Biography

Nalini Malani (b. Karachi (undivided India), 1946) is the recipient of the 2013 Fukuoka Art & Culture Prize. As a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, projected animation, video and film, she is committed to the role of the artist as social activist. Her work is often based on the stories of those that have been ignored, forgotten or marginalised by history. Since 1995 she has participated regularly in international biennales including the dOCUMENTA 13. Nalini has had several solo museum exhibitions: The New Museum, New York (2002), Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (2005), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2010), Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2012). Her works are in various museum collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris.