DIVYA MEHRA 1981 Born in Winnipeg, MB, Canada Currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada Education 2008 MFA in Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, USA 2005 BFA (Honours) in Visual Arts, University of Manitoba, School of Art, Winnipeg, MB, Canada On View/Forthcoming 2024 Divya Mehra, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Divya Mehra, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada 2023 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Divya Mehra: Afterlife of Colonialism…, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; in conjunction with the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada Divya Mehra, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, Canada 2022 Divya Mehra, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB, Canada 2021 CFAT 40th Anniversary Project, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Divya Mehra, The funny things You do, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (essay by Kim Nguyen) Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 Divya Mehra: From India to Canada and back to India (There is nothing I can possess which you cannot take away), Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada 2019 Divya Mehra: Afterlife of Colonialism…, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB; in conjunction with the exhibition: Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada Divya Mehra: Afterlife of Colonialism…, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON; in conjunction with ROM Friday Night Live, one night installation (March 22, 2019, 7pm-11pm) Divya Mehra: Afterlife of Colonialism…, Hart House, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; in conjunction with Night of Ideas, overnight installation; in conjunction with the exhibition: Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada 2018 Divya Mehra, Afterlife of Colonialism…, Special project in conjunction with the exhibition: Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada (commission) 2017 You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist., Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada (essays by Amy Fung and Kendra Place) Divya Mehra: Sobey Art Award Short List Exhibition, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan) Emerging Powers and Conflict Management (Toppling over statues, hate amid radical new platforms), Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB, Canada (essay by Yaniya Lee) The Mehra's Special, The Tallest Poppy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 2016 It’s Gonna Rain, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada (essay by Kegan McFadden) 2014 Without You I’m Nothing (Eating the Other), window winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 You Have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist., La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (essay by Cathy Busby) 2011 The Party is Over, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada (curated by Kim Nguyen) 2010 Turf War., PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (curated and essay by Kegan McFadden) Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 A New Light: Canadian Women Artists, Embassy of Canada, Washington, D.C., USA Centre for Art Tapes 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada A New Light: Canadian Women Artists, Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC, USA 2019 Alternate Realities, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, USA Muscled Rose, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (curated by Rui Amaral) A Quarter Century of Collecting, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Feast and Famine, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA (curated and essay by Jacqueline Mabey) 2018 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, (curated by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada) Art in the Open, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada (commission) Roadside Attractions, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada (commission; catalogue) BLUE STATE, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA In this place where the guest rests, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2017 Stages: Drawing the Curtain, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (commission) Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984 - 2009), Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, Canada, (curated by Kathy Rae Huffman) AlterNation, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada (curated and essay by Adrienne Fast) Win Last, Don't Care, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, (organized by EMILIA-AMALIA) Propped, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada (curated by Gabrielle Moser) OLD NEWS / NEW RULES, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, USA (organized by Eleanor King) Epic Fail, PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Punching Up, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, NY, USA (curated by Jon Lutz and Janine Polak) Melt, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (curated by Niki Little/Wabiska Maengun; commission) 2016 Yonder, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada (traveling exhibition) Utopia is No Place, Utopia is Process, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA 2015 Oh, Canada, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Canada (curated by Denise Markonish, commission; catalogue; tour) A Putting Down of Roots, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada CUSTOM MADE / Tsitslem te stem te ck’ultens-kuc, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, Canada (curated by Tania Willard) A Curious Blindness, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Streaming, Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna, Austria Between Us, Walter Phillips Gallery ,Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada 2014 Oh, Canada, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada (curated by Denise Markonish, commission; catalogue; tour) They Made A Day Be A Day Here, School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (catalogue; tour) You Can’t Win Them All, Ladies & Gentlemen, Winnipeg Library Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Emerald City, Project For Empty Space, Newark, NJ, USA (curated by Jasmine Wahi) I never asked to be a role model, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada Tragedy Plus Time, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada (catalogue) 2013 They Made A Day Be A Day Here, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (catalogue; tour) Stockpile, Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada (commission and collaboration with Dean Baldwin, Diane Landry, Luanne Martineau) GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM The Least Orthodox Goddess, Gallery 151, New York, NY, USA Salaam Bombay: Beauty & Chaos in the Urban Environment, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Art ASIA Miami, Miami, FL, USA (tour) fast & dirty presents: Six Degrees, PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Women Performing Women, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 2012 Oh, Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA (curated by Denise Markonish, commission; catalogue; tour) FREE (or best offer), Ed Video Gallery, Guelph, ON, Canada 2011 And the falchion passed through his neck, Latitude 28, New Delhi, Delhi, India take me to your leader, lead me to your taker, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2010 Left, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, USA Digression, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY, USA Structures Within an Intervention, The Guild Gallery, New York, NY, USA A Wilder Gander, BRIC Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA (curated by Baseera Khan) 2009 Domestic Policy, The Guild Gallery, New York, NY, USA Beijing 798 Biennale, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA; Consulate General of India, New York, NY, USA; Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, NY, USA; Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY, USA (tour) I Have Not Painted In A Year, The Suburban, Chicago, IL, USA SMITHUMENTA, Bond Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY, USA Wonder What The Others Are Up To?, Gallery OED, Cochin, Kerala, India 2008 The New Academy, Robert Lehman Art Center, Brooks School, North Andover, MA, USA The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 2007 21, A Space, Toronto, ON, Canada; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada; Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (curated by Elwood Jimmy; tour) In The Blink of An Eye, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (commission) Artist Books & Selected Publications 2018 Divya Mehra: Tone, artist folio in Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, Volume 35 2017 Amy Fung & Kendra Place: You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist (edition of 250), in conjunction with the exhibition, You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist., at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada 2014 Divya Mehra: Pouring Water on a Drowning Man (edition of 50), published by As We Try & Sleep Press, Victoria, BC, in conjunction with the exhibition, Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto,