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Swapnaa Tamhane (b. 1976, Toronto) is an artist, curator, and writer based out of Montreal, Canada. Working with drawing and making handmade paper, she addresses the necessity to untether colonial constructs and hierarchies between art, craft, and design by employing a skill-sharing process with artisan-designers in Kutch, Gujarat, India. She works particularly with block printers and a woman's embroidery collective.[1] Tamhane has been exhibited internationally at Sculpture Park Jaipur, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and the V&A Dundee, Scotland. Currently, Tamhane is an Artist-in-Residence in the department of Fibres & Material Practices, Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montreal.[2]
Education: edit
Tamhane earned a BA in Art History from Carleton University, Ottawa. She earned an MA in Contemporary Art from The University of Manchester, and an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University, Montreal.[3] Her academic writing has appeared in journals including Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas,[4] and n.paradoxa.[5]
Selected Projects: edit
Solo Exhibitions: edit
Mobile Palace, Royal Ontario Museum, 2022 edit
In 2021, Tamhane exhibited her first solo museum exhibition entitled “Mobile Palace” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.[6] The exhibition was curated by Dr. Deepali Dewan, Dan Mishra Senior Curator, Global South Asia. An exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Deepali Dewan, Antonia Behan (Queen’s University, Kingston), and Amanda Pinatih (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam).[7]
The Golden Fibre, V&A Dundee, 2021 edit
In 2021, Tamhane was commissioned by the V&A Dundee to create an artwork about the jute industry, of which Dundee, Scotland, was a key producer and supplier until the mid-1800s.[8] Drawing inspiration from archives held at the University of Dundee and Verdant Works, her work explores gender and labour in the jute industry in and around what was British-ruled Bengal while during colonialism (now a region split between India and Bangladesh). The Golden Fibre consists of an installation with a collage of archival photographs and drawings of workers as well as microscopic images of jute paper that Tamhane made by hand, as well as mirrors with sandblasted text from a language exercise book made for Scottish mill managers to learn Hindustani.[9] Tamhane’s work, curated by Meredith More and Tiffany Boyle (Mother Tongue), is on display in the Scottish Design Galleries.[10]
Curated Exhibitions: edit
In Order to Join — The Political in a Historical Moment, 2013 edit
The exhibition considers the works of artists who are working with conceptual strategies but who do not fall into any one particular medium or movement. The exhibition provides a transcultural art discourse around these particular artists in order to understand each as having similar political responses regardless of their geography.[11] Artists included Angela Grauerholz, Rummana Hussain, Mona Hatoum, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Astrid Klein, Helen Chadwick, Sheela Gowda, Adrian Piper, Rosemarie Trockel, Pushpamala N., Shelagh Keeley, Ana Mendieta, Jamelie Hassan, and Lala Rukh. There is an exhibition catalogue that accompanies this exhibition with writing by Tamhane, Susanne Titz, and Nana Oforiatta-Ayim.[12]
HERE: Locating Canadian Contemporary Artists, Aga Khan Museum, 2017 edit
To celebrate Canada’s 150 year anniversary, HERE examined the idea of multiculturalism and the complexities of Canadian identity with a number of artists from various diasporas. Curated by Tamhane, the exhibition featured 23 Canadian artists who work in the country and internationally.[13] The exhibition was inspired by an ancient Roman artifact in the museum’s permanent collection –a stele carved from marble adorned with acanthus leaves on one side and Kufic script on the other. The artifact was originally used as decoration for an ancient Roman structure but was later repurposed to mark the grave of a leather merchant, thus bearing the inscriptions of different cultures and different centuries.[14] Artists included Derya Akay, Sharlene Bamboat, George Elliott Clarke, Sameer Farooq, Brette Gabel, Babak Golkar, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Jamelie Hassan, Sukaina Kubba, Khan Lee, Harkeerat Mangat, Nahed Mansour, Nadia Myre, Dawit L. Petros, Nujalia Quvianaqtuliaq, Dorothea Rockburne, Nep Sidhu, Shaan Syed, Jaret Vadera, Zadie Xa, and Elizabeth Zvonar.[15]
References edit
- ^ "Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral". Surrey Art Gallery. 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Faculty Members Department of Studio Arts".
- ^ Materials and Surfaces. Universities Art Association of Canada. 19–21 October 2023.
- ^ Tamhane, Swapnaa (2016). "Posters in Public Space". Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. 2 (3): 299–309. doi:10.1163/23523085-00203009.
- ^ Swapnaa Tamhane (July 2014). "Rummana Hussain: Building Necessary Histories". n.paradoxa international feminist art journal. Vol. 34. KT Press. pp. 50–55.
- ^ "Post-Lockdown, a ROM Visit for Indian Block-Prints and Cloth Beauty". Toronto Star. 14 March 2022.
- ^ "ROM Connects: Inside Mobile Palace". Royal Ontario Museum. 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Swapnaa Tamhane: The Golden Fibre". V&A Dundee Museum. 10 June 2021.
- ^ "Extra: 'The Golden Fibre'". Monocle on Design. 24 August 2023.
- ^ "Swapnaa Tamhane: The Golden Fibre". V&A Dundee Museum. 10 June 2021.
- ^ "In Order to Join CSMVS and Goethe-Institute / Mumbai". Flash Art.
- ^ "IN ORDER TO JOIN – THE POLITICAL IN A HISTORICAL MOMENT". Museum Abteiberg.
- ^ "HERE WITH SWAPNAA TAMHANE". Aga Khan Museum. 24 October 2017.
- ^ "HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists". Art Forum. November 2017.
- ^ "HERE WITH SWAPNAA TAMHANE". Aga Khan Museum. 24 October 2017.
External Links: edit
Toronto Star, "Post-lockdown, a ROM visit for Indian block-prints and cloth beauty," March, 2022
Textile Society of America, "Swapnaa Tamhane: Mobile Palace," 2022
Flash Art, "In Order to Join CSMVS and Goethe-Institute / Mumbai", April 2015