Dhara’s work improvises upon landscape and its inherent ecology, exploring the flora, foliage, ferns, grass, weeds, moss, petals, pollen and more.
It strives to realize the transcendence in simpler forms of life, nature & environment, which touches us most intimately, yet remains distant enough that one may not aspire to it by any means more physical than poetry.
The purpose is to realize the synergy and interrelation between things to outgrow the notion of isolated consciousness; towards an experience, forever in motion, alive, organic, spiritual and material. The artwork and the process of it, intends to create some of these experiences.
About Dhara
M.F.A in Painting | College of Art, Delhi University , India | year 2005.
The Junior Fellowship Award from Ministry of culture; The Government of India, in visual art (Painting) 2007 | Swapan Biswas award for academic excellence (College of Art, New Delhi)
Selected Shows:
..of Warps and Wefts, Anant Art India, New Delhi, India, 2021
Spiralling into the absurd, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India, 2021
All In A Day’s Work, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA, 2020
Aroh, Emami Art, KCC, Kolkata, India, 2020
Five Million Incidents, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and Kolkata, India, 2019
Through Clusters and Networks, NCBS-TIFR Bangalore, India, 2018-2019
Forms of Devotion, MOSA (Museum of Sacred Art) Madrid, Spain 2016
‘Swarm’, wall installation, Le Meridien, Bangalore 2016 (supported by Art Houz)
Forms of Devotion, MOSA (Museum of Sacred Art) China Art Museum, Shanghai 2015
‘Art Spotting IV’, Gallery Art Positive, New Delhi 2014
Raqs Media collective, Sarai Reader 09 (Devi art foundation) Gurgaon 2013
‘Silent Symphony’, The Stainless gallery New Delhi 2012 & 2011
Tangerine art space gallery, Kochi Muzirs Biennale collateral showing Kochi, 2012
Group show; Gallery OED (Open Eyed Dreams), Kochi (India) 2012
Latitude 28, 2010; ‘Illustrated lecture and exhibition’ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2011
Group Show at AIFACS New Delhi, 2011
The Gulf art Fair Dubai, 2007
‘National Exhibition of Art’, Bhopal (Lalit Kala Akademi) India 2006
Group Show, India Habitat Center, New Delhi 2006
Group Show, The ABS Gallery Baroda 2006
Group shows with The Apparao Galleries New Delhi & Chennai, 2004, 2005 & 2006 India
Dhoomimal Annual Art show 2003 & 2004, New Delhi
Exhibition of Graphics, Savannah Georgia 2002
Gallery Freedom, V.H.A.I , 2002 New Delhi, India
‘Some Substance is Divine’ at Hyatt Regency, New Delhi (November 2009) supported by A.F.A and the Hyatt group.
‘Interwoven…A mystic journey’ Chennai, August 2011
Participation:
Facebook Artist In Residence (AIR) Hyderabad, India 2021 | Actant – Five Million Incidents, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi & Kolkata 2020, in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective
Art workshops and camps with international art faculty hosted by A.F.D, Visual Arts gallery IHC, New Delhi; Camp ‘Expressions’, by Palette People, Le Meridian Kochi, India 2012; Artist seminar & camp at Ahalia Heritage village, Ahalia University campus, Palakkad, Kerala (India) 2011; Scroll & banner art with senior lecturer Canberra Institute of Arts, Australia 2001, worked at Ghari community studios New Delhi, Printmaking Dept, 2002–2003
Mentions:
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Dhara– All the way from early school days, Art and creative endeavours always meant joy & happiness in my comfort zone. So the choice was laid out ahead and there was…
Installation Mumbai – The Hindu
Dragonflies occur and recur in Dhara Mehrotra’s installations and paintings. The creature’s ability to break out of its limitations fascinated the artist so much…
A colourful web of beautiful imagination – The New Indian Express
My works do not describe any event. They are not traditional. The paintings are my thoughts, I think through colours,” says the 30-year-old Delhi-based artist, Dhara Mehrotra.…
United expressions in creativity – The Hindu
Away from the solitude of a studio an artist camp offers varied, on-the-spot inspirations. That’s what happened to Dhara Mehrotra, a Delhi based artist, one of the 12…
Into The Spotlight | The Indian Express
Gulmohar petals are painted on a circular frame. But Dhara Mehrotra’s Rhapsody is not a still life painting. A gust of wind has set the flowers swirling, so much so that the…