Chila Kumari Burman
Born to Punjabi immigrants in Liverpool, UK, Chila Kumari Burman received her professional Fine Art and Graphic Design training at Leeds Polytechnic and later pursued her Master of Fine Art in Printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Burman's works are globally exhibited at major galleries and museums and comprise important public collections in the UK and abroad including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, The British Council in London, Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom, as well as the Devi Foundation in New Delhi.
Burman currently lives and works in London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Fragments of My Imagination", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
"Fragments of My Imagination", The Art House, Paradox, Singapore
2010 "Chila Burman's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition", USURP Gallery, London, UK
2008 "Chila Kumari Burman", Huyton Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2007 "Valentine Crush", Tamarai Space, London, UK
"Prints I've Made... Desi Stylee", londonprintstudio, London, UK
2006 "Candy-pop & Juicy Lucy", Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, UK
2005 "Chila Burman: Material Serendipity", Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 "Seeing in Colour - British Council Touring Show", Bottege Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine;
The Centre for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine; Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia;
Academy of Fine Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan
"Orientations, Trajectories in Indian Art", Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
"Nine Her Magic Square", The Viewing Room Gallery, Mumbai, India
"A Missing History: The Other Story Re-visited", Aicon Gallery, London, UK
"Naissance", USURP Gallery, London, UK
"Taking Issue", Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
"Does Size Matter?", Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi, India
"Visual Autobiographies", Rich Mix, London, UK
2009 "Mumbai Expo", Mumbai, India
"Indian Art Summit", New Delhi, India
"British Subjects", The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY, US
2008 "Dubai Art Fair", Dubai, UAE
2007 "Candy Culture", 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
"Apollonia Arts Festival 2007", Old Town Art Gallery, Sozopol, Bulgaria
2005 "Angels in the Studio", Slade Women Artists, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK
Awards
2004 Arts Council Individual Artists Award
1995 ANC Award, Johannesburg Biennale
1994 The New Horizons Awards for Established Artists, Gulbenkian Foundation
Collections
Arts Council England
BBC Bush House, London, UK
Berger Collection, Spain
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, UK
British Council, London, UK
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
Devi Foundation, New Delhi, India
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba