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- 1964
- Born in Khagaul, Bihar, India
Education
- 1983-88
- BFA Painting, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna
Solo Exhibitions
- 2007
- StartStop, Bodhi Art Gallery, Bombay
Silk Route, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK curated by Jerome Sans
- 2006
- Hungry Gods, Nature Morte, New Delhi
- 2005
- Jootha, In Situ Gallery, Paris
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Jootha, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
- 2004
- I Go Home Every Single Day, The Showroom Gallery, London
- 2003
- Saat Samunder Paar, Nature Morte, New Delhi
This Side is the Other Side, Cabinet, Art and Public, Geneva
- 2000
- Recent works, Nature Morte at Lokayata, New Delhi
- 1999
- Recent works, Gallery FIA, Amsterdam
'The Way Home', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
- 1997
- Bose Pacia Modern, New York
- 1996
- 'Grey Zones', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1995
- 'Grey Zones', Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
- 1993
- Recent Paintings, Gallery Escape, New Delhi
- 1990
- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta Belidh Club, Jamshedpur, Tata Steel
- 1989
- Recent Paintings, Shridhani Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 1986
- Recent Paintings, Gandhi Sangharalya, Patna
Group Exhibitions
- 2007
- New-narratives: Contemporary art from India, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, The Rusholme Project, Shisha in collaboration with the Manchester International festival, SeptemberObjects: Making/Unmaking, Vadehra Art Gallery,
L'experience Pommery # 4, L'Emprise de Buren, curated by Daniel Buren
Private/Corporate IV, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler – Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections
- 2006
- Venice-Istanbul at the Istanbul Modern, Turkey curated by Rosa Martinez
Nuit Blanche, curated by Nicolas Bourriad and Jerome Sans, Paris
Lille 3000, curated by Naphegyi, Lille City, France
Hungry Gods, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
Bronze, curated by Madan Lall for Gallery Espace,New Delhi
Made By Indians, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Art on the beach, St Tropez, France
The Showroom Gallery , London
L'Inde dans tous les sens, Louis Vuitton Showroom, Paris curated by Herve Mikaloff
- 2005
- Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, MCA Chicago; Hayward Gallery,London curated by Francesco Bonami
Balance and Power: Performance and surveillance in Video Art, at Krannart Museum, Illinois, USA, curated by Michael Rush
Always a Little Further, curated by Rosa Martinez, Arsenale, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, MCA Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London curated by Francesco Bonami
Weigtless Space, The Herzliya museum Of Contemporary Art, Israel
Dialectics of Hope, The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriard, Rosa Martinez, Hans Ulrich Obrist
- 2004
- Edge Of Desire curated by Chaitanya Sambrani for The Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth; The Asia Society, New York
Indian Video Art: History in Motion, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Two-man show curated by Keith Wallace; Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art, Canada
Another Passage to India, Saisons Indiennes a Geneve
Vanitas Vanitatum, curated by Peter Nagy for Sakshi Gallery Mumbai
Drawings, The Eagle Gallery, London
the SNEEZE, a Featured Film 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes curated by Natasha Makowski and Peter Lloyd Lewis, Athens, Greece
- 2003
- The Havanna Biennale, curated by Hilda Rodriques, Cuba
Crossing Generations: diVERGE Curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani for four Years of Gallery Chemould
bodycity siting contemporary culture in India, sub Terrain: artists dig the contemporary curated by Geeta Kapur for the House of World Cultures, Berlin
An apparent calm which is in fact a perfectly balanced tension, curated by Peter Nagy at Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
HEAT, curated by Ram Rahman at Bose Pacia Modern, New York
The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary art form India, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway Curated by Gavin Jantjes
Bad Taste, Apparao Gallery, at the Apeejay New Media Centre, New Delhi
- 2002
- Under Construction, Japan Foundation and Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political, curated by Pooja Sood , Apeejay Media Gallery, Faridabad
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Bejing China Curated by Johan Pijnappel
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea
Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art, curated by Johan Pijnappel, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia
Indian Art: Home – Street- Shrine- Bazaar- Museum, curated by Gulammohammed Sheikh,For Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Cinema Stills, curated by Gyatari Sinha, at Habitat center, New Delhi, for Apparao Galleries
Kapital and Karma, curated by Angelika Fitz and Michael Wortenger for KunstWein, Vienna
THE ARMORY SHOW, New York, for Art and Public, Geneva
Sorry For the Inconvinience, curated by Gridthya Gaweewong,
Project 304 Bangok
