BIO
VINITA KHANNA
Vinita Khanna works deploy a language of visual force across disciplines, including sculpture, painting, installation, collage and photography. She studied fine art at Hoch Schule in Zurich as well as St Martins and Goldsmiths College in London. Her work has been exhibited in institutions, art galleries, and other non-traditional gathering places internationally since the 1990s, notably at Ikon Gallery, British Council, the United Nations, the V&A, Tate Modern as well as at the Science Museum and the Royal Institute in London.
Her long-standing interest in philosophy (namely Advaita Vedanta), cosmology, and the environment has led her to a meditative practice as a visual artist. The themes in her work, speak in a poetic sense of the human as body/mind experience, and question how this relates to the wider cosmos.
Her research has led to collaborating with scientists and environmentalists. She has more recently developed art work which, often through an interactive process, conveys the urgency of the environmental destruction. Her introspective drawing and sculptural work, made of a variety of often discarded materials, point to the confusion of our value systems that have lead us to confine ourselves in ultimately destructive systems.
Artist Statement:
‘How much of perception is based on what we know already rather than an actual sensory encounter? The surprise, which is part of the latter, can lead to absurd yet enlightening connections between perceived reality and the meanings of its materiality. I am concerned with the possibilities that are available through the physical, that is, the latent power of matter. Is there something within the matter itself which permits recognition to take place and where does human perception really transpire?’
Main / Solo Art Exhibitions
Delta Wharf Studios- Climate and Conflict- 2019
Somerset House- Kings College- Light Late 2019
Imperial College Festival May 2018
Greenovate Festival October 2018
Natural History Museum 2016- Colour and Vision
Tate Modern, London 2015 -Light & Dark Matters
Natural History, Museum 2015 -Science Uncovered
Science Museum, London, 2015
Royal Society London, 2015- International Year of Light
Gallery Escape, New Delhi, 2013
Oriental Art Fair, Piccadilly, London 2010
Air Gallery London 2009
Palace Wharf Studios 2008
Art@42 gallery London 2006 ( Solo)
Indar Pasricha Gallery London 2006 (Solo)
Tehelka, Asia House London 2006
Norwich Gallery, Norwich, East 2005
Branchville Gallery Connecticut, 2004
Klink and Bank Art Space, Iceland, 2004
Victoria & Albert Museum, London -Affordable Housing 2004
The Millennium Gallery, London, September 2003
Message to India, British Council, Delhi, Bombay, Jaipur 2002
Exhibition, Mare Street Studios, London, 2001
Lift Gallery London, 2000 ( Solo)
Goldsmith's MA final, London, 1999
Centre Point Gallery, London, 1999
Angel Spaces, London, 1989
Touring Exhibition Ikon Gallery, UK, 1989-1990
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1989
Gallery at the United Nations, Geneva, 1987
Gallery Chausse Coqs, Geneva, 1987
Maison Fiasco, Geneva, 1986
Centre D’art Contemporain, Geneva, 1986
Sri Nakhariwirot University, (Solo), Bangkok, 1981