Biraaj Dodiya Indian, b. 1993
Biography
Born in 1993, Biraaj Dodiya received her MFA from New York University in 2018, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.
Her selected exhibitions include Every Bone a Song, Experimenter Colaba (2022); TransitoryForms, Art Basel (2021); The (Pro)Found Object, Vadehra Art Gallery (2021); (ME)(MORY), Vadehra Art Gallery (2021); Do You Know How To Start A Fire?, Experimenter at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2021); and solo exhibitions Stone is a Forehead, Experimenter, Kolkata (2020); Burn Your Finger, and Kiss it Yourself, 80WSE, New York (2017).
Her writing has been published in Art India Magazine, the Punch Magazine, and Experimenter Books (edited by Aveek Sen).
Dodiya is the recipient of the 2021 Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, the 2018 Jack Goodman Scholarship in Art and Technology, the 2018 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture nomination, and the 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency. She was also selected as the visual arts fellow in residence at Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy, in 2022.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Works
Exhibitions
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A Show of Hands | In Memoriam: Gieve Patel
D-40 & D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 November 2024 - 4 January 2025Artists: Aditi Singh, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Areez Katki, Biraaj Dodiya, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Jitish Kallat, Mahesh Baliga, Nilima Sheikh, Ranbir Kaleka, Ratheesh T., Sudhir Patwardhan, Sujith S.N. A special exhibition...Read more -
A Handful of Dust
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 May - 18 June 2022Exhibiting Artists: Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Praneet Soi, Gigi Scaria, Sujith S.N., Susanta Mandal, Pranati Panda, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Biraaj Dodiya, Shrimanti Saha, Priyanka...Read more -
The (Pro)found Object
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 August - 24 September 2021The (Pro)found Object celebrates an artist’s reverent curiosity for curios through the recent works and practices of four exciting contemporary artists. These artists engage with a speckled roster of found...Read more -
(ME)(MORY) | Curated by Dipti Anand
D-53 Defence Colony 20 January - 24 February 2021(ME)(MORY) is a women’s group show curated by Dipti Anand, featuring nine artists with Subcontinental presences or origins, including Faiza Butt, Ruby Chishti, Anoli Perera, Bakula Nayak, Apnavi Makanji, Rakhi...Read more
Art Fairs
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INDIA ART FAIR
NSIC Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 1 - 4 February 2024With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anita Dube, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi,...Read more -
Frieze Seoul
COEX Exhibition Centre, Seoul 6 - 9 September 2023The most urgent and topical discourses of our times seem to stake claim on trends of rupture. In the melting pot that is the contemporary...Read more -
INDIA ART FAIR 2023
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 9 - 12 February 2023With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Biraaj Dodiya,...Read more -
FRIEZE SEOUL
2 - 5 September 2022Our curation explores what it means to share a history, by tracing patterns of consequence in interdependent systems and resting the debate on inter-sectionality. Women’s...Read more
Bulletin
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Gieve Patel and the art of friendship
by Paramita Ghosh | The New Indian Express 28 November 2024The end of The Iliad is marked by two funerals and a rage. In the 23rd book of the epic poem, the great Greek hero...Read more -
Mother-daughter artist duo Anju and Biraaj Dodiya open up about their distinct journeys with art and each other
Vogue India | by Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar 12 January 2024As someone who emerged as an éminence grise in India’s contemporary art scene during the 1990s, Anju Dodiya’s geniality takes me by surprise. “It was...Read more -
Viewing objects in a new light with The (Pro)found Object, at Vadehra Art Gallery
The New Indian Express 6 September 2021Artists Biraaj Dodiya, Shailesh BR, Youdhisthir Maharjan and Moonis Ahmad Shah have come together for a group show titled The (Pro)found Object, at Vadehra Art...Read more -
4 Indian artists recontextualize everyday items at Vadehra Art Gallery’s latest exhibition
By Nicole Newby | Architectural Digest India 4 September 2021A discarded bed frame, clock dial, bicycle chain, pages of old books, and other sundry, everyday objects find new contexts in The (Pro)found Object, an...Read more -
Biraaj Dodiya and Udit Bhambri on Collecting, Making, and Seeing Art
Ocula 17 February 2021Using bold brushwork and deep sensitivity in paintings rendered with a darker palette, Dodiya invokes the feeling of 'moving through a familiar space in darkness'....Read more -
Biraaj Dodiya: Excelling the art of articulation
Jasodhara Banerjee | Forbes India 4 February 2021I arrived in the world of art very early because both my parents are artists,” says Biraaj Dodiya, daughter of artists Atul and Anju Dodiya....Read more -
Delhi: An all-women show (ME)(MORY) makes a splash at Vadehra Art Gallery
By Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar | Architectural Digest India 22 January 2021An ode to female artistry, with interdisciplinary conversations around the nature of self-building, will soon assume a novel avatar, in the way of an all-women...Read more
