{"id":2210,"date":"2010-01-24T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:18:09","slug":"tejal-shah-a-queer-artist-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/tejal-shah-a-queer-artist-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tejal Shah A Queer Feminist Artist From India"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tejal
\nPhoto: screendump of Tejal Shah’s website www.tejals.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Tejal Shah (b. 1979) is an Indian visual artist working with video, photography and installation. Her work, like herself, is feminist, queer and political. She grew up in central India and moved\u00a0to\u00a0Mumbai in 1995. Tejal holds a BA in photography from RMIT, Melbourne, has been an Exchange Scholar at the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently enrolled in the MFA (Film\/Video) program at Bard College, New York.<\/p>\n

Tejal has send me details about the group shows, in which you can see her art works at the moment. The exhibitions are:<\/p>\n

‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’<\/h2>\n

at Buildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, curated by Jane Rowley & Louise Wolthers, opens January 31, 2010.
\nHere you can see\u00a0 \u201cWhat are You?\u201d, an art video installation by Tejal Shah, about the transgenered hijra sex-workers in the red-light district of Mumbai. Tejal is going to Sweden for the opening of the exhibition and she will be presenting her art works at the seminar 'Queer in Theory and Pratctice'<\/code> at Bildmuseet, Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden, Saturday January 30, 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Re\/Gendered’<\/h2>\n

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\nPlatform Artist Group Inc., Degraves Street Subway (Campbell Arcade), Melbourne, curated by Laura Castagnini, January 25 \u2013 February 6, 2010.
\nPlatform Artist Group Inc. writes about the show: “Re\/Gendered brings together a number of high profile international and Australian artists in a group exhibition that celebrates the notion of fluid or ‘unstable’ gender. These artists all aim to transgress and blur the boundaries of gender performance. Often using drag as a technique to destabilise identity, these diverse artists disrupt and subvert the traditional binary system of gender. In turns joyful, disturbing, and deliberately ambiguous, these artworks expose the theatricality involved in our everyday performance of gender roles.”<\/p>\n

‘The Self & the Other \u2013 Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography’<\/h2>\n

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\nArtium Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain, curated by Devika Daulet-Singh and Luisa Ort\u00ednez, closes February 7, 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Incursions \u2013 Contested Spaces’<\/h2>\n

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\nSeven Art Gallery, New Delhi, curated by Heidi Fichtner, January 15 \u2013 February 14, 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh’<\/h2>\n

, Whitechapel Gallery, London, January 21 \u2013 April 11 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity’<\/h2>\n

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\nIniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, January 27 – 13 March 2010.<\/p>\n

Related link<\/h2>\n

Tejal Shah’s website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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