Sarita has been concentrating in her art practice, exploring form and formlessness... stone, seed, leaf, stem, animate and inanimate, stillness and movement, core, atom, nucleus, universe, birth, decay, form her visual imagery.
Monochromatic in nature, her art works are primarily meditations on self and the environment she lives in, the inter-inter-connctedness of human body with the Universe, a look at the landscape, and the repetitive act defines and re-define it. Her inter-disciplinary art practice is primarily drawing based exploring lines and forms through thread work-stitching and embroidery, photography, videos, installations and collaborations.
In 2019 she did one month residency at WAA, Mumbai where she displayed her recent textile based drawings. She was part of Artists and Poets residency in Uzbekistan in 2019.
Sarita Chouhan/ CV
Educational Qualification:
2005- 6 Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Art and Aesthetics, Mumbai University
1989-91 B.A. Honors, German Language, JNU, Delhi.
Residency
2019 Artist and Poet Residency, Uzbekistan
2019 One month residency at WAA, Mumbai
2014 “Indian Ateliers” Artist Residency, India International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa
2007 “Art and Ecology” Retreat organized by Mohile Parekh Centre of Visual Arts, Mumbai
Solo Exhibitions
2008 ‘appear, re-appear’ at Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 ‘Form…Formless…’ at Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2003 “There is one tune. And there is one song.” mix-media works at Nazar Art gallery, Baroda exhibited at Artist Center, Mumbai in 2002 and Art Folio Gallery, Chandigarh in 2001
2000 ‘A Form Within’ assemblages and sculptures at Romain Rolland Gallery, Alliance Francaise, N. Delhi presented by Alliance Francaise and Teamwork Films
1998 ‘The Sound of Silence’ paintings and installation, galleries III & IV of Rabindra Bhawan, N. Delhi supported by PEACE Delhi based N.G.O.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 Art as Text, Part 1, curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla, Gallery Art n Soul, Mumbai
2015 Group Show “We all Draw-Thinking through Drawing”, Symposium in London
2015 Online Project “Cornered Stories” curated by Vishwa Shroff and Charlie Levine
2015 Online Photography Show titled Idiom-atic Images/ Curator’s Corner curated by Rahul Bhattacharya
2015 National Exhibition of Art
2014 "Inscriptions on the surface of the transitory" group show of four women artists at Fine Art faculty, Vadodra
2012 “The Sketchbook Project” showed a sketch-book in a world tour of sketchbooks
2011 “Drawings” shown a video, photographs and drawings titled ‘entangled threads’ in Chemould Prescott Gallery
2010 Genda Phool Project, Group show by Red Earth, Delhi.
2009 Studio Practices, Part 1, Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai
2008 "Holi" Group Exhibition by Red Earth at Alliance Francaise, Delhi
2019 “Blooming ways” a collaboration between Art by Sarita Chouhan, Butoh dance by Lucie Betz and Cello music by Genevieve Megier in Freiburg
2011 “Dancing with lines” Collaborative Arts Initiative between Visual Arts and Butoh Dance, Project Freiburg- Mumbai, for details see http://saritalucie.bolgspot.com/
2009 “unending cycle of good wishes” a wish chime created in collaboration with children from a workshop at Kala Ghoda festival
2006 Audio-Visual Installation “Everywhere is green… Even in my dreams…” on concern for environment at Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai curated by Chatterjee and Lal Gallery
2004 Installation titled ‘A Plea of Saffron Cloth’ at World Social Forum, Mumbai curated by Open Circle
Publications selected
2020 Poetry translated and published in Kitob dunyosi, a journal of literary arts in Uzbekistan.
2019 Videos and Text on ‘Entangled threads’ published in Hakara Journal.
2017 Art Work and Poetry in Hakara Journal, a bilingual journal of creative expression
2017 Photographs and Poems in ‘Muse India’ the literary ejournal, issue No. 76
2013 Poetry published in Indiaree, Online English and Malyalam e-journal
2010 "A thread of Faith" published in SACH South Asian Cultural Heritage journal on inter-faith, also for ISD
2009 Drawings published in Oriya translation by Manu Dash of renowned Hindi Poet, Kedarnath Singh's poetry
2007 Written booklits on Jain art, tribal and folk paintings of India and Indian crafts for ISD, N.G.O based in Delhi
Other Achievements
2020, Participation in online symposium, Thinking through Drawing, London
2018 Course in Mysticism, Women and Poetry, SAPP, Mumbai
2017 Course in Islamic Aesthetics, Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
2017 Earth tour and workshop attended with environmentalist Vandana Shiva and her group to Ladakh
2016 Course In Yoga and Tantra, Jnanapravaha, Mumbai,
2016 Participation in residential workshop on Eco-feminism by Dr. Vandana Shiva, Bijavidyapeeth
Art Workshops
