Thukral & Tagra
Jiten Thukral
Born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Lives and works in New Delhi.
Education: 2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art
1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College
Sumir Tagra
Born 1979, New Delhi, India.
Lives and works in New Delhi.
Education: 2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art
1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts. Delhi
Thukral & Tagra. Based in New Delhi,
Jiten Thukral (born 1976) and Sumir Tagra (born 1979) work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between Fine Art and Popular Culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. Their works comment on the globalization of consumer culture and the repercussions of this as it is being experienced in India today. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions about the nature of Indian identity as it is articulated by Indians themselves and projected on to India by the rest of the world.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Solo show” - Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Art summit” - Project Booth, Art Summit, New Delhi
“Solo Show” - Btap Gallery, Tokyo Art Fair
2010
“Richmond Gallery”, - Vancouver Biennale
“Solo Show”- “Arario Seoul”
“Solo Show”- “UCCA”, Beijing
2009
“Nouveau Riche” - Nature Morte, Berlin
“Thukral & Tagra, 315sec 23, Opp Bosedk Mall”- GBK Sydney
2008
“New Improved Bosedk” - Gallery Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.
“Somnium Genero” - 02 , Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
“Somnium Genero”- café, Tokyo Art, Tokyo
2007
“Adolescere-Domus,” - Installation at Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia.
“Put it On,”- Bose Pacia, New York
“Everyday Bosedk,”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006
“Vector Classics”, - Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai
“Vector Classics”, - Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2005
“Iconography” - Installation Project, - Nature Morte, New Delhi
Group Exhibitions
2011
“Lyon Biennale” - Lyon
“Maximum India”- Kennedy centre, Washington
2010
“Urban Matters 2” - SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Khoj-in-Context” - Public Art.Ecology,- New Delhi
“11th hour” - Tang Contemporary -Beijing, China
“Low-Tech Family Vacations” - STPI, Singapore
“Inside India” - Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin
2009
“Effugio’’ - Chalo India! - Museum, Korea.
“The escape for dream land” - Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts 06
2008
“Somnium Genero” - Philips de Pury, London, New York
“New Improved Bosedk!! With extra power” - Philips de Pury, London, New York
“Effugio’’ - Chalo India! - Mori Museum, Tokyo.
“New works” - Art Basel 39 - Nature Morte & Bose Pacia
“Make art stop aids” - UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angels
“Imaginery Realities” – Gallery Max Wigram, London
“Face East”- Gallery Wedel Fine Art, London
2007
“Animamix Biennial” - The Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai (MOCA)
“The New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan
“Size Matters”- Art Consult, New Delhi
“The Armory Show”- Nature Morte & Bose Pacia, New York
“Galerie Mirchandani” + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006
“FIAC”- Nature Morte & Bose Pacia, Paris
“Taipei Art Show”- Nature Morte, Taipei
“Global Edit 06,”- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan
2005
“New Paintings”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
“Visual dialogue”- Hype Gallery, London
“Visual dialogue”, - Mumbai
Awards
101 Emerging designers of the world – Wallpaper Magazine, Global Edit ’06
National Award on Commissioned project - 2006
D&AD 2005
One Show Interactive 2005
Limca Book of Records 2004
One Show (New York) 2004, 2003
One Show Design (New York) 2004, 2003
Red Hot Ogilvy 2003
Graphis International Awards 2003
London international Awards 2003
Commissioned projects:
Conde Nast India
United Colors of Benetton
Ogilvy & Mather
Nokia
Pepsi