Anju Dodiya / Curator: Ranjit Hoskote, Nancy Adajania
About the Book
The Dialogues Series explores the converns, careers and contexts of some of India’s most acclaimed artists. Each book in the series takes the form of an extended conversation between an individual artist and the authors, Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania, two of India’s best known and most authoritative critics. The Dialogues Series provies sharply etched portraits of the artists and critically engaged accounts of their work. It sees each artist’s journey in review, with its distinctive transitions, breakthroughs and evolutionary rhythms. The Dialogues Series also situates the imagination and lifeworld of the artists within larger art-historical genealogies, cultural narratives and political discussions, both Indian and global. The Series aims to create a discursive space in which both enthusuasts and scholars can reflect on the arguments that art and criticism conduct with history. The series is founded on the belief that the history of art does not simply revolve around the personalities of individual artists or the trends of the day; it also records the vital historical and pholosophical questions that are posed and played out on the contested terrain of art.
About the Author
ANJU DODIYA (born 1964) earned a BFA in Painting from Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy School of Art, Mumbai, 1986. She has held 13 solo exhibitions during the last twenty years: Gallery Chemould (Mumbai, 1991, 1996 and 2001); Max Mueller Bhavan (Mumbai, 1999); Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi, 1999, 2005 and 2010); Bose Pacia (New York, 2006); Lukshmi Vilas Palace (Baroda, 2007); Bodhi Art (Mumbai, 2007); Bodhi Art (Singapore, Mumbai, New York, 2008); Singapore Tyler Print Institute (Singapore, 2008); and at Gallerie Daniel Templon (Paris, 2010).
Dodiya has participated in numerous curated and group exhibitions in India and internationally. Among these are ‘Gift for India’ (organised by SAHMAT at LKA Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1997); ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, The Sotheby’s Show (Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai, 1998); ‘Art in the World 2000’ curated by Fabrice Bousteau (Organised by Beaux Art Magazine, Paris, 2000); ‘ARS 01, Unfolding Perspectives’ (Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, 2001); Culture’ (Women’s Studies Research Centre, Brandeis University, Massachusetts and Mabel Douglas Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2007-2008); ‘Expanding Horizons’ curated by Sudhir Patwardhan (organised by Bodhi Art, Mumbai; travelled to Amravati, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Sholapur, Kolhapur, Pune and Nasik, 2008); ‘Everywhere is War (And Rumours of War)’ curated by Shaheen Merali (Bodhi Art, Mumbai, 2008); and ‘Making Worlds’ curated by Daniel Birnbaum (53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2009) Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai.
