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Subodh Gupta    (Indian, 1964)

 Subodh Gupta - Mind shut down (Sculptures) h: 240 x w: 150 x d: 205 cm / h: 94.5 x w: 59.1 x d: 80.7 in
Subodh Gupta
Mind shut down 2008
 
 Subodh Gupta - Still Steal Steel #5 (Paintings) h: 199 x w: 364 cm / h: 78.3 x w: 143.3 in
Subodh Gupta
Still Steal Steel #5 2008
 
 Subodh Gupta - Untitled (Paintings) h: 228 x w: 167 cm / h: 89.8 x w: 65.7 in
Subodh Gupta
Untitled 2008
 

Biography
1964 Born in Khagaul, Bihar, India
1983 - 1989 B.F.A. Painting, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna
Lives and works in New Delhi

Exhibitions
2008 Line Of Control, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
2008 There is always cinema, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
2008 Gandhi’s Three Monkeys, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA (exh. cat.) (solo)
2008 Everywhere is War (and rumours of war), curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
2008 Lustwarande 08, Wanderland, Fundament Foundation, Park de Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands (exh. cat.)
2008 Indian Focus, at Espace Claude Berri, Paris, France
2008 Stadhimmel CitySky Basel 08, curated by Klaus Littmann, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, curated by Francesco Manacorda and Lydia Yee, at Barbican Art Gallery (exh. cat.)
2008 Distant Nearness, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas, USA
2008 Re-imagining Asia, A thousand years of separation, curated by Shaheen Merali and Wu Hang, at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany (exh. cat.)
2008 Vistarnari Kshitije (Expanding Horizons), curated by Sudhir Patwardhan, Bodhi Art Gallery (traveling exhibition), Mumbai, Amravati, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Solapur, Kolhapur, Pune, Nasik, India
2008 Passage to India, Frank Cohen Collection at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
2008 CHANEL Mobile Art, curated by Fabrice Bousteau, building conceived by Zaha Hadid, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow, Paris (exh. cat.)
2008 New Delhi – New Wave, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italy (exh. cat.)
2007 Idol Thief, In Situ- Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France (solo)
2007 Start.Stop, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (exh. cat.) (solo)
2007 Silk Route, The Baltic, curated by Jerome Sans, Gateshead, UK (solo)
2007 Urban Manners- 15 Contemporary Artists from India, at Hangar Bicocca, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg Milan, Italy (exh. cat.)
2007 India: Public Places/ Private Spaces, The Newark Museum (traveling exhibition), curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Sternberger, Newark, USA (exh. cat.)
2007 New-narratives: Contemporary Art from India, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, USA (exh. cat.)
2007 The Rusholme Project, organized by Shisha in collaboration with the Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
2007 Objects: Making/Unmaking, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (exh. cat.)
2007 L’Emprise du lieu – L’experience Pommery #4, curated by Daniel Buren, Reims, France (exh. cat.)
2007 Private/Corporate IV, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler- Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, Berlin, Germany
2007 Sequence 1, Painting & Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Venice, Italy (exh. cat.)
2007 Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art- Purchase College- State University of New York, curated by Dede Young, New York, USA (exh. cat.)
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
2006 “Venice-Istanbul,” Istanbul Modern
2006 “Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2006 ”Hungry Gods," Arario Gallery, Beijing (Cat.)
2006 Lille 3000, curated by Carolinne Negphygi, France (Cat.)
2006 “Le Nuit Blanche,” Paris, France
2006 Hungry Gods, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (exh. cat.) (solo)
2006 Hungry Gods, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China (exh. cat.)
2006 Bronze, Gallery Espace, curated by Madan Lall, New Delhi, India (exh. cat.)
2006 Made by Indians, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Art on the beach, commune de Ramatuelle, France (exh. cat.)
2006 The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
2006 L’Inde dans tous les sens, Louis Vuitton Showroom, curated by Herve Mikaloff, Paris, France
2005 Jootha, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France (solo)
2005 Jootha, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (solo)
2005 Always a little Further, Arsenal, 51st Venice Biennale, curated by Rosa Martinez, Venice, Italy
