EDUCATION
1998-2000 MFA in Painting,Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal
1993-1998 BFA in Painting, Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal
AWARDS:
2006-2007 Fulbright Scholarship, Digital Art & New Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
National Art Aritis Camp Master Stroke –VI, Rohtak.
Bikalpa Art Center Nepal
ZeeArts Live Best painting Winer 46Th National UAE day ,Dubai A.I.R Travani Kala Sangam ,Mandi House
Sree Gallery & Balassi Institute Hungarian Inform Culture Center New Delhi 100 Shadeses of perspective Sree Art gallery.
Hungarian Center New Delhi
Cambridge School ,Best judging as school competition S.M.Sultin Charu & karukala Foundation & Bengal Foundation. Janki Devi Vocational & Gallery Sree Art
Seeding international Academy &Jaipur National University Ravi Jain Memorial foundation awards for Painting
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MUSEUM SHOW
Lincoln Centre in New York, Contemporary Art Museum,Iran, Contemporary Art Museum,Iran, The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz ,Schema Art Museum ,South Korea, Cheongju Art Museum, Changjian Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, Bihar Museum , India
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SOLO EXHIBITION:
2019"Hexyhcxtter" at Espacio Mutants , Mexico Espacio Mutante Expo dual casa viva "Hexxydexy" Mexico City.
2015 "unseen/ [occult]" at Namseo Gallery ,Cheongju, Korea
2014 Debonair coins at New space Art Foundation,Hue, Vietnam
2012 “VIRTUAL TINGLE” Lakeside Gallery West Michigan city, US
2011 “Cyberomanticisms”Galerie ,Alliance Francaise, by Montage arts
2010 ”Netizens & Cyberscapes”Lakeside Art gallery west, Michigan City,IN,USA
2008. SMS.…..Buzzin sensation, Nitanjali Art Gallery, New delhi
2007 “Cross Cultural Celebration”: Digital Video Installation and Net-based Art,Faculty Gallery, UCSC, California
2007 “Sensuality” ,Senior Gallery University of California Santa Cruz, by DANM
2007 Metrospection ,Galerie ,Alliance Francaise, by De Montage arts
2006 Digital Age, The Taj Palace Hotel, by De Montage arts
2004 IT , DMA Art Gallery CP, and South Ext., New Delhi.
BIENNALE:
2018 Morni hills performance Biennale ,India
2016 Iran contemporary art Biennale, Iran
2015 Cheongju International craft Biennale , South Korea
Pune-Biennale
2013 MOHOR-Biennale,Tilting Art Gallery Ishanya, Mall,Pune AGORA 4th Athens Biennale, contemporary art events
Religare Arts.i gallery, new Delhi
2007 11th Annual Autonomous Mutant Festival, forests of Northern California, US & An Indo-German Artists’ Residency, Kolkata, W B
ART FAIR:
2022 Art Fair India Delhi, The art of India Gandhi nagar
2019 Art Fair India
2016 That Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Cheongju International Art Fair, South Korea
2013 Joburg Art Fair at South Africa presented by ArtCo Gallery Germany
United Art Fair, Asia’s Biggest Artists Driven Art Fair at Pragati Maidan New Delhi
2012 Art Fair Cologne Paper Art, Cologne Germany, presented by ArtCo Gallery Germany United Art Fair Asia’s Biggest Artists Driven Art Fair at Pragati Maidan New Delhi
2009 Art Expo Malaysia,Janus Art Gallery
2008 Indian Art Summit, Indian Art Fair,Janus Art Gallery,New Delhi
AMBASSADOR :
2013 worldwide peace marker project, Ambassador of India.
Festival:
International festival Insitu Chihuahua Mexico.
HT imagine Fest, Nehru Park ,Delhi
Identity Art Marathon Arpana Fine art Gallery Delhi.
Kolkata performance Festival
RESIDENCY:
2015 Chungbuk Cultural Foundation,Hive Camp Cheongju ,Korea HHAR art Residency, Morni Hills, Himachal Pradesh, India
2014 New Space Arts Foundation art Residency, Vietnam
“CRAC International Visiting Artists environmental art Residency” Kushtia ,Bangladesh 2013Artists-in-Residency "Experimental Media and Performance" Bikalpa Art Center Nepal
S M Sultan International Residency program in Narail ,Bangladesh
“CRAC International Visiting Artists environmental art Residency” Kushtia , Bangladesh 2012 “CRAC International Visiting Artists art Residency” Kushtia , Bangladesh
2012 Indo–Bangla "International Art residency, Bangladesh
2011“ Visiting Artists Residency” Triangle Arts Trust, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town “CRAC International Visiting Artists environmental art Residency” Bangladesh
2010 US-India art & culture exchange Program ,Lakeside Gallery West in Michigan
2009 The New Delhi Residency Program (NDRP)Ragini Art Gallery at New Delhi
2009 "The whynot place art residency programme"
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022
Techné Disruptors exhibition, at India Habitat Centre Delhi
Spectrum, a multidisciplinary group show, Haryana
URBAN Myths at Bikaner House, Delhi
Queernocopia, Out ‘n’ Proud Abundance from South Asia.
