Thukral & Tagra
Jiten Thukral
Born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College
2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art
Sumir Tagra
Born 1979, New Delhi, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art
2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts, New Delhi
Thukral & Tagra
Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra 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
“Put It On, Again!”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
“Thukral & Tagra Foundation”- Project Booth, Art Summit, New Delhi
“Solo Show”- Btap Gallery and Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
2010
“Middle Class Dreams”- Arario Gallery, Seoul
“Low-Tech Family Vacations”- Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
“Solo Show”- “Arario Gallery, Seoul
“Solo Show”- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2009
“Nouveau Riche”- Nature Morte, Berlin
“Thukral & Tagra, 315 Sector 23, Opp Bosedk Mall”- Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2008
“New Improved Bosedk”- Gallery Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
“Somnium Genero 02” - Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
“Somnium Genero Cafe”- Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
2007
“Adolescere-Domus”- 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”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
Group Exhibitions
2011
"Asianart- Sustain"- Nature Morte, Berlin
“Lyon Biennale” – Lyon, France
“Maximum India”- Kennedy Center, Washington DC
“Concurrent India”- Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
"Vernacular Cultures and Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippines"- LaTrobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne
"Indian Highway IV"- Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France
"Avant Premiere"- Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
"Future Pass"- Wereld Museum, Rotterdam
2010
“Inside India”- Palazzo Saluzzo, Turlin
“Finding India”- Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
"SAMDIGIT"- Gallery 5, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver
“Urban Matters 2”- SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo
“Khoj-in-Context”- Public Art.Ecology, New Delhi
“11th Hour”- Tang Contemporary, Beijing
“Inside India”- Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin
Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi
2009
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Essl Museum, Vienna
“Escape for the Dream Land”- Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts 06
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2008
“The Audience & the Eavesdropper”- Philips de Pury, London and New York
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Make Art Stop AIDS”- UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
“Imaginery Realities”- Max Wigram Gallery, London
“Face East”- Wedel Fine Art, London
2007
“Animamix Biennial”- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
“New Delhi New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan
“Size Matters”- Art Consult, New Delhi
Galerie Mirchandani & Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006
“Global Edit 06”- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan
2005
“New Paintings”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
“Visual Dialogue”- Hype Gallery, London
Awards
101 Emerging Designers of the World – Wallpaper Magazine, Global Edit 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