Navjot altaf biography

Life and career.
Navjot Lives and works in Mumbai and Bastar, India.
Navjot was born in 1949 in Meerut and moved to Mumbai in 1969.

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Navjot Altaf

Navjot was born in 1949 in Meerut and moved to Mumbai in 1969. She graduated with a diploma from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai in 1972. An accompolished painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and installation artist; she has travelled extensively across the world, empowering people through these mediums. Inspired by Marxist ideologies, she constantly pushed the boundaries of material and genre to express her social concerns. Both in their process of creation and in their subject, her sculptural work addresses issues of social injustice and religious violence in India through a unique feminine perspective. In the seventies, she was also associated with the Progressive Youth Movement.

Throughout her career, Navjot contextualises memory, history and culture, gender and sexuality through her own experiencies and addresses social, political and artistic issues. Through her work we see a sense of social commitment and a need to interrogate existing power structures and expose the injustice practiced against weaker sections of society.

“My work has re-tracked the f

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Navjot Altaf: Pattern

Pattern marks the first solo exhibition of Navjot Altaf in the Arabian Peninsula. Featuring site-specific installations, sculptures, videos, drawings and photo prints, the exhibition foregrounds Navjot’s longstanding commitment to issues of climate-change, ecology and feminism and the challenges they face in the digital age.

Navjot’s practice stands at the intersection of art and activism. With a career spanning over five decades, she is among the leading voices of her generation to regard art as a medium of social change. Pattern presents works created since 2015, the year of the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the Paris Climate Accords that marked a watershed moment in announcing a global agreement towards the mitigation of carbon emission levels among nearly 200 countries. Since then, there has been a dramatic rise of visual representation of climate change in mainstream media, using new technologies and real-time data. Navjot’s exhibition at Ishara juxtaposes the new and traditional forms of representing environmental crises to critical

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2022        'Navjot Altaf - Pattern', Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE.
2022        'Cognitive Processes, Imagining ecological democracy, The Guild, Alibaug, India.
2018-2019 'The Earth's Heart, Torn Out: Navjot Altaf, A Life in Art', A Retrospective curated by Nancy Adajania, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2018        'Lost Text' photographs and text, The Guild, Aliabug.
2016         ‘How Perfect Perfrction Can Be’ Paintings, sculptures, installation and video, Chemould Prescott Road,
                 Mumbai in collaboration with The Guild.
2015         ‘How Perfect Perfrction Can Be’ Paintings, sculptures, installation and video, The Guild, Alibaug, India.
2013         ‘Horn in the Head’, Sculpture installation with audio a