solo shows
2022
- Bharti Kher: Ancestor, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA
- Bharti Kher. The Body is a Place, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2021
- Strange Attractors, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2020
- A Consummate Joy, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
- The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos, Galerie Perrotin, New York
2019
- A wonderful anarchy, Hauser&Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
2018
- Djinns, things, places, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
- Messengers, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
- Chimeras, Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
- Points de départ, points qui lient, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2017
- Bharti Kher : Sketchbooks and Diaries, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
- Dark Matter (MM), Museum Frieder Burda Salon Berlin, Germany
2016
- The Laws of Reversed Effort, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
- This Breathing House, Freud Museum, London
- BHARTI KHER Matter, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
- In Her Own Language, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
2015
- Not All Who Wanders Are Lost, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2014
- three decimal points. Of a minute of a second of a defree, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
- Misdemeanors, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2013
- Anomalies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- Bind the Dream State to your Waking Life, Galerie Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2012
- Many, (too) many, more than before, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
- Bharti Kher, Parasol Unit Foundation for contemporary art, London
- The hot winds that blow from the West, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2011
- Leave your smell, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2010
- Disturbia, utopia, house beautiful, Gallery SKE, Bangalore, India
- Inevitable undeniable necessary, Hauser & Wirth, London
2008
- Sing to them that will listen Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- Virus, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007
- An absence of assignable cause, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
- An absence of assignable cause, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2006
- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup, Gallery 88 and Ske Gallery, Mumbai, India
2004
- Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like, Gallery Ske, Bangalore, India
- Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2001
- The Private Softness of Skin, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
2000
- The Private Softness of Skin, Bose Pacia Modern, New York (cat), USA
1999
- Telling Tails, New Delhi, India
- Telling Tails, Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997
- Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
- Art Heritage, (cat), New Delhi, India
1993
- AIFACS, New Delhi, India
group shows
2023
- Tie To All The Earth, Teagan Art Space, Beijing, China
- The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum, London, Uk
- Bodies of Identities, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg
2022
- Pop South Asia. Artistic Explorations in the Popular, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello/Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, Venice, Italy
- Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
- Hub India: Classical Radical, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Torino, Italy
2020
- Tantra : enlightenment to revolution, The British Museum, London, UK
- Relations (Diaspora and Painting), Fondation Phi, Montreal, Canada
- Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South, Joburg Contemporary Art Fondation, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 21st-Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA
- Résonance, Fondation Opale, Switzerland
- Animals in Art, Arken, Ishøj, Denmark
- Dhaka Art Summit : Seismic Movements, Bangladesh
- Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2019
- Les arts du Tout-Monde, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti, Columbus Museum of Art and Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
- In the Company of Artists, 25 Years of Artists-In-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
- Desire in Art, from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
- Public Art Exhibition, Harvard Business School, Boston, USA
- La Lumière des Mondes, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France
- Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2018
- Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta - Alberta, Canada
- Facing India, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Wolfsburg, Germany
- Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- I See You, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
- Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK
- The Sculpture Park, Madhavendra Palace at Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, India
- Bronze Age c.3500 BC - AD 2018, Firstsite, Colchester, England
2017
- Fond illusions, Perrotin, New York, USA
- Portable Art: A project by Celia Forner, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
- Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- Pizzuti Collection, Visions from India. Transforming Vision: 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus OH
- Salon, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
- Sub-Plots: Laughing in the Vernacular, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
