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Tasha Amini
The Atlas Group,
Lolly Batty,
Josh Blackwell,
Juan Bolivar,
François Bucher,
Melanie Carvalho,
Ian Charlesworth,
Andrew Cranston,
Jeffrey Dennis,
Atul Dodiya,
Steve Dowson,
Juan Manuel Echavarría,
Patricia Esquivas,
David Farrell,
Luke Fowler,
Rebecca French,
Shilpa Gupta,
Arni Haraldsson,
Alia Hasan–Khan,
David Hepher,
Eva Hertzsch,
Alfredo Jaar,
Jitish Kallat,
Amar Kanwar,
Lars Laumann,
Dave Lewis,
Sara Mackillop,
Eleanor Moreton,
Andrew Mottershead,
Simon Norfolk,
Adam Page,
Benoit Plateus,
Karin Ruggaber,
T.V. Santhosh,
Gigi Scaria,
Josh Shaddock,
Alexandre Singh,
Matthew Smith,
Ron Tran,
Fernando Traverso,
Nadia Wallis,
Rose Wylie
Tasha Amini
| Born: | London 1970 |
| Studied: | Chelsea College of Art and Central Saint martins College of Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
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The Atlas Group
The Atlas Group is a project established by Walid Raad in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. The project’s public forms include mixed-media installations, single channel screenings, visual and literary essays, and lectures/performances.
Walid Raad was born in 1967 and grew up in Lebanon. He is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Art at Cooper Union (New York, USA) where he now lives and works.
He is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation, started in 1996 to promote historical research of the visual culture of the Arab world, and to promote experimental video production in the region.
His work has been shown at Documenta, The Kunstern Festival des Arts, Brussels, The Vienna Festival, The Whitney Biennial, New York, The Alyoul Festival, Beiruit and numerous other festivals and major public museums and galleries in Europe, The Middle East and North America. He has been recently awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007.
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Lolly Batty
| Born: | London 1956 |
| Studied: | Camberwell School of Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Josh Blackwell
| Born: | New Orleans 1972 |
| Studied: | Bennington Vermont and Valencia California |
| Lives and works: | New York |
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Juan Bolivar
| Born: | Caracas, Venezuela 1966 |
| Studied: | Central Saint martins College of Art and Goldsmiths London |
| Lives and works: | London |
Represented by Lucy Mackinstosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
www.trailerart.net
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François Bucher
François Bucher was born in Cali, Colombia in 1972. He studied Art and Literature at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts in Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, where he was awarded a fellowship. In the following year, he participated in The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. Since 2005, he has been a visiting professor at Umeå University, Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden.
Bucher’s work has been exhibited internationally both in solo and group exhibitions and in film festivals. His work White Balance has won awards in international film festivals including the Werkleitz Award, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, 2004; First Prize, Premio a la Videocreation en Iberoamerica, MUSAC, Casa de America, Madrid, 2004; Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, 2004; First Prize, Video EX International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, 2003 and Prize of the Jury, Videolisboa, Lisboa, 2003. He is also the co-editor of Valdez Magazine, Bogotá and has published a number of essays.
Bucher lives and works in Berlin.
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Melanie Carvalho
| Born: | Livingstone, Zambia 1969 |
| Studied: | Central St Martins College of Art and Royal College London |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Ian Charlesworth
Ian Charlesworth was born in 1970 and currently lives and works in Belfast. He gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art in 1992 from De Montfort University, Leicester and received his Master of Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 1998. In 2005-2006, he was an Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellow at The British School in Rome.
His work explores the basis of representation in drawing and photography and has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Dogs Have No Religion, Czech Musuem of Fine Arts, Prague, 2006; Crossing, Lipoli and Lopez Gallery, Rome 2006; Overlap 3, The British School at Rome, 2006; The Nature of Things, Venice Biennale, Northern Ireland Exhibition, 2005; The Belfast Way, Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2005, and Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibitions 2003 and 2004.
