Reena Saini Kallat’s (b. 1973, Delhi, India) practice spanning drawing, photography, sculpture and video is concerned with ideas that hold each other in tension—barriers in a world of mobility, porosity in sites of fissure, memorialisation in the aftermath of amnesia, and the promise and illegibility of national legal documents. Kallat’s interest in political and social borders—and their violent cleaving through land, people and nature—resonates with the continuing aftershocks of the Partition in India, which her paternal family experienced. Kallat has researched various histories of migration, the plunder of shared natural resources for national gain, and archives of disappeared people. The figure of the hybrid has come to hold symbolic potential in Kallat’s practice, as a truant against dividing lines and divisive national narratives. That barriers give way, and can be subverted, is an idea that is pronounced in Kallat’s work using electric cables twisted to resemble barbed wire. She uses the paradox of the existence of technology for free flow of information and restriction on movement to suggest that total isolation is not possible. Where there is contact there is exchange and fusion.
Memory is an important site of investigation, to regard not only what we choose to remember but also how we think of the past. Using the motif of the rubber stamp both as object and imprint, signifying the bureaucratic apparatus, Kallat has worked with officially recorded or registered names of people, objects, and monuments that are lost or have disappeared without a trace, only to get listed as anonymous and forgotten statistics. Kallat re-inscribes them in the collective imagination, using the tools of the state to picture bodies that reside at its margins. Kallat is particularly interested in foundational legal texts, and the words therein that give nations legitimacy. In them, she highlights universal principles of freedom and equality, as well as their tendency to create an enemy for their own sustenance. Kallat’s examinations highlight the limits of perception, of both individuals and societies, to reveal blind spots that might allow the clearing of shared vision.
Her work is widely exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Tate Modern, London; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; SITE SantaFe, New Mexico; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Saatchi Gallery, London; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe; Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba; SESC Pompeia and SESC Belenzino in Sao Paulo; IVAM Museum, Spain; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; MOCA, Shanghai; Busan MOMA; Chicago Cultural Centre amongst several others.
Her solo exhibitions at Museums include Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2023), Compton Verney, UK (2022), Firstsite, UK (2022), Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden (2021), The National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet, Paris (2020); the Manchester Museum (2017), Offsite, Vancouver Art Gallery (2015), Bhau Daji Lad Museum (2013), Kennedy Centre (2011). She has participated at the Sharjah Art Biennale (2023), Bangkok Art Biennale (2020); Havana Biennial (2019); Busan Biennale (2016), Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2011), the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale (2011), the Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2009) besides others.
Her works are part of several public and private collections including Musee de Beaux Arts, Ottawa; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Manchester Museum, UK; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney; Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden; Initial Access (Frank Cohen Collection), UK; Pizzuti Collection, Ohio; Burger Collection, Hongkong; Fondazione Golinelli, Italy; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi amongst others.
She lives and works in Mumbai, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
What the Sky Won’t Say, the Ground Will, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rome
2023
Deep Rivers Run Quiet, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2022
Common Ground, Compton Verney, UK
2021
Deep Rivers Run Quiet, Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden
2020
Verso-Recto-Recto-Verso, MNAA
Deep Rivers Run Quiet, Viewing Room, Nature Morte, Delhi
Verso-Recto-Recto-Verso, presented by Nature Morte at Bikaner House, New Delhi
2019
Blind Spots, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2017
Earth Families, Manchester Museum, United Kingdom
2015
Porous Passages, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Hyphenated Lives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Offsite, Public Art Project, Vancouver Art Gallery
2014
Anatomy of forking paths, Art Houz, during Art Chennai
2013
ZegnArt Public project with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011
Falling Fables, Maximum India at the Kennedy Centre, Washington
Labyrinth of Absences, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2009
Drift, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
2008
Silt of Seasons, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Subject to Change without Notice, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2006
Rainbow Of Refuse, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai and Singapore
2005
Black Flute (And Other Stories), Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
Black Flute, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002
The Battlefield Is The Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
