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Born 1971 in Kerala The artist lives and works in Mumbai and Kerala, India.

Education 1999 Masters in Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai 1997 Bachelors in Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai

Select Solo Exhibitions
2010 – 2011 Oil’s Well, Let’s Play!, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2010 Subrata to Cesar, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, with Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Safe to Light, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2009 Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Related List, Bodhi Art, Berlin MARK HIM (Second half), Gallery 88, Kolkata
2007 MARK HIM (First half), The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Systematic Citizen, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Faith Accompli, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 The Third Day, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Grass, photography show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Sarasu, photography show on Raja Ravi Verma Press, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 – 2003 Ambulance, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore
2002 Unconditional, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

Select Group Exhibitions
2011 Inde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Contemporary Art from India, Helsinki Art Museum – The Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland
Tech-Cut-Edge-Revelations, Ashna Gallery, New Delhi
Myth – Reality: Constructing Culture, The Guild, Mumbai
Concurrent India, Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema and Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Inside India, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin Midnight’s Children, Studio La Citta, Italy
Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference, by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, with American Centre; British Council; Goeth-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Indian (Sub)Way, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
Third Dimension, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai A. SYCO, the Viewing Room, Mumbai
By George, by Cherry Art Foundation at Alliance Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi
1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai Contested Space – Incursions, Seven Art Limited, New Delhi
India Awakens: Under the Banyan Tree, Essl Museum, Austria
2009 – 2010 Sculpture, the Guild, Mumbai
2009 The Dark Science of Five Continents, Gallery BMB, Mumbai
Indian Summer, Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
Multitudes, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore; with Zen Studio Gallery;Artflute.com India Contemporary, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hague
In the Mood for Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijingip Files, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Inaugural Show, Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
Shifting Shapes, Unstable Signs, Yale School of Art, Connecticut Bapu, by Saffronart, with Berkeley Square Gallery, London
Pulse New York, presented by Aicon Gallery, New York
2008 – 2009 Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London
Hot Shots, the Viewing Room, Mumbai
2008 The Ghost of Souza, Aicon Gallery (inaugural show in Bowery), New York
Uncovered, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai
November, 1x1 Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai Everything
2008: 12 Artists from India, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam
Six Degree of Separation Chaos, Congruence and Collaboration in South Asia, by KHOJ International Artists’ Association, at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Urgent Conversations, Visual Art Gallery, India
Habitat Centre; Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
Everywhere Is War (and Rumors of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai
Link, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian
Urban, Bodhi Art, Berlin
Shifting Terrains: Altered Realities, the Shrine Gallery, New Delhi
India Crossing, Studio La Citta, Verona Affair, 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 – 2008 Swarovski Crystal World, 1stexhibition, Tirol-Österreich, Austria
India Now: Contemporary Indian
Art Between Continuity and Transformation, Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy
Face East, Wedel Fine Art, London Similarities, Lansdowne Gallery, Mumbai
Kashi: 10 Llight Years – Anniversary Show, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2007 Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, La Biennale di Venezia, 52 nd International Art Exhibition, Italy India Time,Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milan, Italy
Frame/Grid/Room/Cell, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
New Wave: Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, London
Photographs, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Other, with Peter Drake, Aicon Gallery, London
I Fear, I Believe, I Desire, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Young Guns, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
2006 Bronze, sculpture show, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Drawing Show an Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
Art on the Beach, Made by Indians, St Tropez, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris
On Difference #2 (represented Korea), Wurtt, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
Maarkers, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Red Earth And The Pouring Rain, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda Strangeness, Ananat Art Gallery, Kolkata Tangibles, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005 Kaam, Aicon Gallery, New York and Palo Alto Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Endless Terrain, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Double Enders, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Kochi
Present Future, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Configurations, Ananat Art Gallery, New Delhi
Are We Like This Only?, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Whose Space Is It Anyway?, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Mannat Jali, Marine Drive, Mumbai
Public Art Project, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2004 Anticipations, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
A New Mediatic Realism, Bayer ABS Gallery, Baroda, India
Generation I, Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Mumbai x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2003 Crossing Generations: diverge (40 years of Gallery Chemould), NGMA, Mumbai
Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2D/3D, Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Art for Art/ Switzerland Meets India, Kala
Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2002 Ways of Resisting
1992- 2002, Sahmat, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Words and Images, the Guild Art Gallery, and NGMA, Mumbai
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, India
Habitat Center, New Delhi Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Harmony Shows (2004-1999), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Debt, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Tribute to Picasso, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 The Human Factor, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Engendering Images of Women, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Excerpts from My Diary, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 Mumbai Metaphor, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Exile Longings, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
Memos of the New Millennium – Artists from the Moulting World, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Mumbai
Ideas and Images (video installation), National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1999 Critic’s Choice, Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1998 He Used to Believe That EMS Planted Coconut Trees in Kerala (installation), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai Essays in Time – Kinetic Sculptures (audio-visual installation), Nehru Centre, Mumbai

Awards and Honors
2010 Fellowship from Lalit Kala Academy, Kerala
1996 Hebbar Foundation Scholarship Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1995 Maharashtra State Award

 

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