Manish Nai
Artist
Biography
Manish Nai (b. 1980, Gujarat, India) received a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the L.S. Raheja School of Art in Mumbai. Working with modest, distinctly Indian materials — jute, newspaper, used clothes, old books, and found or rusted corrugated metal sheets — he compresses, reshapes and reconfigures them into sculptural and pictorial forms that preserve the material’s history while giving it an entirely new form. Nai has exhibited at institutions including Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; Para Site, Hong Kong; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; NTU CCA, Singapore; and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, and took part in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014, 2018) and the Shanghai Biennale (2012). In 2017 Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France, presented a comprehensive exhibition of his work. (Source: Leila Heller Gallery)