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Andrew Cranston
| Born: | Hawick, Scotland 1969 |
| Studied: | Aberdeen and Royal College London |
| Lives and works: | Glasgow and Aberdeen |
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Jeffrey Dennis
| Born: | Colchester 1958 |
| Studied: | Slade School of Fine Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
Represented by Art Space Gallery London
www.jeffreydennis.co.uk
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Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya has lived and worked in Mumbai since his birth in 1959. He studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Past solo exhibitions of Dodiya’s work have been shown at Fine Art Resource, Berlin, 2001, the Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2001, and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, 2002. He has also participated in numerous international group shows including the Venice Biennale 2005; the Yokohama Triennale 2001; Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, which toured to New York, Mexico City, San Francisco and Toronto, 2004-06; Tryst with Destiny: Art from Modern India, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 1997; Century City: Art & Culture in the Modern Metropolis Bombay/Mumbai, Tate Modern, London, 2001; Secular Practice; Recent Art from India, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) Vancouver, 2002 and Capital & Karma: Recent Position in Indian Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2002.
Dodiya had also received a number of awards which include The Gold Medal of Maharashtra Government, 1982, a fellowship at Sir J.J. School of Art, 1982-82, the Sanskriti Award, 1995, and the Sotheby’s Prize, 1999. He was also awarded the French Government Scholarship, 1991-92, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy, 1999.
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Steve Dowson
| Born: | Manchester 1970 |
| Studied: | Chelsea School of Art and Royal College London |
| Lives and works: | Leigh on Sea |
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Juan Manuel Echavarría
Juan Manuel Echavarría was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1947. After twenty years as a novelist, Echavarría decided to become a photographer, and began making work about the violence in his country. As a writer, he had used metaphor to convey thoughts and feelings which had been difficult to describe but over time he had gradually become overwhelmed with words and so through photography, he began to explore violence, also through metaphor.
Echavarría has exhibited worldwide and his selected solo exhibitions include Mouths of Ash, which has been shown at a number of venues including Americas Society, New York, 2006, North Dakota Museum of Art, USA, 2005, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2000. His work has been shown in numerous group shows and film festivals including The Disappeared at El Centro Cultural Recoleta, Argentina, 2006, and North Dakota Museum of Art and Venice Biennale, 2005;
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005; San Francisco International film Festival, 2005; Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005 and Toronto International Film Festival, 2004. Upcoming projects include a solo show at the Santa Fe Art Institute, 2007, and
The Disappeared which will travel to venues including Museo de Arte de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 2007, and The Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008.
Echavarría lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Patricia Esquivas
| Born: | Caracas, Venezuela 1979 |
| Studied: | Chelsea College of Art and Central St Martins School of Art London |
| Lives and works: | New York |
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David Farrell
David Farrell was born in Dublin 1961. He read chemistry at University College Dublin, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1987. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1990 and on 'communion' projects with his partner, the writer Gogo della Luna (Gudók). His work has been exhibited at Fotofest, Houston, 2006; Iwate Museum of Art, Japan, 2005; Festival Internazionale di Fotografia at Museum of Rome, 2005; Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, 2003, and International BACKLIGHT Festival, Tampere Finland, 2002. He received the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2001 for Innocent Landscapes and in 2004 participated in the European Eyes on Japan project. Crow, his collaborative multimedia film with composer Benjamin Dwyer, was premiered during the Composers Choice Festival at the National Concert Hall Dublin in 2005. He is currently being filmed for a documentary by Donald Taylor Black (Poolbeg Productions).
At present he lives in Dublin where he works as a lecturer in photography at the Dun Laoghaire Institute for Art, Design and Technology.
