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BEGINNINGS
Navjot Altaf was born at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. 1974-79 she worked with PROYOM, Progressive Youth Movement. 1974 travelled widely in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. 1977 travelled extensively in the Gulf Countries. 1992 she made a short film called "Links Destroyed & Rediscovered"(11 minutes). In 1994 she designed the book, "Nasreen in Retrospect" with Bharati Kapadia which was edited by Altaf. 1997 presented a paper: At the Symposium - "Urban and Village Women Artists of India", U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, USA. 1999 she was invited to present a paper at a conference on "Indigenous Asia, Knowledge, Technology and Gender Relation", Asion Institute of Technology, Bangkok. In 1999 she presented a paper at Fukoka Asian Art Museum seminar during the First Asian Art Triennial. In 1999 she was invited to participate in a slide session, "Where lies the Frame", a part of a Symposium of Women artists and writers "Expression as Empowerment", organised by Majlis, Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai. 1999-
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Navjot is a distinguished painter, sculptor, installation artist and filmmaker. Inspired by Marxist ideologies, she has consciously questioned various frameworks of social injustice bringing to her work a sense of social commitment. Explorative and experimental in material and medium, the artist maps the trajectories of memory, history and culture, interrogating the "body-politics", seeing the self as the source of knowledge, and articulating one`s own experience to address issues related to social politics and art
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1983 graphics workshop at Baroda, organised by Urja Art Gallery, Baroda. 1984 graphics workshop - J.J. School of Art, organised by USIS and Prof. Linghan, Mumbai. 1986 workshop of paintings organised by CMC, Kolkata. 1986-88 workshop of paintings organised by "XAL Praxis", Goa. 1988 workshop of paintings organised by Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata. 1992 workshop of paintings organised by Goodrick and Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata. 1993 painting workshop organised by Sanghis, Hyderabad. 1993 painting workshop organised by Arta Trust, Mumbai. 1996 organised a workshop for students from J.J. School of Art, Murud Janjira. 1998 executed a project, "Chawal ki Kahini", with school students in Kondagaon, Bastar. 2001 "Cyfuniad" International Artists` Workshop, Plas Caerdeon, Wales, UK. 2001 "The Aesthetic Experience: An Experimental Workshop" in New Media, organised by "Artunderground", Vadodara, Gujarat. 2001 "National Artists Camp"- Karnataka. Chitra Kala Parishath Art Complex, Bengaluru