Mithu Sen

1971 Born in West Bengal, India The artist lives and works in New

Education 2001 PG Programme (Visiting) Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1997 MFA (Painting) Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1995 BFA (Painting) Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan

Solo Shows 2010 Nothing Lost In Translation, Nature Morte, Berlin BLACK CANDY (iforgotmypenisathome), Chemould Gallery, ; School of Art and Aesthetics, JNU, 2009 Me Two, Krinzinger Project, Vienna Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold, Suzie Q Projects, Zurich Free Mithu, Khoj, New Delhi 2008 I Dig, I Look Down, Albion Gallery, London 2007 Half Full, Part I, Bose Pacia, New York Half Full, Part II, Nature Morte, New Delhi Making / Unmaking, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2007-06 Drawing Room, Nature Morte; British Council, New Delhi 2006 It's Good to be Queen, Bose Pacia Artist Space, New York Drawing Room - I, British Council, New Delhi Drawing Room - II, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai 2003 I Hate Pink, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai 2001 Unbelongings, Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 2000 Can We Really Look Beyond the Map?, Art India Style, New Delhi

Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Conundrum, Bose Pacia, New York Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi The Pill, Latitude 28, New Delhi Myth - Reality: Constructing Cult-ure, The Guild, Mumbai 2010 Public Enemy Number 1, Exhibit 320, New Delhi At The Edge, Gallery Maya, London Indian (Sub)Way, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London Dialogues: A Selection of International Contemporary Artists, Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore Spiral Jetty, Nature Morte, New Delhi Scratch, Shakshi Gallery at LKA, New Delhi I Think Therefore Graffiti…, The Guild, Mumbai Eye of India, Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore Writing Visuals, Harrington Street Art Center, Continuum Transfunctioner, Exhibit 320, New Delhi Nature Revisited, Sanskriti Gallery, Kolkata Size Matters or Does It? , Latitude 28, New Delhi

Evolve, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2009 Vicissitudes of the Constructed Image, Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore L-Machines, Gallery Open Eyed Dreams (OED), Kochi Astonishment of Being, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata India 3: New Delhi - Republic of Illusions, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Intimate Lives, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai Anomalies: From Nature to the Future, Rossi & Rossi, London Tracing Time, Bodhi Art, Mumbai The Other (Indian) Story: Retrospecting Lakeeren-The Contemporary Art Gallery (1995-2009), presented by Lakeeren at The Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai The Human Animal, jointly presented by Gallery Threshold and Arts I (Religare Arts Initiative) at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi The Body as Vessel, Art Alive, New Delhi 2008-09 Where In The World, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi Mutant Beauty, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi 2008 Review, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata Synonymous, The Guild, Mumbai Emotional Drawing, SOMA, Seoul; Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT), Tokyo Zeitgeist, Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi Still Moving Image, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi Exploding the Lotus, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida Link, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai Comme des bêtes, Lausanne Museum, Berne, Switzerland Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India, d.e.n. Contemporary art and Western Project, Culver City Tales, Reflection and Constructs, ITC Windsor, Bangalore Shifting Terrains / Altered Realities, The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi and Art House, Singapre Crossroads, Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai A-MAZ-ING, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2007 Tiger by the Tail ! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Women’s Studies Research Centre (WSRC), Brandeis University, USA and at October, Rose Museum, Boston in partnership with Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi Does Size Matter ?, presented by Studio Confluence at Jehangir K S Nicholsan Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai Horn Please, September, Kunst Museum Bern Here There Now – Contemporary Art from India, Gallery Soul flower, Bangkok Private / Corporate, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin Indian Art III / III, Here and Now, Grosvenor Vadehra, London Art And Design Show, Bangkok 2006 Shadow Lines, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi Being Anastacia, Goethe Institute, Salvador, Brazil Avatars of the Object, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

Inside Outside, Guild Gallery, Mumbai New Wave In Bengal Art, Akriti Art Gallery, Kolkata Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metro Sexuality, Kitab Mahal , Mumbai 2005 The New Wave in Bengal Art, Akar Prakar, Kolkata Are We Like This Only?, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi 2004 Tableaux Vivant, Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York The Found Project, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia Art Omni Open Day, New York Wasani International Studio Open Day, Lamu Fort, Kenya Fair and Furious 2, Jebiwool Art Museum, South Korea The Art Connection, British Council and Birla Academy, Kolkata Devotional Breach, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore Kaleidoscope, Square One Gallery, New York Summer Show, Nature Morte, New Delhi Fleshed Out and Lifting Off, Anant Gallery, New Delhi The Making of India, Sahmat at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2003 Kaleidoscope, Gallery Space, Hyderabad Portrait of the Decades, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata Flag for Peace, Karachi, Pakistan Peep Show, Apparao Gallery, Chennai Open Studio Day, Khoj International Residency, New Delhi Through Customs, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York Fair and Furious, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi Sheesha, Indo-French Exhibition, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi 2002 Transfiguration, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Borderless Terrain, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre,New Delhi Young Faces, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata Young Contemporary’s from Shantiniketan, Gallery Espace, New Delhi The Closet/Closets, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi 2001 Selected Works of New Graduates, Compass Gallery, Glasgow Student Show, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Shatabdi Show, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata Shatabdi Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1999 Emerging Trends, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Gallery, Kolkata Edge of The Century, Gallery OM, New Delhi The Art Show, Art Junction Gallery, New Delhi 1998 Young Shantiniketan Today, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai 1997 Paintings, Gallery Akarshan, New Delhi 1996 Exhibition of Kala Bhavan, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

Honors and Awards 2010 Skoda Prize Winner 2008 YFLO(FICCI) Young Achievers Award 2007 Kunstmuseum Bern Residency, Switzerland

2006 Bose Pacia Artist in Residence, New York 2005-06 UNESCO Ashburg Scholarship for Brazil Lijang Studio Residency, Yunnan, China International Artists Workshop , Sri Lanka Lijang Studio Residency, Yunnan, China Jaipur International Festival, Site Specific Workshop, Jaipur 2004 Wasani International Artists Workshop, Lamu Fort, Kenya Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York Bangalore Residency 2003 Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi Two-Hundred Years of the Great Arc. Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Corbett National Park 2000-01 Charles Wallace India Trust Award in UK 2000 Junior Fellowship from Ministry of HRD, Government of India 1998 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) Award in Painting, New Delhi