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Mithu Sen
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Born in 1971 in West Bengal, Mithu Sen obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting from Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, and later, completed a postgraduate program at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom on the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Award for 2000-2001. An enthusiastic traveler, Sen has explored several countries and many of her works have evolved from her travels and experiences.
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Born in 1971 in West Bengal, Mithu Sen obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting from Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, and later, completed a postgraduate program at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom on the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Award for 2000-2001. An enthusiastic traveler, Sen has explored several countries and many of her works have evolved from her travels and experiences.
In her works, Mithu Sen contrasts scale, subject and even genre to give life to her remarkable imagination. Installations and paintings are an important part of Sen’s oeuvre. She works spontaneously in both genres – one mark or symbol leading to another, with no preconceived narrative or definitive meaning ; put down in the style of free association, they consist of a peculiar collection of motifs that playfully subvert commonly held beliefs about femininity and sexuality. Juxtaposing intricate and large forms, conflating animals, humans and inanimate objects, and combining drawing, painting and collage, Sen’s works provoke both humour and serious consideration on the part of the viewer.
Having participated in numerous shows worldwide, Sen’s most recent solo endeavours include 'I Dig, I Look Down' at Albion Gallery, London, in 2008; ‘Half Full – Part I’ at Bose Pacia, New York, in 2007; ‘Half Full – Part II’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007; ‘It's Good to be Queen’ at Bose Pacia Artist Space, New York, in 2006; and ‘Drawing Room - II’ at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, in 2006. Amongst her recent group shows are, 'Still Moving Image' at the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; 'Link' at Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai; 'Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India' at d.e.n. Contemporary Art and Western Project, Culver City; and ‘Shifting Terrains / Altered Realities’ at the Shrine Gallery, New Delhi, all held in the year 2008.
Mithu Sen lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1971
Burdwan, West Bengal
Education
2001 One Year Post Graduate Programme (Visiting), Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, UK
1997 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Visva Bharti, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Visva Bharti, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Border Unseen', Eli and Edythe...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 'Border Unseen', Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
2013 'Cannibal Lullaby', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels 2012 'Devoid', Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2012 'In House Adoption', presented by Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi at Galerie Steph, Singapore
2011 'In Transit', Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipei
2010 'Nothing Lost in Translation', Nature Morte, Berlin
2010 'Black Candy', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2009 'Me Two', Krinzinger Project, Vienna
2009 'Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold', Suzie Q Projects, Zurich
2009 'Free Mithu', Khoj, New Delhi
2008 'I Dig, I Look Down', Albion Gallery, London
2007 ‘Half Full’, Part I, Bose Pacia, New York
2007 ‘Half Full’, Part II, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2007 ‘Making / Unmaking’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007-06 ‘Drawing Room’, Nature Morte; British Council, New Delhi
2006 ‘It's Good to be Queen’, Bose Pacia Artist Space, New York
2006 ‘Drawing Room - I’, British Council, New Delhi
2006 ‘Drawing Room - II’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2003 ‘I Hate Pink’, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 ‘Unbelongings’, Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2000 ‘Can We Really Look Beyond the Map?’, Art India Style, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 'Interpositions: Replaying the Inventory', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2014 'Rituals and Reasons: Invoking the Sensual in Art', Apprao Galleries, Chennai
2014 'Word.Sound.Power', Khoj Studios, New Delhi
2013 'Organic Dreams of Electric Sheep: Image, Empathy and Pulse: After Philip K. Dick', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'Spell of Spill', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2013 'Peak Shift Effect', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'The Conscious Stream', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012 'The Phenomenal World', Otto Zoo, Geneva
2012 '2 + 2 = 5', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Reconstructing (White) 3', The Loft, Mumbai
2012 'Stargazing', Rossi Rossi, London
2012 'Terrestial Bodies', 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2012 'Cynical Love: Life in the Everyday', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2012 'Slipping Through The Cracks', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'Fragility', Art Alive Gallery, Gurgaon
2011 'Window in the Wall: India and China – Imaginary Conversations', Pearl Lam Fine Arts, Shanghai
2011 'Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature',
presented by Harmony Art Foundation at Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharah Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2011 'Tolstoy Farm: Archive of Utopia', presented by Seven Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Conundrum', Bose Pacia, New York
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'The Pill', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'Myth - Reality: Constructing Cult-ure', The Guild, Mumbai
2010-11 'Public Enemy Number 1', Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2010 'At The Edge', Gallery Maya, London
2010 'Indian (Sub)Way', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2010 'Dialogues: A Selection of International Contemporary Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore
2010 'Eye of India: A Selection of Contemporary Indian Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore, in collaboration with Nature Morte, New Delhi
2010-11 'Writing Visuals', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata; W + K Exp, New Delhi
2010 'Nature Revisited', Aakriti Gallery, Kolkata
2010 'The Evolution of the Species', Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2010 'Snow', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi in collaboration with Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Body as Vessel', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Continuum Transfunctioner', Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2009 'Finding India', COEX, Seoul
2009 'Vicissitudes of the Constructed Image', Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore
2009 'L-Machines', Gallery Open Eyed Dreams (OED), Kochi
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2009 'India 3: New Delhi - Republic of Illusions', Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2009 'Intimate Lives', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Anomalies: From Nature to the Future', Rossi & Rossi, London
2009 'Tracing Time', Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2009 'The Other (Indian) Story: Retrospecting Lakeeren-The Contemporary Art Gallery (1995-2009)', presented by Lakeeren at The Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2009 'The Human Animal', jointly presented by Gallery Threshold and Arts I (Religare Arts Initiative) at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2009 'The Body as Vessel', Art Alive, New Delhi
2008-09 'Where In The World', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2008-09 'Mutant Beauty', Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Review', Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2008 'Synonymous', The Guild, Mumbai
2008 'Emotional Drawing', SOMA, Seoul; Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT), Tokyo
2008 'Zeitgeist', Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Still Moving Image', Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi
2008 'Exploding the Lotus', Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
2008 'Link', Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India', d.e.n. contemporary art and Western Project, Culver City
2008 'Tales, Reflection and Constructs', ITC Windsor, Bangalore
2008 ‘Shifting Terrains / Altered Realities’, The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'Crossroads', Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 ‘Tiger by the Tail ! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture’, Women’s Studies Research Centre (WSRC), Brandeis University, USA and at October, Rose Museum, Boston in partnership with Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
2007 ‘Does Size Matter ?’, presented by Studio Confluence at Jehangir K S Nicholsan Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2007 ‘Horn Please’, September, Kunst Museum Bern
2007 ‘Here There Now – Contemporary Art from India’, Gallery Soul flower, Bangkok
2007 ‘Private / Corporate’, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2007 ‘Indian Art III / III’, Here and Now’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2007 Art And Design Show, Bangkok
2006 ‘Shadow Lines’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006 ‘Being Anastacia’, Goethe Institute, Salvador, Brazil
2006 ‘Avatars of the Object’, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘Inside Outside’, Guild Gallery, Mumbai
2006 ‘New Wave In Bengal Art’, Akriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
2005 ‘Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metro Sexuality’, Kitab Mahal , Mumbai
2005 ‘The New Wave in Bengal Art’, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2005 ‘Are We Like This Only?’, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Tableaux Vivant’, Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York
2004 ‘The Found Project’, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2004 ‘Art Omni Open Day’, New York
2004 ‘Wasani International Studio Open Day’, Lamu Fort, Kenya
2004 ‘Fair and Furious 2’, Jebiwool Art Museum, South Korea
2004 ‘The Art Connection’, British Council and Birla Academy, Kolkata
2004 ‘Devotional Breach’, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2004 ‘Kaleidoscope’, Square One Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Summer Show’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004 ‘Fleshed Out and Lifting Off’, Anant Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘The Making of India’, Sahmat at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2003 ‘Kaleidoscope, Gallery Space’, Hyderabad
2003 ‘Portrait of the Decades’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata
2003 ‘Flag for Peace’, Karachi, Pakistan
2003 ‘Peep Show’, Apparao Gallery, Chennai
