Neeta Madahar

Madahar is a UK-born artist of Indian ancestry. She has a multi-disciplinary practice previously engaging photography and time-based media and now embracing the traditional craft of Indian Miniature painting. After formal art training in the UK and US, grounded in the rigours of learning Western approaches to representation, she created several nature-related bodies of work including the commissioned photographic portrait series ‘Flora’. In 2021, desiring more balance and connection to her dual heritage, she transitioned to Indian painting.

Madahar graduated from Winchester School of Art/Southampton University with a BA in Fine Art in 1999 and with a graduate scholarship award, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in Boston, US, with an MFA in Studio Art in 2003. She has exhibited internationally in group and solo shows, including at Aspex Gallery, Harewood House, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, US. She was awarded the 2008/09 Bradford Fellowship in Photography by the National Science and Media Museum. Madahar has received commissions from organisations including the Glynn Vivian Gallery, FACT, Film and Video Umbrella and Photoworks. Her work is held in collections such as the Government Art Collection, Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, the MIT Art Collection, the V&A Museum and the Yale Center for British Art.

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