Brown Britain: ‘Indian’ Art, Imperial Encounters & Diasporic Dreaming
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22 Apr
2023
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Indian Aesthetics
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Zehra Jumabhoy
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Image: Raqib Shaw, Self Portrait in the Study at Peckham, after Vincenzo Catena (Kashmir version), 2015. Acrylic and enamel on birchwood © Raqib Shaw. Photo © Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Courtesy White Cube. The work will be included in "Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West", a major exhibition which will travel to four US institutions, organised by the Frist Art Museum (Nashville) and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston).
This talk will investigate ideas of Britishness, Brown-ness and colonial identity in the contemporary British art-world. It will frame this discussion via research-led curatorial projects that the speaker has been involved with. Artists such as Yinka Shonibare, Raqib Shaw & the Singh Twins will feature in the talk.
Platform: Zoom
Duration -
April 22, 2023
Timing: 5:00 - 6:15 PM IST
Registrations Closed
Zehra Jumabhoy
Dr. Zehra Jumabhoy is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol. She is an art historian, curator and writer specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art and its diasporas. In 2018, she co-curated the landmark exhibition, The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India, at New York’s Asia Society Museum. She was Guest Curator for the US show, Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, which travelled to four major institutions between 2023-2025, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Los Angeles. She is currently the Curatorial Research Fellow at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian museum, a position funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, to facilitate programming related to the museum’s decolonizing agenda. The exhibition Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain (from 24 May to 2 November 2025) at the Glynn Vivian museum, is part of this project. See: https://www.zehrajumabhoy.com/curating/