Neeta Madahar was born in 1966 in England, she went through many years of schooling originally getting a degree in mathematics. She chooses to follow her own path rather than her families and furthered her education with a degree from the Winchester School of Art in 1999 where she focused on videography. She then went on to the University of Southampton in England and received a BA Honors degree in Fine Art. In 2003, she graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, Boston with a Master of Fine Art degree in Studio Art. During the end of her studies, she completed her thesis work called Sustenance, this was her first work that got the attention and recognition her work deserved.
Madahar is a British citizen with her cultural upbringing coming from her Indian roots, who lived and worked in the United States. This unique upbringing helped her find ways to references themes of transition and migration in her work. She is most known in the art world for her interesting photography in which she explores natural aspects in different perspectives about what is real versus perception and the power of observation. Her first major show was in 2004, creating a new look in the world of photography.
Neeta Madahar has exhibited her work both in the United States and Europe. She has even had a solo show in Oakville Galleries, in Ontario Canada back in 2007. Other than the many shows she has been apart off Madahar has been rewarded several prestigious commissions from places like Hardwood House, Film and Video Umbrella, and Photoworks. These are companies that work to serve the general public in easily accessible ways. On top of that, her work is kept in many public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum in Massachusetts.
Madahar has been featured in well-known publications like The New York Times, The Boston Globe and even Aesthetic Magazine. She was even a top feature in Portfolio magazine’s special issue about the UK’s fifty most significant contemporary photographers. Since then, was awarded by the National Media Museum in the UK a very prestigious award of the Bradford Fellowship in Photography. The museum even decided to culminate her major solo exhibition from October 2009 to February 2010.

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