Shelly Jyoti is a visual artist, fashion designer, poet and an independent curator whose work references in the cultural context of Indian history. She is trained as a fashion designer from National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, and she earned her MA in English with American Literature from Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Select shows include:
2023 Indigo: The Blue Gold (retrospective 2009-23) South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
2021 Epoch 2020: An Iconology of Time -Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (virtual exhibition/webinar)
2019 Bound by duty: An idea of Swaraj and Collectiveness Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India International Center, New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi
2018 Revisiting Gandhi: The Art of Shelly Jyoti (Retrospective 2009-2018) 2018-Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi
2016 The Khadi March: Just Five Meters (Solo) National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore (2017); Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, (2017);Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2016);
2013 Salt:The Great March–(Solo show)Azad Bhavan Gallery, Indian Council of Cultural RelationICCR, New Delhi (2015); The Heritage Museum DakshinaChitra, Chennai(2014); India International Centre IIC, New Delhi (2014);Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts,New Delhi (2013-14);
2009 Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina–Gandhi Memorial Centre, Washington DC USA (Nov 2013-14); Chicago Cultural Centre Chicago IL, USA (2013); Diana Lowenstein Gallery Miami FL, USA (2011); ArtXchange Gallery Seattle WA, USA (2011); Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai (2010); Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre New Delhi (2009); ABS RedEarth Art Gallery Baroda (2009);.
2009Women Imaging Women: The study of female portraiture–The State Street Gallery Robert Morris University Chicago, USA
2008 Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative– Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA (2008); Jamaat Art Gallery, Mumbai (2008); India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2008/2009);
2007 Lyrical Abstraction: A Room of/for Muses–Experimental Art Gallery – India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2007); WelcomArt Gallery Baroda,Gujarat (2009).
Her works are installed in the Parliament house of India and seen in corporate and private collections in India and abroad, including the TAPI collection (Textiles & Art of the People of India) in Surat, India, IGNCA (Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts) New Delhi and with International Lincoln Centre, Louisana State University, Shreveport as their permanent collection. Her curatorial project “Traditional Indian Textiles” is a travelling exhibition of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) for ASEAN countries. She has authored the catalogue publication for the same.
Jyoti is a jury member and is invited for special lectures at National Institute of Fashion Technology NIFT, New Delhi. She has been invited to read papers in international conferences, give talks, conduct workshops in Art and Fashion schools in India and abroad. She writes on Art and fashion for magazines and journals. Her poetry and artworks are in a publication with the Sahitya Akademi journal of Indian English literature.
She has been awarded support from the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA), Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Gujarat Lalit Kala Akademi for art and curatorial projects. She has been recently awarded from Sahitya Parishad as practising woman artists of India (2018). she was also elected amongst 30 eminent women painters in Delhi by the Sahitya Kala Parishad in 2013.
Her works have been reviewed and interviewed in Art India, ArtEtc, Business Standard, Financial Times, The Quilters UK, Indian Express Mumbai, India Today, The Hindustan Times, Times of India and T.V channels like India Times now, Loksabha channel, India calling Channel, Illinois stories, Knowledge Networking Channel, Illinois,USA,
She lives and works in Gurgaon and New Delhi, India
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