Indian artist to have work exhibited in NYC

More than 150 works of Indian modernist Nasreen Mohamedi will be displayed at an exhibition at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art this month with the help of Reliance Foundation, marking the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the US.

The exhibition is a celebration of Mohamedi, considered the most important artists to emerge in post-Independence India and examines the career of the artist whose singular and sustained engagement with abstraction adds a rich layer to the history of South Asian art and to modernism on an international level, the museum said.

The exhibition is made possible by Nita and Mukesh Ambani and the Reliance Foundation and is organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia with the collaboration of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

The retrospective will span the entire career of Mohamedi from her early works in the 1960s through her late works on paper in the 1980s.

It is by far the most comprehensive exhibition of any Indian artist in the United States.