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{{short description|Indian artist (born 1957)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Varsha Nair
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}}
| birth_place = [[Kampala]], Uganda
| education = [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]]
| known_for = Painting, performance art, feminist art, live art
| notable_works = ''Encounter(s)'' (2006), ''Undercurrent Yangon'' (2014)
| style = Contemporary art, performance art
| movement = Feminist art, Womanifesto
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'''Varsha Nair''' (born 1957) is a [[Ugandan Indians|Ugandan Indian]] painter. Her work explores the concepts of [[Displacement (psychology)|displacement]], home and belonging.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Nair, Varsha {{!}} Artist Profile with Bio |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Varsha-Nair/8926485B9508BA08 |access-date=2018-03-30 |website=www.mutualart.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Asia Art |title=Interview with Varsha Nair |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/ideas/ideas/interview-with-varsha-nair |access-date=2018-03-30 |website=aaa.org.hk |language=en}}</ref> Nair lives in [[Vadodara]], India.

== Biography ==
Nair was born in [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.varshanair.studio/about|title=Varsha Nair - About|website=Varsha Nair|language=en|access-date=2018-03-30}}</ref> She was trained in [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]] and moved to [[Bangkok]] in 1995 after relocating from [[India]] to [[England]] and back.

She is one of the co-founders of [[Womanifesto]], a feminist art collective and biennial program that was active in Thailand between 1997 and 2008, creating an international artist-led exchange platform in the country.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Asia through art and anthropology : cultural translation across borders|others=Nakamura, Fuyubi, 1974-, Perkins, Morgan,, Krischer, Olivier,, Morphy, Howard,, 中村, 冬日, 1974-|date=5 December 2013|isbn=978-0857854483|location=London|oclc=862112488}}</ref>

Her work has been exhibited in numerous art institutions, including [[Tate Modern]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=ArtAsiaPacific: Still Moving Image |url=http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/62/StillMovingImage |access-date=2018-03-30 |website=artasiapacific.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Mumbai comes to Tate Modern – Press Release |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/mumbai-comes-tate-modern |access-date=2022-03-26 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref> (London), [[Haus der Kulturen der Welt]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meridian / Urban |url=http://kunstaspekte.art/event/meridian-urban-2011-09 |access-date=2022-03-26 |website=kunstaspekte.de |language=de |archive-date=2022-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326084630/https://kunstaspekte.art/event/meridian-urban-2011-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (Berlin), [[Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Subcontingent - The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art |url=http://kunstaspekte.art/event/subcontingent-the-indian-subcontinent-in-contemporary-2006-06 |access-date=2022-03-26 |website=kunstaspekte.de |language=de |archive-date=2022-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326084631/https://kunstaspekte.art/event/subcontingent-the-indian-subcontinent-in-contemporary-2006-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (Turin), [[Art in General]] (New York), Sarajevo Centre of Contemporary Art (Sarajevo), Experimenta Media Arts (Melbourne), [[LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts|LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts]], [[Devi Art Foundation]] (New Delhi), and The Guild Art Gallery ([[Mumbai]]).<ref name=":0" /> She has published her articles in several art publications, including ''[[n.paradoxa]]'', ''Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia'', ''[[ArtAsiaPacific]]'', and ''Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art''.

== Artworks ==
In 2006, Nair staged a series of live interventions titled ''Encounter(s),'' performed at the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern.<ref name=":2" /> She collaborated with [[Tejal Shah]] (from Mumbai) to develop these interventions, in which the artists wore white, embroidered straightjackets, connected to each other by absurdly long sleeves, and lay claim to the vast architectural Turbine Hall.<ref name=":2" /> This work was also performed in numerous other locations, including the [[National Review of Live Art]] festival in Glasgow and the [[Palazzo Carignano]] in [[Turin]], Italy.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.varshanair.studio/encounter-s-2006#5|title=Varsha Nair|last=Nair|first=Varsha|access-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref>

Her work, ''Undercurrent Yangon'' from 2014, was performed at the People's Park in [[Yangon]], Myanmar.<ref name=":3" /> Vasha Nair also participated in the 2nd Beyond Pressure International Festival of Performance Art in Yangon in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/library/2nd-beyond-pressure-international-festival-of-performance-art-yangon-myanmar-2009/search/actors:varsha-nair/page/1/view_as/grid|title=2nd Beyond Pressure International Festival of Performance Art: Yangon, Myanmar 2009|website=Asia Art Archive|access-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:1957 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian installation artists]]
[[Category:People from Kampala]]
[[Category:Ugandan women artists]]
[[Category:Ugandan painters]]
[[Category:Indian painters]]
[[Category:Indian people of Ugandan descent]]
[[Category:Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni]]
[[Category:Contemporary painters]]
[[Category:Performance artists]]
[[Category:Feminist artists]]
[[Category:Indian women curators]]
[[Category:Indian art writers]]
[[Category:Indian feminist writers]]

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