Vibha Galhotra Born 1978, Chandigarh, India Lives and works in Delhi, India, Completed her BFA, Graphics, Government College of Arts, Chandigarh,1999 MFA, Graphics, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Santiniketan,2001 She is Asian Cultural Council Fellow in the US 2017, and recipient of prestigious Rockefeller Grant at their Bellagio Center, 2016 and in 2015 she recieved Young Women Achievers Award given by Young FICCI Ladies Organisation (YFLO).
Her major Solo Exhibitions & Projects includes Insanity in the Age of Reason- New Delh, 2017, Absur –City –Pity –Dity - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 2015, Sediments and Other Untitled… New Delhi, India, Alter Mk search Art Gallery, Italy Utopia of Difference- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 2013 Metropia-SECCA North Carolina, Metropia - Project 88, Mumbai, India.
Her major projects are Where do we come from ? What are we ? Where are we going ? A Cook Book project India Meri Kahani Aankhon ki Jubaani a visual arts project with Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Garden of dreams, a blindfold walk project, Kathmandu, Nepal Walk for the Planet - public participatory project, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy The Black Cloud Project- public participatory project, Bikaner, India, Re-BirthDay- Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea,San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy 2011 Neo Monster - An on-going public art project.
She has been part of Land Art Biennial LAM 360° Mongolia ICASTICA “Arezzo Biennial - Arezzo Italy Sculpture on the Beach- Art Dubai, 2013. Curated by Chus Martinez Haein Art project, Curated by Art O2 Haeinsa temple, Korea Becoming Colombo Art Biennale Sri Lanka India Awakening Under the Banyan Tree- Essl Museum, Austria Aluminum - 4th BAKU Biennale, Azerbaijan Space Invader - Aicon Art Gallery, London,UK India Xianzai - Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China, Best of Discovery - Sh Contemporary , Shanghai, China, Brazier International Artists Workshop, UK, 2005 Fordsburg Artist Studio (Bag Factory) South Africa 2002 Gut Gasteil – An organization for art in landscape Austria 2001 Europas Parkas, Lithuania (Europe) for a symposium.
She has Participated in many national and international group shows which includes Water Line: Metropolitan State University of Denver, THE DARKENED MIRROR: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WATER San Jose Museum of Art, Unfiltered: An Exhibition About Water William Benton Museum of Art Connecticut USA, Kailash Cartographies - Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - Parsons School of Design/The New School, New York, Abstract Chronicles - Curated by Girish Shahane OED Gallery Cochin, Past Tradition - Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt,, New Delhi, Forms of Activism- curated by Vivan Sundaram & Sasha Altaf, New Delhi, Multiplicity - City as subject /Matter, Curated by Marco Antonini, Nurture Art Gallery, New York, Citizens of Time, curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, Dhaka art summit.
Her works are in Collection of
Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts , Pizzuti Collection, Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea , Gates Foundation, U.S.A., Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Essl Museum, Austria , Devi Art Foundation, India, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy , Gut Gasteil, an open-air Art Museum, Austria, Saga Art College, Japan , Europas Parkas, Lithuania.