Subodh Gupta
Born 1964, Khagaul, Bihar
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 1983-88 B.F.A. Painting at the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Finland
"A glass of water"- Hauser & Wirth, New York
2010
“Oil on Canvas”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Take off your shoes and wash your hands”- Tramway, Glasgow
“Hauser & Wirth”- Zurich
“Subodh Gupta”- Arario Gallery, Seoul and Cheonan
“Et tu, Duchamp?”- Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, Vienna
“Faith Matters”- Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
“And then, thousand years of peace”- Creation 2010 with Ballet Preljocaj and Bolshoi Theatre, Grand Théatre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
“And then, thousand years of peace”- Creation 2010 with Ballet Preljocaj and Bolshoi Theatre, Théatre National de Chaillot, Paris
2009
“Aam Aadmi ' (Common Man)”- Hauser &Wirth, London
2008
“Line Of Control”- Arario, Beijing
“There is always cinema”- Gallery Continua, San Gimignano
“Still, Steal, Steel”- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2007
“Idol Thief”- In SITU- Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
“Start Stop”- Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Silk Route”-The Baltic, Gateshead
2006
“Hungry Gods”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005
“Jootha”- In SITU- Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
“I Go Home Every Single Day”- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
“Jootha”- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004
“I Go Home Every Single Day”- The Showroom Gallery, London
2003
“Saat Samunder Paar”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“This Side is the Other Side”- Cabinet PH, Art and Public, Geneva
2000
“Recent Works”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
1999
“Recent Works”- Gallery FIA, Amsterdam
1997
“Modern”- Bose Pacia, New York
“The Way Home”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1996
“Grey Zones”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995
“Grey Zones”- Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi
1993
“Recent Paintings”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
1990
Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Belidh Club, Jamshedpur Tata Steel, Kolkata
1989
“Recent Paintings”- Shridhani Art Gallery, New Delhi
1986
“Recent Paintings”- Gandhi Sangharalya, Patna
Group Exhibitions
2011
“Caixa Forum”- Eating Art, From Goya to Ferran Adria, Barcelona
"Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India"- Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
2010
“Looking Glass the existence of difference”- Religare Arts, New Delhi
“Contemporary Magic A Tarot Deck Project”- The National Arts Club, New York
“Indian Highway”- NY
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
“Hareng Saur Ensor and Contemporary Art”- S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
“Lille3000 The Silk Road”- Saatchi Gallery, London, Tri Postal, Lille
“And then, thousand years of peace”- Creation 2010 with Ballet Preljocaj and Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
“Rem(a)inders”- Gallery Continua, Beijing
“Da sopra”- Castello Svevo di Bari, Bari
“Indian Highway”- Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning
“Contemplating the Void Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum”- Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst”- Maillol Museum, Paris
“The Empire Strikes Back Indian Art Today”- The Saatchi Gallery, London
“Urban Manners II”- SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo
2009
“Artefici contemporanei e difformità barocche”- ARCOS, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento
“Sphères”- Gallery Continua, Italy
“The 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
“Take off your shoes and wash your hands- II (Performance) The Wing Party”- Abu Dhabi
“Asian Art Biennial”- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
“Beyond Limits”- Chatsworth, Derbyshire
“The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale”- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
“CHALO! INDIA. A New Era of Indian Art”- Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
“Indian Narrative in the 21st Century Between Memory and History”- Casa Asia, Madrid
“Pot Luck Food and Art”- The New Art Gallery, Walsall
“Steellife”- Triennale of Milan, Milan
“Qui a peur des artistes?”- Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard
“Passage to India Part II”- Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton
“Unreal Asia, 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen”- Oberhausen
“Indian Highway”- Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
“Un Certain État du Monde”- Le Garage, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
“Altermodern Tate Triennial 09”- Tate Britain, London
