Shrine Empire Gallery

Bio CV Exhibitions

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Education

2004 Post-Graduation in Textile Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Maharaja Sayajii Rao University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda.

Selected Exhibitions

2024

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

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2023

Phrase I Frays Solo exhibition at Shrine Empire, New Delhi.

Post Set of 3 works presented by Shrine Empire Gallery at the India Art Fair, New Delhi.

Blanc papier A group show at Anupa Mehta Arts & Advisory during Mumbai Gallery Weekend.

2022

Lines(By)Lines – An Exploration of Linearity in South Asian Art from the 20th century to the present – A group show curated by Manmeet K Walia at Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi.

Shapes of the Amorphous Set of 4 works presented by Shrine Empire Gallery at the India Art Fair,New Delhi.

In the blink of an eye, Group show Curated by Shruti Ramalingaiah, Gallery Dotwalk ,Gurugram.

Crafting the crossroad Group show, Curated by Somdutta Mallik, DHI Artspace, Hyderabad.
Between Brackets In touch: Edition 7 Solo Presentation.

2021

Continuities of Construction Collaborative project with conservation architect Ravindra Gundu Rao presented at Accademia Albertina di Bella Arti during HUB INDIA- Part of Artissima 2021, Turin, Italy curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio.

Continuities of Construction Collaborative project with conservation architect Ravindra Gundu Rao presented at a show titled Spatial Dialogues at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi.

Allegories of Threads Group show at Dhi Art Space Gallery, Hyderabad curated by Somedutta Mallik.

2020

Nishaan Series of paper works presented by Shrine Empire Gallery at the India Art Fair, New Delhi.

2019

Dastavez- A Series of 25 Letter Books presented by Shrine Empire Gallery at Delhi Contemporary Art Week, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Kushala Vora, Sangita Maity, Shruti Mahajan – Three person show at Shrine Empire Gallery Exhibition text by Anushka Rajendran.

2018

Spirit and Matter Group show at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.

2017

Faltungen Two person show with Alke Reeh (Sculptor), Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt.

Migrating Identities Two person show with Naini Arora at Westwerk Gallerie, Hamburg curated by Anja Ellenberger.

Open Studio Düsseldorf with Artist Alke Reeh.

Seal Solo show at Hamburg Hall, Goethe Zentrum, Hyderabad.

2015

Group Show at Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi.

2014

Sparsh A Group show by Indian artists at Kunst Museum Bochum.

(Into) The Middle of The Stories Group Show at Gallery Open Eyed Dreams, Kochi.

2013

Home/Front Video presented in an exhibition titled Landscapes- A matter of perspectives curated by Bettina Schönfelder and Elisabeth Heine at

Kunstverein Pforzheim.

Reflection Galerie Max Mueller, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai

Reflection Museum Siegburg.

Open Studio Höherweg 271 e.V. Düsseldorf.

2012

Kunstverein Xanten Collaborative show with Alke Reeh

Dispatch Städtische Galerie Alte Post, Neuss.

Home/Front Video presented at Galerie Max Mueller, Mumbai with artist initiative nüans for the project OAR or ORE.

2011

Drawings An offsite project of Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai at Sugra Manzil, Colaba,Mumbai.

2010

Roots Gallery White Square, Berlin curated by Sandra Khare

Open studio Kӧlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

Nets and other works collaborative show with Alke Reeh at Field Institut Hombroich, Neuss.

Reverie Group Show, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

2009

L- machines Gallery Open Eyed Dreams Cochin, Kerala group show curated by Kavitha Balkrishnan.

Studio Practices Group show, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

2007

Group show at British Council, New Delhi curated by Mayank Man Singh Kaul and Himanshu Verma.

Residencies and Scholarships

2024

Artist in Residence, Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakech, Morocco

2019

Artist in Residence,Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI), Max-Planck-Institut.

2017

Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus FRISE, India Week, Hamburg.

2012

Artist in Residence Höherweg 271e.V Düsseldorf, Germany.

2010

Artist in Residence at Kӧlnischer Kunstverein-invited by Kunststiftung NRW Düsseldorf, Germany.

2000

Nasreen Mohammadi Scholarship, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda.

Shruti Mahajan (b. 1977) lives and works in Hyderabad, Telangana. She completed her graduation from Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda and her post-graduation from NID Ahmedabad. Her work responds to complexities of identity, the ambiguous nature of belonging, memory and nostalgia and how they inhabit space. Taking various forms, it is a collage of presence and absence, of what is lost and gained, and has filmed the mappable along with indiscernible acts of faith, defiance, and hope. Her interrogation of these universal ideas emerge from the personal. She works between mediums of paper, stationery, cloth, found objects and layered narratives.

Some of Shruti’s selected exhibitions are- ‘In Defence of Intuition,’ curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Dhi Contemporary, Hyderabad, India (2023); ‘Blanc papier,’ Mumbai Gallery Weekend, India (2021); Art Mumbai with Shrine Empire, Mumbai, India (2023); Lines(By)Lines – An Exploration of Linearity in South Asian Art from the 20th century to the present – curated by Manmeet K Walia, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (2022); Crafting the crossroad Group show, Curated by Somdutta Mallik, Dhi Artspace, Hyderabad, India (2022); Continuities of Construction Collaborative project with conservation architect Ravindra Gundu Rao, curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Accademia Albertina di Bella Arti, Turin, Italy (2021); Allegories of Threads Group show, curated by Somedutta Mallik, Dhi Art Space, Hyderabad, India (2021); Kushala Vora, Sangita Maity, Shruti Mahajan – Three person show, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (2019). She has been a part of various exhibitions between 2009-2017 at institutions like Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt; Kunst Museum, Bochum, Germany; Kunstverein Pforzheim; Galerie Max Mueller, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai; Reflection Museum, Siegburg; Kunstverein Xanten; Dispatch Städtische Galerie Alte Post, Neuss; Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Roots Gallery White Square, Berlin; Field Institut Hombroich, Neuss.

Shruti has been part of artist residencies at Montresso* Art Foundation (2024); Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) Florenz, the Max Planck Institut (2019) and Studio Höherweg 271, e.V.(2012); Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf (2010). Her works are in the collections of Devi Art Foundation, Goldman Sachs amongst others.