Ranjani Shettar

Background

Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977, in Bangalore, India.

Education

In 1988, Ranjani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. Later, she continued her education at the same institution, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture in 2000.

Career

In 2006, Ranjani acted as an international artist-in-residence at Artpace San Antonio in Texas.

During her career, Ranjani took part in many solo exhibitions, including "Indian Spring", Talwar Gallery, New York City (2004); "Epiphanies", Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India (2007); "Focus", The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (2008); "Present Continuous", Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India (2011); "High tide for a blue moon", Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2012); "Night skies and daydreams", Talwar Gallery, New York City (2014); "Bubble trap and a double bow", Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India (2017); "Seven ponds and a few raindrops", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2018); "Earth Songs for a Night Sky", The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2019) and others.

Also, she participated in numerous group exhibitions, including "How Latitudes Become Forms", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2003); "Transition & Transformation", University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (2005); "Zones of Contact", XV Sydney Biennale, Australia (2006); 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France (2007); "On Line", Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2010); "Time Unfolded", Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India (2011); "Crossings", Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India (2012); 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2013) and others.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Karnataka, India.

Achievements

• Ranjani Shettar is an outstanding visual artist, who gained considerable international recognition for her sculptural works, which are created with the help of natural and industrial materials, such as beeswax, wood, organic dyes, vegetal pastes, lacquer, steel and cloth.
  
  In addition, Ranjani received a Hebbar Foundation Award in 2003 and Sanskriti Award in 2008.
  
  Her works are kept in a number of leading public collections of different museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center.

Works

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• artwork

  • A little bit of a tilt

• installation

  • Installation view of "Earth Songs for a Night Sky"

  • Mohana

  • Installation view of "Earth Songs for a Night Sky"

  • Installation view of "Earth Songs for a Night Sky"

  • Scent of a Sound

  • Installation view of "Seven ponds and a few raindrops"

  • Counterpoint

  • Tendu

  • Spin

  • Chrysalis

  • Remanence from last night’s dream

Views

In her oeuvre, in order to create sculptural installations, Shettar applies elements of nature and industry, using a range of materials, that include beeswax, sawdust, wood, latex, PVC tubing, silicone rubber and metal. She creates multidimensional works, that bring forth the metaphysical characteristics of existing within a constantly changing physical environment. Also, in her works, Ranjani produces environments, that match the two realms, man and nature, together with graceful and dynamic forms and textures.

Quotations: "There is an element of chance in how you see the sculpture, in terms of how it positions itself in space according to movement of air in the space."

References

• Ranjani Shettar: Between the sky and earth "Ranjani Shettar: Between the sky and earth" is the first major monograph on this exciting artist from India, who has been making waves in the international art world over the last decade.
  2018
• Ranjani Shettar: Dewdrops and Sunshine
  2011