archana hande

Archana Hande's artwork and creative practice has always extended into diverse modes, venues, concerns and forms. She has with ease slipped into the intersecting roles of activist, facilitator, interventionist, and maker all wrapped into one. Her interests have led her to draw upon a variety of resources, her projects having often taken-on an involved collaborative spirit. Archana Hande lives and works out of Banaglore, the city of her birth (1970), and Mumbai. She has a B.F.A in printmaking from Viswa-Bharati, Santiniketan (1986-1991), and an M.F.A in printmaking from M. S. University, Baroda (1991-1993). In 2000, she won the Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Award to participate in the Glasgow School of Arts Residency Program.

Her large, project-based, installation artworks - Play House, Mumbai, 1998; The Veil-Shop, Bangalore, Mumbai, 1999; The Journal, Bangalore 2003; www dot arrange your own marriage dot com, Mumbai, 2005; and Victoria House, 2006 - have been shown in solo exhibitions both in India and abroad. She has been included in a number of important international and national group shows: International Print Biennial, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; 7th International Triennial of Prints and Drawings Grafinnova '98, Vaasa, Finland; Premio Internazionale Biella Per l'incisione, Italy; Sites of Recurrence Boras Konstmuseum, Sweden, and Dakshinachitra, Madras; The Edge of Desire: Recent art in India, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Asia Society and Museum, New York, Tamayo Museum Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art (Marco), Monterrey; Art Circus, Yokohama Triennial, 2005, Japan; Icon of the Millennium, Mumbai, Are we like this only?, Delhi; Gift for India, Delhi, Mumbai, India Express, organised by Helsinki City Art Museum, 2006, Finland. From 2001 to 2005 she was an active member of Open Circle, an artist-run initiative in Mumbai. She participated as artist and organizer in the World Social Forum, 2004 & 2007, and in 2005, led the delegation for Seeds of Peace.

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