Born in 1981, Winnipeg, Canada. Lives and works in Seattle, WA.
EDUCATION
2008 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of The Arts, New York, NY
2005 BFA Visual Arts, University of Manitoba, School of Art, Winnipeg, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Veronica, Seattle, WA, (forthcoming)
2024
Live Laugh Love, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The End of You, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Sobey Art Award Short List Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (curated by Stephanie Burdzy and Jonathan Shaughnessy; essay by John G. Hampton)
2021
The funny things You do, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (essay by Kim Nguyen)
2020
From India to Canada and back to India (There is nothing I can possess which you cannot take away), Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (essay by Eunsong Kim)
2019
Afterlife of Colonialism…, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, in conjunction with the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada
Afterlife of Colonialism…, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, in conjunction with ROM Friday Night Live
Afterlife of Colonialism…, Hart House, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Ontario, in conjunction with Night of Ideas, overnight installation as part of Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada
2018
Afterlife of Colonialism…, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, special project in conjunction with the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada (commission)
2017
You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist., Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada (essays by Amy Fung and Kendra Place)
Sobey Art Award Short List Exhibition, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan)
Emerging Powers and Conflict Management (Toppling over statues, hate amid radical new platforms), Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB, Canada (essay by Yaniya Lee)
The Mehra's Special, The Tallest Poppy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2016
It’s Gonna Rain, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada (essay by Kegan McFadden)
2014
Without You I’m Nothing (Eating the Other), window winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2012
You Have to tell Them, i’m not Racist., La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (essay by Cathy Busby)
2011
The Party is Over, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada (curated by Kim Nguyen)
2010
Turf War., Platform: center for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, Canada (curated and essay by Kegan McFadden)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Nations by Artists, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021
A Limited Hour 24-Hour Funny Business, Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA
2020
A New Light: Canadian Women Artists, Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC
2019
Alternate Realities, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Muscled Rose, Scrap Metal Gallery, curated by Rui Amaral, Toronto, ON, Canada
A Quarter Century of Collecting, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Feast and Famine, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (curated and essay by Jacqueline Mabey)
2018
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada (curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy)
Art in the Open, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI (commission)
R Roadside Attractions, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK (commission; catalogue)
Blue State, Night Gallery Los Angeles, CA
In This Place Where The Guest Rests, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
2017
Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984 - 2009), Platform: centre for photo graphic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (curated by Kathy Rae Huffman)
AlterNation, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada (curated and essay by Adrienne Fast)
Win Last, Don't Care, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada (organized by EMILIA-AMALIA)
Propped, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada (curated by Gabrielle Moser)
OLD NEWS / NEW RULES, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (organized by Eleanor King)
Epic Fail, Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Punching Up, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, NY (curated by Jon Lutz and Janine Polak)
Melt, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (curated by Niki Little/Wabiska Maengun; commission)
2016
Yonder, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada (tour)
Utopia is No Place, Utopia is Process, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2015
Oh, Canada, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Canada (curated by Denise Markonish) (commission; catalogue; tour)
A Putting Down of Roots, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
CUSTOM MADE / Tsitslem te stem te ck’ultens-kuc, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada (curated by Tania Willard)
A Curious Blindness, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Streaming, Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna, Austria
Between Us, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
2014
Oh, Canada, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI (tour)
They Made A Day Be A Day Here, School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (tour)
You Can’t Win Them All, Ladies & Gentlemen, Winnipeg Library Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Emerald City, Project For Empty Space, Newark, NJ (curated by Jasmine Wahi)
I never asked to be a role model, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tragedy Plus Time, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada (catalogue)
2013
They Made A Day Be A Day Here, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, AB; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (catalogue; tour)
Stockpile, Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada (commission and collaboration with Dean Baldwin, Diane Landry, Luanne Martineau)
