YAMINI NAYAR works in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice moves across sculpture, collage, and photography — but the photograph is never documentation. It is the work: the only surviving trace of a built assemblage that is constructed and then closed.
Each site is made from materials close at hand — paperboard, wire, string, pigment, photographic elements. What remains is an image compressed into abstraction, holding the character of primordial forms — unresolved, pre-symbolic.
Her research as an analyst-in-training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York moves through the same territory — myth, alchemical transformation, the archetypal image before it becomes symbol. Studio practice and analytic training are not parallel pursuits. They inform the same questions.
NEWS -
Received the NAAP GRADIVA Award 2025
OUROBOROS
YAMINI NAYAR
THOMAS ERBEN GALLERY, NEW YORK
MAY 2, 2024 - JUNE 15, 2024
WWW.THOMASERBEN.COM
ARLES : LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
with SERENDIPITY ARTS
IMAGINED DOCUMENTS curated by RAVI AGARWAL
https://www.rencontres-arles.com
THREE SPACES for TIME
Yamini Nayar, New Works
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Opens February 18!!! 6-8:30
through March 28, 2020
ALL THE MARVELOUS SURFACES
Decordova Sculpture Museum
Lincoln, MA
Opening October 10, 2019
INTIMATE DOCUMENTS
SERENDIPITY ART FOUNDATION
CURATED BY RAVI AGARWAL
GOA, INDIA
DECEMBER 15-22, 2019
IF STONE COULD GIVE
new works by Yamini Nayar
Gallery Wendi Norris
San Francisco, CA
opening February 21, 2019
LOKE Winter/Spring 2019
On Material
Yamini Nayar CONSTRUCTS
***NEW AQUISITION - ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO -
'Pursuit, 2011'***
** Artist Lecture ** to incoming students to SVA MFA Photography Department during Orientation week -
August 27, 2018
CUT BEND PULL THRUST: YAMINI NAYAR
curated by Iona Fergusson
Peckham 24 LONDON
Friday 18th - Sunday 20th May 2018
Peckham 24 is back for a third edition during Photo London Week, shining a spotlight on cutting-edge contemporary photography made by artists in London and internationally.
Campbell Addy - Rhiannon Adam - Samuel Barry - Jonny Briggs - Antony Cairns - Juno Calypso - Natasha Caruana - Zoe Croggon - Jo Dennis - Lalu Delbracio - Robin Haithcoat - Hannah Hughes - Taisuke Koyama - Anouk Kruithof - Chrystel Lebas - Tom Lovelace - Ben Mcdonnell - Yamini Nayar - Laura Pannack - Baud Postma - Hannah Starkey - Dafna Talmor
Penelope Umbrico - Ruth Van Beek - Lorenzo Vitturi - Alex F Webb
ASPIRATIONAL ARCHITECTURES
curated by Justine Ludwig
Fridman Gallery, New York
opening May 4, 2018
through June 8, 2018
MONOGRAPH - FALL/WINTER 2018-19
published in collaboration with Wendi Norris Gallery, Jhaveri Contemporary and Thomas Erben
CRASH, DIG, DWELL
Yamini Nayar & Asim Waqif
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
DEC 7, 2017 - JAN !3, 2018
Visiting Artist Lecture
Yale School of Art
Photography Department
April 25, 2018
LECTURE, New York University
Photography Department: Class of Lucas Blalock
April 4, 2018
Art Radar Journal on CRASH DIG DWELL, Asim Waqif and Yamini Nayar
Visiting Artist Lecture, Parsons, NY
invited by Rit Premnath
November 1, 2017
Frieze Art Fair, Randalls Island, NY
with Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
May 2017