Besides participation in exhibitions in the country and abroad, institutional work has involved lectures/teaching/workshops as visiting faculty at MSU,
A recent grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, supported a research project, ‘The Himmat Workshops’, that looked at ways of rooting art practice in ground realities as experienced in India. It involved collaborating with Himmat, an activist organization based in Vatva, Ahmedabad.
Other interests include writing, and music.
Chronology 2009 – 1996
In 2009
‘Bapu’ - an exhibition curated by Gayatri Sinha and shown at Saffronart,
In 2008
Workshop at the media lab, Uttarayan, Baroda.
Working on a new body of paintings through the year.
Seminar/workshop organized by Majlis,
Residencies ( illustrated talks) at Vidyasagar Art Centre,
In 2007
Solo shows at Sakshi Gallery Mumbai and
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from
Tiger by the Tail, curated by Elinor Gadon, Wendy Tarlow Kaplan and Roobina Karode for the Women’s Studies Research Centre,
Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, curated by Bernard Fibicher and Suman Gopinath, at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
Edge of Desire, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, travels to NGMA,
Experimenta 2007 (
Participation in group shows.
Has served as external examiner, Painting, MSU, since 2004.
In 2006
Residency at Khoj,
A package of six short videos were edited from footage shot by the participants, and a trial exhibit mounted at the Khoj premises in October. Audio-visual presentation at Khoj and at The School of Art and Aesthetics, JNU.
Edge of Desire travels to
Participation in group shows.
In 2005
Fieldwork, (in Vatva, Ahmedabad) in relationship to a collaborative project together with Himmat, an activist organization funded by the India Foundation for the Arts. The project aimed at building a visual archive, post - 2002, in different media, created by a group of survivors of the communal conflict early that year. This involved monthly trips to Ahmedabad between January 2005 – June 2006.
Lecture at Mica Mudra Institute, organized by the IFA.
In 2004
Traveling show “Edge of Desire: Recent Art in
Audio visual presentation at the Little Theatre, NCPA,
Audio visual presentation at the UGC National Seminar “Issues of Art and Activism: the Artist and the Historian” at The Dept.of Art History and Aesthetics, MSU Baroda.
Grant from the India Foundation for the Arts for a collaborative project ‘ the Himmat Workshops’.
Visiting faculty at IICD, Jaipur between 2002 – 2004.
In 2003
‘Diverge’ curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani at the National Gallery of Modern Art,
‘Sub-terrain’ curated by Geeta Kapur at the House of World Cultures,
‘The Story of Five Posters’, at The Canberra Contemporary Art Space , as a guest exhibit in relationship to ‘Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights’, an Australian National University Humanities Research Centre Project.
‘The
‘Transfigurations’, curated by Yashodhara Dalmia at the Habitat Centre,
‘Creative Space’, curated by Sakshi Gallery, at the Habitat Centre,
‘Voices Against Violence’, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU,
In 2001
Solo Show ‘Secret Life’, at Art Inc. Gallery,
Sakshi Gallery,
Visiting Faculty at NID, Ahmedabad.
TEACHING RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS (selected) before 2001:
In 2000
Visiting artist (audio-visual presentations and tutorials) at art schools in
Cergy Pontoise
Caen
Chatellerault
In 1999
Workshop at the
In 1998
Workshop in the Department of Painting,
In 1996
GRANTS (selected) before 2001:
In 1996
French Government Scholarship.
Charles Wallace Grant to work at Gasworks Studios.
In 1989
Ministry of Culture Fellowship for Artists.
In 1988
Central Lalit Kala Akademi Research Grant.
ARTISTS' RESIDENCIES (selected) before 2001:
In 2000
Khoj International Artists’ Workshops,
In 1998
Kuona Trust (
In 1996
Cite Internationale des Arts,
Shaddon Mills Visual Arts Centre,
Gasworks Studios,
Other interests include traveling, writing and music.
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