Pushpamala N
Born 1956, Bangalore, India
The Artist Lives and Work in Bangalore and New Delhi
Education: 1985 M.A. Sculpture, MS University, Baroda
1982 B.A. Sculpture, MS University, Baroda
1977 B.A. Economics, English and Psychology, Bangalore University
Solo Exhibitions
2010
“Motherland”- performance with Mamta Sagar, Samuha Artist Collective, Bangalore
2009
“Paris Autumn”- Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2008
“Paris Autumn”- Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
“Paris Autumn”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Streetside Theatre”- Media Wave Festival, Gyor
2007
“Streetside Theatre”- Bharat Rang Mahotsav, National School of Drama, New Delhi
“Streetside Theatre”- Salzburg Festival, Austria
2006
“Pushpamala N”- Espace Croise, Roubaix, France
“Paris Autumn”- Galerie Zurcher, Paris
“Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs”- Bose Pacia, New York
2005
“Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
“Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs”- Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore;
Gallery Chemould, Mumbai; Seagull Arts and Media Centre, Kolkata
“Indian Lady”- Bose Pacia, New York
2003
“Pushpamala N”- Walsh Gallery, Chicago
“The Anguished Heart”- British Council, New Delhi
2002
“Golden Dreams”- Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2001
“Golden Dreams”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1998
“Phantom Lady or Kismet: a photo romance”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1994
“Excavations”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1983
“Pushpamala N”- Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
Group Exhibitions
2012
"India- Lado A Lado"- SESC Belezinho, Brazil
2011
“Paris, Mumbai, New Delhi” - Centre Pompidou, Paris
“SAMTIDIGT” – Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
“Dolls”- Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
Rob Dean Art, London
“Against all Odds”- Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
“Concurrent India”- Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
"Biennale Jogia XI"- Jogja National Museum, Indonesia
2010
“Changing Skin”- The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
“SAMTIDIGT”- Kulturhuset, Stockholm
“IP Detournement”- project Tania Bruguera, Voir and Revoir, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today”- Saatchi Gallery, London
“Where Three Dreams Cross”- Whitechapel Gallery, London; Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
“Cinema City”- Majlis, Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Germany
“Canal Mediateca”- Caixaforum, Barcelona
“The Trickster”- Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
“Go See India”- Gothenberg, Sweden
“Anxieties of the Periphery”- Gallery OED, Cochin
“The New Order Beauty”- Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Does Size Matter III”- Latitude 28, New Delhi
“Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference”- Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi
“Spiral Jetty”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“A Tribute to the Lens”- MF Husain Gallery, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
2009
”Republic of Illusions”- Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna
“Failed Plot”- Korean International Art Fair, Seoul
“After Color”- Bose Pacia, New York
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Essl Museum, Vienna
“Re Frame: 7 experimental films from India”- Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Indi-Dialogue”- Gabbaron Museum, Valladolid
“Opening Show”- Zurcher Studio, New York
“The Self and the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography” - La Virreina, Centre de la Image, Barcelona and Artium, Vitoria
“Grand Finale of Video Wednesdays”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“Transient Poise”- Bodhi Art, Mumbai
“The Other Story”-Gallery Lakeeren, Mumbai
“Streets Festival”- Art, Resources and Teaching, Bangalore
“Vistaar II”- Seven Arts, New Delhi
“Art Against Terrorism”- Emami Chisel Art Gallery, Kolkata
“….In the Seeds of Time”- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Bangalore
“Calendar Art”- Red Earth, New Delhi
“Signposts of the Times…”- National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore
“Marvellous Reality”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2008
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Singapore International Photography Festival
“Destination Asia: Conversation Part I”- Elementa Gallery, Dubai
“My India Video et Apres”- Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Performing Identities”- Colorado College, USA
“Expanding Horizons”- Bodhi Art, Mumbai
“India Moderna”- Institute Valencia d’ Art Modern (IVAM), Spain
“New Narratives”- Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey
