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Born, 1972 - Rajasthan, India.

 

Education

 

1997 Masters of Fine Arts (Painting), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

 

Solo shows

 

2010 'Nature God', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei

2009-10 'Mistake', Inda Gallery, Budapest

2009 'Khatti Mithi', Project at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2009 'Iconic Shrine', Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur in collaboration with Roundabout and Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok

2008 'Mistake', Aicon Gallery, London

2008 'Pet Shop', Ashsih Balram Nagpal Galleries, Mumbai

2008 'New Indians', Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris

2008 ‘Metastasis of Signs – A Walk in the Realm of Manipulated Realities’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2007 ‘Tentuaa Dabaa Do (Kill Her)’, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, Rajasthan

2006 ‘I Want To Be An International Artist’, Solo Performance, Seoul Art Centre, Korea

2006 ‘Clone Vitthala’, Sculptures at Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai

2006 ‘Maya’, Paintings at Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai

2005 ‘Baar Baar, Har Baar, Kitni Baar?’, Installation and Interactive Performance, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara

2004 ‘Conker’s’, Installation Project, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2004 ‘Designer Babies’, Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai

2003 ‘New Breed / Hybrid’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2002 ‘Commemorative Stamps’, Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, Mumbai

2002 ‘Commemorative Stamps’, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

2002 ‘Floating thoughts’, Interactive site specific installation, Brisbane, Australia

1999 ‘So What’, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai

1998 ‘This has been done before’, Shahjehan Art Gallery, New Delhi

1996 ‘Desirable Objects’, Leela Kempenski Art Gallery, Mumbai

 

Group shows

 

2014  'India - The Revealed Mysteries' in Conjunction with Venice Biennale 2014 , Venice , curated by Sandro Orlandi 

2013  'Confluence des Arts'  a group show of 100 artists at Gallery Artchill, Amber Fort , jaipur. 

2012 '2 + 2 = 5', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

2012 'Looking Back, Looking Forward', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2012 'Mapmakers: The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York

2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai

2012 'Sightings', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2011 'Adbhutam: Rasa in Indian Art', Centre of International Modern Art(CIMA), Kolkata

2011 'Skin Deep: The Art of Fibreglass', The Viewing Room, Mumbai

2011 'Between Seasons', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai

2011 'Love is a 4 Letter Word', Latitude 28, New Delhi

2011 'Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature', presented by Harmony Art Foundation at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharah Vastu Sangrahalaya, 

 

Mumbai

2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon

2011 'Dolls', Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

2011 'Tech-Cut-Edge-Revelations', Ashna Gallery, New Delhi

2010 'Changing Skin', presented by The Fine Art Company at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay, Mumbai

2010 'A. SYCO', The Viewing Room, Mumbai

2009 'Home Sweet Home', Religare Arts. i Gallery, New Delhi

2009 'Indian Summer', Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin

2009 'Inaugural Show', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei

2008-09 'Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan', Aicon Gallery, London

2008-09 'Hot Shots', The Viewing Room, Mumbai

2008 'Uncovered', Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 ‘Keep Drawing’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2008 'The Ethics of Encounter', Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok

2008 'Indiavata', Gallery Sun Contemporary, Korea

2008 'Link', Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 ‘Freedom 2008 : Sixty Years After Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

2007 ‘Telling It Like It Is: The Indian Story’, The Gallery in Cork Street, London

2007 ‘Here and Now: Contemporary Voices from India’, Grosvenor Gallery, London

2007 ‘Young Guns’, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai

2007 'Keep Drawing', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai

2006 ‘Bombay Maximum City’, Lille 3000, Lille, France

2005 -06 ‘Kaam’, Arts India Gallery, New York and Palo Alto, USA

2005 ‘Annual Exhibition’, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai

2005 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, Preview TATE Britain

2005 ‘Configuration’, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi

2005 ‘Ways Of Seeing’, Gallery Art Alive, New Delhi

2005 ‘Papereshi’, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara

2005 ‘Present-Future’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai

2005 ‘Indian Contemporary Art’, Chelsea College of Art, London

2005 ‘Are We Like This Only?’, Rabindra Bhavan, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi

