Ranbir Kaleka


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1953
Born in Patiala, Punjab, India
Education
1986
Sanskriti Award, New Delhi.
1985-87
M.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London, Charles Wallace Scholarship
1980-85
Taught at the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
1979
National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1976-77
Taught at the Fine Arts Department, College for Women, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
1970-75
Diploma in Painting, College of Art, Punjab University, Chandigarh
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Fables from the House of Ibaan: part 1, Bose Pacia, New York
Reading Man, Bose Pacia, New York
2007
Multi-media installation commissioned for permanent display, Spertus
Museum, Chicago
2005
Solo Exhibition, BosePacia Gallery, New York
1996
Solo Exhibition, ART TODAY, New Delhi India
Group Exhibitions
Online exhibition: www.anothersubcontinent.com
2008
Mechanisms of Motion, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Public Places, Private Spaces, Newark Museum, New JerseyHORN PLEASE: The Narrative in Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne
Urban Manners, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
2006
Art Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Busan Musuem of Modern Art, South Korea and at Arario Gallery, Beijing Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
2005
iCon: India Contemporary, Venice Biennale Edge of Desire: recent art in India, Asia Society Museum, New York, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, (Museum of Contemporary Art), MARCO, Monterrey Mexico; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Golden Jubilee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New DelhiRevisualising India, Osians, New Delhi.
2004-05
Residency at Villa Montalvo, California LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media: Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IsraelcheLA (Corriente Hipermediatica Experimental Latinoamericana), Buenos Aires; Huffmans House, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes; Valparaiso
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 AnglesZoom! Art in Contemporary India, Culturgest-Lisbon, PortugalVisual 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, Geneva diVERGE, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, DelhiBODY•CITY, Siting Contemporary Culture in India, House of World Culture, BerlinInteractive A03 Biennale for New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Merida , Yucatan/Mexico An Apparent Calm, curated by Peter Nagy, Sydney Video Road show, MumbaiRoot en Route, British Council, New Delhi and Chennai; Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore and Mumbai
2002
KHOJ 2002, International Workshop in Mysore, IndiaKapital & Karma, Kunsthalle, Vienna, AustriaPrivate Mythologies: Sound and video works of the personal and the political, Apeejay Media Gallery, New DelhiContemporary Photography, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001
Rare and Unusual Paintings, Art Today, New Delhi
2000
Silent 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
1999/ 2000
Artistic consultant, Basic Needs Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover Germ a n y Boxwallahs The DeEgo-Cube, Indo-Austrian Art Projects in Public Space Embarkations-The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai
1999
Art and Technology, Max Mueller, Mumbai 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
The artist lives and works in New Delhi, India