Vandana Jain

Page 1 | Biography

Born: QUEENS NY
Lives: BROOKLYN NY

Education
BFA STEINHARDT SCHOOL, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Group Exhibitions
2008
Exploding the Lotus, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2007
Drawn, Hanged and Quartered, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NYC
Emerging Artists� Fellowship 2007, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
The Occidental Artist, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
Emergency Room, P.S.1, LIC, NY
Jiffy PoP, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2006
Pursuit of Happiness, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Thanks: Returning the Favor, apexart, NYC
Seen Through Glass, Conflux 2006, Glowlab, Brooklyn, NY
Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum, NJ (September 2006)
You Were Never Here, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (Sept 1 - October 10, 2006)
A Distant Mirror, M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC, NY
No Money Down, Limited Engagements, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ
The Centre Cannot Hold, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Well Read, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
Sampler Stitch, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Copilandia, Centro de arte de Sevilla (caS), Seville, Spain
Megacorp, PS122, NY
16 Rooms, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
Coloring Book, anti*star, ABC No Rio, NY
Art in the Air, Struts Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
Dreamland Artist's Club, Creative Time, Coney Island, NY
The Pavilion of the American Resistance, Buzzer Thirty, Queens, NY
I AM 5, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY
Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now,Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Corporate Bodies, Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Primary, Secondary: Contemporary Drawing, Brookdale Community College, Brookdale, NJ
Sub-version, PS 122, NY
2004
Territories, Gallery ArtsIndia, NY
Founding Fathers, ABC No Rio, NY
AIM24, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
Eat Me, 65 Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ides of March, biennial, ABC No Rio, NY
Sound Art Museum, RadioArteMobile, Roma, Italy
2003
Disaster, ABC No Rio, NY
Art of Resistance, Peacewilliamsburg, OfficeOps, Brooklyn, NY
Shaping Wholeness, Asian American Arts Center, Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, NY
26th Annual Small Works Show, New York University, NY
2002
Fear, Paranoia & Malevolence, ABC No Rio, NY
Ladyfest East, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Ides of March, biennial, ABC No Rio, NY
2001
Strata, ABC No Rio, NY
2000
Thresholds, soulcurry.com
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, NY
1998
4th Independents' Biennial, Charas/El Bohio, NY
Graven Images, ABC No Rio, NY
1997
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists' Space, NY
Soho Annual, 420 West Broadway, NY
Senior Show, New York University, NY

Bibliography
Shifter8: Rules & Representations, edited by Shresta Rit Premnath, 2006.
McAdams, Shane. "ArtSeen: Well Read," Brooklyn Rail,April 2006.
Davis, Ben. �Sign of the Times,� arnet.com, August 17, 2005.
Kennedy, Randy. "Flash, Dash and Now Art," New York Times,June 17, 2005, pE33.
Scott, Andrea K. "Brave New World," Time Out New York, March 17-23, 2005, p88.
Cotter, Holland. "Taking a Magical Flight Through Modern India," New York Times, March 4, 2005, pE33.
Herzberg, Julia P. "AIM24," ArtNexus, No. 54, September - December 2004, pp176-177.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "A Chance to Fill Up on Visual Treats," The New York Times, April 24, 2004.
Stillman, Nick. �Introducing...,� NYFA Current , May 5, 2004.
Cotter, Holland. "Where Witty Meets Gritty," New York Times, Nov 15, 2002, pE31.
Lung 7, independent journal, Chicago, IL, 1998, p48.
Smith, Roberta. New York Times, September 13, 1996, pC30.
information, artist publication, curated by Barbara Ess, 1995.


Grants/Awards
Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum for the Arts

Publications
Fatal Love, Queens Museum of Art, 2005
Territories, SAWCC, 2004
AIM24, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2004
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, 2002, 2000