Born in Khagaul, Bihar, India, 1964
Studied B.F.A. Painting at the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, India 1983 – 1988
Lives and works in New Delhi, India
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Hauser & Wirth, ‘What does the vessel contain, that the river does not’, London, England
Kunstmuseum Thun, ‘Spirit Eaters’, Thun, Switzerland
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain
2012
Kiran Nadar Museum, ‘Line of Control’, New Delhi, India
2011
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Hauser & Wirth, ‘A glass of water’, New York NY
Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture Southwood Garden, St. James’s Church, ‘Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture: Subodh Gupta’, London, England
2010
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
KÖR am Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, ‘Et tu, Duchamp?’, Vienna, Austria
Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Pinchuk Art Centre, ‘Faith matters’, Kiev, Ukraine
Tramway, ‘Take off your shoes and wash your hands’, Glasgow, Scotland
Nature Morte, ‘Oil on canvas’, New Delhi, India
Hauser & Wirth, ‘School’, London, England
2009
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Common Man’, London, England
2008
Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘Still Steal Steel’, New York NY
Galleria Continua, ‘There is always Cinema’, San Gimignano, Italy
Arario Beijing, ‘Line of Control’, Beijing, China
2007
In SITU – Fabienne Leclerc, ‘Idol Thief’, Paris, France
Bodhi Art, ‘Start.Stop’, Mumbai, India
The Baltic, ‘Silk Route’, Gateshead, England
2006
Nature Morte, ‘Hungry Gods’, New Delhi, India
Cardiff National Museum, ‘Artes Mundi Prize’, Cardiff, Wales
2005
In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc, ‘Jootha’, Paris, France
Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘I Go Home Every Single Day’, New York NY
Sakshi Gallery, ‘Jootha’, Mumbai, India
2004
The Showroom Gallery, ‘I Go Home Every Single Day’, London, England
2003
Nature Morte, ‘Saat Samunder Paar’, New Delhi, India
Art & Public – Cabinet PH, ‘This Side is the Other Side’, Geneva, Switzerland
2000
Nature Morte at Lokayata, ‘Recent Works’, New Delhi, India
1999
Gallery Foundation for Indian Arts, ‘Recent Works’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997
Bose Pacia Modern, New York NY
Gallery Chemould, ‘The Way Home’, Mumbai, India
Gasworks Gallery, London, England (with I Jayachandran)
1996
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘Grey Zones’, Mumbai, India
1995
Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, ‘Grey Zones’, New Delhi, India
1993
Gallery Espace, ‘Recent Paintings’, New Delhi, India
1990
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Belidh Club, ‘Jamshedpur Tata Steel’, Kolkata, India
1989
Shridhani Art Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, New Delhi, India
1986
Gandhi Sangharalya, ‘Recent Paintings’, Patna, India
Group Exhibitions
2013
Fondation Maeght, ‘Adventures of Truth’, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
2012
Museé Ariana, ‘Food’, Geneva, Switzerland
Kochi – Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi, India
Manarat Al Saadiyat, ‘Art, Talks and Sensations: The Island / A Game of Life’, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Jing’An International Sculpture Project Biennial, Shanghai, China
‘Art in the City’, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Schloss Moyland, ‘Ashes and Gold. A World’s Journey’, Bedburg-Hau, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Arken Museum of Modern Art, ‘India: Art Now’, Arken, Denmark
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Massive/Intensive: Contemporary Art from India’, Tel Aviv, Israel
MARTa Herford, ‘Ashes and Gold. A World’s Journey’, Herford, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, ‘In Praise of Doubt’, Venice, Italy
2011
Galleria Continua, ‘Beijing Online Inlive. 10 Hands 100 Fingers’, Beijing, China
Firstsite, ‘Camulodunum’, Colchester, England
FLAG Art Foundation, ‘One, Another’, New York NY
Devi Art Foundation, ‘Home Spun’, New Delhi, India
Avenues of Berlage’s Plan-Zuid, ‘Artzuid 2011’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, ‘Indian Highway V’, Rome, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
La Pedrera, CatalunyaCaixa, ‘Eating Art. From Goya to Ferran Adrià’, Barcelona, Spain
Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, ‘In Praise of Doubt’, Venice, Italy
Centre Pompidou, ‘Paris – Delhi – Bombay’, Paris, France
Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Indian Highway IV’, Lyon, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, ‘Time Unfolded’, New Delhi, India
2010
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘Indian Highway’, Reykjavik, Iceland (Travelling Exhibition)
