Born in Khagaul, Bihar/IN, 1964
Studied B.F.A. Painting at the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna 1983-88
Lives and works in New Delhi since 1990
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Hauser & Wirth, London/UK
2008
Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘Gandhi’s Three Monkeys’, New York NY
Galleria Continua, ‘There is always cinema’, San Gimignano/IT
Arario Beijing, ‘Line of Control’, Beijing/CN
2007
In SITU Fabienne Leclerc, ‘Idol Thief’, Paris/FR
Bodhi Art, ‘Start.Stop’, Mumbai/IN
The Baltic, ‘Silk Route’, Gateshead/UK
2006
Nature Morte, ‘Hungry Gods’, New Delhi/IN
Cardiff National Museum, ‘Artes Mundi Prize’, Cardiff/UK
2005
In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, ‘Jootha’, Paris/FR
Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘I Go Home Every Single Day’, New York NY
Sakshi Gallery, ‘Jootha’, Mumbai/IN
2004
The Showroom Gallery, ‘I Go Home Every Single Day’, London/UK
2003
Nature Morte, ‘Saat Samunder Paar’, New Delhi/IN
Art & Public, ‘This Side is the Other Side’, Geneva/CH
2000
Nature Morte at Lokayata, ‘Recent works’, New Delhi/IN
1999
Gallery Foundation for Indian Arts, ‘Recent works’, Amsterdam/NL
1997
Bose Pacia Modern, New York NY
Gallery Chemould, ‘The Way Home’, Mumbai/IN
Gasworks Gallery, London/UK
1996
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘Grey Zones’, Mumbai/IN
1995
Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, ‘Grey Zones’, New Delhi/IN
1993
Gallery Espace, ‘Recent Paintings’, New Delhi/IN
1990
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Belidh Club, ‘Jamshedpur Tata Steel’, Kolkata/IN
1989
Shridhani Art Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, New Delhi/IN
1988
B.F.A. Painting, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna/IN
1986
Gandhi Sangharalya, ‘Recent Paintings’, Patna/IN
Group Exhibitions
2009
Tate Britain, ‘Tate Triennial’, London/UK
2008
Park de Oude Warande & Museum De Pont, ‘Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland. 3rd edition Lustwarande’, Tilburg/NL
Villa Manin, ‘God & Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion’, Udine/IT
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ‘Re-imagining Asia. A thousand years of separation’, Berlin/DE UK [travels
to The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall/UK]
Frank Cohen Collection at Initial Access, ‘Passage to India’, Wolverhampton/UK
CHANEL Mobile Art, Hong Kong/JP [travelled to: Tokyo/JP, New York NY, London/UK, Moscow/RU, Paris/FR]
Primo Marella Gallery, ‘New Delhi – New Wave’, Milan/IT
Bodhi Art, ‘Frontlines: Notations from the contemporary Indian urban’, Berlin/DE
Klaus Littman’s project, ‘Stadthimmel’, Basel/CH
Espace Claude Berri, ‘Indian Focus. Artistes indiens contemporains dans la collection de Claude Berri’,
Paris/FR
Mori Art Museum, ‘Chalo! India: A new Era of Indian art’, Tokyo/JP
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, ‘Distant
Nearness’, Kansas City KS
Serpentine Gallery, ‘Indian Highway’, London/UK [travels to: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo/NO]
CentrePasquArt, ‘Aurum. Gold in der zeitgenössischen Kunst’, Biel/CH
Barbican Art Gallery, ‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, London/UK
Bodhi Art, ‘Everywhere is War’, Mumbai/IN
Art Focus Jerusalem # 5, Jerusalem/IL
Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, ‘Sphères 2008. Galleria Continua, Chantal Crousel, Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Krinzinger, Kamel Mennour’, Boissy-le-Châtel/FR
Devi Art Foundation, ‘Where in the World’, New Delhi/IN
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, ‘Heavy Metal. On the inexplicable lightness of a material’, Kiel/DE
2007
Hangar Bicocca, ‘Urban Manners- 15 Contemporary Artists from India’, Milan/IT
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Hungry God’, Toronto/CA
The Newark Museum, ‘India: Public Places / Private Spaces’, Newark NJ
Primo Marella Gallery, ‘New Delhi – New Wave’, Milan/IT
Artcurial, ‘La gastronomie dans l’art: De la peinture flamande à Andy Warhol’, Paris/FR
