Bharti Kher Biography 
Bharti Kher is an Indian contemporary artist who conducts her exhibitions worldwide and has earned international appreciation. Bharti Kher was born in 1969 in London to Indian parents. Her creative art pieces include painting, sculpture and installation and she incorporates Indian bindis in a nice way through her art works. She is also known for creating hybrid varieties of plants and animal species, often combining different genders. She has conducted solo exhibitions in New Delhi, New York, London, Paris, Mumbai, Bangalore and many other big cities.
She graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1991. She studied art and painting and reached India the following year where she met her future husband, artist Subodh Gupta. Then they got married and permanently settled in Delhi. The couple had two children. In 1995, her eyes caught a lady wearing a snake shaped bindi. After knowing from her, from where she bought that bindi Kher moved straight to that shopkeeper and bought all the stock he had. She used all the pieces for her art work and they got clicked. Since then, Bindis have become Kher’s signature. She created Symphony, a digital artwork about Bindi at 2012.
She is known for creating hybrid varieties of animals, very often combining contradictory genders and species and her works are unique. She often combines plants and animal species too and ‘Solarium Series’ (2007) and ‘The Waq Tree’ (2009) can be grouped under this category. ‘An Absence of Assignable Cause’ (2007), ‘The skin speaks a language not its own’ (2006) and ‘Indra’s Net’ (2010) are her noted creative and innovative mythological series. She received YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year 2007.
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Updated: June 19, 2014