S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, ‘Hareng Sauer: Ensor and Contemporary Art’, Ghent, Belgium
Tri Postal, ‘La Route de la Soie / The Silk Road’, Lille, France
Galleria Continua, ‘REMINDERS’, Beijing, China
SESC Pompeia, ‘Urban Manners 2’, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Castello Svevo di Bari, ‘Da Sopra’, Bari, Italy
Fondation Dina Vierny – Musée Maillol, ‘C’est la Vie. Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst’, Paris, France
Herning Kunstmuseum, ‘Indian Highway’, Herning, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
The Saatchi Gallery, ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today’, London, England
Guggenheim Museum, ‘Contemplating the Void’, New York NY
Expo Shanghai 2010, ‘Art for the World (The Expo)’, Shanghai, China
ARCOS, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, ‘Artefici contemporanei e difformità barocche’, Benevento, Italy
Walsh Gallery, ‘Monumental’, Chicago IL
2009
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ’2009 Asian Art Biennial “Viewpoints and viewing points”’, Taichung, Taiwan
Queensland Art Gallery, ‘The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Brisbane, Australia
Tate Britain, ‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009’, London, England
The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, ‘Un Certain Etat du Monde? Works from the Pinault Collection’, Moscow, Russia
Casa Asia, ‘Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History’, Madrid, Spain
Initial Access, ‘Passage to India Part II’, Wolverhampton, England
Palais des Arts de Dinard, ‘Who`s Afraid of the Artists? A Selection of Works from the Pinault Collection’, Dinard, France
The New Art Gallery Walsall, ‘Re-imagining Asia. A Thousand Years of Separation’, Walsall, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, ‘The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial’, Fukuoka, Japan
Essl Museum, ‘Chalo! India: A new Era of Indian Art’, Klosterneuburg, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Astrup Fearnley Museum, ‘Indian Highway’, Oslo, Norway (Travelling Exhibition)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Chalo! India: A new Era of Indian Art’, Seoul, Korea (Travelling Exhibition)
2008
Park de Oude Warande & Museum De Pont, ‘Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland. 3rd Edition Lustwarande’, Tilburg, Netherlands
Villa Manin, ‘God & Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion’, Udine, Italy
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ‘Re-imagining Asia. A Thousand Years of Separation’, Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Frank Cohen Collection at Initial Access, ‘Passage to India’, Wolverhampton, England
__, ‘CHANEL Mobile Art’, Hong Kong, China (Travelling Exhibition)
__, ‘CHANEL Mobile Art’, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
__, ‘CHANEL Mobile Art’, New York NY, (Travelling Exhibition)
Primo Marella Gallery, ‘New Delhi – New Wave’, Milan, Italy
Bodhi Art, ‘Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban’, Berlin, Germany
Klaus Littman’s project, ‘Stadthimmel’, Basel, Switzerland
Espace Claude Berri, ‘Indian Focus. Artistes Indiens Contemporains dans la Collection de Claude Berri’, Paris, France
Mori Art Museum, ‘Chalo! India: A new Era of Indian Art’, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Bodhi Art, ‘Expanding Horizons’, Mumbai, India (Travels to eight venues throughout India)
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, ‘Distant Nearness’, Kansas City KS
Serpentine Gallery, ‘Indian Highway’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Centre PasquArt, ‘Aurum. Gold in der zeitgenössischen Kunst’, Biel, Switzerland
Barbican Art Gallery, ‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, London, England
Bodhi Art, ‘Everywhere is War (and Rumours of War)’, Mumbai, India
Art Focus Jerusalem # 5, Jerusalem, Israel
Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, ‘Sphères 2008. Galleria Continua, Chantal Crousel, Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Krinzinger, Kamel Mennour’, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Devi Art Foundation, ‘Where in the World’, New Delhi, India
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, ‘Heavy Metal. On the Inexplicable Lightness of a Material’, Kiel, Germany
48º C Public. Art. Ecology, New Delhi, India
Museum of Arts and Design, ‘Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary’, New York NY
Institut Valencia d`Art Modern, ‘India Moderna’, Valencia, Spain
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, New Brunswick NJ (Travelling Exhibition)
Salina Art Center, ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Salina KS (Travelling Exhibition)
2007
Hangar Bicocca, ‘Urban Manners – 15 Contemporary Artists from India’, Milan, Italy
