Yardena Elhanan Kurulkar was born in 1971 in Mumbai, India. After completing her BFA from Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai she went on to pursue her Masters at The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
In 2002 she acquired a grant from The Charles Wallace Trust for postgraduate studies in UK. Yardena then moved to Toronto where she was an artist in residence at The Living Arts Centre in Ontario, Canada. Here she spent two years pursuing her art and teaching part time, following which she returned to her hometown in Mumbai. Her first solo exhibition in 2011 titled Transience at Gallery BMB, Mumbai was shortlisted for the Skoda Art prize in 2012. In the same year she was shortlisted for the Art India Breakthrough Artist award. In 2015, she won the Powershow, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan followed by Winning the ‘64th Blake Prize, Liverpool, BC, Australia in 2016 for her work Kenosis, where she used 3D printing technology to excavate her own heart and portray its slow disintegration in water in a series of 15 photographic prints.
Selected participations include solo and group shows at Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai, India), Gallery BMB (Mumbai, India), Delmar Gallery (Ashfield, NSW), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (Liverpool BC, Australia), the Kochi Muziris Biennale (Fort Kochi, India), NGMA (New Delhi, India), Living Arts Centre (Ontario, Canada) and Art Basel (Hong Kong).
Yardena Kurulkar lives and works in Mumbai, India.
1971
Born in Mumbai, India
2023
Art Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
MA, Ceramics, The University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK.
2000-2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai, India.
1987-1992
Solo Exhibitions
So it Goes, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2018
Transience, BMB Gallery, Mumbai, India.
2011
Selected Group Exhibitions
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India.
2024
Futuring | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives
60 Years of Gallery Chemould (Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana)
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India.
2022
Modus Operandi 3: Together Alone, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India.
OnSite, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India.
2021
Modus Operandi 2, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India.
2019
Modus Operandi, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India.
2018
Art Basel Hong Kong, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China.
64th Blake Prize, Touring Show, Kinross Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
64th Blake Prize, Touring Show, Delmar Gallery at Trinity College, Ashfield, NSW.
2017
Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2016-2017, Fort Kochi, India.
64th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool BC, UK
2016
Aesthetic Bind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Curated by Geeta Kapur.
2014
The Skoda Prize, 2012 show’, NGMA, New Delhi, India.
2013
Skin Deep, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India.
Library Thoughts 2, AIR/HMC, 9 X 12, Pen Club Gallery, Budapest.
2012
India Art Collective, Mumbai, India.
2011
The 27th Gold Coast Ceramic Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Australia.
CREATION, The Queen Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2010
Time Base, The Living Arts Centre, Ontario, Canada.
2003
Clay Talk, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London, UK.
2002
The Ceramic Contemporaries 4, touring show, London, UK.
2002
Residencies/Awards
2016
Winner of the ‘64th Blake Prize’, Liverpool, BC.
2015
Long-listed for the ‘Aesthetica Art Prize’, York Museum Trust.
Winner of the ‘Powershow 2015’, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015
2013
Shortlisted ‘Art India Breakthrough Artist Award’.
Long-listed ‘Top Twenty’ The Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art.
2012
Shortlisted for the 27th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast, Australia
2010
Resident Artist Program, The Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
2003-4
The Charles Wallace Award for postgraduate studies at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK.
2002