Thailand and Under Construction, Japan Foundation Project in Tokyo, Inaugaral show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Bernard Macade for the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Sidewinder, curated by Gerard Hemsworth for CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
India habitat Centre, New Delhi; Coomarswamy Hall, The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India
- 2001
- National Gallery Of Modern Art, Mumbai Post Residency Show Jindal art Foundation
Bollywood Has Arrived, curated by Jim Beard Gallery and FIA, Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam
Post Production (Sampling, Programming & Displaying) curated by Nicolas Bourriaud Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Context as Content – Museum as Metaphor – curated by Peter Nagy at the Museum of Fine Art, Chandigarh Illustrated Catalogue
- 2000
- 'VILAS' at Birla Academy, Mumbai, Curator: Gayatri Sinha
I Love Video Art – Curated by Le Mailton Theatre de Strasbourg et le forum itinerant, Strasbourg, France
Print etcom, Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi Curator: Amit Mukopadaya
INVISIBLE BOUNDARY: Metamorphosed Asian Art, Travelling Exhibition: Asian Section of the Kwangju Biennale, Niigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, Japan and Utsunomiya Museum of Art Utsunomiya City Japan, Curator: Tani Arata and Co-Curator: Ueda Yuzo
Kwangju Biennale 2000at Kwangju, South Korea Asian Section, Curator: Tani Arata
'Negociations' CRAC SETE, France Curator: Nicolas Bourriaud & Bernard Marcade
- 1999
- The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Curator: Kuroda Raiji Of Based on, or obtained by, Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
'IMPACT' Jim Beard Gallery at CCA New Delhi Curated by: Kimberley Lewis and Derk Bulthuis
Nature Morte Indian Artists, Sydney, Australia Curator: Peter Nagy
Edge of Century' Curator: Amit Mukopadaya Art India, New Delhi
- 1998
- New Millennium, New Media Curator: Anupa Mehta, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai Kendal Wallah – through Indian Eyes, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK
- 1997
- UNESCO – ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists hosted by InIVA at Gasworks Studios, London Khoj International Artists' Exhibition, British Council, New Delhi
Points of Contact, Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York
- 1996
- Indo-Austrian Artists' Workshop, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
6th Bharat Bhawan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Arts, Bhopal
Indo-Cuban Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
- 1995
- Young Generation from Bihar', Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda
Young Contemporary Artists, Birla Academy, Calcutta
- 1994
- Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands Off Cain', Rome and at the Biennale in Venice
Drawing '94, Curator: Priag Shukla, Organised by Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi
- 1993
- Contemporary Indian Artists, Organised by Gallery Escape, Dubai
- 1991
- 'Husain Ki Sarai' Organised by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Research Grant Scholars Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi Lucknow, Madras
'Imprints of Our Time', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
- 1990
- All India Painting Exhibition Organized by Vadhera Art Gallery at Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
- 1989
- Contemporary Artists of Bihar, at Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
- 1987
- Young Painters of Bihar, Patna
- 1983
- Group of 'AB Exhibition, Patna
All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition, Patna
Selected Participations
- 1990
- Invited in regional art exhibition at Rashtriya Kala Kendra, Calcutta
All India Art Exhibition, Bhuwaneshwar
Nukkar Poetry Painting Exhibition, State Level Art Exhibition, Patna
- 1986
- All India Youth Festival, Roorkee (UP) 3rd Rashtriya Kala Mela, New Delhi
East Zone Youth Festival, Guwahati
All India National Youth Festival, Madras
- 1983
- All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition, Patna
Workshops, Residencies
- 2003
- Wasla Workshop, Cairo Egypt
- 2001
- JACIC Residency, Vasind, Pune
- 2000
- Pipe Dreams Workshop, Kosi Kalan UP
Khoj International Artists' Workshop, Modi Nagar
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Art Exchange Program, Japan
- 1997
- UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London
Khoj International Artists' Workshop, Modi Nagar
Triangle Artists' Workshop, New York
- 1996
- Indo-Austrian Artists Workshop, Sanskrit Kendra, New Delhi
- 1991
- All India Artists Workshop, Lalit Kala Academy, Bhuwaneshwar
Artists Workshop, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
Awards And Scholarships
- 2004
- French Government residency in Paris, Visiting Professor at L'ecole des Beaux-arts, Paris
- 1997
- UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London
Emerging Artist Award, BosePacia Modern, New York
- 1996
- All India Painting Exhibition, 1st Prize by MF Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
- 1990
- -91 Research Grant Scholarship, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
- 1989
- All India Festival, Dhanbad, Bihar
- 1987-88
- Students grant scholarship, Govt of Bihar, Patna
- 1987
- State Level Art Exhibition of Bihar
- 1986
- All India Youth Festival, Madras
The artist lives and works in New Delhi