Yamini Nayar's photographs are found at the intersection of sculpture and photography, and emerge from concerns around spatial tensions, built structures, memory, aftermaths and possibility. Nayar's imagined spaces are documents of studio-based sculptures and installations made from found and lo-tech materials. Once recorded, the structures are disassembled and discarded. Only the photograph remains, as an object and entry point into a moment held together momentarily for the lens.
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Nayar is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency Program, as well as Visiting Artist Scholar at NYU 2011-12. In 2010, Nayar gave the Lightborne Lecture at the Cincinnati Art Museum, as well as held artist residencies at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Center for Photography in Woodstock. Her work has been exhibited in the Cincinnati Art Museum; Queens Museum of Art; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; Art Basel, Galerie Anne Baurault, Paris; Saatchi Gallery, UK, and the US Embassy in Mumbai, India. Publications include the New Yorker, New York Times, Flashart, Vogue India, ArtIndia, the Guardian, ArtPapers, Philips dre Pury's NOW, Art of the 21st Century and the Sharjah Biennial 2011. Nayar's work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Saatchi Collection, Queens Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum and the US Arts in Embassies.
Originally from the Detroit area, Yamini Nayar lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Nayar holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999 and an MFA from School of Visual Arts, NY in 2005 where she was a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship.
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'Object Lessons' curated by Vince Aletti New York Photo Festival, 2010Artists: Jeff Bark, Adam Bartos, Sharon Core, Sally Gall, Bill Jacobson, Richard Learoyd,
Laura Letinsky, Andrea Modica, Yamini Nayar, Jiro Takamatsu, Jocko Weyland