Artist: Rukmani Devi
Born: 1964
Tribe: Prajapati
Village: Kharati
Address: “Sanskriti”, Dipugarha, P.O. Hazaribagh - 825301, Jharkhand, India Tel: 0091-6546-263278

Rukmani Devi is a Prajapati artist is the pottery making clan who continues the distinctive traditions of Prajapati Khovar painting learnt from her mother and mother-in-law. A distinctive stylist, Rukmani is particularly known for her luminous tree of life paintings and murals. She was one of the four tribal women artists selected from Tribal Women Artists’ Cooperative to visit Australia for a month at the invitation of the Australian Museum to display her talents in a working exhibition at the Djamu Gallery, Sydney in creating several large murals on board of 6’x12feet size and permanent ground alpana, which works have been stored in the collection of the Australian Museum, Sydney, while her “Tree of Life With Mandala” is exhibited in the Central Foyer of the Brisbane art Gallery in Queensland, Australia.  

Experience:

• In March 2000 she participated in a one month residency by four tribal women artists to paint fourteen murals at the Djamu Gallery of the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia.

 Exhibitions:

• Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 1996, 1997

• Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, 1996

• Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, 1996

• Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 1998

• Gallery Chemould. Bombay, 1997, 1999

• India International Centre, New Delhi, 1998

• Djamu Gallery, Sydney 2000

• Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, May-June 2000

• Bellevue Gallery, Berlin, 2001

• Therese Dion Gallery, Montrial, 2001

• Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, 2002

• Maxmuller Bhawan, New Delhi, July 2002

• Rebecca Hossack Gallery London, 2002

• Eppelheim Gallery, Germany, March-April 2002

• Kassel Art Gallery, Germany, July-August, 2002

• Stuttgart Art Gallery, Germany, October 2002

• Boras Kunstmuseum, Boras, Sweden, September, 2003

• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, September, 2003

• Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, September, 2003

• Ludwigsberg, Feb.-March 2004

• State Museum of Ethnography (Volkerkunde), Dresden, May-June 2004

Major Collections:

• Australian Museum, Sydney

• Casula Arts Centre, Sydney

• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane