Special Projects

Current

Mumbai Noise
BYREDO To mark the launch of new fragrance, Mumbai Noise, for luxury fashion and beauty brand, BYREDO, Diet Paratha founder, Anita Chhiba, enlisted ten Indian artists to design the bottles. For... Read more

Fierceness in Scarcity Limited Edition Print
WWF Art For Your World is WWF’s campaign to mobilise and unite the art world in the fight against the climate crisis. The funds raised by Art For Your World are... Read more

The White Tiger Driver SUV
Netflix, 2020 To celebrate the launch of the Netflix Original Film The White Tiger, based on the New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, Netflix... Read more

Dada and the Punjabi Princess
'Confrontational and celebratory, Dada and the Punjabi Princess is a fusion of Punk, Pop art and Bollywood for the Digital age.' Dada and The Punjabi Princess is a video that... Read more

Armour
Film with Susanne Dietz Chila used both her body and traditional Asian decorative elements frequently in her work to challenge and subvert stereotypical representation of South Asian female identity. She says, “Even when I’ve... Read more

Statues Redressed
Sky Arts 25 October 2021 In Summer 2021, Sky Arts followed a group of artists including Bob and Roberta Smith, Chila Kumari Burman, Daniel Lismore, Taya Hughes and Stephen Jones as they took on Liverpool's... Read more

Past

Best Seat in the House
A RANKIN and WaterAid collaboration 2 - 6 February 2022 A host of artists, fashion designers and celebrities created their own unique toilet seats as part of a project with WaterAid and the Rankin Agency to help elevate the status... Read more

Art + Psychiatric Intensive Care
Hospital Rooms 3 November - 4 December 2021 Chila was invited to join 14 other artists to radically transform Psychiatric Intensive Care Units across London in the most ambitious project by arts and mental health charities, Hospital Rooms.... Read more

Tate Edit x Chila Kumari Singh Burman
Tate Modern 27 October 2021 - 27 March 2022 Her 2020 Winter Commission set alight Tate Britain’s iconic façade in technicolour neon. From 29 October 2021 Chila returned to Tate with the first artist takeovers at the Tate Edit... Read more

MTV Awards
Istanbul, 2021 13 September 2021 Read more

Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour
1 July - 30 August 2007 Artist Chila Kumari Burman tours her Dad’s original 1970s ice cream van around Hackney providing a month of art workshops for young people. Chila’s father was an ice cream seller... Read more

Southall Black Resistance Mural
with Keith Piper for the GLC Anti-Racism Project 27 September 1985 - 17 April 1986 Read more

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