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Luke Fowler
| Born: | Glasgow 1978 |
| Studied: | BA (Hons) Fine Art (Printmaking), Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee |
| Lives and works: | Glasgow and Bamberg, Germany |
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Rebecca French
| Born: | London 1973 |
| Studied: | Cardiff |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Shilpa Gupta
Shilpa Gupta was born in Mumbai, India in 1976. Between 1992-97, she studied sculpture at the Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. Gupta creates artwork using interactive websites, video, gallery environments and public perfomances to probe and examine subversively such themes as consumer culture, exploitation of labour, militarism and human rights abuse.
Gupta has exhibited internationally and recent shows include the Sydney Biennale 2006, Liverpool Biennale 2006, Havana Biennial 2006, ICC Tokyo 2005, Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, New York, 2005, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005 and Media City Seoul Biennale 2004. She has also worked on many online art projects including Blessed Bandwidth.net, 2005, an on-line art project commissioned for Tate Online and her upcoming projects include the Lyon Biennale 2007. She has received a number of awards including International Artist of the Year, South Asian Visual Artists Collective, Canada, 2004, Transmediale 2004 Award, Berlin and Sanskriti Prathisthan Award, New Delhi, 2004.
Gupta currently lives and works in Mumbai.
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Arni Haraldsson
| Born: | Reykjavik, Iceland 1958 |
| Studied: | Vancouver |
| Lives and works: | Vancouver |
Represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery Vancouver
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Alia Hasan–Khan
Alia Hasan-Khan was born in 1970 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and in 1994, achieved a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1998, she received a Master of Fine Art from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA., USA.
Hasan-Khan is interested in maintaining her practice in both Pakistan and North America and her work engages and reflects upon the social and political issues surrounding both of these areas.
Recent selected exhibitions include Outside the Cube and Homecoming at the National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007, Subcontingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, and When Artists Say We, Artist’s Space, New York, NY, 2006.
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David Hepher
| Born: | Redhill, Surrey 1935 |
| Studied: | Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
Represented by Flowers East London
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Eva Hertzsch
| Born: | Esslingen, Germany 1965 |
| Studied: | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Lives and works: | Berlin |
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Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar, born in 1956, is a Chilean artist, architect and filmmaker who now lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries around the world including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2003; the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1992; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1992; the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 1992 and the Fotografiska Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm,1994. Jaar has also displayed work at bienniales in Brighton 2006, Canarias 2006, Sevilla 2006, Johannesburg 1997, Kwangju 1995, Istanbul 1995, Sydney 1990, São Paulo 1987, Venice 1986 as well as Documenta Xl, 2002, Kassel. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was made a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.
Jaar dedicated six years to The Rwanda Project, 1994-2000. His new project, Muxima, 2005, focuses on Angola and has been exhibited at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2006, the Fundacion Tapies, Barcelona, 2006, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007. It will be shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
A major anthology, ‘La Politique des Images,’ opens in May 2007 at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Lausanne.
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Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat was born in Mumbai, India in 1974, where he now lives and works. He received his bachelor of fine art in painting from the Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai in 1996 where he became a fellow until 1997.
Kallat has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, Nature Morte, New Delhi, Bodhi Art, Singapore, Bose Pacia Modern, New York, Walsh Gallery, Chicago and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney amongst others. Forthcoming solo shows include Arario Beijing and Albion Gallery, London, 2007.
Kallat has participated in numerous key exhibitions including the Thermocline Of Art, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, 2007, Gwangju Biennale 2006, Asia Pacific Triennale 2006, Brisbane, Lille 3000, 2006, Passages, Palais De Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2006, Another Worlds, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea, 2006, Indian Summer, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, 2005, Armory Show, New York, 2005, Zoom, Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, 2004, Subterrain, HKW, Berlin, 2004, The Tree From The Seed, Henie Onstad Kultursenter, Oslo, 2003, Under Construction, Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, 2002, Century City, Tate Modern, London, 2001, Havana Biennial 2000, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 1999, Fukuoka, Japan, Art of the World 1998, Passage de Retz, Paris, and Innenseite, Kassel, 1997.