Queer Art Show at The Lalit New Delhi
The Art of India, Gandhi Nagar.
2021
''SAMA: Symbols and Gestures in Contemporary Art of Italy and India,
Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Beam collective "Same as You. Take II" Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
2020
The boundaries and confusion of International Art Schema Art Museum
078/ The beautiful chaos STORIS, AHMEDABAD
The 12th edition of the India Art Fair took place in New Delhi Italian Embassy Cultural Centre Booth.
Action Painting is a performance project of the Collective in Arte Action La Sonora Performance, OAXACA, MEXICO.
35th issue of the arts magazine Inspirational
Balaclava.Q & Civil Disobedience present 'BORDERS - What's Up With That?' (Censored / CUT Version) At The Greece, Athens
2019
19-25 Ekim Katılım Belgesi Antalya/TURKEY
Inside out Show The Lalit hotel Delhi & Kolkata.
The Summer Garden at the Art Positive Gallery , New Delhi
"ENTENTE"- Glimpses from the curtain raiser at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
The Stainless gallery The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
Signature of diversity at Visual art gallery New Delhi
2018
Paris Sorbonne University, Reem Island, Abu Dhabi
In side Out at The Lalit Hotel Delhi
Aranya show at , ,Galerie ,Alliance Francaise
WE ,American Center New Delhi
Arbitrary Immagination,Visual Art Gallery
Open Air , Trivreni kala sangma
The artist combine Bihar Museum
Hilton business bay Dubai
Khajuraho festival,India
Expression, art gallery Ahmed, Dubai
Aranyaka Galerie ,Alliance Francaise
44th Khajuraho Dance Festival to start from
ArtGallery Ahmedia @Ahmedia Heritage House
Virtuoso Dhoomial Gallery New Delhi
2017
2nd Internatinal Exhibation Art Russia
Indian comparatives Show India Habitat Center Delhi Royal meridien hotels,Abudhabi
AMP Art show , UAE through my eyes ZeeArts Dubai Outlet Mall
After Hecho, Cultural Communication Exhibition of Korea & India Contemporary Art Schema Art Museum, Korea .
Korean cultural center on Korea & India Contemporary Art, New Delhi. Mullae Emerging Energetic , mullae art space ,South Korea
The gallery project: exhibition 2 –Yalta club Art Room Sofia, Bulgaria
The gallery project: exhibition 1 – Raamatupood Puänt Pärnu Tallinn, Estonia Poems on the wall Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre Delhi
2016
PARABIOSIS-3 ,Changjiang contemporary art museum in Chongqing, China “Peace on a Paper”Curated by ,Majid Abbasi Farahani at Tehran – Iran.
The Jim and Tammy show at Tom Robinson Gallery 2416 North Avenue, Chicago.
More Than Human at the inaugural exhibition for Art Explore,Delhi .
"Red moon songs" curate
2015
“Culture of Peace” Peace Gallery Iran,Tehran
Art Spotting V, Gallery , Art Positive, Delhi
The Unbearable closeness of being at Vis a Vis design house
Re start at Vis a Vis design house with Engendered gallery
Picture perfect Art Centrix Space Delhi
2014 Dialog studio Prozitron Aachen-Germany,
Asian Arts Initiative’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition Philadelphia ,US
RESIST @ Delhi, Engendered Delhi
Within Reach V, Gallerie Nvya, Delhi
2013
MOHOR-Biennale Venue Ayatana Art Gallery,Pune
Artists-in-Residency "Experimental Media and Performance" Bikalpa Art Center, Nepal Bahrain Ar Rifa at Hue Food Lounge Art at Bahrain
“Small introduction to big Art”, Gramercy - New York
Back2back , Niv Art Centre ,Delhi
On The Edge, curated by Dr. Subodh Kerkar , AYATANA Art Gallery ,Pune and Goa 'The Collector's Weekend' my group show Art Positive,Lado Sarai,New Delhi
Sri, Multiple Feminisms by Engendered Gallery at The American Center ,Delhi RESIST, by Engendered Gallery at Forum Gallery "Chennai, Tamil Nadu
‘The Grand Print Making Show’at Jehangir Art Gallery by ICAC
'' J o i n '' Art for a cause at Alliance Francaise, by Sree Art Gallery.
