BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1953 Patiala, Punjab, India.1970-75: Five
Year Diploma in Painting, College of Art, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
1976-77: Taught at the Fine Arts Department, College for Women,
Punjabi University, Patiala, India. 1980-85: Taught at the Delhi
College of Art, New Delhi. 1985-87: M.A. Painting, Royal College
of Art, London. Charles Wallace Scholarship.
1979
National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. 1986 Sanskriti Award,
New Delhi.
Lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Selected Exhibitions
Online exhibition: www.anothersubcontinent.com
2008
Machanisms of Motion, New Delhi
2007
Multi-media installation commissioned by Spertus Museum for permanent
display in Chicago
Solo Show, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York*
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Institute,
Chicago
Hungry God - Indian Contemporary Art, Busan MOMA
Public Places, Private Spaces, Newark Museum, New Jersey
2006
Art Video Lounge, curated by Michael Rush, Art Basel, Maimi Beach
Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Busan Musuem of Modern Art,
Korea
Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Beijing*
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, NGMA (National Museum of Modern
Art), New Delhi;
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive*
2005
Solo Exhibition, BosePace Gallery, New York*
iCon: India Contemporary, (collateral event), Venice Biennale*
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Asia Society Museum, New York;
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, MARCO (Museum of
Contemporary Art), Monterrey, Mexico; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco;
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Golden Jubilee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Revisualising India, Osians, New Delhi
‘Herwitz 100’ Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
2004\05
Residency at Sally & Don Lucas Artists Programs, Montalvo Arts
Center, California
LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media:
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; cheLA (Corriente
Hipermediatica
Experimental Latinoamericana) Buenos Aires, Argentina; Huffmans
House, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes; Valparaiso,
Chile
2004
Edge of Desire: Recent art from India, Art Gallery of Western Australia*
LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media:
How Can You Resist?
MOCA's, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angles
Zoom! Art in Contemporary India, Culturgest-Lisbon, Portugal*
Visual Performance, curated by Wu Hung and Julie Walsh. Walsh Gallery,
Chicago*
After Dark, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai*
2003
10th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre for Contemporary Images,
Saint-Gervais, Genéve, Switzerland*
diVERGE, NGMA, Mumbai*
Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi*
BODY•CITY, Siting Contemporary Culture in India, House of
World Culture, Berlin, Germany*
Interactive A03 Biennale for New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary
Art Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
An Apparent Calm, curated by Peter Nagy, Grantpirrie, Sidney
Video Roadshow, Mumbai
Root en Route, British Council, New Delhi and Chennai; Sakshi Gallery
Bangalore and Mumbai
2002
KHOJ 2002, International Workshop in Mysore, India*
Kapital & Karma, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria*
Private Mythologies: Sound and video works of the personal and the
political, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
Contemporary Photography, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001
Rare and Unusual Paintings, Art Today, New Delhi
2000
Silen TV video lounge, in collaboration with Michel Mallard, Olivier
Reneau & Denis Chevalier, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
Images for a Hundred Lamp Posts, Public Art Project, Ealing, London
Boxwallahs, The DeEgo-Cube, Indo-Austrian Art Projects in Public
Space
Embarkations-The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai*
Art and Technology, Max Mueller, Mumbai
1999
Artistic consultant, Basic Needs Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hannover Germany
Edge of the Century, British Council, New Delhi*
1998
Public mural for Thames Trains at Southall Station, London commission:
Ealing and the European Union Fund
1997
Open Drawing Competition Exhibition, Cheltenham and North England
1996
Solo Exhibition, ART TODAY, New Delhi India*
1998
Public mural for Thames Trains at Southall Station, London, commission:
Ealing and the European Union Fund
1997
Open Drawing Competition Exhibition, Cheltenham & North England
1996
Solo Exhibition, ART TODAY, N. Delhi India
1995
Indian Winter Mixed Show, Smith Jariwala Gallery, London
First Sight West London Artists Pitshanger Manor Gallery London
1994
Summer Exhibition, invited Artist Royal Academy, London
Drawing’94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
The Affordable Art Company Exhibition, Connaught Brown Gallery,
London
1988
Seventeen Indian Painters, Gallery Chemould, Bombay*
1987
Contemporary Indian Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University
of Vermont, Burlington, USA
Coup De Coeur, Festival of Indian, Geneva*
1986
Contemporary Indian Art, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1985
Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India Exhibition, Grey Art
Gallery, New York University, New York.
