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Neena Arora

Neena Arora is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada. She works in sculpture/installation, video and performance, and has participated in exhibitions and performance events in Toronto and throughout North America. Exhibitions include Contemporary Art and Identity at the Baum Gallery in Arkansas. The video Shape-Shifter was originally created for the site specific installation exhibition Private Thoughts / Public Moments at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In the spring of 2001 Shape-Shifter was also included in Shaken and Stirred at Bose Pace Modern in New York, juried by Rina Banerjee and Barbara Hunt. It was also shown as part of Out Of The Box at the Queens Museum of Art in New York. Neena was part of three Lomography events curated by Pamila Matharu: DocuLomo, Gallery TPW, Toronto in May of 2002; Flomo Ed Video in Guelph, Ontario, November 2002; and runLOMOrun at the York Quay Gallery Case Studies Vitrines, Toronto, April-June 2003. She recently participated in [ESC], Electronic Social Culture, curated by Sylvia Grace Borda and Gu Xiong at Centre A in Vancouver. Neena has sat on the SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Collective) as a Board Member, resigning recently to move to the New York City area.
Creator Id: 27
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: Illinois
Year of Birth: 1962
City: Fort Lee
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: installation, performance
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Work by Neena Arora

This Is Kall And Here Is Estrogen

Work ID: 62386

Description: Installation. Against the Wall, Desh Pardesh '95, Gallery 401, Toronto.

Measurements: waxed sari with photo transfer images [South Asian images taken from magazines]

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This Is Kall And Here Is Estrogen

Work ID: 62387

Description: Installation. Against the Wall, Desh Pardesh '95, Gallery 401, Toronto.

Measurements: waxed sari with photo transfer images [South Asian images taken from magazines]

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This Is Kall And Here Is Estrogen

Work ID: 62388

Description: Installation. Against the Wall, Desh Pardesh '95, Gallery 401, Toronto.

Measurements: waxed sari with photo transfer images [South Asian images taken from magazines]

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This Is Kall And Here Is Estrogen

Work ID: 62385

Description: Installation. Against the Wall, Desh Pardesh '95, Gallery 401, Toronto.

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62395

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

Measurements: bottles with oil and photocopied images from a child's Hindi dictionary inside

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62390

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62389

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62396

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62391

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62393

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Speak No

Work ID: 62398

Description: Installation. Naya Samachar (New Stories), Desh Pardesh '96, Gallery 401, Toronto.

Measurements: lattice boxes with artist's face hung behind [artist's face on acetate]

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62392

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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Speak No

Work ID: 62397

Description: Installation. Naya Samachar (New Stories), Desh Pardesh '96, Gallery 401, Toronto.

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Lakshmi: descent, incarnation, devotion

Work ID: 62394

Description: Installation. Green Thumb Arts Collective, Dufferin Mall, Metro Hall, and Queen Street Windows, Toronto

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heartbeat

Work ID: 62400

Description: Installation. Truck Stop 12 - various locations, Toronto; Visual Raaga, Oakville, Ontario

Measurements: viewers/oculaires: 3.81 cm x 8.89 cm

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Skintext – a performance

Work ID: 62403

Description: Performance. Central Nerve, 87 Wade Ave., Toronto

Measurements: dress/robe: woman's size/taille 6

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Skintext – a performance

Work ID: 62402

Description: Performance. Central Nerve, 87 Wade Ave., Toronto

Measurements: dress/robe: woman's size/taille 6

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Skintext – a performance

Work ID: 62401

Description: Performance. Central Nerve, 87 Wade Ave., Toronto

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heartbeat

Work ID: 62399

Description: Installation. Truck Stop 12 - various locations, Toronto; Visual Raaga, Oakville, Ontario

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Shape-Shifter

Work ID: 65840

Description: Video installation. Sound and images of myself in performance in the galleries of the Art Gallery of Ontario [set in the inglenook of the Canadian Galleries].

Private Thoughts Public Moments, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Shaken and Stirred, Bose Pacia Modern, Chelsea, New York, NY.
Out of the Box, Queens Museum of Modern Art, Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY.

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Shape-Shifter

Work ID: 62410

Description: Video installation: set in the Inglenook of the Canadian Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Private Thoughts Public Moments, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Shaken and Stirred, Bose Pacia Modern, Chelsea, New York; Out of the Box Queens Museum of Modern Art, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York.

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Shape-Shifter

Work ID: 62411

Description: Video installation: set in the Inglenook of the Canadian Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Private Thoughts Public Moments, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Shaken and Stirred, Bose Pacia Modern, Chelsea, New York; Out of the Box Queens Museum of Modern Art, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York.

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62405

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

Measurements: images of artist taken with digital camera

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62404

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

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Shape-Shifter

Work ID: 62413

Description: Video installation: set in the Inglenook of the Canadian Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Private Thoughts Public Moments, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Shaken and Stirred, Bose Pacia Modern, Chelsea, New York; Out of the Box Queens Museum of Modern Art, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York.

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Shape-Shifter

Work ID: 62412

Description: Video installation: set in the Inglenook of the Canadian Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Private Thoughts Public Moments, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Shaken and Stirred, Bose Pacia Modern, Chelsea, New York; Out of the Box Queens Museum of Modern Art, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York.

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62409

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62408

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62407

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

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dangled-up

Work ID: 62406

Description: Installation. Contemporary Art and Identity: South Asian Diaspora in North America The Baum Gallery, University of Arkansas

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Lomocity 2

Work ID: 65842

Description: 2002. [running time: 2:00 min.]
Images taken with a Super Sampler Lomo Camera, scanned and manipulated in Photoshop, imported into flash to create a stop animation.

flomo, Ed Video, Guelph, Ontario.
runLOMOrun, Queens Quay Gallery Vitrines, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.

True to the SuperSampler and its four shot sequential capability, a stop motion sequence allows moments of motion to be captured and exaggerated. I am documenting myself passing through the city [capturing the splendour and incongruence of a body dialoguing with the environment, in this case the city].

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Lomocity

Work ID: 62414

Description: DocuLomo, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

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Are you ready?

Work ID: 65841

Description: 2003. [running time: 2 min. 10 sec.]
Images taken from the web and photos with a Super Sampler Lomo Camera, scanned and manipulated in Photoshop, imported into flash to create a stop animation.

[Esc] Electronic Social Culture, Centre A, Vanvouver, BC.

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Nervo

Work ID: 65846

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Venus

Work ID: 65845

Description: [running time: 1 min. 10 sec.]

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