Domaine du Château d’Avignon, Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhone, ‘Dans ces eaux là, patrimoine et creation contemporaine au château d’Avignon’, Avignon/FR
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago IL [travelled to: Salina Art Center, Salina KS, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ]
Shisha , Manchester International Festival, ‘The Rusholme Project’, Manchester/UK
Vadehra Art Gallery, ‘Objects: Making/Unmaking’, New Delhi/IN
‘L’Emprise du lieu – L’experience Pommery #4’, Reims/FR
Sammlung Daimler Chrysler- Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, ‘Private/Corporate IV’, Berlin/DE
Palazzo Grassi, ‘Sequence 1. Painting & Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection’, Venice/IT
2006
P.S.1 MoMA, ‘Altered, Stiched & Gathered’, New York NY
Taipei Biennial 2006, Taipei/CN
Istanbul Modern, ‘Venice- Istanbul’, Istanbul/TR
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, ‘Contemporary India’, Brussels/BE
Rose Art Museum, ‘Balance and Power’, Waltham MA
Neuberger Museum of Art, ‘Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life’, New York NY
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’ [travelled to: Berkeley Arts Museum, Berkeley CA]
Eglise Saint Bernard et vitrine de la Galerie in Situ, ‘Nuit Blanche’, Paris/FR
Lille 3000, ‘Bombaysers de Lille’, Lille/FR
Arario Gallery, ‘Hungry Gods’, Beijing/CN
Gallery Espace, ‘Bronze’, New Delhi/IN
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Plage de Pampelonne, ‘Made by Indians. Art on the Beach #5’, Commune de Ramatuelle/FR
The Showroom Gallery, ‘If it didn`t exist you`d have to invent it’, London/UK
Louis Vuitton Showroom, ‘L’Inde dans tous les Sens’, Paris/FR
Palazzo Grassi, ‘Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection’, Venice/IT
2005
Krannert Museum, ‘Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art’, Champaign IL
Arsenal, 51st Venice Biennale, ‘Always a little Further’, Venice/IT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye’, Chicago IL [travelled to: Hayward Gallery, London/UK]
The Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art, ‘Weightless Space’, Herzliya/IL
The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ‘Dialectics of Hope’, Moscow/RU
Walsh Gallery, ‘Mom and Pop’, Chicago IL
2004
The Art Gallery Of Western Australia, ‘Edge Of Desire’, Perth/AU [travelled to: Queens Museum of Modern Art, Queens NY; The Asia Society, New York NY, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City/MX; Marco, Monterrey/MX; National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay/IN]
Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux Arts, ‘Indian Summer’, Paris/FR
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, ‘Indian Video Art: History in Motion’ Fukuoka/JP
Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Two-man show’, Vancouver/CA
Saisons indiennes a Geneve, ‘Another Passage to India’, Geneva/CH
Sakshi Gallery, ‘Vanitas Vanitatum’, Mumbai/IN
The Eagle Gallery, ‘Drawings’, London/UK
‘The SNEEZE, a Featured Film by 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes’, Athens/GR
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, ‘Postkort fra Cuba’, Høvikodden/NO
2003
8. Biennale Havanna, Havanna/CU
Gallery Chemould, ‘Crossing Generations: diVERGE’, Mumbai/IN
House of World Cultures, ‘Body. City. Citing contemporary Culture in India’, Berlin/DE
Grantpirrie Gallery, ‘An apparent calm which is in fact a perfectly balanced tension’, Sydney/AU
Bose Pacia Modern, ‘HEAT’, New York NY
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, ‘The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary Art from India’, Høvikodden/NO
Apparao Galleries at the Apeejay New Media Centre, ‘Bad Taste’, New Delhi/IN
2002
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, ‘Under Construction’, Tokyo/JP
Apeejay Media Gallery, ‘Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political’, Faridabad/IN
Sakshi Gallery at Habitat Centre, ‘Creative Space’, New Delhi/IN
Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Beijing/CN
Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, ‘Busan Biennale’, Busan/KR
IMA Institute of Modern Art, ‘Self: Contemporary Indian Indian Videao Art’, Brisbane/AU
Manchester City Art Gallery, ‘Indian Art: Home-Street-Shrine-Bazaar-Museum’, Manchester/UK
Apparao Galleries at India Habitat Centre, ‘Cinema Stills’, New Delhi/IN
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Kapital & Karma’, Vienna/AT
Project 304, ‘Sorry for the Inconvenience’, Bangkok/TH
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Inaugural show’, Paris/FR
CIMA Gallery, ‘Sidewinder’, Kolkata/IN [travelled to: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi/IN; Coomarswamy Hall, The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai/IN]
Nature Morte, ‘Photosphere’, New Delhi/IN
2001
National Gallery Of Modern Art, ‘Post Residency Show- Jindal Foundation’, Mumbai/IN
Passenger Terminal, Jim Beard Gallery and FIA, ‘Bollywood has arrived’, Amsterdam/NL
Galleria Continua, ‘Post Production (Sampling, Programming & Displaying)’, San Gimignano/IT
Museum of Fine Art, ‘Context as Content- Museum as Metaphor- Museum of Fine Art’, Chandigarh/IN
Nature Morte, ‘Context as Content / Museum as Metaphor’, New Delhi/IN
2000
Birla Academy, ‘Vilas’, Mumbai/IN
Theatre de Strasbourg et le Forum itinerant, ‘I love Video Art’, Strasbourg/FR
Max Muller Bhawan, ‘Print et.com’, New Delhi/IN
‘Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art’, Travelling Exhibition: Asian Section of the Kwangju Biennale 2000, KR, Niigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, Niigata/JP and Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya City/JP
C.R.A.C., ‘Negotiations’, Sète/FR
1999
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Nature Morte, ‘Of based on, or obtained’, New Delhi/IN
Jim Beard Gallery at CCA, ‘Impact’, New Delhi/IN
Nature Morte, ‘Indian Artists’, Sydney/AU
Art India, ‘Edge of Century’, New Delhi/IN
1998
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘New Millenium, New Media’, Mumbai/IN
Brewery Arts Centre, ‘Kendal Wallah – Through Indian Eyes’, Kendal/UK
1997
Gasworks Studios, ‘UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists hosted by InIVA’, London/UK
British Council, ‘Khoj international artists exhibition’, New Delhi/IN
Shirley Fiterman Gallery, ‘Points of contact’, New York NY
1996
Sanskriti Kendra, ‘Indo- Austrian Artists’ Workshop’, New Delhi/IN
Lalit Kala Academy, ‘Indo-Cuban Exhibition of contemporary Art’, New Delhi/IN
1995
‘Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain)’, Rome/IT ; Venice Biennale, Venice/IT
1994
Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, ‘Young Generation from Bihar’, Baroda/IN
Birla Academy, ‘Young contemporary Artists’, Kolkata/IN
Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, ‘Drawings ’94’, New Delhi/IN
1993
Gallery Escape, ‘Contemporary Indian Artists’, Dubai/AE
1991
Husain Ki Sarai, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi/IN
Lalit Kala Academy, ‘Research Grant Scholars Exhibition’, New Delhi, Lucknow, Madras/IN
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘Imprints of our Time’, Mumbai/IN
1990
Vadehra Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhawan, ‘All India Painting Exhibition’, New Delhi/IN
1989
Rabindra Bhawan, ‘Contemporary Artists of Bihar’, New Delhi/IN
1987
‘Young Painters of Bihar’, Patna/IN
1983
‘Group of AB Exhibition’, Patna, Bihar/IN
‘All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition’, Patna/IN
Awards and scholarships
2004
French Government residency in Paris, Visiting Professor at L’Ecole des Beaux-arts, Paris/FR
1997
Emerging Artist Award, BosePacia Modern, New York NY
UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London/UK
1996
All India Painting Exhibition, 1st Prize by M.F. Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi/IN
1990- 91
Research Grant Scholarship, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi/IN
1989
All India Festival, Dhanbad/IN
1987-88
Students grant scholarship, Govt. of Bihar, Patna/IN
1987
State Level Art Exhibition of Bihar/IN
1986
All India Youth Festival, Madras/IN
