Tejal Shah

Tejal Shah (she/they), b. 1979 in Bhilai (India), lives peripatetically. Shah’s research-based practice is informed by eco-poetics, non-duality and queer-feminism. Having worked across diverse media such as video, photography, performance, sound, and installation, since 2017, Shah is engaged in art as social practice. Through participatory gatherings, workshops and retreats, she facilitates enquiry into the nature of reality, and our consciousness. Rooted in the aesthetics of love and care, these experiential journeys operate on a psychosomatic and performative level, emphasizing multiplicity over singularity.

Shah’s works have shown internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including, 60th Venice Biennale, 35th Sao Paulo Biennale, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Documenta 13, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her works are held in important private and institutional collections including the Devi Art Foundation (India), Lenbachhaus (Munich), Wolfsburg Museum (Wolfsburg), and Folkwang Museum (Essen).

At YBCA

Exhibitions

The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India

Presented by YBCA

October 15, 2011–January 29, 2012

A major exhibition of contemporary art by artists living inside the country as well as in the diaspora inspired by material culture, literature, and spirituality as well as social and political aspects of India.

Lead image: Tejal Shah. Courtesy Project 88.