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Based in Bengaluru, India

(b.1996)

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Lohani's work is concerned with the interrelations of communication and anxiety in the Post-Internet Age. Digitized human communication systems facilitated by social media and human-machine communication made possible by interactive personal assistant systems are important points of inquiry. Recurring themes in her work are politics of communication in the techno-capitalist age, disembodiment, isolation by technology, spirituality and mental health. She is fascinated with life in the urban city, what it means to be human today and the evolving dynamics of intimacy in human relationships.

 

      She works with Drawings on paper, Sound and Voice, Video, and GIF to think through their influence on the everyday human interaction online. Her drawings on paper employ mark-making drawn from her meditation practice. They explore the internal psyche that is affected by the various obsessions of the post-internet world. Her interest lies in the contemporary experience of the mind, body and spirit.

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

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MFA  2018- 2020, Kingston University, Kingston School of Art, London

Summer School 2015, Middlesex University, London

BVA 2013-2017, Stella Maris College, Department of Fine Art, Chennai, India

 

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SOLO SHOWS

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Rest Now, Sleep Later, ZiMMT, Leipzig, 2022

It’s a Raw State of Mind, Cholamandal Artist’s Village, Chennai, 2018

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TWO-PERSON SHOW

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A Soft Blanket Of Plants On Tired Bodies, Tasneem Lohani and Mohit Mahato, 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru, 2023

I Don't Want to Die Alone, Tasneem Lohani and Leon Watts, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, 2020

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GROUP SHOWS

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2024

On Recognition and Betrayal, Experimental Field Recordings performance in association with The I.S.R.O., Bangalore Creative Circus, Bangalore India

LATERAL B(L)INDS curated by Satyam Yadav, Immerse Fellowship alumni exhibition, India Art Fair Parallel, Vis A Vis India / STIR, New Delhi, India

Laugh, curated by Sizzle Lyk Dat Studio, The Wrong Biennale, Pagal Canvas Backyard, Bangalore, India

 

2023 

Listening Academy, Serendipity Arts Festival 2023, Goa, India

bangaloREsidency-Expanded Showcase, Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India

Falling through a signal, curated by --out-of-line--, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi 

Feralpy, curated by Jemila McEwan and Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Flux Factory, New York 

Artist Chain, invited by Arebyte Gallery, London for an online self-curated artist-led programme to create an endless digital trail of works, Online 

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2022

We are the Aliens we are Looking for, part of the Art Fervour Weekender 2022, curated by Tasneem Lohani,

1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore

Proxy, curated by Aurelia and One Project, Iklectik ArtLab, London

Immerse, India Art Fair Parallel, curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, a Carpe Arte x Young Art Support initiative, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai 

Now that the world is ending, Let’s get together, The Wrong Biennale Embassy, 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

See-Saw, Sandbox Collective x Goethe Institut Bangalore, Online

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2021

Arebyte Gallery Plug-in Exhibition, Arebyte Gallery, London x The Wrong Biennale Embassy, Online

The Wrong Biennale 2021-22, The Wrong TV, Online

ConcreteHouse.ART, Ars Electronica x Art Domains x VR-All-Art, Online

With Her, Website exhibition, www.KoKoMo.Space

 

2020

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Floor Show, MFA Degree Show, Stanley Picker Gallery, London

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Surface: The Online Edit, ArtBuzz India

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Sharing is Caring, Self-led Community-based Online Instagram Exhibition and Crit

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Saturday Crit, One Project, London

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2019

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There is No New Thing Upon the Earth, Stanley Picker Gallery, London

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No Obligation, Solo Presentation, The Swan, London

 

Zerox, Project Space, Kingston School of Art, London

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Participant for Yoko Ono: Looking For.. (’Sky Piece for Jesus Christ’), Downing College, Cambridge

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Interim Show, The Swan, London

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2018

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Forced Empathy, Stanley Picker Gallery, London

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Goa Affordable Art Fest, Museum of Goa, Goa

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2017

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Sound room at October Jam, Marāa, Bengaluru

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Megaphone Geurilla, Performance, Marāa, Bengaluru

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Reciprocity Fest, Kalakshetra, Chennai

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Dhuruvangal, BA Degree Show, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai

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2016

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Design Fest, Chandra Ilango Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia

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Worldwide Art Movement, Art  Maestro Award, International Exhibition, Durbar hall, Kochi

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Féte de la Musique, a music festival and Art show, Ambrosia Gallery, Chennai

 

Beyond Frames, a Public Art Festival, World Art Cafe and Rotary Club at Nageshwara Rao Park, Chennai

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Chitramela 2016, an International art exhibition, Achalam Art Gallery, Chennai  

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2015

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South Indian Art Show, Chandra Ilango Art Foundation at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai

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Nature and Life, Kasturi Sreenivasan Art Gallery, Coimbatore

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Varnajal, painting camp and exhibition, Government College of Arts, Chennai

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2014

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Mrs. Barbara Sreenivasan Memorial Award for Fine Arts, Kasturi Sreenivasan Art Gallery, Coimbatore

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RESIDENCIES

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bangaloREsidency-Expanded at ZiMMT, Leipzig in association with Goethe Institut, Bengaluru, 2022

 See-Saw Virtual Residency, in association with Sandbox Collective & Goethe Institut, Bengaluru  conceptualized by Karen D'mello, Online, 2021 

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One book Residency, One Project London, London 2020

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AWARDS

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3rd place, Art installation competition, Reciprocity Fest, 2017, Kalakshetra, Chennai

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PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS

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"Embassy for The Wrong Biennale 06...the visionary Sizzle Lyk Dat Studio", Rad Art Media, January 23, 2024

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"Tasneem Lohani and Mohit Mahato", A Soft Blanket of Plants on Tired Bodies Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Pushpamala N, 2023

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"Priyanshi Jhaveri in conversation with Tasneem Lohani", Youtube, July, 2022

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"Opening New Doors", Art India, Volume 26, Issue 1, Quarter 1, 2022

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“...top 100 candidates...TAF Emerging Artist Award-South Asia 2021”,  TAF Award 2021 Catalogue

 

"Drop it into the letterbox!.....identity and prejudice old style", MEDIUM, January 17, 2022

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"The Wrong Biennale provides hope for a new wave of artists", STIRworld, January 3, 2022 

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”Twenty-two-year-old artist Tasneem Lohani ..... solo exhibition”, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, August 17, 2018

 

“Where abstract expressions take shape”, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, August 1, 2018

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“The City’s Sonic Soul”, THE HINDU, October 16, 2017

 

“Art for Change”, THE HINDU,  March 8, 2017

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“Social messages via an Art Show in a Public Space”,  INDIAN EXPRESS, April 16, 2016

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