“My Life is My Message”- La Casa Encendida, Madrid
“Shifting Terrains / Altered Realities”- Empire Art and The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi
“Still Moving Image”- Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
“Where in the World”- Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
“Video Wedenesdays”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2007
“Face East”- Wiedel Fine Art, London
“Move on Asia”- Gallery Loop, Seoul
“A Journey of Discovery”- Fluss, Vienna
“Post Object”- Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
4th Sguardi Altrove Women’s Film Festival, Milan
“Reflections: Women Imaging Realities”- IAWRT Third Asian Film Festival, Delhi
“Private/Corporate IV” - DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
“Destination Asia”- Almaty
“Indian Photography: Four Voices”- Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
“Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India”- The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
“New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India”- Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago
“Tiger by the Tail: Women Artists of India Transforming Culture” - Brandeis University, US
“House of Mirrors”- Grosvenor Vadhera Gallery, London
“Here, There and Now”- Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok
“New Delhi New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan
“Prospects: Contemporary Art from India” - Rome Film Festival
“Edge of Desire”- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai
“Making History Our Own”- SAHMAT, New Delhi
“After Images”- Faculty Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda
2006
“Jitish Kallat, Pushpamala N, & Justin Ponmany” - Nature Morte & Bose Pacia at Otto Zoo, Milan
“India Express”- Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
“India In All Its Senses”- Louis Vuitton Gallery, Paris
“Bombay Maximum City”- Lille 3000, Lille
“Another Asia”- Noorderlicht Photofestival, Netherlands
“Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History: part of Cinema Prayoga Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006” - Tate Modern, London
“Edge of Desire”- Berkeley Art Museum, California
2005
“Indian Summer”- ENSBA, Paris
“Edge of Desire”- Asia Society, New York
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
“Yokohama Triennale”- Yokohama, Japan
“Kovideo”- 1st Durban Video Festival, Durban
“Fiction @ Love”- MOCA, Shanghai
“I, Me, Myself”- Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin
“Are We Like This Only”- Vadhera Gallery, New Delhi
2004
“Edge of Desire”- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
“Iconography in Transient Times”- Gallery Sumukha, New Delhi
2003
“Diverge - 40 Years of Chemould”- National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
“Heat” - Bose Pacia New York
“City Park”- Projects Art Centre, Dublin
“World Social Forum”- Open Circle, Mumbai
2002
“New Indian Art: Home, Street, Shrine, Bazaar, Museum”- Manchester City Gallery, UK
“Ways of Resisting”- SAHMAT, New Delhi
2001
“Century City”- Tate Modern, London
“Secular Practice: Recent Art from India”- Montreal and Vancouver
1999
“Art from India”- Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
“The Presence of the Past”- NCPA, Mumbai
1997
“Telling Tales”- Bath Festival Trust, UK
“Telling Times”- British Council, New Delhi
1996
“Shilpayan: Contemporary Indian Sculpture”- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
“The New South”- London
“Fire and Life”- Asia Link Art Project, Mumbai and Perth
1995
“First Africus Biennale” - Johannesburg
“100 Years of NGMA”- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
“Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art”- Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Sculpture 95”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“Postcards for Gandhi”- SAHMAT
1994
“Still Life”- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1992
“A Nest for Sparrow”- Mumbai
2nd International Women’s Festival, Bangkok
1990 -91
“Pushpamala N and Alex Mathew”- CMC Gallery, New Delhi; Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
1989
“Timeless Art”- Times of India, VT Station, Mumbai
“Artists’ Alert”- SAHMAT, New Delhi
1987
“The Sculpted Image”- Bombay Arts Festival, Mumbai
1986
“VI Triennale”- Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
1985
“Pushpamala N., Atul Dodiya & Akkitham Vasudevan”- Gallery 7, Mumbai
“Seven Young Sculptors”- Kasauli Art Centre, New Delhi
1983-84
National Exhibitions through India
Major Collections
Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Centre Pompidou, New Media Collection, Paris
The Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Saatchi Gallery, London
Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Bose Collection, New York
Harvard Art Museum, USA