2005 Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, curated by Francesco Bonami, MCA, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London (exh. cat.)
2005 Balance and Power: Performance and surveillance in Video Art, curated by Michael Rush at Krannart Museum, Illinois, USA
2005 Weigtless Space, The Herzliya museum Of Contemporary Art, Israel
2005 Dialectics of Hope, The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Bimhaum, Lara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Moscow, Russia (exh. cat.)
2005 I Go Home Every Single Day, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
2005 “Indian Summer”, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2005 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
2005 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2004 “Edge of Desire- Recent Art in India”, Asia Society, New York, NY traveling to: Art Gallery of Western Australia
2004 “Resonance: Contemporary Art from New Delhi”, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2004 “A Charge to Keep”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2004 ‘I Go Home Every Single Day’ The Showroom Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Two-man show, Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Keith Wallace, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Another Passage to India, Saisons indiennes a Geneve, Switzerland
2004 Vanitas Vanitatum, Sakshi Gallery, curated by Peter Nagy, Mumbai, India
2004 Drawings, The Eagle Gallery, London, UK
2004 The SNEEZE, a Featured Film by 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, curated by Natasha Makowski and Peter Lloyd Lewis, Athens, Greece
2004 Indian Video Art: History in Motion, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 This Side is the Other Side, Cabinet PH, Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 New Paintings and Sculptures, Nature Morte, New Delhi (solo)
2003 "An apparent calm which is in fact a perfectly balanced tension," curated by Peter Nagy at Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney.
2003 "HEAT," curated by Ram Rahman at Bose Pacia Modern, New York.
2003 "The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary Art from India," Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway. Curated by Gavin Jantjes (ill. Cat)
2003 The Havanna Biennale, curated by Hilda Rodriques, Cuba
2003 "body.city: siting contemporary culture in India, sub Terrain: artists dig the contemporary" curated by Geeta Kapur for the House of World Cultures, Berlin.
2003 Crossing Generations : diVERGE Curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani for "40 Years of Gallery Chemould." (cat)
2003 "Bad Taste," Apparao Gallery, at the New Media Centre, New Delhi.
2002 Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, South Korea (exh. cat.)
2002 Self: Contemporary Indian Indian Videao Art, IMA Institute of Modern Art, curated by Johan Pijnappel, Brisbane, Australia
2002 Indian Art: Home-Street-Shrine-Bazaar-Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)
2002 Cinema Stills, Apparao Galleries at India Habitat Centre, curated by Gayatri Sinha, New Delhi, India
2002 Kapital and Karma, KunstWein, curated by Angelika Fitz and Michael Wortenger, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat.)
2002 Sorry for the inconvenience, Project 304, curated by Gridthya Gaweewong, Bangkok, Thailand and Under Construction, Japan Foundation Project, Tokyo, Japan (exh. cat.)
2002 Palais de Tokyo inaugural show, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Bernard Macade, Paris, France
2002 Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery, curated by Gerard Hemsworth, Kolkata; India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; Coomarswamy Hall, The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai, India (exh. cat.)
2002 Under Construction, Japan Foundation and Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (exh. cat.)
2002 Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political, Apeejay Media Gallery, curated by Pooja Sood, Faridabad, India (exh. cat.)
2002 Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery at Habitat Centre, New Delhi (exh. cat.)
2002 Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, curated by Johan Pijnappel, Beijing, China (exh. cat.)
2001 "Under Construction," Japan Foundation and Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan. (Cat)
2001 "Kapital and Karma," curated by Angelika Fitz and Michael Wortenger for KunstWein, Vienna (cat)
2001 "Sorry For the Inconvenience," curated by Gridthya Gaweewong, Project 304, Bangkok,Thailand
