Tejal Shah
{{Short description|Indian visual artist (born 1979)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Tejal Shah
| native_name = तेजल शाह
| native_name_lang = hi
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}}
| birth_place = Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
| alma_mater = RMIT University
| occupation = Visual artist, curator
}}
Tejal Shah ({{Langx|hi|तेजल शाह}}; born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations.{{Cite web |title=Tejal Shah: Unbecoming |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/152732/tejal-shahunbecoming/ |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=e-flux.com |language=en}} Shah explores topics in her work including the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, gender, disability, and the relationship between humans and nature.{{Cite web |last=Verghese |first=Anisha |date=2021 |title=Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara |url=http://drainmag.com/colonisation-heteronormativity-and-ironic-subversions-tejal-shah-and-yuki-kihara/ |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Drain Magazine, Vol. 17 (2) |language=en-US |issn=2469-3022}} She lives in Mumbai.{{Cite book |last=Seid |first=Betty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnkOAQAAMAAJ |title=New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India |last2=Pijnappel |first2=Johan |date=2007 |publisher=Mapin Publishing |isbn=978-81-88204-82-3 |pages=115 |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |date=2008 |title=Tejal Shah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=krYzAQAAIAAJ |magazine=Flash Art (magazine) |language=en |publisher=Giancarlo Politi. |volume=258-260 |pages=8}}{{Cite news |last=Sengupta |first=Somini |date=2011-01-30 |title=In India, a Busy Fair and a Spirited Art Scene |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/arts/design/31summit.html |access-date=2022-12-30 |issn=0362-4331}}
Biography
Tejal Shah was born in 1979 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-1PAAAAMAAJ |title=Indian summer: la jeune scène artistique indienne : du 7 octobre au 31 décembre 2005 |date=2005 |publisher=Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris |others=École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris |isbn=978-2-84056-183-5 |pages=245 |language=fr}} Shah has identified as queer.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfZIAQAAIAAJ&q |title=Art and AsiaPacific, Issues 64-65 |date=2009 |publisher=Fine Arts Press |pages=64 |language=en}} She has BA degree (2000) in photography from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia; and worked towards a MFA degree from Bard College but did not graduate.{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Tejal Shah |url=https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/people/2938-tejal-shah |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Kunstinstituut Melly |language=en}} She was an exchange student and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1999 to 2000.{{Cite book |last=Sinha |first=Gayatri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4o0AQAAIAAJ |title=India: Public Places, Private Spaces : Contemporary Photography and Video Art |last2=Sternberger |first2=Paul Spencer |date=2007 |publisher=Newark Museum |isbn=978-81-85026-82-4 |pages=157 |language=en}}
Her 2006 Hijra Fantasy series of work highlighted the Hijra community (eunuchs, intersex people, and/or transgender people) of Bangalore and Mumbai. In 2012, for Documenta (13) in Kassel, she created the five-channel video installation "Between the Waves" featuring two women wearing horns and exploring a surreal landscape.{{Cite web |last=Catling |first=Charlotte Skene |date=2012-09-28 |title=The Art of Protest |url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-art-of-protest |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Architectural Review |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Pande |first=Alka |date=30 September 2012 |title=Indian strokes |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120930/spectrum/main2.htm |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=The Tribune}}
Shah's artwork has been shown widely including, "Global Feminisms" (2007) at Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York;{{Cite journal |last=Muller |first=Dena |date=2008-01-01 |title=Global Feminisms curated by Maura Reilly and Linda NochlinGlobal Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/521560 |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=471–474 |doi=10.1086/521560 |issn=0097-9740|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Ehrlich |first=Cheri Eileen |date=2011-12-22 |title=Adolescent girls' responses to feminist artworks in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=07360770&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA274699983&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Visual Arts Research |language=English |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=55–70 |url-access=limited}} "India: Public Places/Private Spaces" (2008) at Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey;{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2008-01-04 |title=Art in Review |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/arts/design/04gall.html |access-date=2022-12-30 |issn=0362-4331}} Documenta (13) (2012) in Kassel, Germany;{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=2012-06-14 |title=Art Show as Unruly Organism |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/documenta-13-in-kassel-germany.html |access-date=2022-12-30 |issn=0362-4331}} and "Everyone Is an Artist: Cosmopolitan Exercises With Joseph Beuys" (2021) at K20 in Düsseldorf, Germany.{{Cite web |last=Woodward |first=Daisy |date=2021-03-01 |title=Spring Is Here: Brilliant Things To Do This March |url=https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13138/brilliant-things-to-do-this-march |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=AnOther |language=en}} Her work was also part of the group exhibition "Facing India" (2018) at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg, Germany; other artists included Vibha Galhotra, Bharti Kher, Prajakta Potnis, Reena Saini Kallat, and Mithu Sen.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-04-13 |title=Reena Saini Kallat has a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/reena-saini-kallat-retrospective-kunstmuseum-wolfsburg/ |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Architectural Digest India |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-IN}}
Shah's work is in public museum collections include at the Centre Pompidou.{{Cite web |title=Tejal Shah, I Love my India, 2003 |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cX4xA9 |website=Centre Pompidou}}
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Category:21st-century Indian women artists