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{{Short description|Indian painter and printer}}
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'''Tara Sabharwal''' (born 1957, New Delhi<ref name="Art Alive Gallery">{{cite web|url=http://www.artalivegallery.com/artists.php?cat=artists&scat=150|title=Art Alive Gallery -Artist Biography|accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="Janzen Galerie">{{cite web|url=http://www.janzen-galerie.de/03kuenstler/sabharwal_tara/sabharwal_tara.htm#a_bio|title=Janzen Art Consulting|accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref>) is an [[Indian people|Indian]]-born, US-based painter and printmaker. Known for her colorful, subtly layered paintings, Sabharwal has had 42 solo shows in the UK, US, India, among others. She has received several awards, including the Joan Mitchell CALL (Creating a Living Legacy),<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/call/artists/tara-sabharwal|title=Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL (Creating a Living Legacy)|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> The British Council Scholarship,<ref name="Art Alive Gallery" /> and the Gottlieb Foundation awards.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/tara-sabharwal|title=Vermont Studio Center|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> Her work is in the collection of The British Museum,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1613256421&objectId=3752036&partId=1#more-views|title=The British Museum|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref> [[Victoria and Albert Museum]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O481970/collage-sabharwal-tara/|title=Victoria and Albert Museum|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> and the Peabody Essex Museum<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaac.us/art_exhibition/t_sabharwal/bio.htm|title=Indo American Arts Council|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> among others.

==Education and career==
Sabharwal studied painting at M.S University (Baroda, India) 1975–1980, and received her master's degree at the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 1982–1984.<ref name="Art Alive Gallery" /> She returned to India from 1985 to 1988 and had shows in Delhi and Mumbai and London. From 1988 to 1990 she returned to UK for fellowships, teaching and solo shows. In 1990 Sabharwal visited New York and settled there, while continuing to work and show in the UK and India. She has taught at the Guggenheim museum, Rubin museum, CUNY, Studio in a school, and The Cooper Union in New York City.<ref name=":4" />

== Selected exhibitions ==

* ''An Ocean of Galaxies'', Aidron Duckworth Museum, New Hampshire, (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aidronduckworthmuseum.org/guest-artist-program|title=Adrian Duckworth Museum|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* ''Float'', Wilmer Jennings gallery, New York (2018) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenkeleba.org/exhibition|title=Kenkeleba House Past Exhibitions|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508173158/https://www.kenkeleba.org/exhibition|archive-date=8 May 2019|access-date=|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''The Open Window'', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artalivegallery.com/shows.php?cat=shows&scat=&show_display=154|title=Art Alive gallery – The open Window 2017|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''A PARTners'', Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Georgia US (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghia.org/events/tara-sabharwal-partners|title=A PARTners – Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225170141/https://www.ghia.org/events/tara-sabharwal-partners|archive-date=25 February 2021|access-date=11 November 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''In Other Rooms'', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi (2013)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artalivegallery.com/shows.php?cat=shows&scat=&show_display=98|title=Art Alive gallery – In other Rooms 2013|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''Such Different Paths'', Galerie Martina Janzen, Düsseldorf (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.janzen-galerie.de/02ausstellungen/austellungen/2013/ts_paths/ts_paths.htm|title=Such Different Paths Exhibition|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''Light and the Labrynth'', Center for International Cultural exchange, Katsuyama, Japan (2008)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hishioarts.com/en/exhibition-events/past-exhibitions/tara-sabharwal/|title=Light in a Labyrinth|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''Life Journeys'', V.M. gallery, Karachi, (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/233235/karachi-life-s-journeys-at-v-m-art-gallery|title=KARACHI: Life's journeys at V.M. Art gallery|last=|first=|date=17 February 2007|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''The Dream of Waking Consciousness'', Art Heritage Gallery New Delhi (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artasiamerica.org/documents/3956|title=Artasiamerica – A Dream of Waking Consciousness|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''Wandering'', Michael Oess Galerie, Konstanz, Germany (2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theartstable.co.uk/gallery/tara_sabharwal.php|title=The Art Stable|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111232513/https://www.theartstable.co.uk/gallery/tara_sabharwal.php|archive-date=11 November 2019|access-date=11 November 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Gentle Shade'', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, (London) (1994)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rebeccahossack.com/usr/documents/press/download_url/524/southern-cross-1995.pdf|title=Southern Cross 1995|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* ''Visions'', Laing Art Gallery, (Newcastle UK) (1990)<ref name=":4" />
* Recent Works, Art Heritage Gallery New Delhi <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artasiamerica.org/documents/3953/66|title=Art Heritage Gallery 1987|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>

== Selected awards ==

* 1982    British Council Scholarship and travel grants (London, UK).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artasiamerica.org/artist/detail/66|title=Arts Asia America|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* 1988    Myles Meehan fellowship (Darlington, UK)<ref name=":3" />
* 1989    Durham Cathedral fellowship (Durham, UK).<ref name=":3" />
* 2015    CALL, (Creating a Living legacy award) Joan Mitchell foundation, (NYC, USA)<ref name=":0" />
* 2016    Individual support grant, Gottlieb Foundation (NYC, US).<ref name=":1" />
* 2017    Artist in Residence, Atelierhaus Beisinghoff (Kassel, Germany)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://atelierhausbeisinghoff.blogspot.com/|title=Atelierhaus Beisinghoff Residents|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* 2018    Belt and Road Project, Guanlan printmaking base, (Shinzhen, China)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tarasabharwal.com/bio-cv|title=Tara Sabharwal Bio|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* 2019    Visiting Artist Vermont Studio Center, (Virginia, USA)<ref name=":1" />
* 2019    Residency, MassMoca, (MA, USA) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://massmoca.org/events/studios|title=Mass Moca Current Residents|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>

== Selected collections ==

* MONA, Museum of Nebraska Art (NE, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mona.unk.edu/mona/?s=Tara+Sabharwal|title=MONA Collection|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
* The British Museum (London, UK)<ref name=":2" />
* The [[New York Public Library|New York Public library]] (NYC, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://1bd7a27a-1414-4939-93da-1da86c0bc591.filesusr.com/ugd/fa0736_c6dde3efcc904517bd5083b6c6f8aa26.pdf|title=Art Alive gallery Catalogue 2017|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* Victoria and Albert Museum (UK, USA)<ref name=":3" />
* [[Peabody Essex Museum]] (MA, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.janzen-galerie.de/03kuenstler/sabharwal_tara/sabharwal_tara.htm|title=Martina Janzen Gallery|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* Library of Congress (D.C, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders2007/t_sabharwal/bio_1.htm|title=Erasing Borders: Indian Artists in the Diaspora|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

== Videos ==

* [https://vimeo.com/230276297 Another Kind of Space], Women's Studio Workshop, 2018
* [https://vimeo.com/261523072 VoCa Talk], Voices of Contemporary Art, NYC, Nov 2017 at Fales Library, NYU.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.voca.network/blog/2018/01/16/callvoca-talk-tara-sabharwal/|title=Call Voca Talk|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
* [https://vimeo.com/4881948 ''From Hishio: Tara Sabharwal''], Artist Residency at Center for International Cultural Exchange, HISHIO, Japan, video by Tom Dean, 2008

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