- Approaching Land, Akara Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2016
- I Prefer Life, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
- Present, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
- The Future Is Already Here – It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2015
- Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, curated by Suhanya Raffel
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Don’t Shoot the Painter – UBS Art Collection, Villa Reale’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
- Codes of Culture, SKE Gallery, New Dehli, India
2014
- Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
- Girl - curated by Pharrel Williams, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
- Entre deux expositions. Collections et nouvelles acquisitions de l'Institut, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
- Here Today...A major exhibition marking 50 years of the IUCN Red List, The Old Sorting Office, London
2013
- Textile – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
- Quartiers d'été, Collection de l'Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, villa les Roches Brunes, Dinard, France
- Trade Routes, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
- We are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India
- Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2012
- Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
- Dot. Systems. From Pointillism to Pixelation, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Germany
- La Belle & la Bête, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
- India: Art Now, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
- The First Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Art: The best of times, the worst of times. Rebirth and apocalypse in contemporary art’, Kiev, Ukraine
- Critical Mass, Contemporary art from India, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2011
- Indian Highway V, MAXXI Museum, Roma
- Seduction by masquerade, Nature Morte, Delhi, India
- Paris Delhi Bombay, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Indian Highway IV, Museé d'art contemporain de Lyon
- Festival der Tiere, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
- Maximum INDIA, John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
2010
- Tokyo Art Meeting. Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Pattern ID , Akron Art Museum, One South high Akron Ohio, US
- The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London
- Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson…, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- Gothenburg Culture Festival Gothenburg, Sweden
- Lille3000: The Silk Road. Saatchi Gallery London in Lille, Tri Postal, Lille
- Indian Highway, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
- Signs of Life. Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern,Lucerne
- Susan Hefuna, Bharti Kher, Fred Tomaselli: Between the Worlds, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
- Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, England
- Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, US
2009
- Marvellous Reality, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
Shifting Shapes. Unstable Signs, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT
Narratives from India in the 21st century: Between Memory and History, Madrid / Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
- Who’s Afraid of the Artists? A Selection of Works from the Pinault Collection, Palais des Arts de Dinard, France
- Bharti Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild, Mindy Shapero, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY
- Les Artistes Indiens d’Aujourd’hui, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France
- Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Re-imagining Asia. A Thousand Years of Separation, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England (Travelling Exhibition)
- Where in the world, curated by Kavita Singh, Shukla Sawant and Naman Ahuja, Devi
- Art foundation, New Delhi, India
- Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, The National Museum of Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
- Indian Highway, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2008
- Indian Highway, curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- Mutant Beauty, Anant Art Gallery, curated by Gayatri Sinha at the Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
- Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- Indian Focus, Espace Claude Berri, Paris
- Everywhere is war, Bodhi Art Bombay, curated by Shaheen Merali, (cat.)
- Still moving Image, Devi Art Foundation, curated by Deeksha Nath at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India (cat.)
- Expenditure, the Busan Biennale, directed by Kim, Won-Bang at The Busan Museum of Modern Art, Korea
- Comme des bêtes, (Like animals), Fine Arts Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, curated by Bernard Fibicher
- Re-imagining Asia, A thousand years of separation, curated by Shaheen Merali and Wu Hang, at the House of world cultures (cat)
- Distant Nearness, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas, USA
- Passage to India, Frank Cohen Collection at Initial Access Wolverhampton, UK
- India - Guest in the Giant, RAIN.bow.PEARLS, organized by Swarovski at the Kristallwelten
- New Delhi – New Wave, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italy (cat.)
2007
- The Sneeze 80x80, curated by Peter Lloyd Lewis and Natasha Makowski, Cape Town, Durban
- International exhibition of sculptures and installations, organised by Arte Communications and the Department of culture of the Venice City Council.
