Chila Kumari Burman MBE is celebrated for her radical feminist practice which examines representation, gender and cultural identity. She works across a wide range of mediums including printmaking, drawing, painting, installation and film. 

Burman studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and a key figure in the British Feminist Arts movement. Burman has remained rooted in her understanding of the diverse nature of culture. 

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Burman was selected for Tate Britain Winter Commission in 2020. The resulting hugely popular installation Remembering A Brave New World. More recently she has gone on to complete high profile light installation projects for Covent Garden’s historic market stall building, Liverpool Town Hall and Blackpool’s Grade II listed Grundy Art Gallery. She recently featured in Sky Arts documentary special Statues Redressed and BBC2 documentary Art That Made Us. And has completed a number of notable commission pieces for brands including Netflix’s White Tiger campaign and Byredo’s new fragrance Mumbai Noise. 

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In 2017, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and Honorary Fellowship from the University of Arts in London. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for her services to the arts.

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In November 2023, a new commission, “The Shining Lights of Service”, opened on the façade of the Royal Pavilion, and showed her light installation “Hurt so Good” in Durham as part of the Artichoke Trust public commission. 

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Currently showing in the “Women in Revolt” a roving Tate group show which opened in 2023. 

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2024 saw Burman’s work be selected as finalist and public favourite for the 4th plinth. She is exhibiting “Same but only different “ in the “Glasstress“ exhibition in the 2024 Venice Biennale. In July a book will be published on her by the Tate, including a signed limited edition of 250 with a special sleeve.

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She will be also be having a solo show at the Holborn Museum in Bath in September, solo shows in Compton Verney and the Imperial War Museum in Manchester opening in October, and a solo show in the Perth gallery in Scotland in November. 

Burman’s works are held in international private and public collections. Including the Arts Council Collection, British Council, Science Museum, Tate Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Trust in London, and the Devi Foundation in NewDelhi.