Divya Mehra

Divya Mehra, Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), 2017, digital image. This work is the inaugural Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission.
Divya Mehra
Born 1981
Education Columbia University, University of Manitoba
Known for Multimedia Artworks

Divya Mehra is an artist who splits her time between Winnipeg, New York, and Delhi. Mehra works with ideas of otherness, the construction of race and diversity, and marginalization. With a multi-media practice that encompasses installation, photography, video, sculpture, and text, Mehra references East/West, high and low culture, and the personal and political to call attention to issues surrounding gender, race, and identity.

Mehra’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including with Creative Time, MoMA PS1, The Queens Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, Artspeak, Georgia Scherman Projects,The Images Festival, The Beijing 798 Biennale (Beijing), and Latitude 28.

In 2017 she was shortlisted for a Sobey Art Award (nominated for the Prairies and the North region).[1]

She is currently represented by Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto.[2]

Education

Divya Mehra received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University School of the Arts in New York[3] and her BFA (Honors) in Visual Arts from the University of Manitoba School of Art in Winnipeg.[4]

Publications

  • Divya Mehra Undoes White on White. Canadian Art. by Vidal Wu (2017)[5]
  • Pouring Water on a Drowning Man. Winnipeg: As We Try and Sleep Press, 2014.[6][7]
  • Quit, India. Winnipeg: PLATFORM, 2013.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Women Dominate Sobey Art Award Shortlist for First Time Ever". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  2. ↑ "GSP - Divya Mehra". www.georgiascherman.com. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  3. ↑ "Divya Mehra on "Quit, India" and Her Dark Comedy | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ "Artist Divya Mehra uses humour 'to cut a tense situation'". www.winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  5. ↑ "Divya Mehra Undoes White on White". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  6. ↑ Mehra, Divya (2014). Pouring Water on a Drowning Man. As We Try and Sleep Press. ISBN 9780978394684.
  7. ↑ Divya, Mehra, (2014-01-01). "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man". e-artexte.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  8. ↑ "QUIT, INDIA. | Platform Centre". platformgallery.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  9. ↑ Mehra, Divya (2013). Quit, India. Winnipeg: PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts. ISBN 978-0-9697675-8-9.
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