Artist Statement
Photoworks by MASLEN & MEHRA are included in collections such as Tattinger Switzerland, Art Es Collecion Madrid, numerous international private collections and more recently the Altered Landscape Collection, Nevada Museum of Art which includes artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Edward Burtynsky, Amy Stein, David Maisel, and Fandra Chang. The collection is accompanied by a deluxe publication by Rizzoli with contributions by Lucy Lippard. Solo exhibitions have been staged in New York, London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Dubai, Istanbul, Sydney, and Berlin. A monograph titled MIRRORED is dedicated to two major series of photographs, The Mirrored and Native series and was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg with support from the Arts Council Of England and texts by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith and Eugen Blume, curator at the Hamburger Bahnoff Museum Berlin. In 2011 there was a solo presentation of work from these two series for the Scotiabank CONTACT International Photo Festival, Toronto and in addition a commissioned public installation of lightboxes was commissioned for Halifax Ferry Terminal. A solo exhibition for Art Month Sydney took place at Conny Dietzschold Gallery in March 2012 with solo exhibitions of a new body of work to take place this year in London and Istanbul.
CV & Education
Solo exhibitions
- 2014 Maslen & Mehra, Lucy Bell Fine Art/ Hastings Photo Festival
- 2014 Maslen & Mehra Merhart Istanbul
- 2012 Impermanent Collection.OMT Gallery,(Part of the new Enclave art center Deptford) London
- 2012 Native and Mirrored Series. Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney
- 2011 - Mirrored Scotiabank CONTACT Festival , General Hardware Contemporary , Toronto
- 2011 - Public installation Ferry Terminal Downtown on 6 backlit billboards, Scotiabank CONTACT Festival, Halifax Canada
- 2010 - MASLEN & MEHRA, Cuadro Fine Art, Dubai
- 2008 - Because There Is Nothing On This Green Earth That Is Stronger Than, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
- 2008 - Maslen & Mehra, MK Contemporary, Milton Keynes
- 2008 - Shadow Lands , Priska C. Juschka Fine Art , New York
- 2008 - Two Worlds, Piramid Art Center, Istanbul Turkey
- 2007 - Maslen & Mehra, First Gallery , Rome Italy
- 2007 - Native, 9 Shorts Gardens Seven Dials , 9 Shorts Gardens Seven Dials Covent Garden London WC2 2006 - MASLEN & MEHRA, Galera Sicart Barcelona Spain, Vilafranca del Peneds (Barcelona)
- 2006 - Maslen & Mehra - Light-boxes Photographies Sculpture, EXPRMNTL galerie, LACEN and Bertrand Grimont, Lacens, 57 rue de Bretagne, Paris
- 2006 - Metropolis, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin Germany
- 2006 - Une premire solo exposition Paris de MASLEN & MEHRA, LACEN 57 rue de Bretagne 3eme arrondissement Paris, Paris
- 2003 - Phoenix, Perth International Arts Festival, Holmes Court Gallery, Australia
- 2002 - Terra Incognita, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
- 2001 - Drift, Dilston Grove (disused church), South London, UK
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- Group exhibitions
- 2015 Visual Aids Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
- 2015 Year Of The Sheep Curated by Vanya Balogh and Cedric Christie, Chinatown, London
- 2014 Jubilee Exhibitions celebrating 25 Years Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney
- 2014 We Could Not Agree, in association with Geoffrey Leong PR, Sculpture, Installation, Performative, Photography & Video during frieze Art Fair, Cavendish Square, London, curated by Cedric Christie, Alice Herrick, Roger Clarke, Rebecca Scott, Vanya Balogh, Sarah Sparkes, Mark Woods, Tracey Moberly & Pascal Rousson
- 2014 Melbourne Art Fair Exhibiting with Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney/Cologne/Hong Kong
- 2014 Big Deal! Marvellous MIx-UpsX1, Chelsea London, curated by Danny Pockets and Vanya Balogh
- 2014 CHINESE OPEN 2014 Year Of The Horse Curated by Vanya Balogh and Cedric Christie, Chinatown, London
- 2013 Brighton Photo Fringe 2013 - Night Projections Phoenix Brighton
- 2013 CREEKSIDE Selected by Paul Noble A.P.T London
- 2013 - LUMINOUSFLUX - Dan Flavin MASLEN & MEHRA Jim Campbell Rebecca Baumann Bill Culbert Brendan Van Hek Paul Caporn and Tom Muller, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery - University of Western Australia , Perth Australia
- 2012 - Art Stage Singapore art fair, Exhibiting with Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney/Cologne, Singapore
- 2012 - Past And Present, OMT Gallery, London
- 2012 - The Altered Landscape Photographs of a Changing Environment , Nevada Museum Of Art, Reno Nevada USA
- 2011 - Group exhibition, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2011 - Heavy Papers, Galeri Merkur, Istanbul
- 2011 - London International, KCCC Exhibition Hall curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Lithuania
- 2010 - Art Dubai, Galerie Caprice Horn , Dubai 2010 - For Now, The Drake , Toronto
- 2010 - Globalised Nature, Galerie Caprice Horn , Berlin
- 2010 - Made Up Realities, Transformations: Canakkale Biennal Turkey, Multiple venues, Canakkale
- 2010 - Mortars At Dawn, Carter London, London
- 2009 - A Shot In The Dark, Chateau Radvanov , Czech Republic
- 2009 - Olympic Visions, Nunnery Gallery, London
- 2009 - The Space Between, Surrounds Our Desire , The Event, Birmingham
- 2008 - Grounded, Ellen Curlee Gallery , St Louis USA
- 2008 - It's Not Easy, Exit Art , New York
- 2008 - Margate Rocks Contemporary Art Festival, Margate, Margate UK 2008 - Peeksill Project
- 2008, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art , Peekskill NY
- 2007 - Art LA 2007, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
- 2007 - CORPO SOCIALE (Social Body), PACK art gallery, Milan
- 2007 - Nature Scopes, Venue 1 : Special Exhibition Hall Gongju National Museum , South Korea
- 2007 - Optical Titillations, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
- 2007 - Reality Bites, Galerie Caprice Horn/Berlin, Kochstrasse 60
- 2007 - Slow Space Fast Pace, Arttrail , Cork Ireland
- 2006 - 06' Vilafranca Contempornia, Galeria Sicart, Vilafranca del Peneds (Barcelona)
- 2006 - Art Moscow, Central House of Artists Moscow, Russia
- 2006 - Buenos Aires Photo (Galeria Sicart), Buenos Aires Photo, Palais de Glace Posadas 1725 - Buenos Aires
- 2006 - East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House London
- 2006 - Harlem Art Project, Hosted by Philips de Pury & Company Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, US 2006 - Miami Photo
- 2006, Miami Photo Wynwood Art District, Miami
- 2006 - Refraction, Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin, Berlin
- 2006 - The Stars Down to Earth, Nunnery Gallery London, 183 Bow Rd London E3 2SJ
- 2005 - February March Western Biennale Of Art curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Natsoulas Gallery, California, USA
- 2004 - Gods Becoming Men, Frissiras Museum, Athens during Olympics
- 2004 - Tempered Ground, Museum Of Garden History, London, UK
Selected Awards, Residencies, Projects
2012- Impermanent Collection I-BOOK
2011- Finalist Latitude Contemporary Art Prize
2008- MASLEN & MEHRA BOOK LAUNCH, Scope London,Galerie Lacen Paris
2008- Honorable Mention, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards
2007- Arts Council Of England award for the production of a publication: Mirrored - Maslen & Mehra
2004- Arts Council Of England new work award
2003- The Eden Project Cornwall, 2 month residency
2002- Artspace Sydney, three-month residency/exhibition
2001- Artswa Award for residency/exhibition in Sydney
2001- The Henry Moore Foundation award for Drift project
2001- London Arts award for Drift project
1999- Recipient (Tim) Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes residency (Açores)(Açores)
Collections
Galila Collection Brussels
Tattinger Collection Switzerland
Nevada Museum Of Art (Altered Landscape Collection)
The Frissiras Museum Athens
Nature Art Museum South Korea
The South Australian Museum
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
UWA Art Collection
The Eden Project
RCI Miami
The Holmes à Court Collection
Loreal Collection Paris
Lianzhou International Photography Collection China
The Kerry Stokes Collection
Piramid Sanat, Istanbul
Art Es Collection Spain
Private Collections