The Least Orthodox Goddess, Gallery 151, New York, NY
Salaam Bombay: Beauty & Chaos in the Urban Environment, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Art ASIA Miami, Miami, FL (tour)
fast&dirty presents: Six Degrees, Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Women Performing Women, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2012
Oh, Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (curated by Denise Markonish, commission; catalogue; tour)
FREE (or best offer), Ed Video Gallery, Guelph, ON, Canada
2011
And the falchion passed through his neck, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India
take me to your leader, lead me to your taker, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2010
Left, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY
Digression, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY
Structures Within an Intervention, The Guild Gallery, New York, NY
A Wilder Gander, BRIC Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Baseera Khan)
2009
Domestic Policy, The Guild Gallery, New York, NY
Beijing 798 Biennale, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; Consulate General of India, New York, NY, USA; Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, NY; Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY (tour)
I Have Not Painted In A Year, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
SMITHUMENTA, Bond Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Wonder What The Others Are Up To?, Gallery OED, Cochin, Kerala
2008
The New Academy, Robert Lehman Art Center, Brooks School, North Andover, MA
The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007
21, A Space, Toronto, ON, Canada; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (curated by Elwood Jimmy; tour)
In The Blink of An Eye, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (commission)
PUBLIC ARTWORKS (TEMPORARY)
2023 Breaking Ground, Nuit Balance, Toronto, Canada (curated by Kari Cwynar, commission)
Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
2021 “Remember, say NO to discomfort, guilt, anguish or psychological distress.”, Tulsa, OK
2017 Stages: Drawing the Curtain, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (commission)
2011 Your Turn Next (You’ve got the Juice Now), Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 The Adversity of Exclusion can be made to go hand in hand with the Gifts of Inclusion, Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (commission)
SELECTED SCREENINGS/SOUND WORKS
2024
Our Winnipeg, Ourselves (curated by Rhayne Vermette), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2018
In the Making: Divya Mehra, CBC Arts Documentary series, episode 8, premiered on CBC Television, November 9, Canada
The House that Whiteness Built, Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (collaboration with Amy Fung)
The House that Whiteness Built, Nuit Blanche at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada (commission and collaboration with Amy Fung)
What’s wrong with Romance?, Dazibao, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017
Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Manitoba Short Films, Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, MB, Canada
2016
Dying in Public, Vtape, Toronto, ON, Canada
2015
For Bapu (posthumous overture), as part of New Adventures in Sound Art: Top Songs, The Studio Box Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada (organized by Eleanor King and Dave Dyment)
Exercises for Precarious Living, Vtape, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014
Disfiguring Identity: Art, Migration and Exile Symposium, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
The Real Academy Leader, Adere and Deny, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2013
New Prairie Cinema & WNDX Collective, Cinémathèque québéçoise, Montréal, QC, Canada
2012
On Tragedy (Did you hear the one about the Indian?), Art Breaks screening, Paramount Screening Room at Viacom Headquarters in Times Square, New York, NY (commissioned and curated by MoMA PS1, Creative Time, MTV)
Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany (essay by Anthony Kiendl)
2011
DIASPORASIE, articule, Montréal, QC, Canada
SHIFT – Electronic Arts Festival, SHIFT Concert Hall, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Monitor 6, Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; National Film Board Mediatheque, Toronto, ON, Canada (tour)
Vidéos de femmes dans le parc, GIV, Montréal, QC, Canada
Intermixamania, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Beautiful Dreamers, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009
Reply-All, Art Metropole & SAVAC, Toronto, ON, Canada (commission)
Brooklyn is Burning, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
Escape, Smart Projects Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Harvestworks DMAC, New York; Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS; Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (tour)
2008
WNDX Festival of Film and Video Art, Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON, Canada
Vidéos de femmes dans le parc, GIV, Montréal, QC, Canada
Images Festival, Joseph Workman Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Posers: Performing A Fictional Self for Video, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Camera Free Screening, Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2007
Divya Mehra: Video Works 2002-2007, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2006
Photophobia 8, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Divya Mehra: Videos 2002-06, colour school, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
ARTIST BOOKS & SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2020
The End of You, The Wattis Institute, San Fransico, CA, a series of postcards mailed across the US (commission)
2018
Divya Mehra: Tone, artist folio in Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, Vol. 35
2017
Amy Fung & Kendra Place: You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist., at Georgia Sherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014
Divya Mehra: Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, As We Try & Sleep Press (Winnipeg): Print.
