Awards/Prizes/Commissions
2021 Awarded, ‘The Arts Institute Film Commission’ in association with the Box Museum
2020 Awarded, Hundred Heroines-Women in Photography
2020-21 Awarded, Arts Council/Autograph Commission |Care|Contagion|Community
2020 ABC [Artists' Book Cooperative], ‘ABC DAYS’ Publication Commission, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, for Day of Shadows
2019-21 Arts Council/National Lottery Project Grant for Paradise Lost
2017 Australia Council Cite Residency, Paris
2016 Asia Link Residency in India with an award from Arts NSW
2016 Australia Council, Individual Artist Award-Project Grant
2007 Arts Council of England, Individual Artist Award
2005 HEFCE, Capability Research Award, Oxford Brookes University
2004 British Council Artists Travel Award
2000-2003 A.H.R.C. Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellowship. Royal College of Art
2002 Flow Curio commission, sited installation, Brick Lane, for ‘Terra Incognita’/Regional Arts Lottery Programme/L.A. www.thecurioproject.com
2001 British Council Visiting Artist Award
2001 Untitled Installation for the upstairs drawing room, commission for Lookout, Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing
1999 London Arts Award
1998 Autograph, Arts Council funded Travel Award
1998 Inside out, commission for Signs of the City, Scott Hall Road Installation, Public Arts, Leeds
1997 Travels in a New World 2, Bluecoat Gallery/ Arts Council Commission- 50th Anniv. Indian Independence
1997 Autograph, Commission for research travel to Asia Pacific region
1997-99 British Academy, Postgraduate Study Award
1996 Artist in Residence (9 months), Zone Gallery, Newcastle
1996 Poste Restante, sited installation/commision, Old Post Office, Newcastle, for Zone Gallery
1995 British Council, Artists Travel Award
1994 AGFA Bursary, Student Award
1994 First Prize, South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Entangled Pasts 1768-Now, Royal Academy, London
2021-22 Care, Contagion, Community, Autograph, online and onsite (London)
2021 Chennai Photo Biennale
2021-22 Care, Contagion, Community, Autograph, London
2020 Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, Courtauld Institute, London
2020 Bittersweet, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2018 Avatars. L'artiste et ses Doubles, Bibliothèque du Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse
2018 Egaro Photo Festival (Tripura, India) www.egarophotofestival.com
2018 Houston Fostofest Biennial, INDIA Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art
2017 Focus (Biennial) Festival of Photography, Mumbai
2017 The Shape of Memory, Critical Animals/This is Not Art, The Lockup, Newcastle, Australia
2017 An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Festival
2017 Transoceanic Visual Exchange Project (Barbados/Melbourne/Miami)
2017 HEAT, Third Oceanic Performance Biennale, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2016 Now! Now! In more than one place, curated by Sonia Boyce in collaboration with Black Artists and Modernism (BAM) research project/conference at Tate Modern, Chelsea College of Arts-University of the Arts London
2016 Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language, The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London
2016 CCP Declares: on the Social Contract-triennial survey of Australian photography, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2015 Photo Kathmandu, International Photography Festival, Nepal
2015 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery
2015 Chippendale Contemporary Art Award, Sydney
2013 Focus International Photography Festival, Mumbai, India
2013 Bloomberg Office, Parel, Mumbai, India
2013 Obscura Photo Festival, Penang, Malaysia
2007 Eastbound: Hidden Histories, in conjunction with Rachel Lichtenstein’s ‘On Brick Lane’ (Hamish Hamilton), The Crypt, Spitalfields Church, East London
2007 Mediations, Ovada, Oxford
2004 Paradise Now ? Contemporary Art From the Pacific, Contemporary Art, AsiaSociety and Museum, Park Avenue, New York USA
2003 Threshold in Presence, Leighton House (sited installation)
2002 Curio, Brick Lane, East London (sited installation)
2000 Crown Jewels, Neue Gesellschaft Fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK) Berlin & Kampnagel Art Gallery, Hamburg
