Seema Kohli

Born in 1960 in New Delhi, Seema Kohli is an artist with an eclectic repertoire. Her art, a unique expression of her largely figurative style, encompasses a wide range of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, performance and experiential installation. Her works are parables of tales both imagined and real, celebrating the simultaneous fragility and tenacity of Creation, as well as the melody and exuberance of the Oneness of Being. Myth and fable apart, they are many layered explorations, rooted as much in philosophy as they are in the knowledge of our modern times.

Seema’s solo exhibitions have been shown in Brussels, Melbourne, London, New York, Dubai, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Her works have been exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2014 and in the Beijing Biennale in 2012. She has shown at the India Art Fair in 2022, at the Hong Kong Art Fair in 2015, at the Shanghai Art Fair in 2011, at ARCO Madrid in 2010 and at Art Basel in 2009. She has been the recipient of a Gold Medal at the Florence Biennale in 2009, the Lalit Kala AKademi Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in 2008 and the Young FICCI Ladies Organisation Women Achiever’s Award in the same year.

Her works have been collected by the British Museum, London; the Birth Rite Collection, London; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Delhi; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Sacred Art, Brussels; and the Museum of Art, Kochi.