Sarita Chouhan (Profile)

Sarita Chouhan (b. 1968, New Delhi, India)

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About her work
A self-taught artist, Sarita Chouhan works in abstract modes and her works embody the spirit of minimalism: “Art practice allows for the space to go within: it is like writing your journal, but instead of words: with lines and forms. I draw or create intuitively and I let my creative impulses unfold mostly in series of works, which are inter-related.

I believe as an artist, even a floating cloud could be as much of an inspiration as some patterns in an old cracked wall…

My interest in Yoga, spirituality and nature all coalesce into forms I create. They constitute a constant search for Self in this vast Universe, looking at both the microcosm and the macrocosm.”

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Art and Aesthetics; Mumbai University; 2005-6
Bachelor of Arts; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; 1989-91

Solo Exhibitions

Apppear, re-appear; Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai; 2008
Form, Formless; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai & Gallery Beyond, Mumbai; 2005
There is one tune. And there is one song; Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda; 2003 (also at Artist’s Centre, Mumbai in 2002 and Art Folio Gallery, Chandigarh in 2001)
A Form Within; Alliance Francaise, New Delhi; 2000
The Sound of Silence; Lalit Kala Akademi; 1998

Selected Group Exhibitions

Art as Text, Part 1; Curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla; Gallery Art n Soul, Mumbai; 2017
We all Draw-Thinking through Drawing; London; 2015
Cornered Stories; curated by Vishwa Shroff and Charlie Levine; Online exhibition; 2015
Idiomatic Images; Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya; Online exhibition; 2015
Inscriptions on the Surface of the Transitory; M.S University, Baroda; 2014
Drawings; Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai; 2011
Studio Practices, Part 1; Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai; 2009

Scholarships, Installations & Residencies

Art and Poetry Residency; Uzbekistan; 2019
WAA Residency, Mumbai; 2019
Blooming Ways; a collaboration with Butoh dancer Lucie Betz and Cello exponent Genevieve Megier; Freiburg; 2019
Everywhere is green… Even in my dreams…; Audio-Visual Installation at Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai curated by Chatterjee and Lal; 2006
Indian Ateliers Artist Residency; India International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa; 2014
Art and Ecology; Mohile Parekh Centre of Visual Arts, Mumbai; 2007
A Plea of Saffron Cloth; Installation at World Social Forum, Mumbai curated by Open Circle; 2004

Other Achievements

Certificate course in Islamic Aesthetics; Jnanapravaha, Mumbai; 2017
Certificate Course in Yoga and Tantra; Jnanapravaha, Mumbai; 2016