1984
Painting Camp, Sahitya Kala Akademi, Sohna
1983
World Punjabi Writers Conference, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,
New Delhi
1982
Fifth Triennale India, New Delhi
Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India
London*
India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford*
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VIDEOGRAPHY
CROSSINGS
2005
4 channel video projection on 190 x 250cm, (75 x 98 inches) acrylic
paintings, 15 minute loop with sound
solo show
Bose Pacia Gallery
New York Sep 15 - Aug 29 2005
group shows
Hungry God - Indian Contemporary Art, Busan MOMA, Dec 22 2006 -
Feb 19 2007
Arario Gallery, Beijing Sep 3 - Nov 15 2006
curator June Y. Gwak
iCon India Contemporary, Venice Biennale (collateral event)
Jun 12 - Jul 31 2005
curators Peter Nagy, Julie Evans, Gordon Knox
acknowledgements
camera Abbas Muzaffar, Chico, Celia Lowenstein, Ranbir
Kaleka music and song of ‘Calls’ Madan Gopal
Singh
sound designer David Fulton audio engineer David
Fulton editor/compositor Steffen Frech
performance Dr Ahmar Raza, Nuzhat Kazmi, Shantanu Lodh,
Subba Ghosh, Jasbir Kaleka, Jagroop Kaur Kaleka,
Robbie Kaleka, Vikram Kaleka, Rishi Soni, Prashant, Aban Raza, Aman
Mann, Gurnam Singh Mann, Manmeet Singh
post production services City Centre Digital Oakland, California
special thanks to Deepinder Mann, Riverbank Studios, New
Delhi
installation stills, video stills Arnie Bose, Carlos Martín,
Enrica Cavarzan
MAN
WITH COCKEREL-2 2004
Singel channel video, 6 minute loop with sound. Back projection
on a screen fitted in a constructed wall, (variable).
exhibition
Resonance Golden Jubilee
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Aug 2005
curator K T Ravindran
acknowledgements
actor Ram Gopal Bajaj cockerel Mustapha digital
compositing Riverbank Studios, New Delhi
video stills Riverbank Studios, New Delhi
MAN
IN WATER 2003
two channel video, 13 minutes loop with sound
exhibition
Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi Nov 16 - 17 2003
curator Pooja Sood
acknowledgements
digital compositing Riverbank Studios, New Delhi installation
stills courtesy Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi
special thanks to Gautham Pandey and Mike Pandey
WINDOWS
2002
single channel video/sculpture 244 x 122 x 122 cm, (96 x 48 x 48
inches),
6 minute loop with sound
exhibitions
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India
curator Chaitanya Sambrani
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific film Archive
University of California, USA June 14 - Sep 17 2006
Tamayo Museum
Mexico City Aug 25 - Nov 20 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO)
Monterrey, Mexico Jan 26 - Apr 30 2006
Queens Museum of Art
New York Feb 27 – Jun 5 2005
Asia Society
New York Mar 1 - May 30 2005
Museum of Western Australia
Perth Sep 25 2004 - Jan 9 2005
10th Biennial of Moving Images
Centre for Contemporary Images
Saint-Gervais, Genéve, Switzerland Nov 9 - 18 2003
curator Mumta Murti
Root en Route, British Council, New Delhi, Chennai
Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, Mumbai Feb 2003
curators Alka Pande, Sushma Bahl
KHOJ International Workshop
Mysore, India Oct 19 - Nov 1 2002
curator Pooja Sood
acknowledgements
camera Krupakar/Senani performance Dwarki, S Shambhavi,
Basu, Raju, Puttana Char, artists from Rangayana (theatre group),
Bangalore compositing Gautam Pandey, Riverbank Studios,
New Delhi
produced at Khoj International Workshop, Mysore, Riverbank
Studios, New Delhi
installatin & video stills Eileen Costa, courtesy Queens
Museum of Art, New York
Simone Aaberg Kaern, Magnus Bejmar, British Council
MUSIC
ROOM
2002
single channel video, 13 minute loop with sound.
