Neeta Madahar

 


EDUCATION

2004 National Graduate Seminar, The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York, U.S.
2003 M.F.A. Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (S.M.F.A.) and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
1999 B.A. Fine Art, Winchester School of Art and University of Southampton, Winchester, England.
1998 European Socrates Exchange Program - three-month study visit, Barcelona, Spain.
1996 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, City of Bath College, Bath, England.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2013 Forthcoming two-person show at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, U.S.
2011 Role Play (two-person show), PM Gallery, London, England.
2010 Flora, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England.
2010 Flora, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, U.S.
2009 Neeta Madahar: Bradford Fellowship in Photography 2008-09, National Media Museum, Bradford, England.
2008 Solstice, UK touring solo show at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, PM Gallery, London and Harewood House, Leeds, England.
2008 Pollination (two-person show), Julie Saul Gallery, New York, U.S.
2007 Cosmoses, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England.
2007 Falling, Vision Space, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England.
2007 Unnatural (two-person show), Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, U.S.
2007 Sustenance: Neeta Madahar, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
2006 Falling, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, U.S.
2006 Neeta Madahar: Nature Studies, University Gallery and Baring Wing, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, England.
2006 Nature Studies, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2006 Neeta Madahar, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.
2006 Nature Studies, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England.
2006 Nature Studies, Galerie Poller, Frankfurt, Germany.
2005 Falling, Fabrica, Brighton, England.
2005 Neeta Madahar, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England.
2005 Sustenance, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, U.S.
2004 Sustenance, curated by Martin Parr, Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France.
2004 Sustenance, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England.
2004 Sustenance, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2003 New Work, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
2003 Recent Digital Prints, Project Space, New England School of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts,

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2012 Still Life, Tasveer Gallery, Bangalore, India.
2011 Beautiful Vagabonds: Birds in Contemporary Photography, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, U.S.
2011 Naked, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, U.S.
2011 House Work, The International 3, Manchester, England.
2011 The Birds and the Bees, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
2011 Multiples, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, U.S.
2010 Light, Passion and Darkness, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, England.
2010 Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, India.
2010 This Is Not The Chelsea Flower Show, Diemar/Noble Photography, London, England.
2010 21, Harewood House, Leeds, England.
2009 Back to the Garden, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, U.S.
2009 Anomalies: From Nature to the Future, Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London, England.
2008 (RE)Imaging Photography, Reinberger Galleries, The Cleveland Institute of Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
2008 Bird Studies, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
2008 Something That I’ll Never Really See, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University and Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England.
2008 Display of Sustenance works, Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street, England.
2008 Ornithology, Contemporary Art Galleries: Storrs and Stamford, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, U.S.
2007 Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.
2007 Susan Derges, Neeta Madahar and Daro Montag, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England.
2007 Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils, London, England.
2007 Alchemy: Transformations in Contemporary Photography, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, England.
2007 On the Wall: Aperture Magazine ‘05/’06, Aperture Foundation, New York, U.S.
2006 Alchemy, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, England.
2006 Make Believe, Shillam+Smith, London, England.
2006 Forest Dreaming, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, England.
2006 Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
2006 ‘The Living Is Easy’: International Contemporary Photography, Flowers East Gallery, London, England.
2006 Into the Light of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England.
2006 Alchemy, Harewood House, Yorkshire, England.
2006 Collecting, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England.
2006 Taking Inventory - Transformation Through Compilation, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, U.S.
2004 Sanctuary: Photography and the Garden, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Brigstock, Kettering, England.
2004 Mostyn 2004, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales.
2004 Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, U.S.
2004 For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
2003 Construction – Coincidence?!: Young Photographers from the US, Momentum Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2003 25hrs - International Video Art Show, Barcelona, Spain.
2003 “The Whitney Biennial 2003”, Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2002 Prequel, Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2002 Almost Home, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.
2002 Consideraciones Al Respecto 7, Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Tanto por Ciento, Domestico ’02, Madrid, Spain.
2001 Evolveart: Exposición de Arte Digital, Evolvebank, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
2001 Toy, Gallery fx, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2000 International Selection of Video Art, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru.
1999 It’s Only Paper, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, England.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Government Art Collection, England.
Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Wellington Management, Boston, Massachusetts,
2006 Braziers International Artists’ Workshop, Oxfordshire, England.
Visiting photography lecturer at University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, England.
2005 Joint commission from Fabrica, inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Photoworks, England.
Arts Council Grant, England.
2003 Juror’s Award, Member’s Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Karsh Award for Photography Honourable Mention, S.M.F.A., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2003 Photo District News 2003 Photo Annual, U.S.
2000-2003 Full Graduate Scholarship, S.M.F.A. and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
2002 Boit Award, S.M.F.A., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
1999 The Lina Garnade Memorial Trust Award, Winchester School of Art, England.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Noble, Laura (ed) The Art of Collecting Photography, AVA Publishing (UK) Ltd., June 2006.
Noble, Andrea Nature Studies, Source, Issue 46, Spring 2006.
Kaufman, Kenn Suspended in Animation, Audubon Magazine, January-February 2006.
Brown, Chris (ed) An International Practice, a-n Collections: Beyond the UK, January 2006.
Zollner, Manfred Neeta Madahar: Falling (2005), Phototechnik International, Nov/Dec 2005.
Chandler, David (ed) Nature Studies, Photoworks, Brighton, England, October 2005.
Beem, Edgar Allen A Career Takes Flight, Photo District News Magazine, Issue 8, August 2005.
Herbert, Martin Neeta Madahar, Time Out: London, No. 1819, June 29 – July 6 2005.
Beyfus, Drusilla Pecking Order, Telegraph Magazine, June 25 2005.
Jackson, Camilla Neeta Madahar: Sustenance, Portfolio Magazine, No. 41, June 2005.
McCormick, Carlo Neeta Madahar’s Ornithology, Aperture Magazine, Issue 179, Summer 2005.
Smith, Roberta Making an Entrance at Any Age, The New York Times, May 6 2005.
Gripp, Anna Neeta Madahar: Sustenance, Photonews, September 2004.
O’Hagan, Sean Conceptual art, It’s a piece of cake…, The Observer, July 18, 2004
Jobey, Liz The World in Miniature, The Guardian, July 14, 2004.
Horton, C. Sean Boston, Massachusetts: Review of Sustenance, Art Papers, May/June 2004.
Zitzewitz, Karin Mapping South Asian Art, Art India, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Quarter 2, 2004.
Hak, Marriaine Bird in the Bush, American Photo on Campus, March 2004.
McQuaid, Cate, It’s trouble in paradise, in sharp, funny focus, The Boston Globe, Feb 27 2004.
Millis, Christopher Terrible beauty, The Boston Phoenix, February 20, 2004.
Markonish, Denise (ed) For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., January 2004.
Shaw, Genevieve, Beauty is in her own backyard, Metrowest Daily News, June 5 2003.
Cavouras, Krissa, Light and Shadow, American Photo on Campus, January 2003.
Parcellin, Paul, Review of Almost Home, Art Papers Magazine, November/December 2002.
Belz, Emily, Almost Home: Photographers Exploring Domestic Space, Art New England, October/November 2002.
Mineo, Liz, The magic of photography, Framingham Tab, June 21 2002.
Silver, Joanne, Photo exhibit makes you feel at ‘Home,’ Boston Herald, June 7 2002.
Suárez, Josina, El Ratón Se Ha Comido Al Pincel, El Pais, January 19 2001.
Front cover B4P14, a-n Magazine, August 2000.



Lee with Fushias, C-Print, 2009