RESIST, by Engendered Gallery at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
"Versatile Thoughts" at Precept Art, Lower parel, Mumbai
Smart Show 2013,Amadavad ni Gufa , Ahmedabad
2012
@rt Virtually Real , Art Alive Gurgaon Delhi
“Small is Big” Art estate at Durbar Hall, Kochi
“Good Homes for Art” A public Art Initiative , curated by Shraddha Purnaye, Mumbai
"New arrivals” Group Exhibition " 34FineArt"34FineArt Cape Town South Africa
“Can you see me” Group Exhibition curated by Leeza Ahmady Engendered Gallery, Delhi “Banglar sur (tunes of bangal)” Nitanjali Art Gallery and Visual Arts Gallery India Habitat Center Visual Arts Gallery India Habitat Center,Delhi
“Glory of art” Group Exhibition The gallery “ Amdavad Ni Guffa, Gujarat
“Metropolitan Discourse”,Navdeep Arts, The gallery, Amdavad ni gufa, Ahmedabad
2011
“Indien - Garten der Kunste” ARTCO - art gallery, Herzogenrath/Germany
“STRATA” exhibition by visiting international artists, Greatmore studio, CapeTown. “Carpe Diem” Group Exhibition by Gallerie Nvya ,Delhi
“Icons in our midst” a group show,at Clarion Collection (Qutab Hotel), New Delhi “Icons in Our Midst”,Artspeaks India Gallery at New Delhi
“Fellowship” Fulbright Alumni Artists show ,The American Center ,Delhi
2010
“Heart of Art” exhibition Lakeside Art gallery west, Michigan City,IN,USA “18 Avenue” Group exhibation ,Montage arts, Delhi
“Love Stories” by positave Art work ,Taj Deccan Gallery,Hyderabad
“Art Spotting”group exhibition at Art Positive-a Unit of Bcah,Delhi
"Permanent Marker" Ragini Art Gallery at New Delhi
"The New Vanguard" A collection of contempory Art at Frangipani Art ,Ahmedabad Group exhibition , by Enigma Art gallery & Cigar art co.
“Acid, base & salt - the litmus tes”Ragini Art Gallery at New Delhi
Group Show by Enigma Art gallery “Poly Attributuon”,New Delhi
“Artunder50” presents by Round Table India & Gallery Ragini,Delhi
Group Show by Nitanjali Art Gallery , Singapore
Art Exhibition-"Art Mart 2" ,Epicentre,Apparel House by De Montage arts
Group Show “Postcolonial Trends” at The India Habitat Centre,Delhi by Janus Art Gallery Opportunity 2010 ,Group Show by Enigma Art gallery,Art desh gallery, Mumbai.
Art Project and exclusive collections of Lufthansa Airlines India Office
Art Project and exclusive collections of D’ art Centre, Rai Foundation
2009
Simply Divine,Expressions Gallery at Berkeley, CA,USA
Dubai-based Art Select Art Select, in conjunction with the Grand Hyatt and Bank MuscatBank Muscat,at the Indian Embassy in Oman
‘Creative Canvasses’exhibition of India&Pakistan ArtSelect in conjunction with Grand Hyatt,Dubai
A Wonderful World, benefit charity exhibition for Four Steps, Dalmia Sewa Trust, with Nitanjali Art Gallery, at Bangalore at the Mediterranean restaurant Olive Beach.
Gen Next, by Ragini Art Gallery at Open Palm Court Gallery,The India Habitat Centre,Delhi
A Wonderful World, Four Steps and Nitanjali Art Gallery, at The Stainless Gallery , Delhi “Metamorphic Celebration” by Ragini Art Gallery at New Delhi
"The whynot place art residency programme" , Religare arts.i gallery in New Delhi
2008
Engendered, multi-disciplinary South Asia Arts Festival at Lincoln Center , New York City Through The Looking Glass,Curated by Nanak Ganguly, Cymroza Art Gallery
Indian Art Summit, India's Modern &Contemporary Art Fair,Janus Art Gallery,New Delhi Indian Strokes a myriad of art, Kushii Art Auction, presented by Nitanjali Art Gallery,Bangalore
Art Paradox , Nitanjali Art Gallery Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi
Freshly sequeezed - Featuring the Indian Contemporaries, Suchitrra Arts Gallery, Mumbai Creative spirits, curetted by Nitanjali Gallery with Stewart Gallery ,South Africa
Body X Body, Nitanjali Gallery,Hong Kong
Mellifluous Metaphors,Nitanjali Gallery and Wei-Ling Gallery, Malaysia
Fifth Annual Fulbright Art Exhibit IIE ,West Coast Center, San Francisco,US.
