SHIVANJANI LAL
CONTACT
EMAIL: arti_shivanjani@yahoo.co.uk
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Water is the Longest Separation, Arts Cabinet, London, United Kingdom
2024 Mere Porvaj (I am remembering) Linden New Art, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Pani begets Pani, Murray Arts Museum of Albury, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
2021 Aise Aise Hai, Laurie Grove Pool Space, Deptford, London, United Kingdom
2021 Looking North, Looking West, Looking South, Looking East, with Amol K Patil and Niccolo Moscatelli, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Observational Histories Online, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Bhulona Nahi [don’t forget/forget me not], Peacock Gallery, Auburn, New South Wales, Australia
2019 Like This Incense Your Spirit Must Burn, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, New South Wales, Australia
2019 Yaad Karo [1879-2019], Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Yaad Karo [1879-1920], AIRSpace Project, Sydney, Australia
2018 The Raft, Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2017 यहाँ से देख (yahaan se dekhen), Arcade Gallery, Footscray, Victoria, Australia
2017 यहाँ से देख(yahaan se dekhen), RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 यहाँ से देख (yahaan se dekhen), Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
2015 The Quiet Sea Redux, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2015 Shelters, ArtPlay, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sharjah Biennial 2025, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (upcoming)
2024 To Forever Ebb and Flow: Queer Time/Migrant Time, MADA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (upcoming)
2024 How We Remember Tomorrow, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland, Australia
2024 Cane, Harvey Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2023 The Great Granville Garden Show, Granville Centre Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2023 A Whisper Echoes Loudest, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2023 Entwined Within, Artspace on the Concourse, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
2023 Mers, Terres & Corps traversés, La Traverse Marseille, France
2023 The National, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
2023 Ripened On A Tree, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 Bogiaisso, Vortice Notturno di Video Arte, Venice, Italy
2022 ‘Of waves and spirals’, Almanac, Turin, Italy
2022 Five years of collecting Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
2022 Volume: Bodies of Knowledge, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2022 Fertile Ground, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2022 A Tangled Bank, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2021 Threads of Time, No 20 Arts, London, United Kingdom
2021 Fertile Ground, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Victoria, Australia
2021 A U S T R A L I E N Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra, Australia
2021 Disobedient Daughters, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria
2021 Making Ground, Constance ARI, Hobart,
2020 15 Artists, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2020 Bowness Photgraphy Prize, Monash Gallery of Art. Victoria
2020 Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2020 Terra Infirma, Blacktown Arts Centre, New South Wales
2020 Echoes over Oceans, Firstdraft, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2020 Wonsolwara, UNSW Galleries, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
2019 New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Finalist, Artspace, Sydney
2019 52 Artists 52 Actions, Artspace, Sydney New South Wales, Australia
2019 Saturated Terrain, Incinerator Gallery, Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
PERFORMANCES
2023 Hands, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia
2020 First Thursday, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2019 MCA ArtBar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2016 OFFSTAGE 7 ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 Sedih // Sunno Arts House, Next Wave Festival 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2016 Sedih // Sunno Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
RESIDENCIES AND OTHER PROJECTS
2023-24 City of Sydney Live/Work Space, Sydney, Australia
2023 Umbrella Studios Residency, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
2023 Clothing Store Residency, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2022 City of Sydney Visual Arts Studio Residency, Sydney, Australia
2020 Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, Australia
2018 HH Art Residency, Goa, India
2018 What About Art Residency, Mumbai, India
2017 What About Art Residency, Mumbai, India
2017 Space 118 Residency, Mumbai, India
2016 Thinking Art Workshop Kochi Murzis Biennale, India
2015 Kickstart : Sedih // Sunno Next Wave, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
AWARDS
2024 Darebin Art Prize finalist
2023 Fishers Ghost Art Award finalist - Open
2023 Juncture Art Prize - Winner
2022 Lake Macquarie Art Prize finalist
2021 Darebin Art Prize finalist
2021 Fishers Ghost Art Award finalist - Open
2020 15 Artists, Finalist Redcliffe Art Gallery - Winner
2020 Georges Mora Fellow 2020 Winner
2020 Fishers Ghost Art Award finalist - Open
2020 Bowness Photography Prize finalist
2020 Incinerator Art Award finalist
2019 New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Winner
2019 Carstairs Award Recipient
GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2024 Creative Australia New Work Grant
2023 Vida Lahey Scholarship QAGOMA
2020 Ian Potter Emerging Travel Grant - Round 2
2019 NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant Recipient - Round 3
2017 NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant Recipient - Round 3
2017 Australia Council Development Grant
2015 City of Yarra Quick Response Grant
2014 City of Melbourne CreativeLab ArtPLAY Recipient
EDUCATION
2020-2021 Masters in Artists Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths, University College of London, London, England
2017 Post Graduate Diploma Modern and Contemporary Indian Art BDL Museum, Mumbai, India
2014 Graduate Certificate. Major: Art and Community Engagement VCA and MCM Melbourne, Australia
2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Design Art: Major: Photomedia and Visual Arts Australian Academy of Design, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2011 Bachelor of Design Art: Major: Photomedia and Visual Arts Parsons Paris, Paris, France (On exchange)
2008 Graduate Certificate in Arts: Major: Arts Management University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2001-2005 Bachelor of Arts. Major: Politics and English. University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia