Yamini Nayar (Works)
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Yamini Nayar
Yamini Nayar

Yamini Nayar (b. 1975) received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, 2005, and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, 1999. Her work has been widely reviewed in major publications such as Artforum, The New York Times, Art India, Asian Art Newspaper, Vogue India, Art in America, The New Yorker, and Whitewall Magazine. Over the years, Nayar’s work has been exhibited widely. Major survey shows include: Ray Photo Triennale, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Constructs/Constructions, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (both 2015); Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane (2012); Manual for Treason, Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2011); The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Museum, London (2010); and Fatal Love, Queens Museum of Art, (2005). Nayar has also shown with Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2018 and 2012); Wendi Norris, San Francisco (2019) and BosePacia (2006). Public collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, Kiran Nadar Museum, the deCordova Museum, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Exhibitions with Thomas Erben
Exhibitions with Thomas Erben
Groups of Work
Groups of Work

Works 2005 – 2006
Mapping, 2005. C-print, 20 × 24 in. ed of 5 (+2 AP)
Selected Press
Selected Press
Knoblauch, Loring. "Yamini Nayar, Three Spaces for Time @Thomas Erben." Collector Daily, 4 March 2020. | Download PDF | 1.06 MB
"Yamini Nayar." Traveling Art, Art India, 2013. | Download PDF | 2.05 MB
Cotter, Holland. "Yamini Nayar: 'an axe for a wing-bone'." The New York Times, December 2013. | Download PDF | 215.96 KB
"Sculpture is Everything." Queensland Art Gallery, 2012. | Download PDF | 597.03 KB
"Yamini Nayar." Unfixed, 2012. | Download PDF | 1.71 MB
Doran, Anne. "Yamini Nayar: Thomas Erben." Art in America, February 2012. | Download PDF | 438.30 KB
Hall, Emily. "Yamini Nayar." ArtForum, January 2012. | Download PDF | 427.41 KB
"Photo Pages," Cincinnati Art Museum, 2010. | Download PDF | 12.21 MB
Ray, Sharmistha. "Intimate Theater: A Soliloquy of Dislocations." Wynwood Magazine, April 2009. | Download PDF | 1.84 MB
Art Basel, Miami Beach; 2024 | Download PDF | 6.69 MB
Media
“In Conversation: Yamini Nayar and Allan deSouza” @ Wendi Norris Gallery, 2019.

Yamini Nayar, Traveling Art, Art India, 2013.

Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Sara Blokland & Asmara Pelupessy, 2012.

Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery, 2012.

Photo Pages, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2010.

The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, 2010

Imagine Reality, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, RAY 2015 Biennial