Chinar Shah

From Flowers for the Empire – Photograph © Chinar Shah

Chinar Shah is an artist, writer, and an academic. She is the founder of Home Sweet Home, an exhibition series that uses domestic spaces to show works of art. She has received grants from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, Pronto – Göteborg Stad Kultur of the city of Gothenburg, and AHRC, UK. Shah is an artist in a UKRI grant under their Global Challenge Research Fund, 2019. She taught photography and visual arts at the Srishti Institute for Art, Design and Technology, in Bangalore, India, and is co-editor of Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice, Bloomsbury, UK, 2018.

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