Mahima Bhayana

Mahima Bhayana is a National Fellow, training and researching techniques in miniature painting. She spent four years in Jaipur extensively training, researching and educating in techniques of this ancient art form.

Bhayana has exhibited in various museums and galleries nationally and internationally including The National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi, Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai, Traverse Art Gallery, Nottingham, IAM, A Bus Art Museum exhibition in Los Angeles,and Ajuntament de Alella, Alella;Barcelona.

Her works are in the collections of Lalit Kala Art Akademy,The National Gallery of Modern Art and Dhoomimal. She lives and works between Jaipur and Delhi She is currently working on Reimagining Miniatures, a collaboration that looks at both traditional and contemporary practices of miniature artists from South Asia.

My art is an array of promiscuous questions on how I experience my intimate truth within & without. Through my eyes, my mind, my ears and my heart I zoom In & I zoom Out. A ripple effect of patriarchy has been a major obstruction in my expression and experience. Painting, art and solidarity is my compass to navigate my way out. My approach being of intersection-ally looking, questioning,...

2012 One year Art programme in Contemporary Art practices in Instituto De’ Metafor’A, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Bachelor is Fine Arts, Department of Painting, University of Jamia Millia Islamia
2006 Modern School Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, India
2004 Vasant Valley School, New Delhi, India

Awards and Achievements

219-2020 Junior Research Fellowship for Outstanding Artist in the Field of Culture Archive, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
2013 Special Recognition Award, Independent Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2013 Special Recognition Award, Traverse Art Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Art Residencies/ Camps / Workshops

2021 AkshayaPatra, International Women’s Day Exhibition, International Women’s day painting camp, Lalit Kala Akademi at Regional Center, Garhi Studios, New Delhi, India.
2020 Studio Residency at a Garage, Noida, India
2019 The Feminist Syllabus, Instituting Otherwise, New Delhi, India
2019 Artist Studio Residency, Gogi Sarojpal’s Trust, Kasauli, India
2019 Art Residency,Kala Drishti,Ranthambore, India
2017 Korean cultural centre workshop at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2011-2012 One year studio residency at Instituto de Metafor’A, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Art Camp, Delhi Public School, Srinagar, Kashmir

Exhibitions


2021 What is beyond the Summit? What is there, when everything is Black ? Art Performance, Yatra Naryastu National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi in collaboration with Indian Council of Cultural Relations ( ICCR )
2021 Yatra N...