BIODATA
2005 MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1999 BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Thomas Erben, New York, 'an axe for a wing-bone'
2012 Amrita Jhaveri Gallery, Mumbai, India, 'Harpoon'
2011 Thomas Erben, New York, 'Head Space'
2010 Art Academy of Cincinnati, ‘Yamini Nayar’
2009 Thomas Erben, New York, 'Arrested Views, Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar’
2006 Bose Pacia, NY, 'Yamini Nayar and Shrestha Premnath'
Group Exhibitions
2015
Frankfurt Museum de Moderne Kunst, ‘Imagine Reality’ RAY 2015 Biennial
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, ‘Enhanced’
Ritter Art Galleries, Florida Atlantic Unviersity, ‘Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed’
Taymour Grahne Gallery, NY ‘Formal Relations’, curators Kamrooz Aram & Murtaza Vali
Yancey Richardson Gallery, ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Jhaveri Contemporary, ‘Approaching Abstraction’
Wendi Norris Gallery, ‘The Return to Reason’
2014
William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Galleries,‘Double-Bind:South Asian Art Today’
2013
Yuerba-Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 'Migrating Identities'
LMCC Galleries, Governor's Island, New York, NY, 'if color, then also dimension; if
flatness, then texture, etc', curator Melissa Levin
Isolation Room, St. Louis, MO, 'Yamini Nayar'
2012
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AU, 'Sculpture is Everything'
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 'Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then & Now
NY Photography Festival, NY, 'What do you Believe In?', curator Amy Smith-Stewart
Center for Photography at Woodstock, 'Made in Woodstock'
Aicon Gallery, 'Fact/Fission'
2011
School of Visual Arts, ‘The Influentials’
Invisible-Exports, NY, ‘LOST’ curator Amy Smith-Stewart Higher Pictures, NY, ‘Always the Young Strangers’
ArtOffice.org, ‘Moving Index’
Sharjah Biennial, ‘Manual for Treason’, edited by Murtaza Vali
2010
Cincinnati Art Museum, ‘Tough Pictures’
New York Photography Festival, NY, ‘Object Lessons’, curator Vince Alletti
Saatchi Gallery, UK, 'Empire Strikes Back-Contemporary Indian Art Today'
Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India, ‘Conspiracy’
Kyunbrook National University Art Museum, Korea, ‘New Photography’
Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong, Thomas Erben Gallery
Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India, ‘Punctum II’, curator Arshiya Lokhandwala
'31 Women in Art Photography', curators Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein
Webster University, MO, ‘Bring me a Lion’, curator Dr. Jeffery Hughes
Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 'Accented' curator Murtaza Vali
2009
Galerie Anne Barrault, France, 'We would like to thank (again) the curators, who wish to
remain anonymous'
Grey Noise Gallery, Pakistan, ‘Good Looking’, curator Atteqa Ali
Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, India
798 Bienniale, Beijing, curators Jaishri Abichandani and Alexandra Hungerbuhler
Travancore Museum, Delhi, ‘Monument as Moment’
106 Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 'Whitey on the Moon', curator Kanishka Raja
2008
Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 'By All Means'
Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai, India
Stephen Stux Gallery, NY, 'Firewalkers'
Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FA, 'Exploding the Lotus'
2007
Thomas Erben, NY, 'First Left, Second Right' with Kiran Subhaiah & Abishek Hazra
ExitArt, NY, 'Sultana's Dream', curator Jaishri Abichandani
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, AU, 'The Young Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity',
2006
Onishi Gallery, NY, 'The Kayu Project', curator Carol Pereira
Kiana Malakzedeh Gallery, NY, 'This One Time'
2005
Queens Museum of Art, 'Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now', curators Jaishri
Abichandani and Prerana Reddy
Visual Arts Gallery, NY, ‘See What I Mean? MFA Photo Thesis Exhibition
Rush Arts, NY, 'More or Less: Generating Meaning Through Process'
Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, 'hrlm: pictures' - collaboration with Greg Tate
PH Gallery, NY, 'Empire's Feast'
2003
Bose Pacia, NY, 'Through Customs'
1999
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, ‘RISD Graduation Invitational’
Red-Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Thesis Exhibition
Woods-Gerry Gallery, ‘Photography and Sculpture