Rina Banerjee

BIOGRAPHY
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RINA BANERJEE
1963 Born in Kolkata, India
  Lives and works  Manhattan, New York
   
Training  
1995 Yale University, Yale School of Art, Painting and Print Making, MFA
1993 Case Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, Polymer Engineering, BSc.
   
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Musée Guimet, Paris 
  Project room, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2010 Forever Foreign, Haunch of Venison, London
2009 Look into my eyes and you will see a world unexplainable, out of place, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
  Rina Banerjee and Raquib Shaw, Thomas Gibson Ltd., London 
2008 Distant Nearness, with Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas
  Allure, Gallery Espace, New Delhi.
2007 Foreign Fruit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
  "Where the Wild Things Are"... is no place at all and all places that cannot be lived in but visited, realized out of our careful, playful and tenacious tourism of others, realized as our mobility wanders too far, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 
2006 Fantasies of travel, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
2002 Phantasmal Pharmacopeia, Curated by Susette Min, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
2001 Phantasmal Pharmacopeia, Debs and Co., New York
  Antenna, Bose Pacia Modern, New York
2000 Auf Weidersehen, Admit One Gallery, New York
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy
  RoundAbout, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel 
  Embodiement,Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco 
  Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Modern & Contemporary, San Francisco
  Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
  Yokohama Triennial, Japan, Curated by Akiko Miki
2010 Fantasmagoria, le monde mythique, Curated by Pascal Pique, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
  Wild Things, Kunstallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, Curated by Lene Burkard
  Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand 
  The road of marvels, path of elegance, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
  Bring Me a Lion, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, USA 
2009 Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality, organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi and held at Rabindra Bhawan Galleries, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
  Anomalies, Curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Rossi and Rossi ltd. ,London
  Wonderland, Curated by Robert Roos, Kade Amersfoort, Netherlands
  Pretty is as pretty does, Curated by Laura Heon, Site Santa Fe Contemporary Art Center, New Mexico
  Mythologies, Curated by Ben Tufnell with James Putnam, Haunch of Venison, London 
2008 Dyed Roots: the new emergence of culture, Curated by Camilla Singh, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
  Les Fleurs du Mal (The flowers of Evil still Bloom), Cueto Project, New York
  Everywhere is War (And Rumours of War), Curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
  Evolution, Curated by Marc Wellman, Max Lang Gallery, New York
  Indian Focus, Espace Claude Berri, Paris, France 
  Exploding the Lotus, Co-curated by Jaishri Abichandani and Jane Hart, Art and Culture Center for Hollywood
2007 I fear I believe I desire, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
  An Archaeology, The Zabludowicz Art Collection, London 
2006 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
  Black Moon Island: Contemporary International Drawing, One in the Other Gallery, London
  Tsumari-Echigo Exhibition 3rd triennial, Hatchi, Japan, Curated by Fram Kitwaga
2005 Greater New York Show, PS1/Moma, Queens, New York, Curated by Klaus Biesenback and staff
  Agra, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Curated by Karina Corrigan
  Looking in the Eye of the Beholder, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Curated by Janine Cirincione
  Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
  Suspended Ornament, Suite 106, New York
  Sunset Sunrise, Curated by Courtney Martin and Amanda Church, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York 
2004 Open House, Curated by Charlotta Kotic, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
  Specificity, Curated by Donald Odita, Riva Gallery, New York 
2003 Yankee Remix, Curated by Laura Heon, Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
  5X5 Contemporary Artist on Contemporary Art, Curated by Shamin Momin, Whitney Museum of American Art, Phillip Morris Space, New York 
  Broken Mirror, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York
2000 Exoticism was for sale, Project Room, Debs. & Co., New York
  Good Business is the Best Art, Curated by Lydia Yee and Marisol Nieves, Bronx Museum, New York
  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1999 Bodies of Resistance, R.A.W., Connecticut and Durham, South Africa, Curated by Barbara Hunt
1997 Artist in the Market Place (AIM), Curated by Lydia Yee and Marisol Nieves, Bronx Museum, New York 
  Out Of India, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York 
  Hybrid Harem, Colgate University, Dana Arts Center, New York
  Research Revision Reconstruct, Old Dominion University, New York
  Fermented, Arason Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York
  Seeking Beautiful Indian Girls, Gallery 401, Toronto