Oil, acrylic, ink, lead, collage on printed canvas 32 x 66 in. | 2010
Mixed media on quilted silk 41 x 59 in | 2008
MEKHALA BAHL
About the Artist
Mekhala Bahl trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, after which she returned to India in 2003 to pursue her individual art practice.
Mekhala has never restricted herself to single techniques or media. She has worked with materials as diverse as glass, wood, silk, paper, plastic and quilting. Her technical oeuvre extends from block -printing, etching and lithography, to drawing, painting or simply marks scratched on to the matrix. Mekhala creates endless possibilities; blurring and divesting watertight categories of their legitimacy in her art making. The scale of her work too, ranges from small intimate images to vast canvases, neither, adhering to practiced formulae.
Artist CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 EVE, Amar Gallery, London
2009 The Geometry of Error, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2007 Anecdote, Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2006 [Drawings and Prints] , Triveni Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Lucent, Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
2002 Vaaz, Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Re-visioning Materiality II, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2009 On Canvas, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi
2008 PLACE, Anant Art Gallery, Delhi
2008 India Art Summit 2008, Pragati Maidan, Delhi
2008 Keep drawing! Gallery Espace, Delhi
2008 Ethos 4, Indigo Blue Art Gallery, Singapore
2008 Art Dubai, Gallery Espace, Dubai
2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York
2007 Art in step, Gallerie Ganesha
2007 Surface and Textures, Gallery Espace and Ganges Art, Kolkata
2007 High on Art, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi
2007 Portfolio show at Southern Graphics Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2006 India on Canvas, Auction and Exhibition
2006 Multiplicity and the Self,, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi
2006 Footprints – Women in printmakingGallery Chemould, Mumbai - Colab Art and Architecture, Bangalore, and WelcomArt Gallery, Vadodra
2006 17/03, at ABS Lanxess Gallery, Vadodara, Gujrat
2005 Blur, Montecastello Art Gallery, Montecastello, Italy
2005 Imaging Materiality, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi
2004 Navsar, Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Center, Delhi
2003 Arches Annual Print Exhibition, A Juried exhibition
808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2002 Roma, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
2001 Print Matrix: Print Media Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.
1999 Scapes, Gauguin Gallery, Pont Aven, Brittany, France
AWARDS
2003 Awarded Student of the Year, Printmaking
Rhode Island School of Design, USA
2002 G. W. Hodge Ritchie Award for Excellence in Printmaking, USA