2001 "Inauguaral Show" curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Bernard Macade for the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2001 "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
2001 "Bollywood Has Arrived," curated by Jim Beard Gallery and FIA, Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam
2001 "Post Production (Sampling, Programming & Displaying)" curated by Nicolas Bourriaud. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
2001 "Context as Content – Museum as Metaphor" – curated by Peter Nagy at the Museum of Fine Art, Chandigarh (Cat.)
2000 ‘VILAS’ at Birla Academy, Mumbai, Curator: Gayatri Sinha
2000 "I Love Video Art" – Curated by Le Mailton Theatre de Strasbourg et le forum itinerant, Strasbourg, France.
2000 "Print et.com," Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi. Curator: Amit Mukopadaya.
2000 Recent works, Nature Morte at Lokayata, New Delhi (solo)
2000 Negociations, C.R.A.C., curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & Bernard Marcade, Sete, France
2000 Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art, Traveling Exhibition: Asian Section of the Kwangju Biennale, Niigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, Curated by Tani Arata and Ueda Yuzo, Niigata, Japan and Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya City, Japan (exh. cat.)
2000 The Kwangju Biennale 2000, Asian Section, curated by Tani Arata and Ueda Yuzo, Kwangju, South Korea (exh. cat.)
1999 Indian Artists, Nature Morte, curated by Peter Nagy, Syndney, Australia
1999 Edge of Century, Art India, curated by Amit Mukopadaya, New Delhi, India (exh. cat.)
1999 ‘The Way Home’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, (cat) (solo)
1999 Recent works, Gallery FIA, Amsterdam (solo)
1999 "The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale" at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. Curator: Kuroda Raiji. (Cat)
1999 "Of, based on, or obtained by," Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi.
1999 "IMPACT", Jim Beard Gallery at CCA New Delhi. Curated by: Kimberley Lewis and Derk Bulthuis.
1998 "New Millennium, New Media", Curator: Anupa Mehta, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. (Cat)
1998 Kendal Wallah – Through Indian Eyes, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK (exh. cat)
1997 Khoj International Artists Exhibition, British Council, New Delhi, India (exh. cat.)
1997 Points of Contact, Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York, USA
1997 The Way Home, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (exh. cat.) (solo)
1997 UNESCO – ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists hosted by InIVA at Gasworks Studios, London.
1997 Bose Pacia Modern, New York (solo)
1996 ‘Grey Zones’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. (Cat) (solo)
1996 "Indo-Austrian Artists’ Workshop," Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi. (Cat).
1996 Indo-Cuban Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
1995 "Young Generation from Bihar", Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
1995 "Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands Off Cain)", Rome and at the Biennale in Venice.
1995 ‘Grey Zones’, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi. (solo)
1994 Drawings ’94, Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, curated by Priag Shukla, New Delhi, India ( exh. cat.)
1994 Young Generation from Bihar, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda, India
1994 Young Contemporary Artists, Birla Academy, Calcutta, India
1993 Recent Paintings, Gallery Escape, New Delhi. (Cat) (solo)
1993 "Contemporary Indian Artists," Organised by Gallery Escape, Dubai. Illustrated Catalogue.
1991 "Husain Ki Sarai", organised by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. Illustrated Catalogue.
1991 Research Grant Scholars Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Lucknow, Madras, India
1991 Imprints of Our Time, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1990 "All India Painting Exhibition", Organized by Vadhera Art Gallery at Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi.
1990 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. (solo)
1990 Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta. Belidh Club, Jamshedpur, Tata Steel. (solo)
1989 Recent Paintings, Shridhani Art Gallery, New Delhi. (solo)
1989 "Contemporary Artists of Bihar," at Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi.
1988 B.F.A. Painting, College of Arts & Crafts, Patna (solo)
1987 "Young Painters of Bihar," Patna
1986 Recent Paintings, Gandhi Sangharalya, Patna (solo)
1983 Group of AB Exhibition, Patna, Bihar
1983 All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition, Patna, India
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