Seven Faces of Dust, Chicago Radio, Mumbai
2000
Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Art Inc. Gallery, New Delhi
1998
Orchard of Home-grown Secrets, Gallery Chemould and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Migrations, Human Odyssey, Musée de L’Homme, Paris
Shared Horizons, 15th Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
Between Rivers, curated by Owen Martin, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
My World, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Museum Singer Laren, Netherlands
In The Making: Drawing Refining Revising, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
State of Fashion Biennale, curated by Louise Bennetts and Rachel Dedman, Netherlands
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London
Right Foot First, curated by Phalguni Guliani, Hampi Art Labs, Karnataka
Aesthetic Responses, The Culture Story, Singapore
Home and the World, curated by Thomas Berghuis, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam
2023
CheMoulding FRAMING FUTURE ARCHIVES
No But Where Are You Really From?, Public Art Project supported by The Gallery and Artichoke Trust, UK
Between Borders, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
Traces of Place, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
A Demonstration of Ornamentation, Nature Morte, New Delhi
RHIZOME Tracing Ecocultural Identities, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, USA
Thinking Historically in the Present Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
2022
Making Worlds, Sydney Modern Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tomorrow’s Tigers, Sotheby’s, UK
Yet, With Love curated by Seolhui Lee, Podo Museum, South Korea
Modus Operandi lll: Together Alone Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Legal Alien’ curated by Meera Menezes, Bikaner House, New Delhi
2021
Holding Space, South South Veza, Online Viewing Rooms (OVR’s) by 50+ galleries
On l Site, Collaborative project organised by four Indian galleries, presented by Nature Morte at Bikaner House, New Delhi
After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Lee Gallery, South Carolina, USA
Tree Story curated by Charlotte Day, MUMA Melbourne
2020
Unflattening, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
TRILOGY: After Hope, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA
Escape Routes, curated by Apinan Poshyananda, Bangkok Art Biennale
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy, The McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
3rd International Biennial of Asuncion Paraguay Curatorial team: Dannys Montes de Oca, Bettina Brizuela, Damian Cabrera and Omar Estrada, Paraguay
Women artists from Asia: Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery Cheonan
2019
5 Artists 5 Projects, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Tomorrow’s Tigers, Specially Commissioned Rugs, Royal Academy of Art, Academicians Room, London
‘Open Borders’, 14th Curitiba International Biennial, curated by Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda, Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil
MODUS OPERANDI II, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Fracture/Fiction: Selections from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Malaysia
The Construction of the Possible, curated by the team at Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art, 13TH Havana Biennial, Cuba
Alteration/Activation/Abstraction, curated by Betty Seid, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Making Art: Materials & Technology, Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai
Distilled Blueprints, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Alembic group, Baroda
ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, The Art Museum of the University of Toronto
2018
ANIMALS: Art, Science, Nature, Society, Curated by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, CityU Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
Untold Stories Manifesto, Curated by Valentina Levy, 2nd edition of Something Else OFF Biennale Cairo, Egypt
Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Curated by Peter Nagy, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
Modus Operandi, curated by Shireen Gandhy, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Tate Exchange – Building an Art Biennale, curated by Sunil Maghnani and Ed D’Souza, Tate Modern London
Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Facing India, curated by Dr. Uta Ruhkamp, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Asymmetrical Objects, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Sensorium: The End is Only the Beginning, Sunaparanta, Goa
2020 Horniman Circle Gardens, Mumbai, India
2017
Memories of Partition, part of the New North and South network, Manchester Museum, UK
Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai
On the Horizon the Shadow Speaks another story’ title Nuit Blanche Toronto at Drake Commissary curated by November Paynter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Norrtalje Museum + Konsthall, Sweden
Borders: Us and Them, curated by Qian Lin, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery, China
Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2016
Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, 10th Busan Biennale, curated by Cheagab Yun, Kiswire Suyeong factory, Busan,
South Korea
Conceiving Space, Colombo Art Biennial, curated by Alnoor Mitha, Sri Lanka
Make a Change, curated by Torun Ekstrand, Cultural Ronneby, Sweden
Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India, curated by Ratan Vaswani, CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya), Mumbai
