Mohit Shelare

Biography

Mohit Shelare is an artist based in India. His practice dwells between toxins and living, contaminating material history and its memory while proposing new knowledge-making. He draws on waste that shapes the psychology of the human mind and therefore the thinking-systems that we are in. He creates conversational settings where speech and listening occurs with drawing, performance, text, object, sound and video. Through these conversational spaces, he attempts to expand on ontologies of waste,unequal distribution of toxins and abstraction of caste. His work has been exhibited at Watermans Foundation, London; Ashkal Alwan Home Works Space Program, Beirut, Lebanon; Foundation of Contemporary Art, Delhi, India; Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Switzerland; CAMP Studio, Mumbai, India; Kochi-Muziris Student Biennale, Kerala; Conflictorium Museum, Gujarat, India. He is a recipient of grants and awards, including the Prince Claus Seed Award (Netherlands); the Inlaks Fine Art Award (India); the Regional Arts Assembly (Australia); Five Million Incidents (India); Generator Experimenter (Kolkata); and the IFA (Bengaluru). He is currently a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design (NID). Most recently, Mohit was an artist in residence at the Delfina Foundation in London.