2001 Lookout, sited installation, Pitshanger Manor (London), Wolverhampton Art Gallery (tour)
2001 East Wing Collection , Courtauld Institute, London
1999 Fractured Mirrors, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston (tour to Rhode Island School of Art and Design) USA
1999 000ZeroZeroZero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1999 The Show, Royal College of Art, London
1998 Out of India, Queens Museum of Art, New York
1998 Artist and the Archive, Shoreditch Biennale, Hoxton Square, London
1998 Touching Matters, The Gallery, Swiss Cottage Library, London
1997 Photography Triennial -Dislocations , Rovaniemi Museum, Finland
1996 Fear of the Dark, Tom Blau Gallery, London
1995 Sometimes, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1995 First Johannesburg Biennale (British Council/OVA)
1994 Occupying Territories, Zone Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1994 South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London (First prize)
Solo Exhibitions
2021-22 Tall Tales and Wonder Rooms, The Arts Institute/The Box, Plymouth
2021 Paradise Lost, MIRROR, Arts University Plymouth
2014 Dark Pacific Sun, Chandra+Stewart, Gimpel Fils, London
2001 Album Pacifica, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA
2001 Travels in a New World Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
1997 Travels in a New World, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1996 Poste Restante, Installation, Old Post Office/ Zone Gallery, Newcastle
External projects
2019 Collaboration with the Ships Project, Plymouth (UK)
2020 Judge- UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative Artist Prize
2020 Judge- Brighton Photo Biennale Fringe, moving image section
2012 The Photography Seminar (series), Co-convener and contributor, in collaboration with the National Centre for Creative Learning at the Museum of Contemporary Art and University of Technology Sydneyhttp://www.mca.com.au/events/photography-seminar/2669/
2007 Slight Sifts, curatorial project, Wong Hoy Cheong (Malaysia) International Artist Fellowship and exhibition in collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford), Foto-Net South and Oxford Brookes University
2003 Presence, Leighton House, (sited installation). Co-curated in collaboration with the Photographic Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Anthropology Department Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art
Collections
Arts Council of England
Autograph (London)
Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida
Brisbane City Council
The Arts Institute, Plymouth
The Arts University Plymouth
Private collections
Selected Catalogues
Entangled Pasts 1768-Now, Royal Academy, 2024
Paradise Lost, 2021
INDIA/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art FotoFest 2018 biennial book, Steven Evans and Sunil Gupta (eds) www.schiltpublishing.com
CCP Declares: On the Social Contract, Pippa Milne, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2016
Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Melissa Chiu, Asia Society, New York, 2004
Lookout, Peter Kennard, 2000
Travels in a New World 2, Independent Thoughts, Bryan Biggs, Bluecoat Gallery, 2000
Crown Jewels, Iris Mahenke, 1999
Out of India, Jane Farver, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1998
Artist and the Archive, Val Williams, Shoreditch Biennale, London, 1998
Independent Thoughts, Travels in a New World, Essay by Elizabeth Edwards, Bluecoat Gallery, 1997
Dislocations, Pirkko Siitari and Leena Lohiniva, Rovaniemi Art Museum, 1997 Sometimes, British Exhibition, Johanesburg Biennale, Sunil Gupta, OVA, London, 1995
Johannesburg Biennale Catalogue, Transitional Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg,1995
Occupying Territories, Kate Tregaskis, Zone Gallery, Newcastle, 1994
Make Believe, South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, 1994
Inclusion in Published Collections/Critical Texts
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain, Joy Gregory (ed.) , Mack and Autograph, 2024
Allan de Souza and Mohini Chandra, Conceptual Photography, Migrations and the conceptualisation of South Asian identities by Alice Correia in Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings; Situating ‘Black Artists and Modernism’ in Europe, 2019 https://www.academia.edu/41749077/Allan_deSouza_and_Mohini_Chandra_Migrations_Conceptual_Photography_and_the_Articulation_of_South_Asian_Identities
Photography in India in Light Years and Digital Times, Aileen Blaney & Chinar Shah (eds.) Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology/Bloomsbury
Destinazione mondo, Valentina Lusini, Ombre Corte, Verona, Italy, 2013
Biography and spatial experience in contemporary diasporic art in Britain chapter by Dorothy Rowe in Biographies and Space: placing the subject in art and architecture , D. Arnold and J. Sofaer, Routledge, 2008
The Diasporic Imaginary, Vijay Mishra, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary, Routledge, 2007, p21
Mohini Chandra: a diasporic practice, article by Elizabeth Edwards in A. Schneider & C. Wright (eds.) Contemporary Art and Anthropology, Berg, 2005
Album Pacifica in Art and Photography (survey), David Campany (ed.), Themes and Movements series, Phaidon 2003
Travels in a New World, in Beyond Frontiers: contemporary British art by artists of South Asian descent, A Ghosh and J Lambda (eds) Saffron, 2001
Selected Reviews and Features
Take A Journey With Artists Mohini Chandra And Serena Chopra, in Design Pataki Sept 2020, https://www.designpataki.com/take-journey-artists-mohini-chandra-serena-chopra/?fbclid=IwAR0mH0SBjFtBeHfAWrOSQ-BqnsZCVoXxc7ypkcw3W0Ltk9X1V8dg6OiLn48
Kikau Street in Bittersweet, reviewed by Suzanne Claridge, 2020 https://rundog.art/bittersweet-curated-by-shivanjani-lal?fbclid=IwAR2h3Y2nUW5J2wX1qxm9NvA8GYxnFMRUj3KJwD7MJHPslAs6OyfMwS7hNw0
Dark Pacific Sun, Wall Street International, 2014 http://wsimag.com/art/11970-chandra-plus-stewart-dark-pacific-sun
Dark Pacific Sun, Try Hard Magazine, 2014 http://tryhardmagazine.com/mohini-chandra-christopher-stewart
Mumbai’s Focus Festival Showcases Women Photographers Neha Thirani Bagri, The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, Global Edition, March 15, 2013, http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/mumbais-focus-photography-festival-showcases-wome/
Review, Presence, Katie Kitamura, Contemporary, No 49, 2003, pp83-4
Review, Album Pacifica, Barry Schwabsky, Bookforum , Fall 2001 , p48
Date Marks: Album Pacifica, Mohini Chandra Susan Johanknecht and Katherine Meynell, Art Monthly, June 2001, p 47
Album Pacifica Stephen Bury, (A-N) Artists Newsletter, June 2001, p8
Album Pacifica, Dpict (inc. Creative Camera) no 6 Feb/March 2001, pp20-23
Can a Charcoal Drawing Change the World ? Robert Clark, The Guardian, 26th Sept, 2000
Raga Saga, Anne Doran, Time Out New York, Jan 29, 1998, Issue 123
Import Export, Thomas Mc Evilley, Art in America, October, 1998
Village Voice (NY), Unguided Tour, Photograph of ‘Album Pacifica’ Installation at Queens Museum by Sylvia Plachy, 24/2/1998
Black and white moves & white and black stills, Sean Cubitt, MAKE no.78, Jan 98
Many Shows and Many Indias, Holland Cotter, New York Times, Dec 26, 1997
Books/monographs
Paradise Lost, 2021
Day of Shadows ABC [Artists' Book Cooperative], ‘ABC DAYS’ Publication Commission-’An archive of social distance’, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts,2020 https://abcdays.cargo.site/ July 7th.
VoiceOver, eBook, Diffusion series, Proboscis, (RCA/LSE/Arts Council of England), June, 2002 www.diffusion.org.uk
Album Pacifica, commissioned and published by Autograph/Arts Council of England, 2001
Selected Web Resources
Paradise Lost at Mirror https://mirrorplymouth.com/whats-on/mohini-paradise-lost
Mohini Chandra In conversation with Karl Ohiri, from Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, Courtauld Institute, London https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-karl-ohiri-and-mohini-chandra or https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=325340965291623&ref=watch_permalink
https://www.tongues.cc/articles/mohini-chandra/
British Library Collection, Art, photography and Architecture, Oral History of British Photography http://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/Art-photography-and-architecture/021M-C0459X0115XX-0100V0
https://autograph.org.uk/commissions/mohini-chandra
https://autograph.org.uk/shop/mohini-chandra-album-pacifica-1139