Bharti Kher studied at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, from 1987 to 1988, and then attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newcastle Polytechnic from 1998 to 1991, receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art, Painting.
11 Facts About Bharti Kher
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Bharti Kher moved to India in 1993, where she lives and works today.
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Bharti Kher is known internationally for her signature use of the bindi in works across painting and sculpture.
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Bharti Kher reclaims this way of seeing by creating intensely layered and lavish 'paintings' that are charged with the bindi's conceptual and visual links to ideas such as repetition, the sacred and the ritual, appropriation, and a deliberate sign of the feminine.
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An important theme in Bharti Kher's practice is the idea of transformation, where she activates materials to give them a new form.
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Balance Inspired from sacred geometry and ancient mathematics, Bharti Kher's practice is preoccupied with the finding the equilibrium of several forces.
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Bharti Kher is interested in the question of balance and in achieving a 'steady state' by putting together a surreal conjunction of elements.
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Bharti Kher sees the body as a literal and metaphorical site for the construction of ideas around gender, mythology and narrative.
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Bharti Kher has worked in a variety of media creating paintings, sculptures, installations, and text.
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Bharti Kher considers how the realities of human life is perceived in our current time.
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Bharti Kher's work is in the Tate Modern in London, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Walker Art Center.