Tejal Shah

'Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995. Her multidisciplinary practice employs video, photography, performance and installation to explore biopower, the social construction of normalcy, and questions about the relationship between knowledge and power in the constitution of subjects, identities and social relations.

Informed by a range of sources from different hirstories, including stories from various disenfranchised subcultures, her work both references and transcends otherness. Her practice continues to remain research based and self-reflexive.

Shah’s works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and film festivals internationally. She was the recipient of the Sanskriti Award in 2009. In 2003–04, she co-founded, organised and curated Larzish – India’s premier International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality. She holds a BA in photography from RMIT, Melbourne and has been an Exchange Scholar at the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Tejal works out of her laptop and Bombay city.'*

Shah took part in No Man's Land (2005–6), where she presented a video work titled I Love My India (2005–6).

 * Gitanjali Dang, 'Tejal Shah', Beyond the Self: Artist Essays, National Portrait Gallery, https://www.portrait.gov.au/content/tejal-shah, accessed 5 March 2025.