12 Facts About Jitish Kallat

Jitish Kallat was the Artistic Director of the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, held in Kochi in 2014.

Jitish Kallat is currently represented by Nature Morte, New Delhi, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, ARNDT, Berlin and Galerie Daniel Templon in France and Belgium.

Jitish Kallat sits on the Board of Trustees of the India Foundation for the Arts.

Jitish Kallat is married to the artist Reena Saini Kallat.

In those days Jitish Kallat referred to the city street as his university, often carrying within it pointers to the perennial themes of life that have remained a subtext to his work that have taken form in diverse media.

Jitish Kallat's work has developed in response to museum collections in the case of projects such as "Field Notes, " at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, for which he was shortlisted for The Skoda Prize in 2012, or "Circa," at the Ian Potter Museum in Melbourne.

Jitish Kallat is known for working with a variety of media, including painting, large-scale sculpture installations, photography, and video art.

Jitish Kallat employs a bold and vivid visual language that references both Asian and European artistic traditions, along with popular advertising imagery that fuels urban consumerism.

Jitish Kallat's work speaks of both the self and the collective, fluctuating between intimacy and monumentality, and characterized by contrasting themes of pain, hope and survival.

Jitish Kallat has reinvented the painted surface to mimic the appearance of a television still or a computer monitor, complete with its surface striations and auras.

Jitish Kallat hand-rendered the iconic text using rubber adhesive on five large acrylic mirrors before setting them aflame, thereby incinerating the words and producing mangled reflections that changed in relation to the viewer's position against the burnt glass.

The 2003 piece was a political statement Jitish Kallat was making against the carnage of the Godhra Riots in February 2002.