Jennifer Matotek & Tarin Hughes: Tragedy Plus Time, I laughed, I cried, I Split My Side, London, UK & Regina, SK, Published by Black Dog Publishing & Dunlop Art Gallery. Print.
2013
Divya Mehra: Quit, India. Artspeak (Vancouver) & Platform (Winnipeg): Print.
Amy Fung: They Made A Day Be A Day Here, Art Gallery of Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie) & Mendel (Saskatoon): Print.
2012
Denise Markonish: Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press., in conjunction with the exhibition, Oh, Canada, MASS MoCA
ARTIST TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2023
Institutional Fantasy and Structural Reality, Keynote speaker for CAMDO-ODMAC Annual Conference, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Keynote speaker for Goldfarb Summer Institute, Department of Visual Art & Art History, York University, York, Canada
2021
The Shovel is not a metaphor, online artist talk with Amy Fung and Kim Nguyen
Conversations in Contemporary Art, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Everything’s Fine, online artist talk with Amy Fung and Kim Nguyen. UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada
2020
YIELD YOUR TIME, a group zoom reaction with Amy Fung, Divya Mehra and Kim Nguyen, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
2020
Value Added, a reading and performative lecture by Divya Mehra and Kim Nguyen, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, Canada
2019
Race & Curation, alongside Kim Nguyen, Carmen Hermo and Ikechúkwú Casmir Onyewuenyi; organized by Eunsong Kim. Common Field Convening Philadelphia, The Friend’s Centre, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Difficult People, a reading and performative lecture by Divya Mehra and Amy Fung, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Open Space, Victoria, BC; 221A, Vancouver, BC; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (tour)
2017
Flotilla Atlantic, Centrepiece Speaker, artist talk, Holland College, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Stages: Drawing the Curtain, artist talk, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Punching Up, artist talk, Purchase College SUNY, Visual Arts Building, Purchase, NY
Visual Artist Speaking Series, Artist Talk, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, Canada
2016
Yonder, artist talk, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2015
A Putting down of Roots, artist talk, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2014
Visiting Artist Lectures, Artist Talk, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Tragedy Plus Time, artist talk, Dunlop Art Gallery, RPL Film Theatre, Regina, SK, Canada
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man: Artist Talk/Book Launch, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, artist talk, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2013
Stockpile: Panel Discussion: Dean Baldwin, Diane Landry, Luanne Martineau, Luminato Festival, David Pecaut Square, Toronto, ON, Canada
Women Performing Women, discussion and screening, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2012
Art Breaks, discussion and screening with Tala Madini, Andrew Kuo, Rashaad Newsome, Divya Mehra at Paramount Screening Room at Viacom Headquarters in Times Square, MoMA PS1, Creative Time, MTV, New York, NY
Advanced Projects, Artist Talk, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
2011
The Party is Over: Artist discussion with Randy Lee Cutler, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artist Talk, Emily Carr: University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Painfully Indian, artist talk, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
South Asian Diaspora Since 1800, artist talk, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Conceptual Self Portraits: Panel Discussion: Suzy Lake, Elizabeth Legge, Divya Mehra, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2010
South Asian Visual Arts Collective, Monitor 6: Panel Discussion: Richard Fung, Roger Sinha, Divya Mehra, NFB Mediatheque, Toronto, ON, Canada
2009
South Asian Women’s Creative Collection, Domestic Policy: Panel Discussion, The Guild Art Gallery, New York, NY
Art Now, artist talk, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Erasing Borders, Indian Art of the Diaspora, Panel Discussion with Neil Chowdhury, Amin Rehman and Mary Birmingham, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, artist talk, Asian American Writers Workshop, New York, NY
AWARDS
2024
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant, Canada
2023
Winnipeg Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant, Winnipeg, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Project Grant, Manitoba, Canada
2022
Sobey Art Award
Manitoba Arts Council, Project Grant, Canada
Glenfiddich Art Award, shortlist, Canada
2021
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant, Canada
Winnipeg Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant, Canada
Winnipeg Arts Council, Making a Mark Award, Canada
2020
Wanda Koop Research Fund, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Project Grant, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Artists in Communities Grant, Canada
2017
Sobey Art Award, Shortlist, Finalist, Ontario, Canada
2016
Canada Council for the Arts, Long Term Artist Grant, Ottawa, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Project Grant, Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg Arts Council, Project Grant, Winnipeg, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Travel Grant, Manitoba, Canada
2015
Glenfiddich Art Award, Short List, Canada
2014
Sobey Art Award, Longlist, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant
Manitoba Arts Council, Major Arts Grant, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Brooklyn Visual Arts Residency, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Travel Grant, Canada
2013
Sobey Art Award, Long List Nominee, Ontario, Canada
2012
The Banff Center, Brenda & Jamie Mackie Fellowship, Alberta, Canada
Winnipeg Arts Council, Travel Grant, Winnipeg, Canada
2011
Manitoba Arts Council, Travel Grant, Manitoba, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Ottawa, Canada
2010
Winnipeg Foundation, Commissioning Grant, Canada
2009
Winnipeg Arts Council, Commissioning Grant, Canada
2007
Columbia University, Merit Scholarship, USA
Columbia University, Dean’s Fellowship, USA
Ellen Gelman, Endowed Fellowship, USA
Manitoba Arts Council, Grant, Canada
2006
Columbia University, Merit Scholarship, USA
Columbia University, Dean’s Fellowship, USA
Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest, Endowed Scholarship, Canada
Winnipeg Arts Council, Commissioning Grant, Canada
Manitoba Arts Council, Grant, Canada
2005
National Film Board of Canada, Reel Diversity Film Grant
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Natalie Haddad, “What Does the End Look Like?”, Hyperallergic, November 6
Kristin Lim, “Six Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Those Dreary and Dark November Days”, SCOUT, November 4
Allison Noelle Conner, “Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts”, Momus, October 17
Claudia Ross, “Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible”, Hyperallergic, October 3
Vicki Duong, “Fall arts 2024: The Vancouver visual arts shows you need to see”, The Georgia Straight Newsletter, October 3
Staff, “What to See at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2024”, CBC, October 2, 2024
Tara Anne Dalbow, “Divya Mehra Lifts the Carpet”, Frieze, October 1
"The School of Fine Art Student Association Votes to Name the SOA Student Endowment Fund,” University of Manitoba News Today, March
2023
Rhea Nayyar, "Divya Mehra Releases Canada’s Colonial Genies," Hyperallergic, September 28
Leah Collins, "What to see at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2023," CBC, September 18
2022
Chris Hampton “Sobey-winning artist Divya Mehra doesn’t just talk about action — she takes it,” CBC Arts, December 19
Monica Fernadez “Divya Mehra Wins Canada’s Top Art Award,” ArtAsiaPacific, November 21
“Divya Mehra wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award,” Artforum, November 18
Larry Humber, “Divya Mehra wins Canada’s top art prize, the Sobey Art Award,” The Art Newspaper, November 17
