Anju Dodiya

Born in 1964 in Mumbai, India, Anju Dodiya received her fine arts degree from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai.

Dodiya has had major exhibitions worldwide, with recent participations including the Sharjah Biennale (2023); Conversations on Tomorrow, Sadie Coles, London (2022); Anatomy of a Flame, Frieze Cork Street, London (2022); Tower of Slowness, Galerie Templon, Brussels (2021); Every Soiled Page (curated by Sabih Ahmed), Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020); The Air is a Mill of Hooks, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2018); Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life (curated by Anita Dube), fourth edition of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale (2018); Visions from India, Transforming Vision: 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA (2017); The Journey is the Destination: The Artist’s Journey between Then and Now, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai (2016); Continuing Traditions, Musée de la Toile de Jouy, France (2015); The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, China (2015), among others. She has also completed the site-specific installation Throne of Frost at the Lakshmi Vilas Palace, Baroda (2007), and presented at earlier noteworthy exhibitions such as New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India (curated by Betty Seid), Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago (2007); Making Worlds (curated by Daniel Birnbaum), 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009); and the Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, National Museum of China, Beijing (2012). She will also be participating in the upcoming Sharjah Biennale in 2023.

She is included in several private and public collections, including the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisia; Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Mumbai; Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; RPG Enterprises, Mumbai; TAPI Collection of Shilpa and Praful Shah, India; the Art Institute of Chicago and Zabludowicz Collection, Finland.

The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.