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Hungry God’, Toronto, Canada
The Newark Museum, ‘India: Public Places / Private Spaces’, Newark NJ
Primo Marella Gallery, ‘New Delhi – New Wave’, Milan, Italy
Artcurial, ‘La Gastronomie dans l’Art: De la Peinture Flamande à Andy Warhol’, Paris, France
Domaine du Château d’Avignon, Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhone, ‘Dans ces Eaux là, Patrimoine et Creation Contemporaine au Château d’Avignon’, Avignon, France
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
Shisha, Manchester International Festival, ‘The Rusholme Project’, Manchester, England
Vadehra Art Gallery, ‘Objects: Making / Unmaking’, New Delhi, India
___, ‘L’Emprise du lieu – L’experience Pommery #4’, Reims, France
Sammlung Daimler Chrysler – Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, ‘Private / Corporate IV’, Berlin, Germany
Palazzo Grassi, ‘Sequence 1. Painting & Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection’, Venice, Italy
Neuberger Museum of Art. Purchase College, State University of New York, ‘Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life’, Purchase NY
National Gallery of Modern Art, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Mumbai, India (Travelling Exhibition)
2006
P.S.1 MoMA, ‘Altered, Stiched & Gathered’, New York NY
Taipei Biennial 2006, Teipei, Taiwan
Istanbul Modern, ‘Venice – Istanbul’, Turkey
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, ‘Contemporary India’, Brussels, Belgium
Rose Art Museum, ‘Balance and Power’, Waltham MA
Neuberger Museum of Art, ‘Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life’, New York NY
Montalvo Arts Center, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Saratoga CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Berkeley Arts Museum, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Berkeley CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Eglise Saint Bernard et vitrine de la Galerie in Situ, ‘Nuit Blanche’, Paris, France
Lille 3000, ‘Bombaysers de Lille’, Lille, France
Arario Gallery, ‘Hungry Gods’, Beijing, China
Gallery Espace, ‘Bronze’, New Delhi, India
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Plage de Pampelonne, ‘Made by Indians. Art on the Beach #5’, Commune de Ramatuelle, France
The Showroom Gallery, ‘If it Didn`t Exist You’d Have to Invent it’, London, England
Louis Vuitton Showroom, ‘L’ Inde dans tous les Sens’, Paris, France
MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Monterrey, Mexico (Travelling Exhibition)
2005
Krannert Art Museum, ‘Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art’, Champaign IL
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘Always a little Further’, Venice, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
Hayward Gallery, ‘Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
The Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art, ‘Weightless Space’, Herzliya, Israel
The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ‘Dialectics of Hope’, Moscow, Russia
Walsh Gallery, ‘Mom and Pop’, Chicago IL
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, ‘Indian Summer’, Paris, France
Queens Museum of Modern Art, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Queens NY (Travelling Exhibition)
The Asia Society, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo Tamayo, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Mexico City, Mexico (Travelling Exhibition)
2004
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, ‘Indian Video Art: History in Motion’, Fukuoka, Japan
Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Two-Man Show’, Vancouver, Canada
Saisons Indiennes à Genève, ‘Another Passage to India’, Geneva, Switzerland
Sakshi Gallery, ‘Vanitas Vanitatum’, Mumbai, India
The Eagle Gallery, ‘Drawings’, London, England
Gazon Rouge Gallery, ‘The SNEEZE, a Featured Film by 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes’, Athens, Greece
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, ‘Postkort fra Cuba’, Høvikodden, Norway
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Perth, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
2003
8. Biennale Havanna, Havanna, Cuba
Gallery Chemould, ‘Crossing Generations: diVERGE’, Mumbai, India
House of World Cultures, ‘Body. City. Citing Contemporary Culture in India’, Berlin, Germany
Grantpirrie Gallery, ‘An Apparent Calm which is in Fact a Perfectly Balanced Tension’, Sydney, Australia
Bose Pacia Modern, ‘HEAT’, New York NY
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, ‘The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary Art from India’, Høvikodden, Norway
Apparao Galleries at the Apeejay New Media Centre, ‘Bad Taste’, New Delhi, India
2002
Japan Foundation and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, ‘Under Construction’, Japan
Apeejay Media Gallery, ‘Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political’, Faridabad, India