Continuum Curated by Sushma Bahl and Archana B Sapra at Hyatt hotel in Delhi
Artscape Group Exhibition Curated by Sushma Bahl at Epicentre ,Apparel House Gurgoan Artscape Exhibition showcased at Convention centre lobby ,The India Habitat Centre ,Delhi Nitanjali @19 , Nitanjali Art Gallery at Apparel House Gurgaon
Group Show of Paintings at Suchitra Arts Gallery, Mumbai
Aspirations at Epicentre, Apparel House and Studio Vasant ,Delhi
2007 Emergence 2007 MFA Exhibition,Digital Arts New Media ,University of California ,Santa Cruz,US
Invisible Boardwalks, New Media Projects, at The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz California
Cross Cultural Celebration , Porter College University of California Santa Cruz,US The Autoerotic Man, at Bridge Gallery,Santa Cruz,California, US
The Site-specific Installation Art project, at 11th Annual Autonomous Mutant Festival, enchanted forests of Northern California, US
Rhythms of Illumination, Nitanjali Art Gallery at Episode, Chandigarh,Panjab An Indo-German Artists Residency and Exhibition in Kolkata and Delhi Bangall Bengal art over the centuries, Alliance Francaise, De Montage Arts Spatial Symphonies,Travancore House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg,New Delhi Flowery Fantasies,Travancore House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg,New Delhi Rhythms of Illumination, Nitanjali Art Gallery at the Grand Hyatt Dubai
2006 The Art & Design Show, The Grand,New Delhi
2004 Affordable Art-kunst, Galerie Muller & Plate, Munich, Germany
MATRIMONIAL BAZAAR, video-art online, at www.theoneminutes.org, and was telecast in Amsterdam
CC: Crossing Currents Video Art and Cultural Identity, organized by the Royal Netherlands Embassy & The Mondriaan Foundation, at Lalit Kala Akademi,New Delhi
Video Art “Road” was shown by Dr Alka Pande, Director, and Visual Arts Gallery as a part of her presentation at a seminar Urban Energies in Karachi, Pakistan National lecture and Video Art Show Video Art “Road”, shown in cities of Bombay and Baroda as a part of lectures and screenings at MS University
Video Art “Road” was shown as a part of a Video Art Road Show at public spaces near
PVR Saket and PVR Vasant Vihar in Delhi
Video Art “Road” was broadcast on national television channels DD Bharati(20:00 hrs,January9), DD1(19:30hrs,January10) and DD News(16:30 hrs,January12) as a part of programme produced by Doordarshan
Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Indien, Galerie Muller & Plate, Munich, Germany
Ravi Jain Annual Exhibition, Dhoomimal Art Gallery,New Delhi
UGC Group Exhibition, ASC,Jamia Millia Islamia ,New Delhi
Hart & soul, “fine arts” Gallery New Delhi
2003 Migration City, Home,Curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay,Birla Academy Of Art and Culture,Kolkata,West Bengal
Ravi Jain Exhibition, Galerie Muller & plate, Munich, Germany
2002 Ravi Jain Exhibition, Galerie Muller & plate, Munich, Germany
Four Man Show at Fresco Gallery, Lalit kala Academy,New Delhi
Ravi Jain Annual Exhibition, Dhoomimal Art Gallery,New Delhi
2000 International Exhibition , The SAARC, at Information Center, Kolkata,
Group Exhibition ,Charu Kala Utsav (Calcutta Art Fair)
Group Exhibition , Dravidian art and performance Art gallery at Cochin Kerala Annual Exhibition of Visva Bharati Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan
1999 Group Exhibition, Dreabrea Art & Performance Gallery Kerala, Cochin . Group Exhibition Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta
Group Exhibition Nandan Art Gallery, Santiniketan, West Bengal
Group Exhibition Charu Kala Utsav (Calcutta Art Fair)
Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of Bengal, Nandan, Calcutta
1998 Group Exhibition Nandan Art Gallery, Santiniketan
All India Art Exhibition at NTPC Child Art College, Farakka ,West Bangal Annual Exhibition of Visva Bharati Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan
1997 Annual Exhibition of Visva Bharati Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan
1996 Annual Exhibition ,Indian Society of Oriental Art's at Birla Academy, Calcutta Exhibition of Kala Bhavan at Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, sponsored by R.P.G.
1995 Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta Annual Exhibition
VIDEO ART WORKSHOP :
2004 Participated in a 10-day workshop ‘One Minute Video Art’ organised by Sandberg Institute, Netherlands and Royal Netherlands Embassy In India and the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Conducted by two renowned video artists from the Netherlands- Margit Lukacs and Persijn Broersen. Introduced to the medium of video as an art form and imparted hands-on- training in exploring aesthetics of videography. The workshop culminated in production of one-minute videos, participants
SCHOLARSHIPS :
1997-1998 Camlin colour Award
1993-1994, 1998-1999. 1999-2000 Visva Bharati Merit Scholarship
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PERFORMING ARTS:
2022:
Acocore at Brazal , Reality Rize,India Art Fair ,UTSHA Foundation Project
2021
Performance Køkkenet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Perfolik Chile.
MAF Online Event At Cyprus
Be a pArt Lab in the exhibition Insight Out: Myanmar Solidarity Performance Germany
Berlin performance festival.
Performance Achievers Online Event | TJPAC Srilanka
Equinox to Equinox
2020
Dislocada/Dislocated Philadelphia
www.onlineperformanceart.com/ 2020,
India Vs Mexico 2020
KARP-Kamina Artist and Researchers Residency Platform, Ghana
The 12th edition of the India art fair New Delhi
performance art festival Performance Art 2020
Adab Art Educational Center, Khorramabad, Iran
Online performance art, NYC
Equinox to Equinox
7th Burnt of Snow Xilamuren Grassland, Inner Mongolia,
Perfo REDmx | Red Mexicana de Performance | ,welove performance | video performance | Mexico city
16 OPAF,Performance Online Mexico , Phase 2 of the video performance cycle
India Vs Mexico 2020,Becoming Tree live art event via Zoom 2020,Performances
Kolkata International performance Art Festival
Philosophy Unbound TOXICITY 2020 at Chitkara University,Chandighar
7th Burnt of Snow Art Event, Dalam Art Camp, Xilamuren Grassland, Inner-Mongolia,
In process New Delhi
Homage to mother earth By hexxydexxybox , Delhi
2019
Katmundu International performance Art Festival ,Nepal
Zero Platform III International performance Art Festival 2019 Yangon,Myanmar
Utkalghar International festival 2019
In process New Delhi
International festival of Insitu Chihuahua at terminal Santorini, Mexico.
Performance o morir , Chihuahua/Mexico
Samalayuca desert /Chihuahua/Mexico.
Norógachi, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Monjes valley, Mexico
v r haxxyduxky guys at arpana fine art gallery New delhi
Live Art prrfomance Exit at HT imagian Fest, Nehru Park ,Delhi State University Perfomance & Visual Art,Rohtok ,Haryana Metropolitan Cathedral Church Chihuahua,Mexico.
2018 Morni hills(II) perfomace at Morni Hills and Punmjab University
2017 18th Open International Behavioral Art Festival at Songzhuang No space ,china 2016 LP art space at China
2016 Red moon songs, at Apeejay Arts ,Delhi
2015 "Organic Prrforming Art Exprssion " at jungbuktooseong, Cheongju, South Korea Performance at Namseo Gallery ,Cheongju,Korea.
2015 Govt. College of Art and Government Museum, Chandigarh.
2015 HHAR art Residency, Morni Hills, Himachal Pradesh, India
2015 Shield-An Initiative present at NIV art center Delhi
2014 “CRAC art Residency” Kushtia , Bangladesh
2014 New Space Arts Foundation art Residency,Vietnam
2013 “CRAC art Residency” Kushtia , Bangladesh
2013 “Live experimental performance” at Kathmandu Durbar Square.
Body Temperature' performance workshop by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, Gati Dance Forum Delhi Improvised performance at Kathmandu Jazz Conservation Patan,Nepal Artists-in-Residency "Experimental Media and Performance" Bikalpa Art Center, Nepal S M Sultan International Residency program in Narail ,Bangladesh
2012 “CRAC International Visiting Artists environmental art Residency “Bangladesh
2011 “CRAC International Visiting Artists environmental art Residency” Bangladesh Residency the Triangle Arts Trust, Greatmore Studio, South Africa International artists,
PUBLISHED ARTICLE &REVIEW :
Art India, Times of India, and Hindustan times, Economic Times Etc. Many more review published in Newspaper as well book , CD ,news-Chanel many review National and International .
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