Shivanjani Lal

CV

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