Representative work by Bharti Kher
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Artist

Bharti Kher

b. 1969, London, England · British-Indian · Based in New Delhi, India & London, United Kingdom

  • Newcastle Polytechnic (1991)
  • Middlesex Polytechnic (1988)
  • Sculpture
  • Bindi Swarms
  • Cast Bronze & Wax
  • Hybrid Mythologies

Bharti Kher works with bindis, found objects, bodies and hybrid sculptural forms to examine identity, gender, mythology and transformation. The bindi, repeated across surfaces, becomes both cultural sign and abstract unit.

Sculpture; installation; painting

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • 2006The Skin Speaks a Language Not Its Own
  • 2007An Absence of Assignable Cause
  • 2010 onwardVirus
  • 2011The Hot Winds that Blow from the West
  • 2022Ancestor
  • 2007 onwardSolarum Series
  • 2000sIndra’s Net
  • 2009Quasi Goddess
  • 2010sLinks in a Chain
  • 2000sBindis on Mirrors

Museums & Public Collections

Interviews & Writing

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