Curriculum Vitae
Chila Kumari Burman
Since the mid-1980s I have been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in
paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. In my more recent
works, this theme has taken on a new power and vibrancy. I am currently making a new body of
work to draw all of these together and to develop the ideas and images contained in the new
cultural contexts of national and international politics in the twenty-first century. Challenging
stereotypical assumptions of Asian women, my work is informed by popular culture, Bollywood,
fashion, found objects, the politics of femininity the celebration of feminity; self-portraiture
exploring the production of my own sexuality and dynamism; the relationship between popular
culture and high art; gender and identity politics.
Education
Southport Art College,
Art & Design Foundation Course
Leeds Polytechnic, BA (1st Class Hons.)
Fine Art and Graphic Design
Slade School of Fine Art,
MA Fine Art (Printmaking)
Activities, Awards & Residencies
| 01/2004 to recent |
Vice chair and board member, Richmix London |
| 02/2009 to 03/2010 |
Artist in Residence - Leverhulme award, University of East London |
| 01/2006 to 12/2009 |
Resident Artist Villiers High School Southall London |
| 2007 |
Arts Council |
| 2006 |
Wellcome Trust and Arts Council |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 08/2010 to 10/2010 |
Chila Burman’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, USURP Gallery, London |
| 01/2009 to 01/2010 |
Roast - Borough Market, Floral Hall, London |
| 01/2008 to 02/2008 |
Huyton Gallery, Liverpool 2008 |
| 06/2007 to 07/2007 |
Valentine Crush, Tamarai Space, London |
| 05/2007 to 06/2007 |
Prints I've Made... Desi Stylee, londonprintstudio, London |
| 05/2005 to 06/2007 |
Damascus and Aleppo / British Council |
| 03/2006 to 04/2006 |
CANDY-POP & JUICY LUCY, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London |
| 07/2005 to 08/2005 |
Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester |
| 04/2004 to 06/2004 |
Cecil Higgins Gallery + Museum, Bedford |
| 03/2004 to 04/2004 |
Plymouth Arts Centre |
| 06/2003 to 08/2003 |
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery |
| 05/2003 to 06/2003 |
University of Bath, Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art For further exhibition details and listings
please refer to: http://www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 10/2010 to 12/2010 |
Seeing In Colour, British Council Touring Show, Bottega-Gallery Kiev, Centre for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine; Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia; Academy of Fine Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan
Chila Kumari Burman, Patrick Caulfield, Alan Davie, Jeremy Deller, Angus Fairhurst, Sir
Terry Frost, Peter Gee, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Georgie Hopton,
John Hoyland, Gary Hume, Paul Huxley, Albert Irvin, R B Kitaj, Julian Opie, Sir Eduardo
Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Alison Turnbull, Marc Vaux |
| 09/2010 to 12/2010 |
ORIENTATIONS trajectories in Indian Art curated by Deepak Ananth, FOUNDATION DE11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium
Nasreen Mohamedi, Zarina Hashmi, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Sheela Gowda, Chila Kumari
Burman, Nalini Malani, Bhupen Kakar, Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, N.S. Harsha |
| 09/2010 to 10/2010 |
NINE Her magic square, The Viewing Room Gallery, Mumbai |
| 07/2010 to 08/2010 |
A Missing History, Aicon Gallery, London |
| 07/2010 to 08/2010 |
Naissance, Usurp Gallery, London |
| 06/2010 to 07/2010 |
Taking Issue, Cardiff University |
| 05/2010 to 06/2010 |
Does Size Matter?, Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi |
| 03/2010 to 06/2010 |
Visual Autobiographies, Richmix, London |
| 09/2009 to 10/2009 |
Mumbai Expo India |
| 08/2009 to 09/2009 |
INDIA ART SUMMIT New Delhi |
| 01/2009 to 03/2009 |
British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York |
| 07/2008 to 08/2008 |
Dubai Art Fair |
| 06/2008 to 07/2008 |
Bodhi Art Gallery, New York |
| 08/2007 to 09/2007 |
Candy Culture, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok |
| 07/2005 to 08/2005 |
Angels in the Studio, Slade Women Artists, Cecil Higgins Gallery |
Selected Collectors
| Alfredo Lam Centre – Havana, Cuba |
| Arts Council England – London |
| BBC Bush House – London |
| Berge Collection – Spain |
| Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery – Birmingham |
| Sir Richard Branson |
| British Council – London |
| Cartwright Hall – Bradford |
| Devi Foundation – New Delhi |
| Paul Gilroy |
| Linda Goodman – Johannesburg |
| Mira Khaushik |
| Leicester New Walk art gallery – Leicester |
| New Art Gallery – Walsall |
| Sanjay Parthasarathy |
| Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Edinburgh |
| Meera Syal |
| Victoria and Albert Museum – London |
| Wellcome Trust – London |
Selected Published Writings
| 2000 |
Artist's Statement in 'Wish I Was Here', exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Artist's Statement in 'Text and Subtext', exhibition catalogue, Earl-Lu Gallery, Singapore |
| 1999 |
Book 'Women and Self Portraiture', Francis Borzello, Thames and Hudson
Artist's Statement in West Coast Line, 'Here and There Between South Asia's', New Writing from Canada
and India, no's 26 and 27
'Crossing Cultures', artist's statement in KHOJ International Workshops, Artists Newsletter Magazine,
January |
| 1998 |
'Objects of Désireé', Artists Pages with Lucretia Knapp Paradoxa, Vol.1, International Feminist Art Journal
Artist's statement in 'Eight Technologies of Otherness', Sue Golding, Routledge, London
Artist's statement in 'Portrait of My Mother', exhibition catalogue, French Institution, London |
| 1994 |
Artist's statement in 'My Grandmother, My Mother, Myself', exhibition catalogue, Southampton City Art
Gallery |
| 1993 |
'Enough is Enough', Feminist Art News, Special Issue, Vol 4, No 5
Artist's statement in 'Transition of Riches', exhibition catalogue, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery |
| 1991 |
'Ask How I Feel', in Feminist Arts News, Vol 3, No 6 |
| 1990 |
Artist's statement, 'Fabled Territories', exhibition catalogue, Leeds City Art Gallery |
| 1989 |
Artist's statement, 'Animal Liberation: The Centre of the Circle', exhibition catalogue, Rochdale Art Gallery |
| 1988 |
Artist's statement in 'Numaish Lalit Kala', exhibition catalogue, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
Selected Reviews, Articles, Publications & Catalogues
| 2010 |
Beyond Cultural Diversity: The Case for Creativity, Richard Appignanesi (ed.), Third Text
Art Monthly - Review of "A Missing History" exhibition at Aicon Gallery, October 2010
Guardian online, Feminist postcard art auction at the Aubin Gallery, London, October 2010 |
| 2007 |
Guardian Saturday 2nd June Review |
| 2006 |
Timeout Review of Candy Pop and Juicy Lucy |
| 2005 |
Richard Noyce, 'Printmaking - a survey' (Book) |
| 2004 |
Amit Roy, Calcutta and Bombay Times; Derwent May 'A Medicine Show perks up', Time, September 2004
'Mind, Body, Spirit', British Medical Journal
Lynda Nead, 'Material Serendipity', (Monograph), Plymouth Arts
Centre;
Amit Roy, 'Ice-Cream Van Girl Cometh', Eastern Eye and Daily Telegraph
Ali Hussein, 'Dazzling',
Times of India (Britain)
Review of 'Points of View' solo exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, A-N
Magazine, January 2004 |
| 2003 |
ARCO Art Fair catalogue, Madrid; 'Interview with Nancy Hynes' Altantica, 35 (2003); 'Enchanting the Icon',
Sakshi Gallery. Catalogue by Marta Jakimowi(c) |
| 2002 |
'Different', Edited by Stuart Hall, Phaidon |
| 2001 |
'Art in America' (Review of Flirt at Admit 1), October; Massimo Tommaso Mazza, 1st Valencia Biennial,
Video Showroom;
Christina Kasrlstam, 'Text + Subtext' Exhibition, 20-25th October, Stockholm Times
Franklin Sirmins, New York Time Out, February 7th
Flirt, Storm in a D-Cup, Admit 1 Gallery, Feb 8th New
York Times, Flirt Exhibition, 9th February, 2001;
Art in Review by Holland Cotter
Artists Magazine -
Singapore, 'Text + Subtext', by Victoria Lu |
| 2000 |
'Wish You Were Here', Scottish Multicultural Anthology, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Pocket Books
Publication
'Portraits of Women Artists' Ed. Francis Borzello, Thames & Hudson
Art Monthly, Australia
'Text + Subtext' Exhibition, Lasalle-Sia
'College of Art', Singapore; Eatle-Lu Gallery, Sydney
'By En Young
Ahn'
'Hello Girls', by Rachel Jaques in Wasafiri, no 32, Autumn 2000;
'The Wonder of the Bra', by Rachel
Jaques, Singapore Arts Magazine;
'Hello Girls', by Richard Dyer, Wasutiri, No 32 |
| 1998 |
Katy Deepwell 'Visions of Identity in Flux', Gender and Nations Catalogue, Herbert F Johnson Museum of
Art, Cornell University, New York Prasad Bidaye 'Tourists in Our Own Lands', Gallery 44, Toronto
Anvar
Khan 'Art and Identity for Revelations Project', CCA, Glasgow
Lavini Melwani, review of 'Transforming the
Crown' exhibition, American Revisions, New York
Deirdre Hanna 'Salvation Artists Escape Tourist Trap',
XTARI No 357, Toronto
Namiti Bhandare 'Bohemian Rhapsody', New Delhi Times, No 24
Anshul Avijit 'Fun
and Vision', Hindustan Times, 28th November, New Delhi
Kum Kum Dasgupta 'Khoj Artists of the World
Unite', Asian Age, New Delhi
Alka Pande 'Artlinei', The Indian Express, 21st November, Chundigarh
Geeta
Sharma 'The Search Within', The Telegraph Calcutta Weekend, 28th November, Calcutta
Nilanjana S Roy
'The Miracle at Muldinager', New Delhi Times, 21st November
Francis Borzello 'Women and Self
Portraiture', Thames and Hudson, London |
| 1997 |
John Holt, review of new work, Third Text, London
Holland Cotter, review of 'Out of India' at the Queens
Museum, New York Times, 26th December
Sue Golding 'The Eight Technologies of Otherness', Routledge,
London & New York
Sonali Fernando 'Indian Women Photographers', Indian Women Photographers;
International, No 35, SE Asia |
| 1996 |
Marsha Meskimmon 'The Art of Reflection: The Politics of Gender and Race', Scarlet Press, London & New
York |
| 1995 |
Lynda Nead 'Beyond Two Cultures', Monograph, Kala Press, inIVA, Arts Council |
| 1994 |
Review of 'Portrait of My Mother', The Times, 15th October, London |
| 1993 |
Shirini Sabratham, review of 'Transition of Riches', Observer, 20th December, London
Lynda Nead 'The
Female Nude: Art, Obsenity & Sexuality', Routledge, London
Allan de Souza, review of 'Confrontations'
exhibition, Creative Camera, February, London
Jacques Rangasamy, review of 'Confrontations' exhibition,
Third Text, No 22
Joseph Williams 'Colours Enter the Picture', The Times, 16th November
Review of
'Transition of Riches', Asian Times, 27th November; Review of 'Transition of Riches', The Birmingham Post,
20th November
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| 1992 |
Tim Hilton, review of Radical Hair Gallery exhibition, The Guardian, 25th July, London |
| 1989 |
Hiroko Hagiwara, Feminist Art News, Vol 3, No 1, London 1988; Andrew Hope, Race Today, Vol 18, No 2,
London |
| 1985 |
Waldemar Januszczak 'Anger At Hand', The Guardian, 29th June, London
Errol Lloyd, review of 'The Thin
Black Line', Art Rage, November, London |
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