India, is based in Brooklyn, NY. Nayar has exhibited her work internationally at venues including the Museum of Moderne KunstFrankfurt, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Queensland Art Gallery inAustralia, DeCordova Museum MA, Kiran Nadar Museum New Delhi, SharjahBiennial in UAE, Saatchi Gallery UK, Studio Museum of Harlem andrecently a solo presentation at Art Cologne. Her work is in many publicand private collections including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum NY,Kiran Nadar Museum, Saatchi Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, CincinnatiArt Museum, Hiscox and US Arts in Embassies. Publications includeChandigarh is in India, edited by Shanay Jhaveri (Shoestring Publishers,2016), Passages: Indian Art Today (Daab Media, 2014), Lines ofControl, Partition as a Productive Space (Green Cardamom 2012),Unfixed: Postcolonial Photography in Contemporary Art (Jap Sam Books,2013); Empire Strikes Back: Contemporary Indian Art Today (Saatchi) andManual for Treason: Sharjah Biennial edited by Murtaza Vali (2011), andin the upcoming publication Global Photography: A Critical History(2019). She has been featured in New York Times, New Yorker, Art India,Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Vogue India, Artpapers, and others.Residencies and grants include Lower Manhattan Cultural CouncilWorkspace, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Art Academy ofCincinnati and NYU Visiting Artist Scholar, Aaron Siskind Fellowship anda recipient of an Art Matters Foundation grant. Nayar is a ThesisAdvisor in the MFA Photography Dept of the School of Visual Arts andcurrently teaches Photography at John Jay University in New York. Shereceived her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY and BFA from theRhode Island School of Design. Nayar's work is represented by ThomasErben New York, Wendi Norris San Francisco and Jhaveri ContemporaryMumbai.