1960
Overview
Seema Kohli (b.1960) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New Delhi, India. Her practice conjoins spheres of cosmology and ecology with a focus on Shakti, or divine feminine energy and its relation to forces of creation and destruction. From this vantage point, her work offers a critical feminist view of spiritual and mythological lineages from South Asia, including Bhakti, Vedic and Sufi schools of thought.
Spanning over four decades of experiments in form and language, Kohli’s works live in museums and institutional collections all over the world, including the British Museum (UK), Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts (India), Birth Rites Collection (UK), Rubin Museum (USA), Museum of Sacred Arts (Brussels) Bihar Museum, Lalit Kala Akademi (India) to name a few.
Kohli has done several large-scale murals, some of which are included in the Supreme Court (New Delhi), Sardar Patel Bhawan (Patna, Bihar), Delhi and Mumbai International Airports, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her works have also been shown at collateral events such as the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016), Venice Biennale of Art/Architecture (2015, 2016), ARCO [Madrid] (2008), Art Basel, and at the India Art Fair (2010-2024), Asia Society HK, among many others.
Currenlty based in Delhi, India.
