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Curriculum Vitae Chila Kumari Burman ! ! Curriculum Vitae Chila Kumari Burman Brought up in Liverpool and educated at the Slade School of Art in London, Chila Kumari Burman has worked experimentally across printmaking, painting, sculpture, photography and film since the mid-1980s. She draws on fine and pop art imagery in intricate multi- layered works which explore Asian femininity and her personal family history, and where Bollywood bling merges with childhood memories. The Bindi Girls are a series of female figures composed almost entirely of colourful and glittery bindis, gems and crystals. Meticulously handcrafted and embellished, they suggest a powerful yet playful femininity. From bindis and other fashion accessories to ice cream cones and ice lolly wrappers, Chila often uses everyday materials in her work, giving new meaning to items which others may see as worthless, cheap or kitsch. Ice Cream has a particular significance in her work and references her childhood in Liverpool where her father, who arrived as an immigrant from India in the 1950s, owned an ice cream van and was a popular figure as he drove around selling ice cream for over thirty years. As well as paying homage to her father, her Ice Cream works evoke the awakening of her own creative spirit when as a child she would help out in the ice cream van and became immersed in a world of colour, flavour and materials. Chila Kumari Burman’s work is held in a number of public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wellcome Trust in London, and the Devi Foundation in New Delhi. Education 1980-1982: MA in Fine Art, Slade School of Art, London. 1976-1979: Bachelor of Honors Arts degree in Fine Art Printmaking, Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University) 1975: Foundation Course in Art, Southport College of Art and Design Solo Exhibitions and Special Commissions 2017 Beyond Pop, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton 2017 Artworks 1830 Gallery, Halifax 2017 Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester 2017 Grace Belgravia, London 2017 Pop Art Exhibition , Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2016 Absolute! - Grace Belgravia, London 2015 MAJAJINI RichMix London 2015 MY RANGILI Merry-go-round Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough Centre 2014 THIS IS NOT ME Cookhouse Gallery London 2013 GENDER MATTERS Brunei Gallery SOAS London 2013 ICE CREAM and BINDI GIRLS Alchemy Festival Southbank- Foyer Queen Elizabeth Hall London 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART WORK/DESIGN for Mike Tattersell,s TUK TUK "Indie Ices" top 5 best looking Street food vehicles 2013 by British Street Food Awards 2013 SPACE STUDIOS Deborah House Retrospective summer 2012 The St.Pauls Way Centre, Poplar HARCA, London 2011 Fragments of my Imagination Paradox Gallery, Singapore, toured to Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (exhibition catalogue) 2010 Chila Burman’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition USURP Gallery, London 2009- 2010 Roast Restaurant, Floral Hall, Borough Market, London 2008 A Selection of Chila Burman's paintings, prints and drawings Huyton Gallery Library, Knowlsey, Liverpool 2007 Valentine Crush, Tamarai Restaurant Space, London Prints I've Made... Desi Stylee londonprintstudio, London 2006 CANDY-POP & JUICY LUCY Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London (Iniva education project) (exhibition catalogue) 2005 - 2007 Damascus and Aleppo British Council touring exhibition 2005 Chila Kumari Burman, 1995-present Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester 2004 Material Serendipity Plymouth Arts Centre (exhibition catalogue, Lynda Nead) toured to Cecil Higgins Gallery + Museum, Bedford, Nottingham: New Art Exchange (Apna Arts) 2003 Points of View Hastings Museum & Art Gallery Perfect Fit Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art, University of Bath DNAsia, Watermans Art Centre, London Representing the World. Permanent commission, Foyer, BBC Bush House, London Enchanting the Icon Sakshi Gallery. (exhibition catalogue, Marta Jakimowicz) 2002 Visual Autobiographies Rich Mix, London (exhibition catalogue, Leverhulme artist in residence) 2001 Flirt Admit One Gallery, New York 1999 Hello Girls! Andrew Mummery Gallery London; Northbrook College of Technology; Bretton Hall, Leeds University; Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester 1999 28 Positions in 34 Years Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1998 Chila Kumari Burman, 1985-1998 One Spirit Gallery, Wood Green, London Genders and Nations (with Shirin Neshat) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York State (exhibition catalogue, Katy Deepwell) 1997 Ice Cream and Magic The Pump House, People’s History Museum, Manchester 1996 Between the Visible and Invisible National College of the Arts Lahore, Pakistan 1995 28 Positions in 34 Years (retrospective touring show) Camerawork, London; Liverpool Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Oldham Art Gallery; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Street Level Gallery, Glasgow; Cardiff Technical College, Cardiff; Watermans Arts Centre, London. 