Birender Yadav is an Indian multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in his personaland cultural background as part of a family of ironworkers. Growing up in the mining region ofDhanbad, Jharkhand, his work explores labor, caste, material memory, and the physicalrealities of industrial environments. Through sculpture, installation, photography, anddrawing, Yadav engages with the pain, endurance, and dignity embedded within laboringbodies and landscapes. His long-term engagement with brick kiln workers informs a practicegrounded in research, documentation, and collaboration.
Yadav was an artist-in-residence at the Pro Helvetia Studio Residency, Zurich, Switzerland (2019), and at Darling Foundry, Montreal, in partnership with What About Art? and SAVAC, supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and Tata Steel (2019). He has participated in major international exhibitions including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025), the Indian Ceramics Triennale (2024), and the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022).
Birender Yadav currently lives and works in New Delhi, India.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
2015 : Master of Fine Art, College of Arts, New Delhi, India.
2013 : Bachelor Of Fine Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
SOLO PROJECT:
2017 : ”Idhar-Udhar”(Here-There), Solo exhibition in Collaboration with 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
BIENNALE/TRIENNALE :
2025-2026 : 6th Kochi Muzris Biennale , For the Time Being ,Curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Space , Kochi,
2024 : India 3rd Lahore Biennale, Of Mountains and Seas ,Curated by John Tain ,Lahore ,Pakistan
2024 : 2nd Indian Ceramic triennale ,Common Ground ,Arthshila , New Delhi,India
2023 : ’Reunione’ -A Semblance of History,Precursors of a Modern World ,Something Else ,Citadel,Cairo, Egypt
2022 : 12th Berlin Biennale ,Still Present , Curated by Kader Attai , Berlin,Germany
2022 : 13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography,Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Bamako, Mali
GROUP EXHIBITION / PROJECTS PARTICIPATED :
2026 : Cosmo, Asia, People: Reinventing People in a Planetary Age, ACC, South Korea
2026 : India Art Fair , Jhaveri Contemporary
2026 : Zameen ,Curated by Ina Puri ,Birla Academy of Arts , Kolkata, India
2025 : Murmurations, 10th edition of Serendipity Arts Festival , Curated by Ravi Agarwal , Goa, India
2025 : Murmurations, 10th edition of Serendipity Arts Festival , Curated by Ravi Agarwal , Goa, India
2023 : Ways of seeing ,Curated by Hans Carlsson ,Lunds konsthall ,Sweden
2022 : Rivers and Road : meandering stories of India,, Curated by Valeria Contarino, Pranitha Joseph and Zhu Yaning, AAIE Center for Contemporary Art,Rome, Italy
2022 : ”Dismantling Aesthetics of Inhibition”, Curated by Y.S Alone , Gallery OED ,Kochi, India
2022 : Naya Anjor, Curated by Arushi vats ,Center for Contemporary Arts, Bikaner House, New Delhi ,India
2022 : ”Synthesis of difference:Contemporary art practices from India and South Korea “Curated by Jeong Heon Ki and B.Ajay Sharma, Korean Cultural centre India ,New Delhi,India
2021 : “Constitution”, Curated by Swapnaa Tamhane,Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2019 : “Allow me a letter” Curated by Bénédicte le Pimpec, Mumbai Art Room in partnership with Pro Helvetia – Swiss Art Council, Mumbai , India
2019 : Startup States, Curated by Laura Mclean. Sarai Centre for the study of developing societies ,New Delhi, India
2018 : Worker and farmers: The panorama of resistance (prelude) future collaborations, curated by premjish Achari, khoj international Artist’s Association, khirkee, New Delhi, India
2018 : Dispute: Landscapes of Dissent” for Sahmat curated by Aban Raza , Constitution Club, New Delhi, India
2018 : “The Star is Mine”, curated by Sumesh Sharma and Joud-Al- Tamimi , 1X1 Art Gallery, UAE.
AWARDS / RESIDENCY :
2024 : Pro-Helvetia Research Residency,Switzerland
2022 : Arts exploration grant,India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), under the Arts Practice programme, made possible with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.
2019 : India Residency at Darling foundry, Montreal in partnership with What About Art? and SAVAC, supported by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and TATA Steels.
2018 : Pro-Helvetia Studio Residency,Rote Fabrik ,Zurich, Switzerland
2017 – 2018 : Artreach Community Art Grant,India.
2015 : Artreach Community Art Grant,India.
2013 – 2015 : Young Artist Scholarships (Visual Arts) by Government of India ,Ministry of Human Resource Development , New Delhi ,India
PUBLIC PROJECT :
The Modern Art Festival ARTBAT FEST 11,Almaty ,Kazakhstan, Supported by The Akimat of the city of Almaty
COLLECTION :