The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, NGMA- Jaipur House, New Delhi
2015
The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Aperture, Indian Summer Festival, Old Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Vancouver
The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai
A Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
One and one make eleven (Contemporary Art From India), Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
[en]counters 2015, Spaces in Transition, CST Terminus, Mumbai
Kalaghoda Art Festival, Mumbai
2014
Off the wall, Sir. J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
India: Maximum City, St. Moritz Art Masters, Switzerland
Encounters:- Is There Love in This Air?, Cattle depot, C & G ArtPartment, Hong Kong
Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Encounters 2014 – Is there love in the air?, Public project with Art Oxygen in Mumbai
2013
No-Mad-Ness in No-Man’s Land, Eslite Gallery, Taipei
Haein Art Project, Haeinsa Temple, Korea
‘Something Old and Something New’, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea
Partner a Master Exhibition, Artist/Mentor Programme, Premchand Roychand Gallery, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai
Spell of Spill: Utopia of Ecology, Palette Art Gallery, Delhi
EN(counters): POWERplay, along Mumbai’s waterfronts, gardens and historic sites
JJ’s 90s – The Time of Change, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
2012
India Art Now, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Indian Parallax or the Doubling of Happiness, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
WONDERS – Masterpieces from Private Collections, Denmark
India side by side, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia
Group show, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin
India Side by Side,SESC Belenzino, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Stemmer fra Pandemonium, Punkt-Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai, India
The Contemporary Sultanate, the Sunrydge, New Delhi
Kalaghoda Art Festival, Mumbai
The Skoda Prize Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2011
India Side by Side, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro
Giant Elephant : Contemporary Art from India, H Cube Gallery, Seoul
Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Right to Dissent, Clark House, Mumbai
RED, Palette Art Gallery, DelhiReprise, Aicon Gallery, New York
Reprise, Aicon Gallery, New York
Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket – The New cultural Icons of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Samtidigt, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
Iconoclasts and Iconodules, curated by Ombretta Argo, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
The Intuitive: Logic Revisted, from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010
La Route de la Soie / The Silk Road, Lille 3000, France
Samtidigt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
The River Project, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney
Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Waterways, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
In Transition: New Art from India, Richmond Art Gallery Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
Bring Me a Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art at Webster University, curated by Jeffrey Hughes and Dana Turkovic, Cecile R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Never Run Away, 2 person exhibition curated by Shaheen Merali, Stux Gallery, New York
The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London
Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists from India, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg in collaboration with Peter Nagy, at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
View Points and Viewing points – 2009 Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Spectrum: Indian Art at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Milan Galleria, curated by Georgio Verzotti, Triennale Museum, Milan
Passage to India Part II show at Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK
Ventosul Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Essl Museum, Vienna
INDIA XIANZAI: Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion, Stux gallery, New York
In the Mood for Paper’, curated by Vida Heydari, F2 Gallery, Beijing
Threshold: Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
My Little India, Marella Gallery, Beijing
Body Chatter, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan
India Moderna, curator: Juan Guardiola, organized by Casa Asia, IVAM Museum, Valencia, Spain
3rd Nanjing Triennale, curators: Fumihiko Sumitomo, Jaeyoung Kang, China
TEAF (Taehwagang Eco Art Festival) – Dream River, Korea
Everywhere is War (And Rumours of it), Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Fire Walkers, Stefan Stux gallery, New York
Contemporary Artists from India and South Asia, Stux Gallery, New York
A Mazing, for RPG Academy of Art and Culture at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Three Points of view, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrucke, Mumbai
Excavation: Memory / Myth / Membrane, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2007
International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea
Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Urban Manners, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg, at Hangar Bicocca, Milan
INDIA NOW: Contemporary Indian Art, Between Continuity and transformation, curated by Daniela Palozzoli at Spazio Oberdan, Milan
New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India, curated by Betty Seid, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
Thermocline Of Art- New Asian Waves, curated by Wonil Rhee and Peter Weibel at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
Modern Indian Works On Paper, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia and the Georgia Museum of Art, USA
Lille 3000 (Maximum City-Mumbai), Lille, France
Hungry God- Indian Contemporary Art, curated by Yun Chaegab and June Gwak, Arario Gallery, Beijing and Busan MoMA
India Express – Art and Popular Culture, Art Museum Tennispalace, curators: Tuija Kuutti and Erja Pusa, organized by the Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
2005
Mom and Pop Art, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Indian Paintings of the New Millenium, curated by Helen Asquine Fazio at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, USA
Change of Address, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Ways of Seeing, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2004
Contemporary Art from India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Zoom! Art in Contemporary India. Curators: Nancy Adajania and Luis Serpa, The Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
The Making of India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi
Bombay x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
Urban Quilt, part of the exhibition ‘Ideas and Images’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Devotional Breach, curated by Peter Nagy, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
Art and Poetry, Harvest 2004, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
A Tribute to Bhupen Khakkar, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003
Crossing generations: diVERGE, Gallery Chemould’s 40th anniversary, Curators: Geeta Kapoor and Chaitanya Sambrani, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Hard Copy, two-person show with Jitish Kallat, Gallery 88, Calcutta
Tiranga, curator: Peter Nagy, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Rain, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Elephant Walks, Youth Arts Project in collaboration with Jitish Kallat as part of Indians + Cowboys exhibition, Curators: Aaron Seetu and Ruth Watson Gallery 4A, Sydney
The Tree From The Seed, Contemporary Art from India, curator: Gavin Jantjes Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), Norway
2002
Crosscurrents, organized by Artworks for the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Reclaim Our Freedom, organized by Open Circle, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Crossing Borders, Gallery Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Holland
The Battlefield is the Mind, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2001
Big River 2, CCA7 Gallery, Port Of Spain, Trinidad
AOM- Art on the move, organized by Sahmat, New Delhi
2000
The Mumbai Metaphor, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999
Edge of the Century, curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
Legatee-The J J. School of Art, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
Young Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Wall Paper, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1998
Essays in Time, Kinetic Sculptures, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1997
India in Harmony 1947-1997, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
A Page From My Diary, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai
Fresh Work, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
1996
Monsoon Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995
Varsha ’95, Y. B. Chavan Gallery, Mumbai
SELECTED WORKSHOP AND RESIDENCIES
2021
May Second Sunday at Home: Weave your Own Story, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, USA
2018
Drop in and make: Criss-cross chronicles as part of the exhibition Fearless: Contemporary South Asian art supported by Arthouse Direct, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014
Visas to Happiness – 3, workshop with children at the 2014 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2013
2012
Visas to Happiness, workshop with children as part of the exhibition ‘To Let the World In’, Chennai
2011
Iaspis Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009
Vanishing Point, children’s project at the Celebrate Bandra Festival, Mumbai
2007
Collaborative workshop as part of the exhibition Aftershock, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2003
Collaborated on a Billboard project with Jitish Kallat, Kala Ghoda Art District, Mumbai
Elephant Walks, Youth Arts Project at the Casula Power House Arts Centre, Liverpool, Australia
2002
Khoj 2002 International Artists Workshop, Mysore, India
Identity and Landscape, residency in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec at the Boreal Art/Nature Centre, Canada
2001
Big River 2, International Artists Workshop organized by CCA7 and the Triangle Arts Trust at Grand Riviere, Trinidad, West Indies
TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
2023
Artist talk, Sharjah Biennial 15 – ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’ at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
Artist talk, Collections building – Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
2022
Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography – Autograph + Bagri Foundation commissions
2021
Current Perspectives Presents: Reena Saini Kallat, Kansas City Art Institute, USA
Presentation of Reena Kallat’s work at the ‘Seminar on women artists from Asia after 1945’ followed by discussion with the artist, organised by Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany.
2020
Aora – II, Exchange: Tensions of Storytelling, Virtual Discussion with Reena Kallat and Dr. Cleo Roberts-Komireddi
Artist talk at MIT India Initiative, Mumbai
2019
Walkthrough ‘Blind Spots’, Reena Kallat in conversation with Abhay Sardesai and Tasneem Mehta at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2018
Material, Memory and Identity, panel discussion for the exhibition ‘Connecting threads: Textiles in Contemporary Practice’, moderated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala, Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Artist talk with curator of Asian art, Natalie Seiz on the recently acquired artwork ‘Woven Chronicle’ which is part of the exhibition Fearless: Contemporary South Asian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Panel discussion with Claire Hsu and Pooja Sood moderated by Anna Maja Spiess (during Mumbai Gallery Weekend), at Royal Opera House, Mumbai
I Know What You Did Last Summer, artist talk at India Art Fair, Delhi
Artists talk during Sensorium at Sunaparanta, Goa
2017
Artist talk at Manchester Museum, UK
Panel discussion, Public Art project at Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai
Symposium: When South is North: contemporary art and culture in South Asia and Australia in collaboration with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia
Citizens and Borders: Migration and Displacement, panel discussion with Reena Saini Kallat, Tania Bruguera and Tiffany Chung in conversation with Sean Anderson at the Jaipur Literature Festival; presented by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Artist talk at NYU Shanghai Gallery, China
2016
Artist talk with the C-MAP session at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Artist talk with the Chicago Collectors Circle (CCC) at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Chicago
2015
Walkthrough ‘Hyphenated Lives’, Reena Kallat and Nancy Adajania at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Artists talk at Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Mumbai Local: Ideas and the Artist in collaboration with Junoon, Mcubed library, Mumbai
Artists talk at CSMVS (former Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai
Artists panel at Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), FIELD MEETING Take 2: An afterthought in Venice
Artists talk at What About Art? in collaboration with ArtOxyen, Mumbai
2014
Artists talk at Asia Society, during the Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York
Moving Millimeter: Talk by Reena Kallat for Mumbai Local, Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
‘Meet the Artist’ session for the students from South Asia Inter School Association (SAISA), Art Festival hosted by the American School of Bombay
2013
‘Who is the Audience?’ IAF 2013 l Conversations, panel discussion with Kamini Sawhney, Matthieu Foss moderated by Ranjit Hoskote, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
‘Rendezvous with the Artist’ series by Asia Society at the artist’s studio in Mumbai, sponsored by Christies
2012
Artists Talk at the World Economic Forum, Tianjin
‘Why I am not a woman artist’ panel discussion with Anju Dodiya, moderated by Nancy Adajania at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Prince of Wales, Museum, Mumbai
2011
Artists Talk at GIBCA Speak Easy (GSE), Goteborg
Informal talk at HDK – The School of Design and Crafts, Goteborg
Artists Talk at the Iaspis Residency Studio, Stockholm
Artists Talk at the Krishnakriti Festival 2011, Kalakriti Gallery, Hyderabad
2010
Short presentation as part of The River Project at The Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Panel discussion moderated by Maria Lantz, with participating artists during the exhibition Samtidigt at Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2009
Panel discussion with artist Gulam Sheikh, co-chair: Sabine B. Vogel, art critic at the Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna
2008
Slide presentation followed by a panel discussion with Nalini Malani and Jayshree Chakravarty, moderated by Nancy Adajania at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
Slide presentation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2007
Panel discussion with Nalini Malani, Sheba Chhachhi, moderated by Betty Seid at the Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
Lecture at the University Boccini, Milan
2006
Slide presentation at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, USA
Artists Talk at the Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art, USA
2003
Slide presentation at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
2000
Slide presentation at Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai
AWARDS
2022
Society Achievers Awards, Mumbai
2019
Artist of the year – HELLO! Hall of Fame Awards
2016
Zee: Indian Women Awards in Arts & Culture category, Delhi
2012
ZegnArt Public Award in collaboration with Dr. Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2011
YFLO ZOYA Young Women Achievers Awards 2010-11, Delhi
2005
Harmony Award, Mumbai
1996
Bombay Art Society Merit Certificate, Mumbai
Second Prize Government Award, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
1995
Gladstone Solomon Award, Mumbai
1991-1996
Merit Scholarship, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arario Corporation Collection, South Korea
Burger Collection, Hongkong
Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney
Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
Ermenegildo Zegna Group, Italy
Fondazione Golinelli, Italy
Initial Access (Frank Cohen Collection), UK
JSW Foundation, Mumbai
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Manchester Museum, UK
Musee de Beaux Arts, Ottawa
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), Mumbai
Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden
Pizzuti Collection, Ohio
Saatchi Gallery, London
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Israel
The Fox Group, USA
The Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Australia
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada