biography / bibliography
SUBODH GUPTA
Born in 1964, Khagaul, Bihar, India
Lives and works in New Delhi.
EDUCATION
1983-88
B.F.A. Painting, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Hauser and Wirth, London, UK
2008
Still, Steel, Steal, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2007
Start.Stop, Bodhi Art, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
2006
Hungry Gods, Arario Gallery, Beijing (Cat.)
2005
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2004
I Go Home Every Single Day ,The Showroom Gallery, London.
2003
New Paintings and Sculptures, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000
Recent works, Nature Morte at Lokayata, New Delhi.
1999
Recent works, Gallery FIA, Amsterdam.
The Way Home, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, (cat)
1997
Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1996
Grey Zones, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. (Cat)
1995
Grey Zones, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi.
1993
Recent Paintings, Gallery Escape, New Delhi. (Cat)
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
2009
Who's Afraid of the Artists, Palais des Arts de Dinard, France
2008-09
Chalo! India: New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2008
Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban, Bodhi Art, Berlin
Distant Nearness, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2007
Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2006
Artes Mundi Prize Nominee, National Museum Cardiff, Wales
Venice-Istanbul Istanbul Modern
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Le Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Lille 3000, curated by Carolinne Negphygi, France (Cat.)
2005
Indian Summer, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
The Venice Biennial, Always a Little Further, Curated by Rosa Martinez, 2005
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Edge of Desire- Recent art in India, Asia Society, New York, traveling to:
Art Gallery of Western Australia
2004
Resonance: Contemporary Art from New Delhi, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003
The Havanna Biennale, curated by Hilda Rodriques, Cuba. (cat)
Crossing Generations : diVERGE Gallery Chemould. (cat)
body.city 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, NY
The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary art form India, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway.
Art and Public, Geneva. Group show.
Bad Taste, Apparao Gallery, at the New Media Centre, New Delhi.
2002
Under Construction, Japan Foundation and Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan. (Cat)
Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political, Media Gallery, Faridabad (cat)
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, New Delhi (cat)
Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, Bejing. China. Curated by Johan Pijnappel
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea. (Cat)
This Side Is the Other Side, ART AND PUBLIC, Geneva.
Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia.
Indian Art: Home – Street- Shrine- Bazaar- Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, UK (cat)
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 (cat)
THE ARMORY SHOW, New York, for Art and Public, Geneva
Sorry For the Inconvenience, Project 304 Bankok,Thailand
Under Construction. Japan Foundation Project in Tokyo. (cat)
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. (Cat)
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) Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Context as Content – Museum as Metaphor –Museum of Fine Art, Chandigarh
2000
‘VILAS’ at Birla Academy, Mumbai, Curator: Gayatri Sinha
I Love Video Art –Theatre de Strasbourg et le forum itinerant, Strasbourg, France.
Print et.com, 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
Utsunomiya Museum of Art Utsunomiya City, Japan
Kwangju Biennale 2000 at Kwangju, South Korea. Asian Section,
‘Negociations’ C.R.A.C. SETE, France. Curator: Nicolas Bourriaud & Bernard Marcade.
1999
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan.
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. (cat)
1998
New Millennium, New Media Curator: Anupa Mehta, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. (Cat)
Kendal Wallah – through Indian Eyes, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK, Illustrated Catalogue.
1997
UNESCO – ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists hosted by InIVA at Gasworks Studios, London.
Khoj International Artists’ Exhibition, British Council, New Delhi.(cat)
Points of Contact, Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York
1996
Indo-Austrian Artists’ Workshop, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi. (Cat).
6th Bharat Bhawan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Arts, Bhopal (Cat).
Indo-Cuban Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
1995
Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands Off Cain’, Rome and at the Biennale in Venice.
1994
Young Generation from Bihar’, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
Young Contemporary Artists, Birla Academy, Calcutta.
Drawing ‘94, Curator: Priag Shukla, Organised by Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi. Illustrated Catalogue.
1993
Contemporary Indian Artists, Organised by Gallery Escape, Dubai. Illustrated Catalogue.
1991
Husain Ki Sarai’ Organised by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. Illustrated Catalogue.
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
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
2003
Wasla Workshop, Cairo. Egypt.(cat)
2001
JACIC Residency, Vasind, Pune.
2000
Pipe Dreams Workshop, Kosi Kalan. U.P.
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
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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 M.F. Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
1990-91
Research Grant Scholarship, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.
1987-88
Students grant scholarship, Govt. of Bihar, Patna.
1989
All India Festival, Dhanbad, Bihar.
1987
State Level Art Exhibition of Bihar.
1986
All India Youth Festival, Madras