2003 ‘Open Studio Day’, Khoj International Residency, New Delhi
2003 ‘Through Customs’, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Fair and Furious’, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2003 ‘Sheesha’, Indo-French Exhibition, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
2002 ‘Transfiguration’, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2002 ‘Borderless Terrain’, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre,New Delhi
2002 ‘Young Faces’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture , Kolkata
2002 ‘Young Contemporary’s from Shantiniketan’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2002 ‘The Closet/Closets’, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
2001 ‘Selected Works of New Graduates’, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2001 ‘Student Show’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2000 ‘Shatabdi Show’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata
2000 ‘Shatabdi Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 ‘Emerging Trends’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata
1999 ‘Edge of The Century’, Gallery OM, New Delhi
1999 ‘The Art Show’, Art Junction Gallery, New Delhi
1998 ‘Young Shantiniketan Today’, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai
1997 ‘Paintings’, Gallery Akarshan, New Delhi
1996 ‘Exhibition of Kala Bhavan’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Participations
2017 'Transforming Vision: 21st century art from the Pizzuti Collection', Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2014 'Beneath the Black: Part 2', Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
2014 'Aesthetic Bind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer', on the coccassion of 50 Years of Contemporary Art at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2013 'Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death', Celebrating 50 Years of Contemporary Art, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2012 'Mediations Biennale 2012', Poznan
2012 'The Calendar Project: Iconography in the 20th Century', part of Project CINEMA CITY: Research Art & Documentary Practices presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) and Ministry of Culture, Government of India at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2012 'Art Stage Singapore 2012', Singapore presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi, Berlin
2011 'Generation in Transition: New Art from India', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
2011 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'Miniscule Marvel', presented by Contemplate at Gallery BMB, Mumbai
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Scratch', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'FIAC 2010', Paris represented by Chemould Prescott Road
2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Armory Show', New York presented by Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
2010 'Size Matters or Does it?', Part 1 at Latitude 28, New Delhi
2009 'Frieze Art Fair', London presented by Galerie Krinzinger, Wein
2009 'Expressions at Tihar', Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2009 'Contemporary Art from India', Palais Benedictine, Fecamp, France supported by Gallerie 88, Kolkata
2009 'What the Body Remember', South Asian Video Art Today', London
2009 'Abstract Cabinet', Eastside Project Space, Birmingham
2008 'Chaos in Order', mounted by Lalit Kala Akademi in association with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Social Republic of Vietnam and the Embassy of India in Vietnam
2008 'A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing', The National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT), Tokyo
2008 Presented by Chemould Prescott Road at Art Basel Miami, Basel
2007 Inco Hen Korean Women Biennale, Seoul Korea
2007 FIAC 2007, Grand Palais & Cour Carree Du Louvre, Paris represented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2007 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
2005 ‘Golden Jubilee Show’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2002 ‘A/P Artist Proof’, Kala Ghoda Festival, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002 ‘Annual Exhibition - CAN Show’, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2001 ‘Glasgow Art Fair’, Glasgow, Scotland
2000 42nd National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1998 41st National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1998,96 ‘Annual Exhibition of Paintings’, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society ( AIFACS), New Delhi and Chandigarh
1996 ‘Annual Exhibition’, Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Honours and Awards
2011 The Skoda Art Prize 2011
2008 YFLO(FICCI) Young Achievers...
2011 The Skoda Art Prize 2011
2008 YFLO(FICCI) Young Achievers Award
2007 Kunstmuseum Bern Residency, Switzerland
2006 Bose Pacia Artist in Residence, New York
2005-06 UNESCO Ashburg Scholarship for Brazil
2005 Lijang Studio Residency, Yunnan, China
2005 International Artists Workshop , Sri Lanka
2005 Lijang Studio Residency, Yunnan, China
2005 Jaipur International Festival, Site Specific Workshop, Jaipur
2004 Wasani International Artists Workshop, Lamu Fort, Kenya
2004 Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York
2004 Bangalore Residency
2003 Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi
2003 Two-Hundred Years of the Great Arc. Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Corbett National Park
2000-01 Charles Wallace India Trust Award in UK
2000 Junior Fellowship from Ministry of HRD, Government of India
1998 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) Award in Painting, New Delhi
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