1995 Erotic Visual Tumult Wood Green Library, London 1993 Body Weapons installation, Seven Vintappres GR3, Stockholm, Sweden 1992 RIP, CUT, CURL Radical Hair Gallery, London 1990 RANI Horizon Gallery, London 1988 One Draw One Spirit Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool 2017 Nottingham. Contemporary, Nottingham. 2017 Light Night Liverpool 2016 Columbo biennale "Conceiving Space" 2016 THE 1980S Today's Beginnings? Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham 2016 Back to Black , Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2016 British Council collection Exhibition, British Council Gallery New Delhi 2016 Black Art in Focus, Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2016 THE 1980S Today's Beginnings? Van Abbe Museum, Ntherlands 2015 BRITISH COUNCIL IN NEW DEHLI with Wallinger, Opie, Kossoff, Auerbach, Deller, Caulfield ART 15 Olympia London NO COLOUR BATR Guildhall Art Gallery Celebrates Black British Art 1960 -1990 "This work by Chila Kumari Burman is one of the most striking on display." Tabish Khan, Londonist 2014 MTV RE-DEFINE ART and ROCK n ROLL Dallas Contemporary with Goss Michael Foundation WELLCOME TRUST Restaurant summer 2013 SPECTACULAR SANGEET Surrey Art gallery Canada LIVE AUCTION Curwen and New Academy Gallery London ITS A CUT UP The Gallery at Flannels Leeds WONDERLAND Veda Gallery @ Park Hyatt Chennai India RESONANCE Fm RADIO Clear Spot interview 8pm LPS 1F, London Print Studio pREpellers, OED gallery, Kerala, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 Latitude 28 gallery exhibit, Delhi Art Fair pREpellers Art and Soul gallery, Chennai, curated by Kavita Balakrishnan (online catalogue) [www.artchennai.com/appln/galleries2012/Gallery_Art_Soul.pdf] Struggle(s) Maison Particuliere, Brussels 2010 Seeing In Colour British Council Touring Show, Bottega-Gallery Kiev, Centre for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine; Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia; Academy of Fine Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan (exhibition catalogue) ORIENTATIONS trajectories in Indian Art FOUNDATION DE11 LIJNEN, Oudenburg, Belgium, curated by Deepak Ananth (exhibition catalogue) NINE: Her magic square The Viewing Room Gallery, Mumbai A Missing History Aicon Gallery, London Naissance Usurp Gallery, London Taking Issue Cardiff University Does Size Matter? Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi 2009 Mumbai Expo Mumbai INDIA ART SUMMIT New Delhi British Subjects Neuberger Museum of Art, New York 2008 Dubai Art Fair Bodhi Art Gallery, New York 2007 Candy Culture/Confectionaries and Conurbations 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok Seeing Dragons in the Clouds The Harley Gallery, Worksop, Nottinghamshire Trigger Woolwich Arsenal BECKS FUTURES, Manchester. Ice-Cream van presented as part of site-specific installation with music. A Contemporary Art Society commission 2006 Bollywood Scunthorpe Art Gallery 2005 Angels in the Studio, Slade Women Artists Cecil Higgins Gallery, London 2004 Originals 04 The Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries, London Hybrid Royal Overseas League, Piccadilly, London 2003 Women and Representation Sakshi Gallery, Banglore, India ARCO 2003 (with Sunil Gupta), Andrew Mummery Gallery and Hammer Sidi Points of View Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings History Revision Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth Platform for the Arts London Underground 2002 Art of Nations Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire A Thousand Ways of Being: Memory and Presence in the Arts of Diaspora October Gallery, London Space Cooks @ Fresh Art 2002 Private View London Print Studio and Kent Institute of Higher Education In Print Cardiff, Wales Curio Hanbury Street, London Stitched Up Leamington Art Gallery & Museum, Royal Pump Rooms 2001 First Valencia Biennial Valencia RCA Secret Royal College of Art, London Art 2001 Business and Design Center, London Evolution in contemporary printmaking Feren Art Gallery, Hull South Asian Women of the Diaspora Queens Library, New York In-Print Quay Art, Hull (Ferens Art Gallery) (exhibition catalogue) 2000 Explorations of the Environment: Landscape Redefined Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida Wish I was Here Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (exhibition catalogue) Movin’ On Up Andrew Mummery Gallery Text and Subtext Earl-Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA University, Singapore toured to Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia in 2000 and Ostiasiataka Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities) Stockholm in 2001, Sternersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; X-ray Art Centre (Rui Wen Hua Yi Shu Zhong Xin), Beijing, China in 2002. (exhibition catalogue) A Grand Design Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1999/2000 Sister India exhibition, club night of Asian performers and artists, touring the UK 1999 Crown Jewels Berlin,
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