Shan Re
Shan Re is one of the most versatile artists of India. She is a dynamic and prolific artist and seen actively involved in many fundraising art shows & auctions. She mesmerizes the audience with her spontaneous live painting on various occasions. The intensity and frequency of her creative output is enormous.
Intuitively moving between mediums, Shan has continuously evolved, experimented and explored a wide array of subjects and genres in several group and solo shows in India and abroad. Shan’s art practice involves various disciplines from drawing, painting, poetry, sculpture and Installation. Her works are in prominent public and private collections. Shan lives and works in Bangalore.
Shan’s paintings are spontaneous over flow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility.
Each painting of Shan can be considered as a complete poem in itself and it appears to be a sudden capture of a fleeting moment. Shan's paintings are lyrical reflections of her subconscious thoughts, feelings, fantasies, hopes and memories.
Shan looks within a world of emotional and psychological states rather than without to a fluid world of fleeting realism. She explores her mind, spirit and imagination to germinate imagery. Thus free from representational convention Shan Re’s process and philosophy make her works ‘timeless’ – independent of time and space.
Shan has redefined her creative potential with her fashion partnership. She has collaborated with a sustainable luxury fashion brand and created two collections of single edition bags with her signature art work which were show cased at the New York Fashion Week in 2018.
Through her art therapy sessions Shan helps individuals in self regulation, rehabilitation and emotional well being.
Shan says...
“Listening to the quite voice within me...
Exploring infinite dimensions within myself...
Standing on the thresh hold of new experience...
I have been painting
The Canvas of my life...
Drop by drop...word by word...
To unwrap my own destiny...
Passion flows through me
Like a stream of colour
In the flames of passion
I create breathtakingly
Beautiful masterpieces
From the deep sea of mystery
Somewhere between
Memories and fantasies
Between echoes of silence and hope...
I am intoxicated and addicted to the power creativity...
My inner fire is what keeps me going”
- Shan Re.
SELECTED RECENT COLLECTIONS
- Maharajah Srikantadatta Wadiyar, Royal House of Mysore
- Ritz Carlton hotel, Bangalore
- Embassy Boulevard, Bangalore
- Shangri-la Hotel, Bangalore
- Brigade Tech Park, Bangalore
- Woodrose Club, Bangalore
- ITC Infotech, Bangalore
- RMZ EcoSpace, Bangalore
- Embassy Golf Links Business Park, Bangalore
- Bhoruka Power Corporation, Bangalore
- ING Vysya Bank, Bangalore
- Salarpuria Hallmark, Bangalore & in other private collections in Amsterdam, Norway, Berlin, New York, Texas, London, Kuala Lampur, San Francisco and so on.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2020 – If walls could speak, ION art gallery with Mayinart gallery, Singapore
2020 – Women’s Day show at Reeves art gallery, Bangalore
2020 -Kala for vidya, Rotary Club annual show, Taj west end, Bangalore
2019- An Autism Art Fundraising Gala and Auction, UB City Bangalore
2019 – Charity auction at French Consulate, Bangalore
2019 – Fundraiser auction, Art Mantram Gala, Bangalore
2019- EUNOIA, Taj West End, Bangalore
2019 - Women’s Cultural Festival at BIC Bangalore
2019- Gesalt, BG Gallery, Los Angeles
2019- Art Expo, New York
2018 – Collaboration with Aranyani, New York Fashion Week
2018 -Kala for vidya, Rotary Club annual show, Taj west end, Bangalore
2018- Heart to Art, Under the Raintree media, Project EVE.
2018 - Triptych, Group show, Goa
2017- Women s Art festival, Ravindra Kala Kshetra
2017 - New York Fashion week in collaboration with a luxury fashion brand.
2017 – Kala for Vidya, Rotary club annual show, TajWestend, Bangalore
2017 - Arts Village, Two Women show on the occasion of International women's day.
2016 – Small and beautiful, Art Houz, Bangalore
2016 – Heterogenous curated by Art Chutney, TajWestend, Bangalore
2016 – India Art and Gems Fair, Leela palace hotel, Bangalore
2016 - Kala for Vidya, charity art show by Rotary club, TajWestend hotel, Bangalore
2016 – Whitefield Art Collective, VR Bengaluru
2015 – Anahata 1 – Art Mantram show at Navrathan, Bangalore
2015 - Anahata 2 – Art Mantram show at Navrathan, Bangalore
2015 – Portals of Perception, Taj Westend Hotel, Bangalore
2015 – Reflections, Annual group show by Maadhyam at Amethyst, Chennai
2015 – LshVa inaugural art show, LshVa studio, Bangalore
2014 – Annual art show, Vinyasa Premier Art Gallery, Chennai
2014 – Kala for Vidya, charity art show by Rotary club, TajWestend hotel, Bangalore
2014 – Eclectic Exploration, Kalarasa Art House, Bangalore
2014 – Women Artists show, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh
2013 – Award winners show (won best landscape award), ICAC foundation, Mumbai
2013 – Open Studio Sale, Studio Revola, Bangalore
2012 – Art show in support of Times Foundation, Galeriede’arts, Bangalore
2011 – Art Bengaluru, UB City, Bangalore
2011 – Third Eye Art Gallery showcase at Caperberry, Bangalore
2010 – Mont Blanc Art Showcase, ITC Royal Gardenia, Bangalore
2010 – “Friends of Renaissance Gallerie”, Windsor Manor, Bangalore
2010 – Art Bengaluru, Galerie de’Arts, Bangalore
2009 – Phantasmagoria, Midsummer Melange, LeelaPalace Hotel, Bangalore
2009 – Renaissance Gallerie’s Annual Charity Show, Leela Palace Hotel, Bangalore
2008 – Gallery Exotica’s Inaugural Show in support of Charity, Bangalore
2008 – Group show organized by C. Krishnaiah Chetty, Hotel Ashok, Bangalore
2008 – Concern India Art Show, Bangalore
2007 – Auction for Mallige Smile Foundation, LeelaPalace, Bangalore
2007 – Invited by the jury to exhibit at the Florence Biennale
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2019 — Exhumed Memories- Art Houz
2017 - Window to Himalayas- Arts Village
2016 – Echoes & Whispers, Art Houz Gallery, Bangalore
2015 – The Might of a Line; exhibition of free association drawings, Galerie de’Arts, Bangalore
2015 – SHE – International Women’s day special – contemporary women’s voices, Galerie de’Arts, Bangalore
2014 - Solo show at Ritz Carlton, Bangalore
2014 – Solo show at Cocoon gallery, Bangalore
2011 – “Unfolding of Self”, 10 year retrospective, Galeriede’Arts, Bangalore
2011 – “Eternal Spring”, Arco Iris, Goa
2010 – Live Painting at Peroni Art Initiative, Olive Beach, Bangalore
2010 – “The Eternal Spring”, Private show at AgarwalResidence, New Delhi
2009 – Inaugural show of Galerie de’Arts, Bangalore
2009 – Private Show at Franck Barthelemy’s residence, Bangalore
2009 – “The Eternal Spring”, Global Tree Café – curated by “Art Buddy”, Bangalore
2008 – “Iconography”, Time & Space Gallery, Bangalore
2008 – “Sepia Moments”, Olive Art Initiative, Bangalore
2007 - "Echoes & Whispers" (Drawings & Paintings), Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Artist Website – www.shanre.in
Email – shanre06@gmail.com