2004 ‘Bombay Boys’, Palette Art Gallery , New Delhi

2004 ‘Charles Wallace Foundation Awards’, British Council, New Delhi

2004 ‘Concepts and Ideas’, Centre for International Modern art (CIMA),, Kolkata

2004 Gallery 27, Oslo, Norway

2004 - 03 ‘Portraits of a Decade’, Centre for International Modern art (CIMA), Kolkata and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2004 – 03 ‘Dots and Pixels’, Digital media, Sumukha Art Gallery, Banglore and Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2004 ‘Bombay 17’, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi

2003 ‘Parthenogenesis’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2003 ‘Corresponding Latitudes’, A Cross Cultural Collaborative Exhibition of Indian and Australian artists, Jawahar Kala Kendra - Jaipur

2002 ‘ Brahma to Bapu', Icons and Symbols in Indian art, Habitat centre, New Delhi, India and Centre for International Modern art (CIMA),, Kolkata

2002 ‘Quotable Stencil’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2001 ‘ Annual show’, Gallery Wren, Sydney, Australia

2000 ‘Sic.’, an Audio-visual Installation, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai

1999 'Mumbai Metaphor’ Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

1999 ‘Wall Paper’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai

1997 ‘Class of 1997’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai

1997 ‘50 yr. of Indian Independence’, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, Delhi and Ravi Shankar Rawal Bhavan, Ahmedabad – Gujarat

 

Joint shows

 

2005 ‘You Have to Decide’ an Interactive Installation and Performance Center for Art and Culture, Chiksarda, Transylvania,Romania

2005 ‘I‘m a slut’, a Collaborative Video and Performance with Amit Kekre, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai

2004 ‘Made in China’, Collaborative Installation with Hema Upadhyay, Viart Gallery, New Delhi

2003 ‘Made in China’, Collaborative Installation with Hema Upadhyay, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

2003 ‘Post Card’, Project with Hema Upadhyay, part of ‘Parthenogenesis’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2000 Objects of Desire, Collaboration with Hema Upadhyay, ‘Art and Technology’, Ideas and Images II, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai

1995 ‘Circa Early Seventies’, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

1994 ‘Discount 33 %', Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

Participations

 

2012 'The Calendar Project: Iconography in the 20th Century', part of Project CINEMA CITY: Research Art & Documentary Practices presented by National Gallery of Modern Art 

 

(NGMA) and Ministry of Culture, Government of India at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai

2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2011 'Red', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

2011 'Miniscule Marvel', presented by Contemplate at Gallery BMB, Mumbai

2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei

2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi

2010 'Art Dubai 2010', presented by Aicon Gallery, New York

2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai

2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2009 'Expressions at Tihar', Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi

2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain represented by Gallery Espace, New Delhi

2008 'Pulse Miami', represented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

2008 'The Sakshi Show',Darbar Hall Art Centre, Kerala Lalit Kala Academy, Kochi

2007-08 ‘Kashi 10 Light Years – Anniversary Show’, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi

2007 ‘Have You Eaten Yet ?’, Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2007 Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China

2007 'On The Edge of Vision: New Idioms In Indian and Italian Contemporary Art', organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in New Delhi in collaboration with the National Gallery of 

 

Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi at Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and New Delhi

2004 ‘Red’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

2003 ‘Corresponding Latitudes’, A Cross Cultural Collaborative Exhibition of Indian and Australian artists. Jawahar Kala Kendra - Jaipur

1997 ‘Harmony Show’, Nehru Centre, Mumbai

 

Awards and Scholarships

 

2004 – 05 Awarded Charles Wallace Foundation Award for a residency in Bristol, U.K.

2000 – 01 Gadi scholarship, NLKA, New Delhi

1998 Lalit Kala Academy for Outstanding Drawing in a drawing exhibition

1997 All India Avantika art exhibition, New Delhi

1996 Lalit Kala Academy for Outstanding Painting in the annual exhibition

S.C.Z.C.C. for Outstanding Painting in the annual exhibition, Nagpur, Maharastra

1995-97 Lalit Kala Academy for Outstanding Painting in the annual exhibition