About
Neeta Madahar is a photographer and traditional Indian Miniature painter. Her art is informed by meditation, embracing time in silence and solitude and spiritual insights from Buddhism and Taoism. She depicts constructions of the natural world, engaging with ideas about beauty, truth, perceptions of reality versus illusion, and the malleability of space and time. She takes pleasure in craftsmanship and paying attention to detail.
Madahar graduated from Winchester School of Art/Southampton University with a BA in Fine Art in 1999 and on a graduate scholarship award, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in Boston, US, with an MFA in Studio Art in 2003. She has exhibited internationally in group and solo shows, including at Aspex Gallery, Harewood House, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, US. She was awarded the 2008/09 Bradford Fellowship in Photography by the National Science and Media Museum. Madahar has received commissions from organisations including the Glynn Vivian Gallery, FACT, Film and Video Umbrella and Photoworks. Her work is held in collections such as the Government Art Collection, Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, the MIT Art Collection, the V&A Museum and the Yale Center for British Art.
Madahar is represented in the US by Anderson Yezerski Gallery and Jane Deering Gallery.