Nandita Raman News
Nandita Raman’s work is included in Guftgu, a curated collection of zines published by Offset Projects. The Guftgu book, edited and curated by Anshika Varma, presents the practices of 10 contemporary photographers to expand on the processes behind a growing visual language within South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
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Guftgu
Offset Projects
March 13, 2022 | 10.30-11.30 AM CT
Online Event
Nandita Raman will be in conversation with Avantika Bawa and Kuldeep Singh for the Unfolding: How Artists Shape Diaspora panel moderated by Namita Gupta Wiggers. The talk is part of the E/Merge:Art of the Diaspora exhibition at National Indo-American Museum (NIAM) curated by Shaurya Kumar, Chair of Faculty and Associate Professor at School of Art Institute of Chicago.
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December 2021
Pamela Singh, Nandita Raman, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Vivan Sundaram are included in Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait by Phillip Prodger, published by Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Face Time is an esteemed curator’s introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture that masterfully combines some of the most famous portraits ever made with rarely seen treasures and curiosities.
October 16, 2021 - April 24, 2022
Nandita Raman's ongoing series, Body is a Situation, will be featured in the inaugural group exhibition of the National Indo-American Museum. E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora is curated by Shaurya Kumar, Chair of Faculty and Associate Professor at School of the Art Institute Chicago.
"Using my body as a device, Body is a Situation is a re-looking at the city of Varanasi (Benares) in India, which features prominently in the mystique and map of the East. It examines tropes of representation in the colonial gaze while relying on the body for awareness of place, culture, politics and history. I’m using drawings, etching, photographs and text in this work." - Nandita Raman
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National Indo-American Museum (NIAM)
Lombard, IL
January – March 2021
Nandita Raman has been selected as a semifinalist in The 95th ANNUAL International Competition (2020) at The Print Center. The ANNUAL features works by 35 of the finest international artists currently using photography or printmaking as critical components in their work. The jury, David Campany (ICP) and Larissa Goldston (ULAE) reviewed over 3,000 images and videos submitted by 635 artists. Submissions came from 45 states and 30 countries across the globe.
Raman's Body Is A Situation is a re-looking at the city of Varanasi (Benares) in India, which features prominently in the mystique and map of the East. It examines tropes of representation originating from the colonial gaze while relying on the body for awareness of place, culture, politics and history.
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The Print Center
Philadelphia
December 8–January 26, 2019
Organized by guest curator Priyadarshini Shanker with Nandita Raman and sepiaEYE, this series accompanies Nandita Raman’s photography exhibition Cinema Play House, which captures the magical allure of fading cinema halls in India. The screening series, in conversation with Raman’s black-and-white photographs, approaches the subject of cinema from a multi-dimensional perspective. Non-fiction Indian films explore themes of film archiving, restoration, production, distribution, and exhibition. In order to spotlight modes of cinematic representation that do not pertain to conventional notions of the “documentary,” the series also includes experimental essay films, narrative shorts and feature-length ruminative documentaries. It also brings to light the work of women filmmakers, showcasing the films of four contemporary Indian female directors.
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Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave.,
Astoria, NY 11106
Thursday, November 15, 6:30 to 8 PM
Please join us at sepiaEYE for an enlightening conversation with artist Nandita Raman as well as two distinguished scholars of photography and film, Paul Sternberger and Priyadarshini Shanker. We will explore Raman’s personal connections to some of her work as well as additional influences on her choice of subject matter. The discussion will delve into the choices Raman has made for each of her series regarding photographic technology, approaches to composition, process, and color and how her approach is informed by but distinguished from documentary photography.
RSVP required, limited seating available.
September 15–January 27, 2019
Concurrently with her exhibition at sepiaEYE, Nandita Raman's cinema hall photographs are currently on view at The Museum of the Moving Image. This solo exhibition of Cinema Play House will include a film program presented by Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, PhD, Adjunct Faculty at NYU and Columbia University.
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Astoria, NY, USA
February 15 - March 10, 2018
Nandita Raman's work is exhibited at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York's Body is A Situation.
In her first New York City solo exhibition, Raman looks at the most available body, her own, in an effort to locate herself in the here and now; and opens it up to performativity of gender. In so looking, she embodies Simone de Beauvoir’s sentiment: “The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 15 | 6-8 pm
November 11, 2017–May 13, 2018
Nandita Raman’s series on India’s disappearing cinema house culture will be on view at the George Eastman Museum.
There will be an Artist Talk and Tour with Nandita Raman and Curatorial Assistant William Green.
Friday, November 10, 2017, 12 p.m.
ARTIST TALK AND GALLERY TOUR (link)
Cinema Play House
George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY 14607
13 August - 19 September 2017
Curated by Gayatri Singha, Part Narratives showing at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai features the work of sepiaEYE artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Atul Bhalla and Nandita Raman.
Part Narratives
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum,
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug)
27 June – 6 August 2017
sepiaEYE artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Atul Bhalla, and Nandita Raman are amongst a dozen artists in a wonderful multi-disciplinary show curated by Gayatri Sinha. Part Narratives will be on view through January 21, 2017 at Bikaner House, New Delhi.
7 – 21 January 2017
Part Narratives
Curated by Gayatri Sinha
Bikaner House, New Delhi
October 27, 2015
sepiaEYE Artist Nandita Raman— and Curator of our exhibition, “I need my memories. They are my documents.”— has conducted a series of interviews with the artists in the show for the International Center of Photography website. Check out her interviews with Pradeep Dalal, Osamu James Nakagawa, Neal Oshima, and Shambhavi Kaul.
Pradeep Dalal Interview (Link)
Osamu James Nakagawa Interview (Link)
Neal Oshima Interview (Link)
Shambhavi Kaul Interview (Link)
November 17-23, 2014
A Different Order is a two person exhibition and gallery talk that traces two different constructs of utopia as seen in India– the Western modernist city of Chandigarh built in the 1950s under Le Corbusier, and the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad which takes place every 12 years and can involve up to 40 million pilgrims. This sculptural, filmic, and photographic exhibition by Nandita Raman and Kay Walkowiak explores the concepts of failed utopia and the yearning for one.
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A Different Order
Vienna Art Week