Working with video, painting, printmaking, drawing, installation, and other mediums, Rohini Devasher (b. 1978, New Delhi, India) maps the complexities of ecology, cosmology, and technology. The theoretical grounding of her work draws from the history of science, philosophy, speculative fiction, and eco-horror. Her work has been shown at the Palaispopulaire, Berlin (2024) Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco (2024), Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco (2024), Kunsthalle Bern, (2024), Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Netherlands (2024), Tai Kwun Contemporary (2023), Macao International Art Biennale (2023), Collegium Helveticum, Zurich (2023), Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi (2023), the Open Data Institute London (2022), Rubin Museum, New York (2021- 22), the Sea Art Festival, Busan (2021), Vienna Academy of Fine Art (2021), the Kunst Leuven City Festival (2021) the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), Kaserne Basel (2019) Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2018), 7th Moscow Biennial (2017), the Spencer Museum of Art USA (2018,16), MAAT Museum of Art and Technology, Lisbon (2016), ZKM, Karsruhe (2016), Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai (2016, 2018), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016) among others.
She was recently a 2023 dual resident in Arts at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru, India as part of Connect India, a collaboration between Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank’s ‘Artist of the Year’ award for 2024, culminating in her ongoing solo exhibition, Borrowed Light, at PalaisPopulaire, Berlin.
Devasher’s past residencies include Cove Park, in Cove, Scotland (2022); London’s Open Data Institute (2021–22); Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas (2016); the Anthropocene Campus at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HWK) (2016); the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2014); the Glasgow Print Studio (2014); and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2012). In 2018, she spent 26 days as an artist-in-residence on an oil tanker traveling from Fiji to Singapore as part of The Owner’s Cabin Residency Program.
Rohini Devasher holds a BFA in painting from New Delhi’s College of Art and an MA in printmaking from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in the UK. She is co-represented by Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, California, and Project 88 in Mumbai, India.