Shruti Mahajan has studied painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Saiyaji Rao University, Baroda and Textile Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She was the artist in residence at Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz, the Max Planck Institut (2019). She has participated in residencies in India and abroad, and has received several grants for her projects.
Shruti has been interested in precarious structures and through them lived lives that navigate liminal and transient spaces, including but not limited to the border regions. Through material and media that suggest the fragility of these archives that emerge and dissipate — envelopes, inland letters, cardboard structures — she enters the fraught domain of identity and memory.
Currently, she works and lives in Hyderabad
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2000-04
Post Graduate Diploma in Textile Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
1996-2000
Bachelor Degree in Painting, Maharaja Sayajii Rao University, Baroda
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2019
Artist in Residence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI), Max-Planck-Institut, Florenz, Italy
2017
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus FRISE, India Week, Hamburg
2012
Artist in Residence, Höherweg 271e.V Düsseldorf, Germany
2010
Artist in Residence, Kӧlnischer Kunstverein, Kӧln supported by Kunststiftung NRW Düsseldorf, Germany
2000
Received Nasreen Mohammadi Scholarship, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
Exhibited at the India Art Fair 2020 with Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
2019
Three Person Show at Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
‘Dastavez’- a series of 25 Letter Books presented by Gallery Shrine Empire at Delhi Contemporary Art Week
2018
‘Spirit and Matter’- A group show at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2017
‘Faltungen’- A collaborative show with Alke Reeh (Sculptor), Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt
‘Migrating Identities’-A curated show by Anja Ellenberger at Westwerk, Hamburg
Open Studio, Düsseldorf
‘Seal’, Solo show at Hamburg Hall, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad
2015
Group Show at Open Eyed Dreams Kochi
2014
‘Sparsh’ a group show by Indian artists at Kunst Museum Bochum, Bochum
(Into) the middle of the stories, Group Show at Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi
2013
‘Home/Front’ Video presented at Kunstverein Pforzheim
‘Reflection’ Galerie Max Mueller, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai
‘Reflection’ Museum Siegburg
Open Studio Höherweg e.V. Düsseldorf
2012
Two person show at Kunstverein Xanten, Xanten
‘Dispatch’ Städtische Galerie Alte Post, Neuss
‘Home/Front’ Video presented at Galerie Max Mueller, Mumbai, with artist initiative nüans in an exhibition titled ‘OAR or ORE’
2011
‘Drawings’ a group show at Sugra Manzil, Colaba, An offsite project of Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2010
‘Open studio’-Kӧlnischer Kunstverein, Kӧln
‘Reverie’- a group show at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Nets and other works- A collaboration show with Alke Reeh (Düsseldorf), Field Institut Hombroich, Neuss
‘Roots- Young Indian Art’, curated by Sandra Khare (Mumbai), Gallery White Square, Berlin
2009
L- machines, a group show curated by Kavitha Balkrishnan, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams Cochin, Kerala
Studio Practices, a group show at Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
1×1 India, a group show curated by Anupa Mehta and Sapna Kar, Mumbai
2007
Group show at British Council, New Delhi
2002
Group show at Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda
1999
‘Still Life’ curated by Jaydev Thakur at Gallery Son’ et Lumiere, Mumbai
TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS
Visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Paldi, Ahmedabad
Visiting faculty at NIFT Mumbai
2019 Presented works at kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
2019 Presented works at DHI Art Space, Hyderabad
2019 Conducted workshop for the students of Princess Esin Women’s Educational Centre, Hyderabad (as part of Krishnakriti Festival)
2018 Artist talk at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda
2017 Artist talk with Naini Arora and Anja Ellenberger at Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Artist talk with Alke Reeh and Nadia Ismail at Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt
2017 Kunstforum Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad
2017 Presented work at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
2017 Artist talk at Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, Hyderabad
2014 Presentation for students of design at Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld Germany
2013 Artist talk at Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2012 Artist talk at Staedtische Galerie Altepost, Neuss
2011 Presented work at Pecha Kucha Night, Mumbai
2010 Presented works at Indian Embassy, Berlin
PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
Collaborative book cover design projects with Gunjan Ahlawat (Creative Head Penguin Random House, Delhi)
The project Includes cover designs for Anita Desai, Anees Salim, Kushwant Singh, Partition Box set, Premchand (series of books translated in English) are among the few.
Designed textiles for Bindu Juneja (eminent Odissi dancer) for her production Narmada Parikrama staged during Serindipity Arts Festival, Goa,2016.
WEBSITE & OTHER LINKS
http://www.v-ideo.art/videos/183