Artists from the Indian Diaspora

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Artists from the Indian Diaspora are making an important contribution to the development of contemporary art.

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The Indian Diaspora is the third largest in the world and compose of nearly 25 million people living in almost every corner of the globe. Artists from this diaspora bring with them an unique perspective to the art world and I believe have a very important role to play in helping non-Indians understand India and Indians and at the same time bring their Indian sensibilities, narratives and contexts to their otherwise western perspectives.

Over the last few years I have been very actively seeking artists who bring a new context to their works because of who they are and where they come from. Artists I have started collecting include Bari Kumar, Chitra Ganesh, Swati Khuara, Praneet Soi and a few others.

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Pros and cons of being a diaspora artist..... 5 Replies

Started by Shanthi C. Last reply by Shanthi C 2 Aug 2008.

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Comment by Ajit Vahadane on 28 December 2008 at 6:38am: International openings for Artists-Exhibitions/ Art camps / Scholorships/ Competitions / Employment / Residency programs

Join my group
http://indianartnews.ning.com/group/internationalopeningsforartistsexhibitionseventsre

Comment by preetworks on 8 December 2008 at 2:38pm: Our time finds itself steeped deep in contradiction. While technological advances in communication have allowed for global intimacy, we seem to have lost a real sense of "domesticity" - a core geography and way of life we call "home". On the one hand, we find individual significance through group identification with larger cultural categories such as race and gender. On the other hand these very categories dissolve our individualities. While international awareness allows us to understand the depth of systematic cultural oppression - the idea that we as a people are less than - the political scope of defeating western imperialism isolates us from our individual traits. We divert our individuality to support a wider political alliance. The result of retiring the intimate personal for the supra-political has been global networks along side fragmented individualities- a dichotomy of unity and disunity between political recognition and personal representation.

Comment by manika srivastav on 20 September 2008 at 8:32pm: Hi Siri
have you traveled with your work before/ I have and its such a pain. Please tell me if you have a painless way!
and in Boston I don't miss the food that much, I do miss the Indian art scene.

Comment by Sunaina Bhalla on 27 August 2008 at 7:04am: Being an Indian artist abroad has both positive and negative aspects, I feel. On the one hand it definitely broadens horizons, you get to interact with othe artists of different nationalities and their views are sometimes hugely different from ours. Having said that, one misses one's own countries art fraternity simply because we would probably have similar outlooks and concerns.So I feel if one can make the best of one's surroundings its great!

Comment by Siri Khandavilli on 1 August 2008 at 11:01pm: Hi all,
http://siridevi.com/SSL.html

Comment by Siri Khandavilli on 31 July 2008 at 9:40pm: Hi,
I am originally from Bangalore now in Arizona, US. Will be coming to Delhi with a solo show in Jan. I visit India quite a bit and keep in touch with whats happening there. World is really a small global village. I dont feel the distance as much anymore (well only when I miss the food! ;)
Thanks for starting this Deepak.
Siri

Comment by IAN Editor on 31 July 2008 at 8:51pm: would love to hear from the artists from the indian diaspora themselves? anyone here??!

Comment by IAN Editor on 31 July 2008 at 1:38pm: there is a interesting show that is going to open at Chatterjee & Lal on & Aug where Thomas Erben is showing a few of his gallery's artists including Chitra Ganesh, Yamini Nayyar, Krishna Reddy, Mahbub Shah Kiran Subbaiah and Ashok Sukumaran.

Comment by MC SUNILKUMAR on 30 July 2008 at 9:43pm: Dear friends,

Regularly watch here to view my paintings

Comment by hari n ghiya on 21 July 2008 at 1:57pm: hi deepak . i have also collected a few artists in this group including dilip sur, bhavani katoch, priyanka, akkitam narayanan, vishvanathan & s.h.raza.love share your views.