TEJAL SHAH Indian, b. 1979

Tejal Shah (b.1979, Bhilai, India) attained a BA in photography from RMIT, Melbourne and spent a year as an exchange student at The Art Institute of Chicago and another summer trying to get an MFA from Bard College.

Their  practice incorporates video, photography, performance and installation and focuses on “the inappropriate/d other” – one whom you cannot appropriate and one who is inappropriate. Que(e)rying everything, they create alter-curious worlds riddled with fact, fiction, poetry and mythology, compelling us to re-engage with propositions on the complex relationships between interspecies, ecology, gender, sexuality and consciousness. Currently, they think of themselves as some kind of artist working on some kind of nature!

They live and works in Goa, India.