UMA RAY
Education
Master of Fine Arts from Visva Bharati University (Sculpture), Shantiniketan - July 2006
Bachelor of Visual Arts from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata - August 2004
Exhibitions:
2016
- 49th Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2015
- Svikriti , Award Show at Birla Academy Of Art and Culture, Kolkata
- Transborda Overflow, Alcobaca, Portugal
- Walk on the Line, a Multi-disciplinary art project, Environmental Art Chander Haat Prangon, curated by Manas Acharya
- 48th Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2014
- Transborda I Overflow. International Expanded Cinema and video Art Screening, curated by Alberto Guerriero. Outdoor screening at Alcobaca Historic Centre, Portugal
- Continuum – Unbound studio in association with Studio 21, Kolkata and Kala Bhavana, Shanitiniketan in association with Visva Bharati University.
2013
- Continuum – Unbound studio presents Continuum at The Lagos International Video Art Festival 2013-2014, Nigeria.
- Time is Love.6 – 2013
(As part of 6th edition of Time is Love - Curated by Kisito Assangni) –
- Tenerife Espacio De Las Artes, Spain
- Contemporary Hotel Bloom! Brussels, Belgium
- Stiftelsen 3,14 - International Contemporary Art Foundation, Bergen, Norway
- Kulter. Gallery, Amsterdam
- Sazmanab Platform for Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
- Mori + Stein Gallery London
- Peanut Underground Art Projects, NY
2012
- Video screening (Dreamers on the River) Unbound Studio (Pune, India),
Belgrade Art Fair
- “Where the River Meets its People” - Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of Byways III.
Public Art and Ecology project. (Khoj Artists Association). Jamshedpur.
- Music for Jana Hunterova’s Video - “India” featured at National Museum of Singapore
2011
- HEP – Human Emotions Project, Video Dia Loghi, Italy
- Liquid Cities Temporary Identities, International ArtExpo, Croatia & Greece
- Fragments Video Art Collaboration Project at Arnot Art Museum,
2009
- 5th International Festival for video art and experimental film ATTITUDE, Bitola, Macedonia
- Vitruvian Woman Video Project (2008-2009), Formverk Art Space in Sweden.
Video Installation in Torino, Italy at the Festival "Video Dia Loghi 2009"
2008
- Re:peat visual event new media platform Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia
2007
- 24th Biennale D’ Alexandria at Atelier D’ Alexandria, Egypt
Workshops and Residencies
- Workshop with Students from Kala Bhavan, on the various possibilities of Video art and collaborations.
- Hospitalfield Arts Interdisciplinary Residency 2014, Arbroath, Scotlanld
- Mukhaarh - Workshop with school children of Dobo village in Jamshedpur. Part of The public art project, “Where the River Meets its People” - Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of Byways III, 2012
- AMALA workshop and Exhibition in collaboration with the Goethe institute, Egypt 2009
- Thupelo Workshop 2007, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.
- AMALA workshop and Exhibition in collaboration with the Goethe institute and L’ Atelier De’ Alexandria. Egypt – 2007.
- Peers Residency at Khoj Artists Organisation -2007
Public art projects and forum:
2015
- The Negotiating Routes: 5 Year Meeting. Khoj lnternatonal Artists Associaton, New Delhi
- 2nd Little Cinema organised by TENT and Unbound Studio in association with Studio 21– premiering Time is love, Home (Tushar Waghela) and KYTA Program.
- Unbound Studio presents discussion on Bio Art and presentation of videos works as part of her curatorial endeavors by Mireille Bourgeois at IIT, Powai; Symbiosis Institute of Design and Khoj Pune
2014
- Screening, presentation and workshop on video art – Unbound Studio, in association with Centre of Interdisciplinary Arts, Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan; in collaboration with VAN Lagos, Nigeria, Where Dreams Cross, Sweden, and Doplegenger, Serbia.
- Screening of Continuum… followed by an interdisciplinary group discussion and public forum at Studio 21 (16th and 17th May) as part of ongoing projects of Unbound Studio.
2012
- Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of Byways III: (Where the River Meets its People)
A community based project focusing on the tribal population of Domahani region, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), and their relationship with the 2 rivers Subarnarekha and Kharkai. The project aims to highlight how these tribals have settled at the confluence of the rivers and how their economic, social and cultural practices revolve around these water bodies. Supported by KHOJ international Artist Workshop.
Biography –
Uma Ray was born in Jamshedpur, India and lives and works in Kolkata. She completed her BVA at Rabindra Bharati University specializing in Sculpture in 2004 before receiving a MFA in Sculpture from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan in 2006. . .
Ray’s works derive mainly from her surroundings. She works across various media incorporating drawings, video, installations and music, exploring the expressive tactility of material in their most un-tampered state through her work. Current socio – political uncertainties - that lead to introspection and self-examination, and inquiry of one's identity and the social positioning of the self at such times - pique her interest. Her works evolve from her immediate experiences. They tend to be philosophical and “fragile” as she believes the nature of life to be.
Ray has had shows at Alcobaça, Portugal, STIFTELSEN 3,14 - International Contemporary Art Foundation; Sazmanab Platform for Contemporary Arts, Peanut Underground Art Projects, NY; Mori + Stein Gallery London, Arnot Art Museum, New York; Belgrade Art Fair, Formverk Art Space in Sweden, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples; National Museum of Singapore; Goethe Institute, Alexandria (Egypt) among other places.
Ray’s works derive mainly from her surroundings. She works across various media incorporating drawings, video, installations and music, exploring the expressive tactility of material in their most un-tampered state through her work. Current socio – political uncertainties - that lead to introspection and self-examination, and inquiry of one's identity and the social positioning of the self at such times - pique her interest. Her works evolve from her immediate experiences. They tend to be philosophical and “fragile” as she believes the nature of life to be.
Ray has had shows at Alcobaça, Portugal, STIFTELSEN 3,14 - International Contemporary Art Foundation; Sazmanab Platform for Contemporary Arts, Peanut Underground Art Projects, NY; Mori + Stein Gallery London, Arnot Art Museum, New York; Belgrade Art Fair, Formverk Art Space in Sweden, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples; National Museum of Singapore; Goethe Institute, Alexandria (Egypt) among other places.