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Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar’s recent exhibitions include the Sydney Biennale, 2006; Image War: Contesting Images Of Political Conflict, ISP Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, 2006; Lofoten International Art Exhibition, Norway, 2006; Sub-contingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2006; Experiments with Truth, Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, 2005 and Patriot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.A., 2005.
Recent solo exhibitions have been shown at the APJ Media Gallery, New Delhi, 2007; National Museum of Art, Oslo, 2006; Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2005; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, 2003, and The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2003.
Kanwar has also participated in Historical Retrospective - 50 years of Oberhausen, Germany, 2004; the 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, 2003; Fri -Art Centre d'art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Switzerland, 2003; KalaGhoda Art Festival, Mumbai, 2002; Other India's - Breaking the Code, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2002; Werkleitz Biennale, Germany, 2002 and Documenta XI, Kassel, 2002.
He is also the recipient of the first Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway, 2005; Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA, 2006; First Prize, Torino International Film Festival, Italy, 2002; Grand Prix, EnviroFilm, Slovakia, 2002; Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2002, 2001 and 1998; Jury's Award, Film South Asia, Nepal, 2000; MacArthur Fellowship, India, 2000 and the Golden Conch Award, Mumbai International Film Festival, 1998.
Kanwar is currently working on a project entitled The Torn First Pages, a series of short and long films that emerge from the democracy movement in Burma and a new work relating to the submerging of narratives in political conflicts which is to be presented at Documenta XII in Kassel, Germany, 2007.
Kanwar lives and works in New Delhi, India.
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Lars Laumann
| Born: | Brønnøysund 1975 |
| Studied: | Oslo |
| Lives and works: | Oslo |
Represented by W. Wonka Inc.
http://www.indexof.no
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Dave Lewis
Dave Lewis was born in England in 1962. He attended the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) to study film and photography in the mid 1980s and later worked for the community based Blackfriars Photography Project in South East London. Lewis’s work has appeared in a number of publications around themes of race, identity and representation. His work Untitled (Royal Anthropological Institute, London),1995, was incorporated into the Arts Council Collection in 2001. He has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows including the Photographer’s Gallery, London; MOMA, Oxford; Recontres d’Arles, France.
Lewis has continued working as a commercial photographer and gives talks and workshops in galleries and schools as well as lecturing in further and higher education institutions. Lewis is currently working on projects focussing on three areas: mental health, urban issues and anthropology where he is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lewis is a member of the Bermondsey Artists Group.
He lives and works in London.
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Sara Mackillop
| Born: | Bromley, Kent 1973 |
| Studied: | Leeds and Royal College London |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Eleanor Moreton
| Born: | London 1956 |
| Studied: | Exeter, Birmingham and Chelsea College of Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
www.eleanormoreton.co.uk
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Andrew Mottershead
| Born: | Manchester 1968 |
| Studied: | Sheffield and Wimbledon |
| Lives and works: | London |
www.frenchmottershead.com
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Simon Norfolk
Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963. He was educated in England and gained a degree in Philosophy and Sociology from Oxford and Bristol Universities. After leaving the Documentary Photography course in Newport, South Wales, he worked for far-left publications specialising in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups. In 1994 he moved away from photojournalism to concentrate on landscape photography.
Norfolk’s books, For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory (Dewi Lewis Publishing: Manchester, 1998) and Afghanistan: chronotopia (Dewi Lewis Publishing: Manchester, 2002), have been also exhibited at worldwide venues. Recent solo exhibitions include I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that, The AoP Gallery, London, 2006, and Et in Arcadia ego, shown in galleries in the USA, France and Moscow, 2006. Norfolk recently published a book Bleed about the aftermath of the war in Bosnia in 2005. He has been awarded a number of prizes including European Publisher’s Award for Photography, 2002, The Infinity Award from the International Centre for Photography in New York, 2004, and Le Prix Dialogue in Arles, 2005.
