Reena Saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat b. 1973, Delhi, India 
Lives and works in Mumbai, India

Reena Saini Kallat was trained at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai between 1991-96. Her practice spanning drawing, photography, sculpture and video is concerned with ideas that hold each other in tension—barriers in a world of mobility, porosity in sites of fissure, memorialization in the aftermath of amnesia, and the promise and illegibility of national legal documents. Kallat’s interest in political and social borders—and their violent cleaving through land, people and nature—resonates with the continuing aftershocks of the Partition in India, which her family experienced. She has widely exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Migros Museum (Zurich), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Hayward Gallery (London) amongst others. She has participated at the Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2019), Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2016), Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (Sweden, 2011), the Asian Art Biennale (Taiwan, 2009) besides others. She lives and works in Mumbai.