- Urban Manners. Contemporary Artists from India, curated by Adelina von Furstenberg at Hangar Bicocca in collaboration with ART for the World Europa, Milan, Italy
- Indian Photo and Media Art: A Jouney of Discovery, FLUSS - NÖ Initiative for Photo-and Media Art, Weinviertel, Austria
- Private/Corporate IV, Sammlung DaimlerChrysler- Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, Berlin, Germany
2006
- Fuori Uso 2006- Altered States. Are you experienced? curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy
Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, (cat), Brisbane, Australia
- Le troisième Oeil, Lille 3000, curated by Caroline Naphegyi, (cat), Lille, France
- Inside outside, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
- Hungry Gods, Arario Gallery, (cat), Beijing, China
- Made By Indians, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Art on the beach, (cat), St Tropez, France
- Long Happy Hours Thereby Happiness & Other Stories, Gallery Chemould at The Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India
2005
- Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen curated by Simone Wilke, IFA Galerie Berlin and Stutgard, (cat), Germany
- Mom and Pop, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
- Indian Summer, curated by Deepak Anand and Jany Luga, ENSBA, (cat), Paris
- Indian Summer, Nature Morte, New Delhi
- Het offer/ an intimate I: droom en werkelijkheid, De Beverd Museum voor Grafische werkeljkheid, Breda
2004
- Contemporary Art From India, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
- Vanitas Vanitatum, curated by Peter Nagy for Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
- The SNEEZE, a Featured Film 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, curated by Natasha Makowski and Peter Lloyd Lewis, (cat), Athens, Greece
- Adrogyne, curated by Alka Pande at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
2003
- Crossing Generations: diverge, curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani for 40 years of Gallery Chemould, (cat), Mumbai, India
- The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary art from India, curated by Gavin Jantjes, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, (Cat), Norway
- Sirpur Paper Mills, workshop Exhibition, at Art Inc, New Delhi, India
- Bad Taste, Apparao Gallery, at The Apeejay New Media Centre, New Delhi, India
2002
- Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, (cat), Tokyo and Japan Foundation, Japan
- Khoj Residency Show, Khoj Studios, New Delhi, India
- Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, (cat), New Delhi, India
- Photosphere, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
- Playgrounds & Toys, ART for The World, Geneva, in Delhi with Nature Morte
- Cutting Edge Contemporary, curated by Art Edge, NGMA Mumbai, Interiors Espana, New Delhi, India
- GLUE, curated by Peter Nagy at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, India
- Borderless Terrain, curated by Alka Pande, India Habitat Center, (cat), New Delhi, India
- Silence Violence, NSA Gallery, a Pulse Project, curated by Greg Streak Durban, NieBethesda and Stellenbosch, South Africa
- MANGO, A SAWCC show for Talwar Gallery, New York, USA
- Sorry For The Inconvenience, curated by Gridthya Gaeweewong for Japan Foundation, at Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Tokyo (Cat)
- Sidewinder, curated by Gerard Hemsworth for CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, India
2001
- Art On The Move, a Sahmat Project curated by Vivan Sundaram, in 5 venues in Delhi, India
- Kitch kitch Hota Hai, curated by Madhu Jain for Gallery Espace, India Habitat Center, (cat), New Delhi, India
2000
- Open Circle Exhibition, Lakeeren art Gallery, (cat), Mumbai, India
- of, based on, or obtained by (Tradition), Nature Morte, New Delhi
- Aar Paar, an exchange between five Indian and Pakistani artists, curated by Shilpa Gupta and Hema Mulji, at Kundan Pan Shop, Karachi, Pakistan
1999
- Impact, curated by Jim Beard Gallery, Amsterdam at CCA New Delhi, India
- Embarkation’s, curated by Yashodra Dalmia, Sakshi Gallery (cat), Mumbai, India
- Icons of The Millenium, curated by Lakeeren Art Gallery, Nehru Centre, (Cat), Mumbai, India
- Boxwallahs, Art in a Public Space with De Ego, a collaborative work with Subodh Gupta at Sahay Filling Station, Gurgaon/ Mehrauli Road, N.H.8, India
- Hed end aagse Kunst uit India, Central Bureau Vande Hogeschool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988
- Edge of The Century, curated by Amit Mukopadya, British Council, (cat), New Delhi, India
- Cryptograms, Lakeeren Art Gallery, (cat), Mumbai, India
1996
- Royal Overseas League Open Exhibition, Overseas House London, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
- Of Women Icons/Stars/Feasts, Eicher Gallery, (cat), New Delhi
1995
- 6th Bharat Bhawan Biennal of Contemporary Indian Arts, Bhopal, India
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
- Postcards for Gandhi, a Sahmat Exhibition in five cities in India
1993
- Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1991
- Aspects of British Figurative Painting (1988-93), Milton Gallery, London, UK
1990
- Fresh Art, the National Fine Art Degree Fair, the Business Design Center, London, UK
- Squires Gallery, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK