Education
1985 MA [Fine] in Sculpture, MS University, Baroda
1982 BA [Fine] in Sculpture, MS University, Baroda
1977 BA in Economics, English and Psychology, Bangalore University
The artist lives and works in Bangalore.
Exhibitions
2007
"Face East: Contemporary Indian Portraiture", Wedel Fine Art, London
"Tiger By The Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture", Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
"Streetside Theatre: Pushpamala N, Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2007", National School of Drama, Delhi (solo)
"Making History Our Own", SAHMAT, Delhi
"Fotofluss", Vienna, Austria
"Post Object", Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
"Private/ Corporate IV", DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
"Public Places/ Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India", The Newark Museum
"New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India", Chicago Cultural Centre
"Sguardi Altrove Women's Film Festiva",l Milan, Italy
"Salzburg Festival", Austria
2006
"Pushpamala N", photo performance work, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia, Milan (solo)
"Pushpamala N", photo and video performance work, Espace Croise, Roubaix, France
(solo)
"Paris Autumn", video and photo installation, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France (solo)
"Native Women of South India", Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (solo)
"India Express", Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
"India in all its Senses", Louis Vuitton Galleries, Paris, France
"Bombay Maximum City", Lille 3000', France
"Another Asia", Noorderlicht Photofestival 2006, Netherlands
"Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History", part of Cinema Prayoga: Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005
"Native Women of South India", Nature Morte, Delhi (solo)
"Indian Summer", ENSBA, Paris
"Edge of Desire", Asia Society, New York, Museo Tamayo, Mexico
"Yokohama Triennale", Open Circle, Japan
"Kovideo", 1st Durban Video festival, South Africa
2004
"Native Women of South India – Manners and Customs", collaborative photo
performance project with Clare Arni at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, Gallery
Chemould, Mumbai & Seagull Arts and Media Centre, Kolkata (solo)
"Indian Lady", photo and video performance work, Bose Pacia, New York (cat.) (solo)
"Edge of Desire", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2003
"Phantom Lady and Sunhere Sapne", Walsh Gallery, Chicago
"The Anguished Heart", photo performance work, Nature Morte and Gallery Chemould, British Council, New Delhi (cat.) (solo)
"Heat - a Picture Show", Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
"City Park", Dublin
"World Social Forum", Mumbai
2002
"Golden Dreams", Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore (solo)
"New Indian Art: Home, Street, Shrine, Bazaar, Museum", Manchester City Galleries
2001
"Golden Dreams", photo performance work, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (cat.) (solo)
"Century City", Tate Modern, London (cat.)
"Moving Ideas", Montreal and Vancouver
1999
"Art from India", Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles Biennale
1998
"Phantom Lady or Kismet, A Photo Romance", Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, Artist's studio, Bangalore (cat.) (solo)
1994
"Excavations", sculpture/ installation, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (solo)
1983
"Pushpamala N", sculptures, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore (solo)
Film and Video
2004
"Rashtriy Kheer and Desiy Salad [National Pudding and Indigenous Salad],
11min. film", Cinematexas 9 USA; 0110 Digital Film Festival India; Vikalp Mumbai
SAIFF New York; Seagull Arts and Media Centre Kolkata; CIEFL Hyderabad;
Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda; Are We Like This Only? Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi;
India Contemporanea, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Collective Chaos, Bangalore;
Venkataramanan Associates, Bangalore, Ecole Nationale Superior Des Beaux Arts,
Paris; Ecole Superior des Arts, Cergy Pontoise; University of
Westminster, London; Open Circle, Mumbai; SNDT Women's University, Mumbai;
Espace Croise, Roubaix; Indian Video Art, Tate Modern, London; Bellagio
Study Centre, Italy; Bose Pacia Gallery, Columbia University and NYU, New York;
Archiving Women's Lives Workshop, Mumbai University; Dorothy McCarthy
Gallery, Toronto; Galerie la Centrale, Montreal; IAWRT Asian Women's
Festival, 2007, New Delhi
2006
"Paris Autumn, 35 min. film", Galerie Zurcher, Paris (solo); Bellagio Study Centre, Italy; Bose Pacia Gallery, Columbia University and NYU, New York; Bangalore International Film Festival; Gallery Sumukha , Bangalore; Sguardi Altrove Women's Film Festival, Milan; Dorothy McCarthy Gallery, Toronto; Galerie la Centrale, Montreal
1997
"Indian Lady video loop", "Fire and Life'", Perth, Australia
"Moving Ideas", Canada
"Indian Lady", Bose Pacia New York
"World Social Forum", Mumbai
"Are We Like This Only?", New Delhi, Espace Croise, Roubaix