Bharti Kher (b.1969; London, UK) lives and works in Delhi, India. She received her B.A. with honors from Newcastle Polytechnic.
Solo exhibitions include Bharti Kher. The Sun Splitting Stones, Perrotin, Paris, France (2025); Bharti Kher, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK (2025); Mythologies, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025); Alchemies, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England, UK (2024); Target Queen, public commission, Hayward Gallery, London, England, UK (2024); Bharti Kher: Ancestor, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA (2022); Bharti Kher, Arnolfini, Bristol, England, UK (2022); Strange Attractors, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (2021); A Consummate Joy, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland (2020); The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA (2020); A Wonderful Anarchy, Hauser&Wirth Somerset, Bruton, England, UK (2019); Djinns, things, places, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (2018); Messengers, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA (2018); Chimeras, Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2018); Points de départ, points qui lient, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (2018); Bharti Kher: Sketchbooks and Diaries, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA (2017); Dark Matter (MM), Museum Frieder Burda Salon Berlin, Germany (2017); The Laws of Reversed Effort, Perrotin, Paris (2016); This Breathing House, Freud Museum, London, England, UK (2016); BHARTI KHER Matter, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2016); In Her Own Language, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia (2016); Not All Who Wanders Are Lost, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA (2015); three decimal points. of a minute. of a second. of a degree, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (2014); Misdemeanors, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2014); Anomalies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2013); and Bind the Dream State to your Waking Life, Galerie Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (2013).
Bharti Kher is the recipient of several awards including the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Art as and Letters of France), ARKEN Art Prize, and the YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year.