About the work

Born in London in 1969, Bharti Kher’s art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism. Now living between London, UK and New Delhi, India, her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Her way of working is exploratory: surveying, looking, collecting, and transforming, as she repositions the viewer’s relationship with the object and initiates a dialogue between metaphysical and material pursuits.

Date and country of birth

1969, GB

Career Highlights

This summer Kher will present a major solo exhibition ‘Bharti Kher: Alchemies’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) in her most extensive UK museum presentation to date.

Kher’s recent solo exhibitions include Arnolfini, ‘Bharti Kher. The Body is a Place’, Bristol, UK (2022); IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘Bharti Kher. A Consummate Joy’, Dublin, Ireland (2020); Centre Pasqu’Art, ‘Chimeras’, Biel, Switzerland (2018); Museum Frieder Burda / Salon Berlin, ‘Dark Matter (MM)’, Berlin (2017), Germany; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, ‘Sketchbooks and Diaries’, Boston MA (2017), Freud Museum, ‘This Breathing House’, London, UK (2016); Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Matter’, Vancouver, Canada (2016); Rockbund Art Museum, ‘Misdemeanours’, Shanghai, China (2014).