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Zarina Bhimji    (1963)

 Zarina Bhimji - No Border Crossing (Prints)
Zarina Bhimji
No Border Crossing 2001-2006
 
 Zarina Bhimji - Rado Watch, Such Western Precision (Prints)
Zarina Bhimji
Rado Watch, Such Western Precision 2001-2006
 
 

Biography
1963 Born: in Uganda
1982 - 1983 Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, UK
1983 - 1986 Studied at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, London, UK
1987 - 1989 Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK
1989 Julian Sullivan award, Slade School of Art, London, UK
Coopers & Lybrand award, Whitechapel 1989 Open, London, UK
1992 Residence: Victoria & Albert Museum, India Department
1993 Kettle's Yard artist in residence and visiting fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, UK
1999 The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, UK
2000 Residence: National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
2002 - 2003 DAAD, Artist-in-Residence 2002 in Berlin, Germany
2003 ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York, NY
2007 Received the Turner Prize
Lives and works in London, UK

Exhibitions
2007 Zarina Bhimji, Haunch of Venison, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2006 Zarina Bhimji, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (solo)
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward gallery, London, UK
Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, ICP, New York, NY
2005 50 Years of Documenta 1965-2005, Kassel, Germany
Black Markets, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004 Zarina Bhimji, Archive Season, inIVA, London, UK (solo)
Strangerthanfiction, Leeds City Art Gallery,Leeds, UK
2003 Matrix 150, Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art,Hartford, CT (solo)
Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Fault Lines, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001 Talwar Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck Munich, Germany
1998 Cleaning the Garden - Harewood House, Terrace Gallery, Leeds, UK (solo)
1997 Public Relations, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany
Life’s Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Cape Town, South Africa
Strange Day, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1996 In/Sight, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1995 Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (solo)
The Impossible Science of Being, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
1994 Revir/Territory, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
INIVA - Inauguration exhibition, London, UK
1993 Antwerp '93, MUHKA Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
1992 I will always be here, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (solo)
Whitechapel Open, London, UK
Critical Decade, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1991 A Place for Art? 2, The Showroom, London, UK
1990 Intimate Distance , Photographers Gallery, London, UK
In Focus, Horizon Art Gallery, London, UK
1989 Tom Allen Community Art Centre, London, UK (solo)
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
1988 The Essential BLACK ART, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1987 Dislocation - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
The Devil's Feast, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
The South London Open Exhibition, South London Art Gallery, London, UK
Black Women Photographers, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
1986 From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Jagrati, Greenwich Peoples Gallery, London, UK
1985 Mirror Reflecting Darkly, Brixton Gallery, London, UK
Struggle & Success, Jubilee Garden, London, UK
Artists Against Apartheid, South Bank, London, UK
F Stops, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
Selected Public Collections:
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Tate, London, UK
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Hall, Cambridge, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
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