NASREEN MOHAMEDI
Akara Modern
1937 -1990
Nasreen
Mohamedi, born in Karachi in pre-Partition India, is best known for her
line-based drawings and is considered one of the most important modern artists
from India. She studied at St. Joseph’s Convent, Bandra and received a Diploma
degree in design from the Saint Martin’s School of Art, London. Despite being
relatively unknown outside India during her lifetime, Mohamedi's works have
been the subject of remarkable revitalization in the last decade. From 1961-63,
she was awarded the French Government scholarship to study in Paris at Monsieur
Guillard’s private atelier.
Her organic
forms, delicate grids, and dynamic, hard-edged lines have received immense
international acclaim. Mohamedi mainly worked with gestures of pencil and ink
on paper, experimenting with a cosmopolitan outlook that enabled her to draw
upon a range of aesthetic sensibilities, from the poetry of Rilke and Camus and
Indian classical music to the modernist architecture of Le Corbusier's
Chandigarh.
Mohamedi’s
first solo exhibition was held at Bal Chhabda’s ‘Gallery 59’ situated in
Bhulabhai Institute. During her lifetime, she had held several exhibitions at
numerous galleries; British Council, Bahrain (1966, 1969); Taj Art Gallery
(1968); Festival of India, London (1982); Indian Artists in France, Paris
(1985); and many more. Even after her death her works have been exhibited at
the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in
New Delhi, Documenta in Kassel in Germany, and Talwar Gallery in New York and
New Delhi. Today, Mohamedi is considered one of the major figures of the art of
the twentieth century.
Images
Exhibitions
Follow Unfollow August 26 - September 17 , 2022
Stirring Still: Nasreen Mohamedi | Jeram Patel August 12 - September 24 , 2021
India Art Fair 2019 January 31 - February 03 , 2019
Approaching Land curated by Girish Shahane January 20 - February 25 , 2017
Press
Architectural Digest, August 15, 2021