Kate Taylor, “Winnipeg’s Divya Mehra wins 2022 Sobey Art Award,” Globe and Mail, print, November 17
“Divya Mehra Wins 2022 Sobey Art Award,” Galleries West, November 16
Leah Collins, “Art Toronto returns with a focus on bringing the Canadian perspective to the world,” CBC, October 28
2021
Kegan McFadden, “On Letting Go: How Art Institutions and Artists Are Correcting History,” Border Crossings Magazine, print, Issue 157
Chris Hampton, “Regina’s MacKenzie Art Gallery had a stolen statue of a Hindu god in its collection. Meet the artist who got it repatriated to India,” Globe and Mail, print, February 20
Brian Boucher, “Mourning as a Springboard (With Emojis),” New York Times, print, February 17
Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, “Playing with Refusal,” Rungh, Vol. 8, No.2
2020
S Vijay Kumar, “Bringing the goddess home,” Mumbai Mirror, December 13
Cassie Packard, “Artist Discovers a Looted Statue in a Canadian Museum’s Collection, Leading to Its Repatriation,” Hyperallergic, December 7
Natalie Haddad, “The Fallacies of Whiteness,” Hyperallergic, December 5
“Annapoorna idol’s return very pleasing: PM in Mann ki Baat,” The Times of India, November 30
Kabir Jhala, “Artist discovers looted statue in Canadian museum and returns it to India,” The Art Newspaper, November 25
Brian Boucher, “While Installing Her Show at a Canadian Museum, an Artist Discovered a Looted Statue in the Collection. Now, It’s Headed Back to India,” ArtNet, November 24
Varsha Rani, “Canada To Return a Statue It Stole From India Over a Century Ago,” Vice, November 23
Yaniya Lee and Emma Sharpe, “What to See in 2020,” Canadian Art, January 7
2019
Yu Ikeo, “Canadian Art,” Frau Magazine, Fall, September Issue, print, Tokyo, Japan
Jen Zoratti, “Artist tackles colonialism with wit, Inflatable installation acquired by National Gallery of Canada,” Winnipeg Free Press, print, August 31, Winnipeg, MB
Terrance Dick, “Muscled Rose at Scrap Metal Gallery,” Akimbo, August 21
Edward Bascal, “Reviews: Muscled Rose,” Canadian Art Magazine, August 14
Eva Wasney, “Visions of India,” Winnipeg Free Press, print, May 13
2018
Yaniya Lee, Tactics and strategies of racialized artists: some notes on how to circumvent the art world’s terms of inclusion, Arts Everywhere, Musagetes, online, November 29
Alexandra Mantella. CBC Docuseries makes art matter, The Queen’s University Journal, online, November 29
Sean O’Neill, In The Making: Divya Mehra,CBC Television, episode8, 22 minute short documentary, November 10
Jennifer Remenchik, “The Many Shades and Meanings of the Color Blue,” Hyperallergic, April 9
2017
Mark Mann, “White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s ‘You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist,’” MOMUS Online, Oct 12
Vidal Wu, “Divya Mehra Undoes White on White,” Canadian Art Online, Sep 21
Natalie Haddad, “Making Art from a City’s Isolation,” Hyperallergic, Sep 3
Jacqueline Bell, “The Subject of Tears: Reflections on three works by Divya Mehra,” C Magazine
Solomon Nagler & Angela Henderson, “Review: It’s Gonna Rain,” Border Crossings
2016
Yaniya Lee, “Anxious Territory: The Politics of Neutral Citizenship in Canadian Art Criticism,” C Magazine
2015
Steven Cottingham, “Divya Mehra and Talk is Cheap: Our Broken Tongues,” Canadian Art Online, Apr 26
2014
John G Hampton, “Culturally Contentious,” Magenta Magazine
2013
Joseph Henry, “Divya Mehra on ‘Quit, India’ and Her Dark Comedy,” Blouin ArtInfo, Oct 16
Samuel Jablon, “Divya Mehra’s Tragicomedy of Failure,” Hyperallergic, Oct 3
Katy Donoghue, “Artist to Watch,” Whitewall Magazine, Mar 14
Suhair Khan, “Artists Breaking Out,” Vogue India, Feb 4
2012
Brian Boucher, MTV Unveils New Art Breaks Videos Art in America
Amy Fung, “Reviews: The Party is Over.” Canadian Art Magazine
2011
Allison Gilmor, “Of Interest: Turf War,” BlackFlash Magazine
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank, Canada
Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Joanne Hames, Crombie Collection, Abercrombie, Canada
Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Canada
The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Scotiabank Art Program, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, Canada