Jahangir Asgar Jani
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Date of birth: 31/10/1955 Place of birth: Mumbai, India. Self taught artist. Website: Email:
About the artist
Jahangir Asgar Jani
Joined In 2010
(116 Followers)
About the artist
Jahangir Asgar Jani
Joined In 2010
(116 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Date of birth: 31/10/1955
Place of birth: Mumbai, India.
Self taught artist.
Website:
Email:
Bachelor of Commerce, Mumbai University, 1977.
¬¬¬¬¬¬Cell: +91 9867556608
Home: +91 22 2635 5268
E–mail: jahangirjania9@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Jahangir Jani 310B Vinit Tower
Juhu Versova Link Road Andheri (W)
Mumbai – 53, Maharashtra
Professional Summary
Jehangir Jani is a self–taught, Mumbai based artist. He works with sculpture, installation, watercolors and film. He is known for his life size sculpture in various media and his works are in important collections. He is concerned with the making of culture and the socio– political consequences of its propagation. His work has been critically written about by respected authors and cultural theorists in India. He has had 17 solo shows since 1990, and participated in several group exhibitions in India as well as abroad.
His short film Make Ups has been exhibited in festivals in India, Sweden (Uppsala), France (Lille), USA (New York, San Francisco, Connecticut) and other countries in Europe. His short film Urmi was awarded Best Indian Narrative Short in 2013 at the Kashish MIQ Film Festival in Mumbai. Since then it has been shown in various LGBT Film Festivals including Canada, UK and Korea. He received the prestigious Max Planck–Tiss fellowship in 2012 for a film under the URBAN ASPIRATIONS IN GLOB...