Artist - Chila Kumari Burman

Chila Kumari Burman was born in 1957 and grew up in Liverpool as part of a Hindu-Punjabi family. She attended the Southport College of Art, the Leeds Polytechnic and Slade School of Fine Art where she graduated in 1982.

Burman works with a wide range of media including print, photography, installation and etching and has participated in exhibitions and debates around issues of cultural identity, representation and gender. From 1984 she taught in several UK colleges as a visiting or part-time lecturer.
She received commissions including murals for the Great London Council and London Borough of Haringey, took part in many group exhibitions and she was latterly represented by Andrew Mummery Gallery. Solo shows include Valentine Crush (2007) at Tamarai Space, Damascus and Aleppo (1995) for the British Council, 28 Positions in 34 Years at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1999 and many others both in Britain and abroad.
She works and lives in London.
Reference Bibliography:
Buckman D., 2006, Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 1, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol