Divya Mehra works in sculpture, print, drawing, artist books, installation, advertising, video, and film and is known for her meticulous attention to the interaction of form, medium, and site. Recontextualizing references found in music, literature, and current affairs, her acerbic body of work addresses the long-term effects of colonization and institutional racism. Mehra’s work has been presented as part of exhibitions, screenings, and commissions, including with Creative Time (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), MTV (New York), the Queens Museum (New York), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Artspeak (Vancouver), Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Toronto), the Images Festival (Toronto), the Beijing 798 Biennale (Beijing), Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld), and Latitude 28 (Delhi). In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Mehra holds an MFA from Columbia University and is represented by Georgia Sherman Projects.
Divya Mehra
Last updated: December 6, 2024
sum of the parts
Start year: 2017
sum of the parts, brings together a selection of films and performances by artists who activate personal histories drawn from familial and public…
Divya Mehra, DIFFICULT PEOPLE
March 24, 2018 5–6 PM
In her work as an artist, Divya Mehra speaks to the challenging, and often isolating experience of growing up in the Canadian Prairies. Over the last…
sum of the parts: what can be named, Deanna Bowen
June 23, 2018 1–3 PM
Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Saturday, June 23 for a screening of Deanna Bowen’s sum of the parts: what can be named, followed by a…
sum of the parts
Throughout the Spring season, 221A hosts sum of the parts, a curatorial research project by Jenn Jackson which brings together a selection of films,…
Jenn Jackson: sum of the parts
March – July 2018
Throughout the spring season of 2018, 221A hosts sum of the parts, a curatorial research project by Jackson which brings together a selection of…