Born
1957
Bhadravati, Karnataka
Education
1986 Residency for three months at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1984-86 Master of Arts (Painting), Royal College of Art, London
1982 Post-Diploma in Painting, Vishwabharati University, Santiniketan
1980-82 Bachelor of Arts, Bangalore University
1979 One Year Non-collegiate Study under Prof. K.G. Subramanyan, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1974-79 Diploma in Painting, Ken School of Art, Bangalore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'Open Eye Policy', Van...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 'Open Eye Policy', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2011 'Therein & Besides', Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London
2008 'Crime Fiction', Gallery Ske, Bangalore
2008 'Touching Base', Museum Gouda, Gouda, Holland
2006 Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2004 Gallery SKE, Bangalore
1993 Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
1993 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1989 Yelwala, Mysore
1989 Gallery 7, Mumbai
1987 Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013-14 'Inaugural Show', Gallery Ske, New Delhi
2010 'Orientations: Trajectories in Indian Art', Foundation 'De 11 Lijnen', Oudenburg, Belgium
2009-10 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Indian Contemporary Art in Global Times', Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009 'For Life: The Language of Communication', Tilton Gallery, New York
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008 'Reflections of Contemporary India', La Casa Escendida, Madrid
2008 'Frame Figure Field: 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India and South Asia’, organized in collaboration with South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWACC), Stefan Stux Gallery, New York.
2008 'Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture', in association with Bodhi Art, and supported by the British Council, Kunststiftung NRW and the Provence of Antwerp at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuKHA), Belgium
2007 ‘Horn Please’, Kunstmuseum, Bern
2006 ‘Play/Lila: Contemporary Miniatures and New Art from South Asia’, Melbourne
2006 ‘With Love’, organized by Gallery Ske and Tilton Gallery at Miami Design District
2005 World Information City – Bangalore, Institute of New Culture Technologies, Vienna/Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
2005 ‘Indian Summer: Contemporary Art from India’, Paris, France
2004 ‘Cabin Baggage’, Project by Open Circle at the World Social Forum in Mumbai
2004 ‘Subtlety-Minimally’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2004 ‘Contemporary Art from India’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Iconography in Transient Times’, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2003 ‘Sites of Recurrence I’, Dakshina Chitra, Chennai
2003 ‘Sites of Recurrence II’, Boras Museum, Sweden
2003 ‘How Latitudes Become Form’, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
2003 City Park at Project, at Project, Dublin
2002 ‘Moving Ideas - Secular Practice: Recent Art from India’, Gallery La Centrale, Montreal and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001 ‘Art and Nature’, Site-Specific work executed at Bangalore, organized by the Goethe Institute
2000 ‘Drawing Space’, inIVA, Beaconsfield Gallery, London and Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
1999 ‘Tales of Six Cities’, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Peep-Peep Bangalore’, Jayamahal Palace, Bangalore
1998 ‘Private Mythology, Contemporary Art from India’, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
1997 ‘Telling Tales, 5 Women Artists From India’, Victoria Gallery, Bath, England
1997 ‘Telling Times’, British Council, New Delhi
1995 ‘Material-Immaterial’, organized by the Goethe Institute at Bangalore
1994 ‘Tangente’, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1989 ‘Timeless Art’, Victoria Terminus, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2009 'Arrested Views', with Yamini Nayar at Thomas Erben, New York
1987 Two Artists Show at Gallery 7, Mumbai
Participations
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2011-12 'Shadow Lines: India Meets Indonesia', part of Biennale Jogja XI at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta
2011-12 'Indian Highway V', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2009 Venice Biennale, Italy
2009 Sharjah Biennial, UAE
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09,10,11 'Indian Highway', a Traveling Exhibition presented in Collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at Serpentine Gallery, London; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning, Denmark; Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2007 ‘Documenta 12’, Kassel, Germany
2007 Lyon Biennale, France
2003 Khoj 2003, International Workshop, Bangalore
1996 ‘Traditions/Tensions’, 27 South Asian Artists, Asia Society and Queens Museum, New York
1995 ‘Art and Nature’, International workshop and exhibition organized by Goethe Institute at Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi
1995 ‘Africus’, South African Biennale, Johannesburg
1988 Bharath Bhavan Biennale, Bhopal
1984 National Exhibition, New Delhi
1981,82,85 State Annual Exhibitions, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1977-83 Annual Shows with the Art Group Samyojitha, Bangalore
Honours and Awards
1998 Sothebys Price for Contemporary Indian Art
1998 G.S.Shenoy Award
1994-96 Senior Fellowship, Government of India
1986 Residency for three months at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1985 Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Award
1984-86 Inlaks Foundation Scholarship for Post Graduate studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London
1979-82 Scholarship for Higher Studies from Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy
1998 Sothebys Price for Contemporary Indian Art
1998 G.S.Shenoy Award
1994-96 Senior Fellowship, Government of India
1986 Residency for three months at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1985 Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Award
1984-86 Inlaks Foundation Scholarship for Post Graduate studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London
1979-82 Scholarship for Higher Studies from Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy
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