Sakshi Gallery at Habitat Centre, ‘Creative Space’, New Delhi, India
Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Beijing, China
Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, ‘Busan Biennale’, Busan, Korea
IMA – Institute of Modern Art, ‘Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art’, Brisbane, Australia
Manchester City Art Gallery, ‘Indian Art: Home-Street-Shrine-Bazaar-Museum’, Manchester, England
Apparao Galleries at India Habitat Centre, ‘Cinema Stills’, New Delhi, India
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Kapital & Karma’, Vienna, Austria
Project 304, ‘Sorry for the Inconvenience’, Bangkok, Thailand
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Inaugural Show’, Paris, France
CIMA Gallery, ‘Sidewinder’, Kolkata, India (Travelling Exhibition)
India Habitat Centre, ‘Sidewinder’, New Delhi, India (Travelling Exhibition)
Coomarswamy Hall, The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, ‘Sidewinder’, Mumbai, India (Travelling Exhibition)
Nature Morte, ‘Photosphere’, New Delhi, India
2001
National Gallery Of Modern Art, ‘Post Residency Show’, Mumbai, India
Passenger Terminal, ‘Bollywood has arrived’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galleria Continua, ‘Post Production (Sampling, Programming & Displaying)’, San Gimignano, Italy
Museum of Fine Art, ‘Context as Content – Museum as Metaphor – Museum of Fine Art’, Chandigarh, India (Travelling Exhibition)
Nature Morte, ‘Context as Content / Museum as Metaphor’, New Delhi, India (Travelling Exhibition)
2000
Birla Academy, ‘Vilas’, Mumbai, India
Theatre de Strasbourg et le Forum itinerant, ‘I love Video Art’, Strasbourg, France
Max Muller Bhawan, ‘Print et.com’, New Delhi, India
Asian Section of the Kwangju Biennale 2000, ‘Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art’, Gwangju, Korea (Travelling Exhibition)
Niigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, ‘Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art’, Niigata, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, ‘Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art’, Utsunomiya, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
CRAC Alsace – Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, ‘Negotiations’, Sète, France
1999
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Nature Morte, ‘Of based on, or obtained’, New Delhi, India
Jim Beard Gallery at CCA, ‘Impact’, New Delhi, India
Nature Morte, ‘Indian Artists’, Sydney, Australia
Art India, ‘Edge of Century’, New Delhi, India
1998
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘New Millenium, New Media’, Mumbai, India
Brewery Arts Centre, ‘Kendal Wallah – Through Indian Eyes’, Kendal, England
1997
Gasworks Studios, ‘UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists hosted by InIVA’, London, England
British Council, ‘Khoj International Artists Exhibition’, New Delhi, India
Shirley Fiterman Gallery, ‘Points of Contact’, New York NY
1996
Sanskriti Kendra, ‘Indo- Austrian Artists’ Workshop’, New Delhi, India
Lalit Kala Academy, ‘Indo-Cuban Exhibition of Contemporary Art’, New Delhi, India
1995
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain)’, Venice, Italy
1994
Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, ‘Young Generation from Bihar’, Baroda, India
Birla Academy, ‘Young Contemporary Artists’, Kolkata, India
Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, ‘Drawings ‘94’, New Delhi, India
1993
Gallery Escape, ‘Contemporary Indian Artists’, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
1991
Husain Ki Sarai, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Lalit Kala Academy, ‘Research Grant Scholars Exhibition’, New Delhi, Lucknow, Madras, India
Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘Imprints of our Time’, Mumbai, India
1990
Vadehra Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhawan, ‘All India Painting Exhibition’, New Delhi, India
1989
Rabindra Bhawan, ‘Contemporary Artists of Bihar’, New Delhi, India
1987
‘Young Painters of Bihar’, Patna, India
1983
__, ‘Group of AB Exhibition’, Patna, Bihar, India
__, ‘All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition’, Patna, India
Awards and Scholarships
2004
French Government residency in Paris, Visiting Professor at L’Ecole des Beaux-arts, France
1997
Emerging Artist Award, BosePacia Modern, New York NY
UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London, England
1996
All India Painting Exhibition, 1st Prize by M.F. Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
1990- 91
Research Grant Scholarship, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
1989
All India Festival, Dhanbad, India
1987-88
Students grant scholarship, Govt. of Bihar, Patna, India
1987
State Level Art Exhibition of Bihar, India
1986
All India Youth Festival, Madras, India