conversion into CD-ROM, commissioned by Artpix, Houston
exhibition
10th Biennial of Moving Images
Centre for Contemporary Images
Saint-Gervais, Genéve, Switzerland Nov 9 - 18 2003
curator Mumta Murti
acknowledgements
compositing Gautam Pandey performance Abhishek
Raghuvanshi, Doel Trivedy
Special thanks to Riverbank Studios
VIDEO
LOUNGE
2002
6 channel video, (variable), looped with sound
collaboration with Silen TV
Michel Mallard, Olivier Reneau, Denis Chevalier
exhibition
Silen TV video lounge, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
MAN
WITH COCKEREL
2002
2 channel video, 19 minute loop
exhibitions
Solo Show
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York Sep 15 - Aug 29 2005
LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media:
How Can You Resist?
MOCA's, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angles Nov 2004
curator Pooja Sood
tour exhibition, (LA FREEWAVES), curator Anne Bray
venues: Center for Contemporary Art
Tel Aviv, Israel 2005
cheLA (Corriente Hipermediatica Experimental Latin Americana), Buenos
Aires Argentina 2005
Huffmans House, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes,
Valparaiso Chile 2005
Zoom! Art in Contemporary India
Culturgest-Lisbon Museum
Portugal Apr 7 - Jun 6 2004
curator Nancy Adajania
Visual Performance
Walsh Gallery, Chicago Apr 30 - Jul 10 2004
curators Wu Hung, Julie Walsh
10th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre for Contemporary Images,
Saint-Gervais, Genéve Switzerland Nov 9 - 18 2003
curator Mumta Murti
Crossing generations: diVERGE
NGMA, Mumbai Dec 2 - 14 2003
curators Geeta Kapur, Chaitanya Sambrani
BODY•CITY - subTerrain: artworks in the cityfold
House of World Culture, Berlin
Germany Sept 20 - Nov 16 2003
curator Geeta Kapur
InteractivA‘03, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY), Merida,
Yucatan, Mexico
Jul 10 to Aug 28 2003
curator Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
An Apparent Calm, Grantpirrie
Sidney May 13 - June 14 2003
curator Peter Nagy
Video Art Roadshow, Mumbai Apr 2003
curator Shilpa Gupta
Private Mythologies of the personal and the political
Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi Nov 24 2002
curator Pooja Sood
Kapital & Karma, Contemporary Art from India
Kunsthalle wien, Vienna Austria Mar 29 - Jun 09 2002
curators Angelika Fitz, Michael Wörgötter
acknowledgements
actor Ram Gopal Bajaj cockerel Mustapha produced
at Riverbank Studios
installation still Bose Pacis Gallery, New York, Chris
Meerdo, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, Culturgest-Lisbon Museum, Portugal
POWDER
ROOM
1999/2000
Single channel video/sculpture Installation, 3 minute loop with
sound
exhibitions
Boxwallahs, The DeEgo-Cube, Indo-Austrian Art Projects in Public
Space
Gurgaon, India Oct 1999 - Jan 2000
curators Angelika Fitz, Michael Wörgötter
Embarkations-The Millennium Show
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Jan 2000
curator Yashodhara Dalmia
acknowledgements
camera Rahul Rewal; Abbas Khan
performance Michael Wörgötter, Mansi Kochar,
Prima Kurien, Pratosh Gargi, Bhopal
MAN
THREADING A NEEDLE 1998/1999
Single channel video projected on 59 x 91 cm, (23.3 x 35.8 inch)
oil painting , 6 minute loop with sound
exhibitions
Solo Show
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York Sep 15 - Aug 29 2005
BODY•CITY, - subTerrain: artworks in the cityfold House of
World Culture
Berlin, Germany Sept 20 - Nov 16 2003
curator Geeta Kapur
Edge of the Century
British Council, New Delhi Dec 1999
curator Amit Mukhopadhyay
Kapital & Karma, Contemporary Art from India
Kunsthalle wien, Vienna Austria Mar 29 - Jun 09 2002
curators Angelika Fitz, Michael Wörgötter
Art and Technology, Max Mueller, Mumbai 2000
curator Girish Shahane
acknowledgements
camera Rahul Rewal, man Sadanand
installation still Manmeet Singh |
