Shrine Empire Gallery

Artists

Baaraan Ijlal

Bio CV Exhibitions

Hostile Witness: Parsi Colony, Bombay
Hostile Witness: Grant Road, Bombay/Mumbai
Hostile Witness: Calcutta 6
Hostile Witness: Chowringhee, Calcutta/Kolkata
Hostile Witness: Banaras
Hostile Witness: Calcutta 7
Hostile Witness: Arcadia/ Nagpada/ Mumbai/ Bombay
Hostile Witness: Alexandra Court Calcutta
Hostile Witness: Awadh, Lucknow, Aminabad
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Hostile Witness: Diwan-e-Aam, Delhi
Hostile Witness: Esplanade Mansion Watson’s Hotel, Kala Ghoda, Bombay-Mumbai
Hostile Witness: Jer Mahal/Dhobi Talao/Bombay/Mumbai
Hostile Witness: Palace Talkies
Hostile Witness: Iqbal Maidan, Bhopal

Education

Master of Arts in English Literature (1999) from Saifia College, Bhopal, India.

Solo exhibitions:

2021

Hostile Witness, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India.

Group exhibitions:

2024

Shrine Empire x Richard Parr Associates present Collisions, London, UK

Miracle of Absence, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Art Exposure, Kolkata.

Stories of Light & Song – Contemporary Practices in Asia curated by Ina Puri, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, India

India Art Fair 2024

2023

Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE

India Art Fair, Delhi, India

Hostile Witness: Painting by Baaraan Ijlal & Structures and sculptures by Moonis Ijlal at Art SG

Change Room Archives at Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi, India
‘Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice’

Art Mumbai, Shrine Empire, Maharashtra, India

2022

India Art Fair, Delhi, India

Change Room at ‘Living Lightly: An Exhibition on Pastoralism

7th edition of Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Language is Migrant, Curated by Anushka Rajendran

Forestial Flock curated by Adwait Singh, Shrine Empire, Delhi, India

2021

Hub India: Classical Radical, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale | Residues & Resonances, Italy

2020

Seeds are being sown at Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, India. Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India

2019

Change Room, (audio installation) at Chintretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by SGFA Tokyo

Change Room, (audio installation) at CREAR econference, Kathmandu, Nepal. Curated by CREA Team

Change Room, (audio installation) at India Art Fair, Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, India

2018

Installation of Change Room at Bhopal Literature and Arts Festival, Bhopal, India. Curated by Meera Dass.

Installation of Coal Couture at World Health Organization (WHO)’s First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health at the WHO headquarters during the UNFCCC’s 24th Conference of Parties.

Installation of Change Room at TENT Arts Space, Kolkata, India. Curated by Divakar Venkatraman.

Installation of Change Room at Conflictorium Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad, India. Curated by Divakar Venkatraman through an Artist Residency.

2017

Installation of Bird Box at Oddbird, New Delhi, India. Commissioned by Sadbhawna Trust and American Jewish World Service (AJWS).

2016

Installation of Silent Minarets Whispering Winds at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s Terminal 2, Mumbai, India. Curated by Rajiv Sethi.

2014

Installation of House of Commons at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India. Curated by Sanskriti Foundation through an Artist Residency.

Exhibition of two canvasses each from Trouble with Red Is and Baghdad Café series At Women, Art & Resistance show, American Centre, New Delhi, India. Curated by Georgina Maddox.

2013

Exhibition of two canvasses from Trouble with Red Is series At Sri Multiple Feminisms show, Gallery Beyond Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India. Curated by Myna Mukherjee.

Exhibition of two canvasses from the Trouble with Red Is series At Sri Multiple Feminisms show, American Centre, New Delhi, India. Curated by Myna Mukherjee.

2012

Exhibition of three paintings titled Queering Making I At Gallery Engendered Space, New Delhi, India. – Curated by Billy Stewart, Jose Abadi and Myna Mukherjee.

Exhibition of three paintings titled Queering Making II At Gallery Abadi Art & Creative Communication, New Delhi, India. – Curated by Billy Stewart, Jose Abadi and Myna Mukherjee.

2010

Exhibition of paintings and installations from House of Commons, To Be Continued and Stitched Wings series At Retellings show, Gallery Seven Art Limited, New Delhi, India. – Curated by Deeksha Nath.

Residencies

2018

Conflictorium Museum, Ahmedabad

2013

Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi

Awards:

2024

Arte Lagune award Finalist

2022

Critical Voice of the Year, Hello! India Art Awards

Collections:

Devi Art Foundation, India

KNMA, India

Baaraan Ijlal (b.1976) is a self-taught artist based in Delhi, who works with acrylic paint, sound, video, light, oral histories, archive, and resin installations among others. She completed her M.A from Bhopal, India. Driven by the loss of her grandmother’s house in Bhopal in 2014, Baaraan began obsessively photographing its remains and the streets of the surrounding old city as well as disappearing sites and their inhabitants in other cities. This journey culminated in the series ‘Hostile Witness.’ The series archives against erasure, explored through paintings of fragile buildings (in Bhopal, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai and Banaras); also their inhabitants, now cast out by time, bureaucracy, and development. Currently, Baaraan is exploring new iterations of ‘Change Room’, a travelling archive and a continuously evolving sound installation that has been live since 2018. ‘Change Room’ is about speaking out and becoming a witness through the act of listening. Birdbox (2016), is a bioscope on the inner lives of girls in rural North India. ‘Change Room’ has been exhibited at, Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi, India (2023), Language is Migrant curated by Anushka Rajendran at the 7th edition of Colomboscope (2022), Chintretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2019), CREAR conference, Kathmandu, Nepal (2019), Conflictorium Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad, India (2018) and TENT Arts Space, Kolkata, India (2018).

Some of her select exhibitions include- Stories of Light & Song – Contemporary Practices in Asia curated by Ina Puri, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, India (2024); Forestial Flock curated by Adwait Singh, Shrine Empire, Delhi, India (2023); Residues & Resonances, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Italy (2021); Hostile Witness, Solo show with exhibition text by Salima Hashmi, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (2021); Seeds are being sown, curated by Shaunak Mahbubani, Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, India (2020); Exhibition of paintings and installations from House of Commons, To Be Continued and Stitched Wings series, Retellings show, curated by Deeksha Nath, Gallery Seven Art Limited, New Delhi, India (2010).

Baaraan is a finalist for the Arte Laguna Award 2024. She received the Critical Voice of the Year Award at the Hello! India Art Awards 2022. Her works can be found in the collections of the Devi Art Foundation, India and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India, amongst others.