Walsh Gallery

Sheba Chhachhi

Born Harar, Ethiopia in 1958.

Studied at Delhi University and the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • Sheba Chhachhi, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2007
  • Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle from Asia, Nature Morte, New Delhi
  • Women of the Cloth: Photographic Conversations, Sheba Chhachhi, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2005
  • Ganga’s Daughters, Nellkanth: poison/nectar, When the gun is raised, dialogue stops, Townsend Centre Fellow, University of California, Berkley
2002
  • Tejaskaya, Light India Festival,Pragati Maidan New Delhi
2000
  • When the gun is raised, dialogue stops…Women's voices from Kashmir, collaboration Sonia Jabbar, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
1999
  • Buri Nazar Walae, tera Bhi Bhala: public art project, Boxwallahs, at a petrol pump with DeEgo, Gurgaon
1998
  • Seven lives and a dream, narratives of women activists, India Habitat Centre, N.Delhi;
1994
  • The Mirror is the Witness, Wild Mothers II, MaxMueller Bhavan, N.Delhi.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
  • Punctum 1: A Critical Look at The Body in South Asian Photography, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009
  • Astonishment of Being, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
  • Dear Jabir, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • India 3: New Delhi- Republic of Illusions, Galerie Krinzinger, Wein
  • Dreaming In Public, Gallery Soulflower, BangKok
2008
  • Nature of the City, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi
  • Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
  • Where In The World, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
  • Still Moving Images, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
  • Panel Discussion Today: Indian Art Today, d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City
  • Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art from India, d.e.n Contemporary Art, Culver City
  • Neti – Neti, Bose Pacia, New York
  • India Time, Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co, Milan
  • Click! Contemporary Photography form India, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and London
2007
  • Urban Manners: Contemporary Artists from India, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
  • Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
  • New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Center, US
  • Indian Photography: Four Voices, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
  • Mulher mulheres, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Catalogue
  • India Sulla Pele, Homage to Indian Women Photographers, Milan
  • New Media Art from India, Fluss Fotoinitiative, Vienna
  • Private/Corporate IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2006
  • My Space, Your Space, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • Singapore Biennale, “Belief”, Singapore
  • Myrrh, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • Devi Diva 7 veils of Bollywood, Musee des Arts Asiatic, Nice, France
2005
  • Indian Summer, Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
2004
  • Another Passage to India, Musée d‚Ethnographie Geneva, Switzerland;
  • Middleage spread: imaging India from 1947 -2004, National Museum, New Delhi;
  • Androgyne, India Habitat Centre N.Delhi;
  • Eye To Eye: 11 Women photographers, IHC,
  • How Can You Resist? LA Freewaves 9th biennial festival of film, video and new media, Los Angeles, USA
2003
  • SubTerrain: artworks in the city fold, body.city, House of World Culture, Berlin
2002
  • Cinema Still, India Habitat Centre, N.Delhi,
  • Ways of Resistance, Lalit Kala Akademi, N Delhi;
  • Transfigurations, India Habitat Centre, N.Delhi
2000
  • Seventh Havana Biennale, Cuba
1999
  • First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan;
  • Woman/Goddess, British Council New Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Mumbai. New York
1998
  • In Black & White: what has independence meant for Indian Women? LalitKalaAkademi, New Delhi, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, New York
1997
  • Mappings, , National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan
1993–6
  • Disrupted Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol; The Photographers Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; National Museum of Photography, Ottawa; The London Historical Museum, Ontario.
1990
  • An Economy of Signs, The Photographers Gallery, London. UK
1988
  • Four Women Photographers, Spectrum Photography Festival, Horizon Gallery, London, UK