SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2012

Zarina Bhimji, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK and travel to
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

2009

Out of Blue, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US

2007

Zarina Bhimji, Haunch of Venison, Zürich, Switzerland

Zarina Bhimji, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2006

Zarina Bhimji, Haunch of Venison, London, UK

2004

inIVA, Zarina Bhimji, Archive Season, London, UK

2003

Wadsworth Atheneum, Matrix, Hartford, CT US

Tate Britain, Art Now, Out of Blue, London, UK

2001

Talwar Gallery, New York, US

1998

Cleaning the Garden - Harewood House, Terrace Gallery, Leeds

1995

Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 

1992

I will always be here - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham & tour 

1989

Tom Allen Community Art Centre, London

 

Slade School of Art, University of London [Postgraduate Studies]

1986

Goldsmiths' College, University of London [B.A. Graduation]

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010

Who Knows Tomorrow, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

2009

Capturing Time, The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

2006

How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward gallery, London, UK

Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennale XV, AUSTRALIA

2005

(desi)re, Talwar Gallery, New York, USA

50 Years of Documenta 1965-2005, Kassel, Germany

British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK and touring

Experiments with Truth, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA

2004

strangerthanfiction, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

In Our Time, Works from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden*

2003

Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey

Fault Lines, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2002

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

2001

The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

 

East 2001, Norwich Gallery, UK

1997

The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy - Hayward Gallery touring exhibition

 

No place (like home) - Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, USA*

 

Public Relations - Stadthaus Ulm, Germany*

 

Life's Little Necessities - 2nd Johannesburg Biennale*

 

Photo 98 - UK year of Photography & the Electronic Image, Leeds an European tour*

 

Strange Day, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan*

 

British Contemporary Photography - NGBK Photography Group, Berlin and tour*

 

Inserts - Collaboration with QJM Magazine and Lab (Ruskin School of drawing & fine Art, Oxford)*

 

Out of India - Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA*

1996

In/Sight - Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA*

1995

The Impossible Science of Being - The Photographers' Gallery, London*

1994

Revir/Territory - Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden *

 

INIVA - Inauguration exhibition, London

1993

Antwerp '93 - MUHKA Museum, Antwerp *

1992

Whitechapel Open - London

 

Critical Decade - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1991

Nominated by Mark Haworth-Booth for the European Photography Award 1991 sponsored by Deutsche Leasing

 

A Place for Art? 2 - The Showroom, London

1990

Selections 5 - Biennial exhibition from Polaroid Collection

 

Photokina '90 in Cologne, Germany & World tour*

 

Intimate Distance - Photographers Gallery, London & tour*

 

Fabled Territories (New Asian Photography in Britain) - Leeds City Galleries, Viewpoint & tour*

 

The women in my life - Acton community workshop, London & tour

 

In Focus - Horizon Art Gallery, London

 

From object to image - Photo sculpture, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol*

 

Black Markets - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester & tour

 

Images of black people in advertising & packaging in Britain

 

Shocks to the System '90s Political Art - Arts Council Collection *

1989

Whitechapel Open - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

 

Towards a Bigger Picture - Victoria & Albert Museum & tour *

1988

The Essential BLACK ART - Chisenhale Gallery, London & tour *

 

Insights - Battersea District Library, London

1987

Dislocation - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge *

 

The Devil's Feast - Chelsea School of Art, London *

 

The Image Employed The use of Narrative in Black Art - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester*

 

The South London Open Exhibition - South London Art Gallery

 

Black Women Photographers - Camden Arts Centre, London

1986

Darshan - Camerawork, London & tour *

 

From Two Worlds - Whitechapel Gallery, London & tour *

 

Jagrati - Greenwich Peoples Gallery, London

1985

Mirror Reflecting Darkly - Brixton Gallery, London

 

Struggle & Success - Jubilee Garden, London

 

Artists Against Apartheid - South Bank, London

 

F Stops - Chelsea School of Art

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1987-89

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, [Higher Diploma in Fine Art]

1983-86

Goldsmiths' College, University of London, [B.A. Fine Art]

1982-83

Leicester Polytechnic, [Art Foundation]

 

 

RESIDENCIES

 

2000

National Institute for Medical Research, London

1993

Kettle's Yard artist in residence and visiting fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge

1992

Victoria & Albert Museum [India Department]

 

Plymouth Art Gallery

 

Whitechapel Art Gallery

 

Highbury Islington secondary school

 

 

AWARDS

 

2007

Nominee for Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London

2003

ICP Infinity Award for Art International Center of Photography New York

2002

DAAD, Artist-in-Residence 2002 in Berlin

2001

EAST International, Norwich

2000

Sciart, Artist/Scientist collaboration

1999

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists

1989

Julian Sullivan award - Slade School of Art

1989

Coopers & Lybrand award for the most outstanding work in any medium by artists under the age of 35 in the Whitechapel 1989 Open