Reena Saini Kallat was born in Delhi. Based in Mumbai, her practice spanning drawing, photography, sculpture and video engages diverse materials, imbued with conceptual underpinnings. She is interested in the role that memory plays, in not only what we choose to remember but how we think of the past. In her works made with electrical cables usually serving as conduits of contact that transmit ideas and information, become painstakingly woven entanglements that morph into barbed-wire-like barriers.
She has widely exhibited at Institutions across the world such as Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Manchester Museum, UK; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland; and Chicago Cultural Centre amongst many others.
Her works are part of several public and private collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Musee des Beaux-arts Canada, Ottawa; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Mumbai and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi amongst others.