Nisha Duggal works in response to structures of power and control. She processes everyday experience to explore expressions of freedom and creativity lived within it. Through relational portraits that highlight an insecurity at the very concept of individuality, her practice posits constructive frameworks for living within an increasingly overloaded world.
Nisha's films and drawings have exhibited internationally including installations at Watermans (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Ginza Art Lab (Tokyo), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead) and Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno) and screenings at European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck), Rekalde (Bilbao), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and Iniva (London). She has been awarded commissions by Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Contemporary Art Forum (Kitchener, Ontario). Nisha studied at Derby and The Slade and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards in 2008. She completed the Florence Trust residency in 2010 and has work in the Saatchi Collection. She lives and works in London.
Exhibitions
Current and forthcoming:
Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: 10 February – 16 February, Kotti-Shop, Berlin www.kotti-shop.net
Beyond Pattern: 3 December – 23 February, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK2012
Austerity Measures: 7 January – 4 February, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK www.norwichartscentre.co.uk2011
Pixelpops, Nouvel Organon, Paris, France www.nouvelorganon.com
Animation Open, Salisbury Arts Centre, UK www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk
Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire, UK www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk
A Baker's Dozen, Atrium Gallery, London School of Economics, London
Curated by HRL Contemporary
Things to make and do, Watermans (solo show), London www.watermans.org.uk
At Play, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK www.southhillpark.org.uk
Beyond Pattern, UH Galleries, Hertfordshire, UK
2010
Beyond Pattern, DLI Gallery, Durham, UK
FT10, Florence Trust, London www.florencetrust.org
PW10, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK www.arnolfini.org.uk
Equal night, The Dissenter's Chapel and Gallery, Kensal Green, London
Off Modern, Corsica Studios, London www.offmodern.com
2009
Beyond Pattern, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales www.orieldavies.org
The Brain Unravelled, Slade Research Centre, London www.thebrainunravelled.com
A thing about machines, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry www.athingaboutmachines.co.uk
The Slade School of Fine Art MA Show 2009, London www.ucl.ac.uk
Art Below Zero°, Westbourne Studios, London, UK www.artbelowzero.com
Nisha Duggal (solo presentation), Art Connexion, Lille, France www.artconnexion.org
The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, London, UK www.thevoiceandnothingmore.com2008
Approach, Espace Croisé, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Roubaix, France www.espacecroise.com
Fantastic, found and fake, Conjunction 08, Stoke on Trent, UK www.conjunction.org.uk
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, London, U.www.bowarts.com
Art and ecology, Margate Rocks, Margate, UK www.margaterocks.com2007
TECKST, Verkligheten, Umea, Sweden www.verkligheten.net
Dislocate, Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo, Japan www.dis-locate.net
The World Around You, Airvideo 2, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-o-Trent, UK www.airspacegallery.org2006
The 16th Mostyn Open Exhibition, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK www.mostyn.org
You shall know our velocity, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK www.balticmill.com2005
Platform 00000005, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK www.platformnortheast.org
The Big M, Berwick Film & Media Festival, Berwick upon Tweed, UK Touring show www.isisarts.org.uk
Immediate 3, Site Galllery, Sheffield, UK www.sitegallery.org
Sounds like trouble, Re:projects, Stroud Valley Artspace, Stroud, UK www.reprojects.org
Outvideo, NCCA, Urals, Russia www.artpolitika.ru2004
Peace of mind, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada www.contemporaryartforum.ca
The portable projector, public art exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland
Food glorious food, 20-21 Visual Arts, Scunthorpe, UK2003
Hubbub, Globe Hub, North Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK2002
The long night of audio, visual and live art, Umbrella Arts, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Land, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire, UK
WO1, Washington Arts Centre, Washington, UK
Nature selected them for extinction, Charlton Bonds, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK2001
Independent Art School: Models of practice, Dilston Grove, London, UK
Awards
2009
Sortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award2008
Shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Award www.jerwoodmovingimage.org
Screenings
2011
6th Edition Streaming Festival (Colours) www.streamingfesyival.com
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany (Dead air) www.emaf.de
Lightworks, Grimsby, UK (Dead air)
2010
The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse, UK (Institute) www.the-cutting-room.org
Moving Frames, Mytilene, Greece (Institute) www.movingframes.gr
Sound in Vision Film Festival, Clapham Picturehouse, London, UK (Cave V Mclean)
2009
Common Ground: Aurora Film Festival, Norwich Arts Centre (Colours) www.aurora.org.uk
Figures of speech, Film & Video Umbrella, various London locations: Artsdepot, Iniva, Shortwave Cinema, PM Gallery (Machine) www.freetoair.org.uk
Transitions - Cultural bodies, Red Wire, Liverpool (Institute) www.liamikey.co.uk
The Big M, And Festival, Liverpool (make-up forever) www.andfestival.org.uk
Radiator: Exploits in the wireless city, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK (Machine)
www.radiator-festival.org2008
Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Machine) www.exposuresfilmfestival.co.uk
Speed is open, Bearspace Gallery, London, UK (Cave V Mclean) www.bearspace.co.uk
Calypso, Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (Honestly, truly, really, deeply)2007
Intermix 07, curated by Pavilion, Leeds, UK (We all fade away. www.pavilion.org.uk
Encounters Short Film Festival, Watershed, Bristol, UK (We all fade away. www.encounters-festival.org.uk
One-minute with meaning, Freinds of the Earth (Man-made) www.foe.co.uk/green_film
Artradio, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Some things poeple have in common)2004
Investigating Film, Side Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK2003
Lonomi 03, 21 South Street, Reading, UK2003
Gosee, Mountbatten Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Commissions
2011
In order to acquire a void, installation commissioned by Wirksworth Festival, UK
2008
Didn't we do well!, commissioned by Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
2004
Things some people may have in common, sound installation commissioned by Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Canada
Flat Like Reflections commissioned by Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK2003
20/20 collaborative film as part of a.v fest 2003, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Residencies
2009
Studio residency at The Florence Trust, London, UK (twelve months) www.florencetrust.org
Research Residency at Isis Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (three weeks. www.isisarts.org.uk2005
Image and identity at Lord Lawson Art and Design Academy, Co Durham, UK (six weeks.2003
Graft studio residency, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (ten weeks)
Collections
The Saatchi Collection
Private Collections
Public talks and lectures
2010: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2009: Isis Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2007: University of Derby, UK
2006: University of Derby, UK
2005: Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Canada
2004: Cumbria College of Art and Design, UK
2003: Cumbria College of Art and Desigmn, UK
Publications
Beyond Pattern, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales, 2010 ISBN 978 870797 55 8
GRID, rubric #2, Winter 2009, UK ISSN 2041 613X
Saison video 2009 #33, Saison video, Lille, France
New Art from the North, Site Gallery, Cornerhouse Publications, UK, 2005 ISBN: 1 899926 615
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