Norfolk now lives and works in Brighton, UK.
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Adam Page
| Born: | Bedford 1966 |
| Studied: | Loughborough, Karlsruhe, Germany and London |
| Lives and works: | Berlin |
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Benoit Plateus
| Born: | Liege, Belgium 1972 |
| Studied: | Brussels |
| Lives and works: | Brussels |
Represented by gallery Baronian-Francey Brussels and gallery Aline Vidal Paris
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Karin Ruggaber
| Born: | Stuttgart 1969 |
| Studied: | Chelsea College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
Represented by greengrassi London
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T.V. Santhosh
T.V. Santhosh was born in 1968 in Kerala, India. He initially studied painting in 1989 at the Institute of Fine Arts in Trichur and went on to complete a bachelor of fine arts in sculpture at Kala Bhavan at Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal in 1994. Three years later, he gained a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Santhosh’s work tackles today’s global issues of war and terrorism and its representation and manipulation by politics and the media. This paradox of reality and manipulation is represented in the photographic quality of his work in which the identical images are depicted in positive and negative juxtaposed side by side. Recent solo exhibitions include Scars of an Ancient Error at the Singapore Art Fair, Singapore, 2006, and False Promises at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, in collaboration with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2005.
Santhosh currently lives and works in Mumbai.
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Gigi Scaria
Gigi Scaria was born in 1973 in Kothanalloor, Kerala, India. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts from Jamia Millia University, New Delhi in 1998. Scaria’s work is mainly concerned with human destiny in an urban space.
Selected exhibitions include Where are the Amerindians?, InterAmericas Space, CCA7 (Caribbean Contemporary Arts), Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, 2006, and Impossible India, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, 2006. His forthcoming projects include Indian Photo and Media Art: A Journey of Discovery, Vienna, Public Places/Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The Newark Museum, New Jersey, U.S.A., and HORN PLEASE. Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, Switzerland.
Scaria received the 2005 Sanskrit Award for Visual Arts and was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship in 2002. He was granted the Ministry of Human Resources and Development Scholarship for Visual Arts in 1995-97 and is currently a working group member of the Khoj International Artist Association.
Scaria lives and works in New Delhi.
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Josh Shaddock
| Born: | Hattiesburg, Mississippi 1973 |
| Studied: | Philadelphia and New York |
| Lives and works: | New York |
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Alexandre Singh
| Born: | Bordeaux, France 1980 |
| Studied: | The Ruskin School Oxford and SVA New York |
| Lives and works: | New York |
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Matthew Smith
| Born: | Burton on Trent 1976 |
| Studied: | Sheffield and Central Saint Martins College of Art London |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Ron Tran
| Born: | Saigon, Vietnam 1972 |
| Studied: | Vancouver |
| Lives and works: | Vancouver |
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Fernando Traverso
Fernando Traverso was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1951. He studied at the Provincial School of Visual Arts for two years but left in 1972 to become a political activist (he later finished the last two years of art school). He worked in the resistance during the military dictatorship in Argentina, during which time many of his fellow members in the resistance went missing.
Traverso’s art work is centered around the imagery of bicycles which was a common means of transport for members of the resistance - an abandoned bicycle was a sign of abduction. His work has been shown at a number of venues in his home town of Rosario and was also included in the Disappeared exhibition at the Museum of North Dakota, 2005, which featured Latin American artists whose work investigated the disappearance of members of the public under the dictatorship in Latin America throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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Nadia Wallis
| Born: | London 1967 |
| Studied: | Foundation Camberwell BA Fine Art Winchester, Ecole des beaux arts de toulous, MA University of Reading |
| Lives and works: | London |
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Rose Wylie
| Born: | Hythe 1934 |
| Studied: | Folkestone and Dover School of Art and Royal College London |
| Lives and works: | Sittingbourne |
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