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Mithu Sen
Born in 1971, West Bengal, India
Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 2001 PG Programme Visiting, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997 MFA Painting, Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
1995 BFA Painting, Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“In Transit”- Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipai
2010
“Nothing Lost In Translation”- NatureMorte, Berlin
“Black Candy”- Chemould Gallery, Mumbai and JNU, New Delhi
2009
“Me Two”- Krinzinger Project, Vienna
“Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold”- Suzie Q / Bob van Orsow Gallery, Zurich
“Freemithu”- Khoj, New Delhi
2008
“I Dig, I Look Down”- Albion Gallery, London
2007
“Half Full, Part 1”- Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
“Half Full, Part 2”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006
“It’s Good to be Queen”- Bose Pacia Artist Space, New York
“Drawing Room”- Nature Morte and British Council, New Delhi
“Drawing Room”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2003
“I Hate Pink”- Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001
“Unbelongings”- Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow
2000
“Can We Really Look Beyond the Map?”- Art India Style, New Delhi
Group Exhibitions
2011
"Generation in Transition: New Art from India"- Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
"Window in the Wall: India and China - Imaginary Conversations"- Pearl Lam Fine Art, Shanghai
“Conundrum”- Nature Morte, Berlin
“Tolstoy farm”- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
“Against all odds”- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
“Myth Reality”- Guilt Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010
“At the Edge”- Gallery Maya, London
“Spiral Jetty”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“I Think Therefore Graffiti”- Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Eye of India”- Bartha & Senarclens, Singapore
“Writing Visuals”- Harrington Street Art Center, Kolkata
“Public Enemy Number 1”- Exhibit 320, New Delhi
“Continuum Transfunctioner”- Exhibit320, New Delhi
“Nature Revisited”- Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata
“Size Matter or Does It?”- Latitude 28, New Delhi
“Evolve”- Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Scratch”- Sakshi Gallery at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2009
“Astonishment of Being”- Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkatta
“Finding India”- COEX, Seoul
“What the Body Remembers”- South Asian Video Art Today, London
“Abstract Cabinet”- Eastside Project Space, Birmingham
“Indian Xianzai”- MOCA, Shanghai
“Emotional Drawing”- SOMA, Seoul
“India Moderna”- IVAM, Valencia
“Art Against Terrorism”- Akar Prakar, Kolkata
“Other India Story”- Lakeeren, Mumbai
“The Human Animal”- Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi
“The Body Vessel”- Art Alive, New Delhi
2008
“Where in the World”- Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
“Mutant Beauty”- Anant Art Center, New Delhi
“Synonymous”- Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Still Moving Image”- Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
“Emotional Drawing”- MOMAT, Tokyo
“Link”- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
“Contradictions and Complexities”- DEN Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Comme des Bêtes”- Lausanne Museum, Berne
“Shifting Terrains / Altered Realities”- The Art House, Singapore
“AMAZING”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007
“Horn Please”- Kunst Museum, Berne
“Incohen Korean Women’s Biennale”- Seoul
“Tiger by the Tail”- Brandies University, Boston
“Here There Now”- Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok
“Making/Unmaking”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Private/Corporate 4”- Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin
2006
“Being Anastacia”- Goethe Institute, Salvador
“Inside Outside”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“All that Glitters Melt into Air”- IPF, London
“Avatars of the Object”- Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Shadow Lines”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005
“Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metrosexuality”- Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
“Golden Jubilee Show”- Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
“Monsoon Show”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“The New Wave in Bengal Art”- Akar Prakar, Kolkata
“Are We Like This Only?”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004
“Tableaux Vivant”- Nature Morte at Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi
“The Found Project”- Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
“Fair and Furious 2”- Jebiwool Art Museum, South Korea
“The Art Connection”- British Council and Birla Academy, Kolkata
“Devotional Breach”- Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
“Kaleidoscope”- Square One Gallery, New York
“Summer Show”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Fleshed Out and Lifting Off”- Anant Gallery, New Delhi
“The Making of India”- SAHMAT, New Delhi
2003
“Portrait of the Decades”- CIMA, Kolkata
“Flag for Peace”- Karachi
“Peep Show”- Apparao Gallery, Chennai
“Through Customs”- Bose Pacia, New York
“Fair and Furious”- Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Sheesa”- Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
“AP Artist Proof”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2002
“Trans-Figuration”- Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Borderless Terrain”- Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Young Contemporaries from Shantiniketan”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“The Closet/Closets”- Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
Awards and Residencies
Skoda Prize on Indain Contemprorary art 2010
Britto International Artist Workshop, Dhaka 2010
Awagami Momat Residency, Tokyo 2008
YFLO FICCI Young Achievers Award 2008
UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries, Brazil 2005-2006
Bose Pacia Artist in Residence, New York 2006
Lijiang Studio Residency, Yunnan 2005
Wasani International Artist Workshop, Kenya 2004
Art Omi International Artist Residency, New York 2004
Khoj International Artist Residency, New Delhi 2003
Charles Wallace India Trust, UK 2000
Junior Fellowship, Govt. of India 2000