Rohini Devasher

Rohini Devasher received her MA in printmaking from the Winchester School of Art in the UK and her BFA in Painting from the College of Art in New Delhi. She was also the recipient of the Inlaks Fine Arts Award twice in the years 2007 and 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.inlaksfoundation.org/inlaks-fineart-award.aspx|title=Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation|website=www.inlaksfoundation.org|access-date=2017-09-16}} She was further granted the Sarai Associate Fellowship in 2009,{{Cite web|url=http://sarai.net/sarai-reader-09-projections/|title=Sarai Reader 09: Projections : s a r a i|website=sarai.net|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-16}} instituted by the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Rohini is also a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Delhi (AAAD) in 1997.{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/travel-in-time-with-artist-rohini-devasher-s-new-show-in-mumbai/story-LebSb5aambol4rYmF3jK2L.html|title=Travel in time with artist Rohini Devasher's new show in Mumbai|date=2016-08-29|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}

In 2012, she was invited to a four-month residency this year at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, where she worked alongside leading research scientists exploring similar themes of astronomy and science.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/features-feature26|title=Parts Unknown: Making the Familiar Strange {{!}} Max Planck Institute for the History of Science|website=www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de|language=en|access-date=2017-09-16}}

Rohini Devasher worked at the India Habitat Centre prior to her M.A. in the UK and returned to work at the Khoj International Artists’ Association between 2005 and 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://in.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/931746/rohini-devasher-on-what-she-did-before-practicing-art-full|title=Rohini Devasher on What She Did Before Practicing Art Full-Time {{!}} Artinfo|work=Artinfo|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}

In 2009, Devasher opened her first solo ‘Breed’ at Project 88 in Mumbai.{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/the-new-media-collective-rohini-devasher-chitra-ganesh-mithu-sen-neha-choksi/1/558851.html|title=The engagement with new materials and ideas has made Indian art go global. Five artists who have redrawn borders.|access-date=2017-09-16}} The exhibition consisted of digital prints, drawings and videos. Devasher's works explored the possibilities contained within nature, where organisms are born, breed and multiply. Her other exhibitions include Deep Time that opened at Khoj International Artists’ Association and Project 88 in Mumbai.

In 2012, Devasher participated in the inaugural Kochi Muziris Biennale curated by Krishnamachari Bose and Riyas Komu. In Aspinwall House, the main venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale{{Cite news|url=http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/rohini-devasher/|title=Rohini Devasher - Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016|date=2012-11-19|work=Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en-US}} Rohini Devasher’s seven- channel video work, Parts Unknown was installed. Devasher chose to create fictive landscapes up north in Ladakh, at the site of the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) in Hanle, one of the world’s highest sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes, that draws astronomers as much for the severe terrain as for the dramatic skies.{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kochi-muziris-biennale-hosts-young-artists/1/237814.html|title=Kochi-Muziris Biennale hosts young artists|access-date=2017-09-16}}

Speculations from the field opened at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla (E) and was curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, the director of the museum, and Himanshu Kadam, senior assistant curator. The show explores existentialist themes by looking at the place of humans in the universe, and the idea of time interacting with the museum’s collection of fossils from the Jurassic Period.{{Cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/go-back-in-time-with-a-new-exhibition-at-mumbais-bhau-daji-lad-museum/17566181|title=Go back in time with a new exhibition at Mumbai's Bhau Daji Lad museum|work=mid-day|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/the-science-behind-artist-rohini-devashers-exhibition-in-mumbai/|title=The science behind artist Rohini Devasher's exhibition in Mumbai|website=Architectural Design {{!}} Interior Design {{!}} Home Decoration Magazine {{!}} AD India|date=19 September 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-16}} The exhibition is a meditation on the intersection of deep sciences, geology and astronomy, art and perception. In the exhibition, Devasher also worked with the museum’s Philip’s Planisphere,{{Cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/4oLlxoz2xWKxtbjIBSAX0I/Science-time-and-Rohini-Devashers-art.html|title=Science, time, and Rohini Devasher's art|last=Ratnam|first=Dhamini|date=2016-09-07|work=livemint.com/|access-date=2017-09-16}} made with embossed and gilded leather, from the early 20th century. The planisphere shows all the principal stars, and their position during every hour of the year. She has mapped the sky above the museum from the present to an imaginary future almost 20,000 years from the current year through 20 prints.{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/travel-in-time-with-artist-rohini-devasher-s-new-show-in-mumbai/story-LebSb5aambol4rYmF3jK2L.html|title=Travel in time with artist Rohini Devasher's new show in Mumbai|date=2016-08-29|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}

In 2014, Devasher was named the Forbes Contemporary Artist of the Year.{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbesindia.com/awards/artawards/winners.html|title=Winners - Art Awards 2014 :: FORBES INDIA|website=www.forbesindia.com|access-date=2017-09-16}} She was previously nominated and later announced as the recipient of the Art India Skoda Breakthrough Artist award in 2012.{{Cite news|url=http://in.blouinartinfo.com/visual-arts/article/846012-the-skoda-prize-announces-the-breakthrough-artist-award|title=The Skoda Prize Announces the Breakthrough Artist Award Shortlist {{!}} Artinfo|work=Artinfo|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}

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