Natasha Kohli - Renowned and Contemporary Abstract Indian Artist

1. Natasha Kohli - Renowned and Contemporary Abstract Indian Artist Born on 18th December 1973 in Mumbai, Natasha Kohli is a renowned Indian Artist. Ms Natasha Kohli is an Indian artist who makes contemporary abstract art for the unconventional collector. Natasha is also an educationist, an early-stage investor in two Indian art schools and a philanthropist. A Graduate in Art and Aesthetics from The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Natasha Kohli has a keen sense of understanding and expertise in contemporary and abstract art forms. Natasha started making art installations during the first year of her degree at the University of Edinburgh and it gained her wide-scale popularity. By the time, she completed her graduation, Natasha was already projecting her art installations and paintings at the National Gallery and Tate Modern in London. Natasha’s work reflects her experiences and sufferings during the migration of her family from Pakistan during the partition in 1947. Each of her art projects exile, longing, and belongingness. She enunciates dislocation and exile through her choice of colors, patterns, background, textures, and the constant use of a muted palette. Her pared-back works are laced with emotion and politics and expand beyond the personal to include references to cities around the world that have felt the divisive consequences of conflict, such as Istanbul, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Natasha is a state-of-the-art communicator who considers every person’s point of view in the room. Working painstakingly by hand, Natasha Kohli employs craft techniques, responding to the status of manual labor in the face of India’s social and economic transformation, as well as its implication in the fabrication of art. She often looks towards marginalized and migrated communities in India to create staggering works. One of her best works consists of 3 kilometers of knotted wire swinging from the ceiling suspended by human hair. This depicts the torture bared by migrants from the other side of the border and through politically inflicted countries and people who took their lives to spare themselves from all the torture. Natasha Kohli is concerned with human perception and the imperceptible, and shaping the desire to be free from boundaries into arbitrary categories and systems. Her work with still and video art seeks to emancipate knowledge and stimulate flows of information across time and communities, which may operate across borders. Besides being a contemporary artist, Natasha is also the Director of KHUSHI International Artists’ Association, an autonomous body of renowned Indian artists aimed at promoting intercultural understanding of cross-border art through experimentation and exchange. It is possibly the only such public organization for experimental contemporary art in India with storytelling. In Mumbai, Natasha has developed her own space of abstract art practice at the KHUSHI studios, which runs seminars, workshops, art classes for the underprivileged and kids with special needs. Natasha has also raised funding for the development of a pilot national network for the arts based on the KHUSHI model. Know more: https://www.instagram.com/natashakohli/ http://www.facebook.com/artbynk