Murari Jha is a New Delhi-based visual and performance artist. His multimedia practice explores personal as political, the psychological processing of everyday socio-political occurrences, the transformation of the body by the environment and the temporal regimes it occupies, and the performativity of objects/body and spectatorship. What unifies these different fields of enquiry is an abiding interest in studying trauma and technique of self, and its alienation. These transformational limits are subsequently expressed through different performative gestures, video making and the uses of industrial materials such as iron, concrete, rubber sealants etc. He holds an MFA from BR Ambedkar University, Agra (2012) and BFA from Patna University (2010).
Education
2012, MFA with specialization in Painting (Gold Medalist) from Dr.BR Ambedkar University, Agra
2010, BFA with specialization in Painting (Gold Medalist) from Patna University, Bihar
Performance
2021 Title- Observation of Silence, Weight-29 KG, Duration-20 Minutes, Humayunpur Village (Chaurahaa)
2020 Title-Far from My Home” Machaan” conceived for Five Million Incidents at the Goethe-
Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan (New Delhi,)
2019 Title- Artist unite @ Red Fort
2017 Untitled -20 Minutes@ KNMA Noida
2017 Title- Good Sleep, Duration Performance (live Art) -13 days @ Unidee/Inlaks, Biella, Italy
2017 Title- Dhaan(Repetition of Paddy), Duration Performance (live Art) -24 Hours @ Theertha International Artist
Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Title- Get Naked, Duration -15 Minutes @ HH Art Space, Goa
2016 Title-Udhaar (Barrow), Installation+ Durational Performance @ Adil Shah Palace Serendipity Art Festival,Goa, by HH Art Spaces
2016 Title- Carrying the History, Duration -30 Minutes@ Bodhgaya Biennale, Bihar
2016 Title- Bhumi @ the Mithila Bhavan Akhara Ayodhya by Clark House Initiative
2016 Title- I do not scream @ Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale, Chandigarh
2015 Title- Tolerance/Intolerance, @ Bikaner House, Delhi
2015 Title- Walking Up & Down@ 1shanthiroad (Bangalore)
2015 Title- Minute of Poem @ NIV (Delhi) By Shield Initiative
2014 Title- Illicit Body @ NSD, Bangalore
2014 Title- Minute of Poem @ IGNCA Delhi
2014 Title- Understanding Kabira @ Art Adda (Bangalore)
2014 Title- Ek minute ka maun @ Kolkata (KIPAF)
2014 Title– Kanoon ke Lambe Hath @ JNU,Delhi
2013 Title- In Between @ Crack International Camp Kusthiya (Bangladesh)
2013 Title- The Horizon line @ Gati (Delhi)
2012 Title- Act of Victim @ Devi Art Foundation
Exhibition
2018 Title- fondle/चिकट @ Mumbai Art Room
2017 Title- Contraband @ Gallery Art Konsult, New Delhi
2017 Title- Good Sleep @ Unidee/Inlaks, Biella, Italy
2016 Title- Future collaboration @ Italian Culture Center, New Delhi
2016 Title- Antarvention @ the Mithila Bhavan Akhara Ayodhya by Clark House Initiative
2015 Title- Men/e/pollution, Group Exhibition @ Niv (Delhi), by Shield Initiative
2015 Title-Body, Space & Structure, Group Exhibition @ 1Shanthiroad (Bangalore)
2015 Untitled, Group Exhibition @ Fusion Art Gallery, New Delhi
2014 Untitled, Group Exhibition @ Lalit Kala Academy, Bihar
2013 Untitled, Group Exhibition @ Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi
Workshop
2018 Title- Art Performance Lab with Beatrice Didier @ FICA
2017 Title- Self-Construction of Wooden Furniture @ Cittdellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy
2013 Title- “Body Temperature” @ Gati (Delhi)
2012 Title- Performance Workshop with Nikhil Chopra @ KNMA
2011 Title- Performance Workshop with Inder Salim @ KNMA
2011 Title- Painting & Sketching @ Nizamuddin, Delhi by Aagakhan Foundation
2010 Title -Dr Rajendra Prasad @ Lalit Kala Academy, Patna, Bihar
2009 Title- Color of Rain @ College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University, Patna
2009 Title- Conservation of Painting @ College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University
2008 Title- Bihar Ke Etihasik Dharohar @ Patna Gandhi Maidan by Lalit Kala Academy
2007 Title- Photography @ College of Visual Art, Patna
Residency/Others
2020 Far from My Home” Machaan” conceived for Five Million Incidents at the Goethe-Institut/Max
Mueller Bhavan (New Delhi,)
2017 Unidee/Inlaks Biella, Italy
2017 Theertha International Artist Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 HH Art Spaces, Goa
2016 Morni Hills Performance Art Biennale, Chandigarh
2015 1Shanthiroad (Bangalore)
2015 Reflection International Art Residency, New Delhi
2014 Crack International Camp Kusthiya (Bangladesh)
2013 Crack International Camp Kusthiya (Bangladesh)