“Re-imagining Asia. A Thousand Years of Separation”- The New Art Gallery Walsall
2008
“India Moderna”- IVAM Museum, Valencia
“48*C, Public. Art. Ecology”- KHOJ, New Delhi
“Where in the World”- Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
“Indian Highway”- Serpentine Gallery, London
“Heavy Metal”- Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
“Chalo! India A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Spheres 5 energies in a new kind of exhibitions experience”- Gallery Continua Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, Chantal Crousel, Hauser & Wirth, Gallery Krinzinger, Kamel Mennour
“Aurum Gold in Contemporary Art”- Centre PasquArt, Biel
“Art Focus Jerusalem #5”- Jerusalem
“Everywhere is War” (and rumours of war) Bodhi Art, Mumbai
“Second Lives”- Museum of Arts and Design, New York
“Lustwarande 08, Wanderland, Fundament Foundation”- Park de Oude Warande, Tilburg
“Indian Focus”- Espace Claude Berri, Paris
“Stadhimmel”- City Sky Basel 08, Basel
“Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art”- Barbican Art Gallery, London
“Distant Nearness”- The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas
“Re-imagining Asia A thousand years of separation”-The House of World Cultures, Berlin
“God and Goods Spirituality and Mass Confusion”- Villa Manin, Coidroipo
“Vistarnari Kshitije” (Expanding Horizons) Bodhi Art Gallery (traveling exhibition), Mumbai, Amravati, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Solapur, Kolhapur, Pune, Nasik
“Passage to India”- Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton
“CHANEL Mobile Art”- building conceived by Zaha Hadid, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York
“New Delhi - New Wave”- Primo Marella Gallery, Milano
2007
“Urban Manners- 15 Contemporary Artists from India”- Hangar Bicocca, Milan
“India Public Places Private Spaces”- The Newark Museum (traveling exhibition), Newark
“New Narratives Contemporary Art from India”- The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago
“The Rusholme Project”-Manchester International Festival, Manchester
“Objects Making Unmaking”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
“L’Emprise du lieu- L’experience Pommery #4”-iel Buren, Reims
“Private Corporate IV, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler”- Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collections, Berlin
“Sequence 1, Painting & Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection”- Palazzo Grassi, Venice
“Transitional Objects Contemporary Still Life”- Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College State University of New York
2006
“Venice- Istanbul”- Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
“Nuit Blanche”- Bernard et vitrine de la galerie In SITU- Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
“Lille3000”- Lille
“Hungry Gods”- Arario Gallery, Beijing
“Bronze”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
“Made by Indians Art on the Beach #5”- Gallery Enrico Navarra, Commune de Ramatuelle, France
“If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it”- The Showroom Gallery, London
“L’Inde dans tous les sens”- Louis Vuitton Showroom, Paris
2005
“Always a little Further”- Arsenal, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
“Universal Experience Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye”- Hayward Gallery, Chicago
“Balance and Power Performance and Surveillance in Video Art”- Krannart Museum, Illinois
“Indian Summer”- École des Beaux Arts, Paris
“Weightless Space”- The Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
“Dialectics of Hope”- The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004
“Edge of Desire”- The Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth
The Asia Society, New York
“Indian Video Art History in Motion”- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
“Two-man show, Centre A”- Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art, Vancouver
“Another Passage to India”- Saisons indiennes à Genève, Switzerland
“Vanitas Vanitatum”- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
“Drawings”- The Eagle Gallery, London
“The SNEEZE”- 80 x 80….a Featured Film, 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, The Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens
2003
“The Havanna Biennale”- Havanna
”Crossing Generations DIVERGE”- Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
“Body City Siting contemporary culture in India, sub Terrain artists dig the contemporary”-The House of World Cultures, Berlin
“An apparent calm which is in fact a perfectly balanced tension”- Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
“HEAT”- Bose Pacia Modern, New York
“The Tree from the Seed”- Contemporary Art from India, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
“Bad Taste”- Apparao Gallery Apeejay New Media Centre, New Delhi
2002
“Under Construction”- Japan Foundation and Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Private Mythologies of the Personal and the Political”- Apeejay Media Gallery, Faridabad
“Creative Space”- Sakshi Gallery Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Multi Media Art Asia Pacific”- Beijing
“Busan Biennale”- Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan
“Self Contemporary Indian Indian Video Art”- IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
“Indian Art Home-Street”- Shrine-Bazaar-Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester
“Cinema Stills”- Apparao Gallery India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Kapital and Karma”- Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Sorry for the inconvenience Project 304”- Bangkok
“Under Construction”- Japan Foundation Project, Tokyo
“Palais de Tokyo inaugural show”- Bernard Marcadé, Paris
“Sidewinder”- CIMA Gallery, Kolkata India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
“Coomarswamy Hall”- The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai
2001
“Post Residency Show”- National Gallery of Modern Art, Jindal Foundation, Mumbai
“Bollywood has arrived Passenger Terminal”- Jim Beard Gallery and FIA, Amsterdam
“Production” (Sampling, Programming & Displaying), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
“Context as Content- Museum as Metaphor”- Museum of Fine Art, Chandigarh
2000
“Vilas”- Birla Academy, Mumbai
“I Love Video Art”- Le Milton Theatre de Strasbourg et le Forum itinerant, Strasbourg
“Print et.com”- Max Muller Bhawan, New Delhi
“Invisible Boundary Metamorphosed Asian Art”- Traveling Exhibition Asian Section of the Kwangju Biennale
Niigata City Prefectural Civil Centre Gallery, Niigata Utsunomiya”- Museum of Art, Utsunomiya City
“The Kwangju Biennale 2000”- Asian Section, Kwangju
“Negociations C.R.A.C.”- Bernard Marcade, Sete, France
1999
“The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale”- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
“Of based on or obtained (by tradition)”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Impact”- Jim Beard Gallery New Delhi
“Indian Artists”- Nature Morte, Sydney
“Edge of Century”- Art India, New Delhi
1998
“New Millennium New Media”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
“Kendal Wallah Through Indian Eyes”- Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
1997
“UNESCO-ASHBERG”- Gasworks Studios, London
“Khoj International Artists Exhibition”- British Council, New Delhi
“Points of Contact”- Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York
1996
“Indo- Austrian Artist’s Workshop”- Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
“Indo-Cuban Exhibition of Contemporary Art”- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
1995
Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain), Rome and the Venice Biennale
1994
“Young Generation from Bihar”- Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda
“Young Contemporary Artists”- Birla Academy, Calcutta
“Drawings ’94”- Gallery Escape of AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi
1993
“Contemporary Indian Artists”- Gallery Escape, Dubai
1991
“Husain Ki Sarai”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Research Grant Scholars Exhibition”- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Lucknow, Madras
“Imprints of Our Time”- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990
“All India Painting Exhibition”- Vadehra Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
1989
“Contemporary Artists of Bihar”- Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
1987
“Young Painters of Bihar”- Patna
1983
“Group of AB Exhibition”- Patna
“All India Drawing and Craft Exhibition”- Patna
Workshops, Residencies
Wasla Workshop, Cairo 2003
JACIC Residency, Vasind 2001
Pipe Dreams Workshop, Kosi Kalan 2000
Khoj International Artists’ Workshop, Modi Nagar 2000
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Art Exchange Program, Fukuoka 2000
UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London 1997
Khoj International Artists’ Workshop, Modi Nagar 1997
Triangle Artists’ Workshop, New York 1997
Indo-Austrian Artists Workshop, Sanskrit Kendra, New Delhi 1996
All India Artists Workshop, Lalit Kala Academy, Bhuwaneshwar 1991
Artists Workshop, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi 1991
Awards and Scholarships
French Government residency in Paris, Visiting Professor at L’École des Beaux-arts, Paris 2004
UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London 1997
Emerging Artist Award, Bose Pacia Modern, New York 1997
All India Painting Exhibition, 1st Prize by M.F. Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1996
Research Grant Scholarship, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 1990-1991
Students grant scholarship, Govt. of Bihar 1987-1988
All India Festival, Dhanbad 1989
State Level Art Exhibition of Bihar 1987
All India Youth Festival, Madras 1986