Exhibit320 is one of the leading contemporary art galleries in India, showcasing contemporary art from the sub - continent, creating a platform for new thoughts and ideas. The emphasis of the exhibition space is on art that engages in new means, both by thoughts and material. This organizational space is for creative endeavour, aesthetic explorations, and furthering visual dialogues. Our aim is to discover and encourage contemporary and evolving talent. Exhibit320, supports seminars,lectures, and discussions, talks that contextualise art within critical discourse. Exhibit320 is located in the heart of Lado Sarai, in capital city of New Delhi, India providing dynamic and creative hub for artists, the arts and its audience.

Exhibition Dates – Friday, August 9TH – Friday, September 20th, 2013 Venue – F - 320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi – 110030 Contact – [email protected], 011 4613 0637, www.exhibit320.com

Exhibition Details – THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING Curated By – Rahul Bhattacharya Participating Artists – Ashim Purkayasta, Jagannath Panda, Muktinath Mondal, Nataraj Sharma and Rekha Rodwittiya

The Possibility of Being

The Possibility of Being is a curatorial engagement with five artist immersed in image making with a constant dialogue with Painting and Drawing both in terms of medium and practice. The curation is dedicated to (re) exploring linkages between the image, the socio-political and painterly practices as we come to the end of an era which was (is being) called Contemporary.

Among the many developments that marks the term contemporary has been the dominating focus on content that prioritize socially and politically charged subject matters over stylistic experimentation and investigations over Form and Language. It is also marked by its affiliations to the idea of digital progress. As the digital (r) evolution settles down, we are in a position to understand that Digital is not just a technological shift, it is also an aesthetic trend. In an age where we are surrounded by digital technology, this splitting of the Digital allows us to explore beyond the aesthetic measures of purity, pristine images, perfect copies and powerful (spectacular) illusions.

Since the 1990’s postmodern culture and contemporary art was principally associated with photography, film, installation and text-based interventions. Painting lost its culturally privileged status and judged as an intrinsically conservative or reactionary aesthetic form. Post the onslaught of the digital (r)evolution, we reached a point where ‘Painting’ was declared dead as political and cultural agency; and it was only as a commodity that the relevancy of ‘Painting’ was acknowledged. This seeming fissure in history allows (forces) us to split Paintings in terms of medium and practice. At the height of the digital age (As the neo liberal was defined and celebrated as the era of new media and the ‘futuristic’), we witnessed artists producing paintings that looked like digital prints (hyper realistic, no trace of artistic labour, smooth finished cosmopolitan flat surfaces).

However, as we peaked inside the contemporary trend, silently inside artist studios we see a reassertion of analogue aesthetics. This return to analogue in a digital age has led to both painting and drawing have changing in terms of medium, concept, viewership and practice.

In a sense this curation becomes a project in cultural archaeology or ritual nostalgia. Slowly there is a growing recognition that painting practices continue to hold important contributing agency in shaping new cultural directions. These new directions in taste and cultural archaeological position disturb the meaning of ‘new media’ by opening doors for old media to stand as an vanguard act. That is why the Possibility of Being. For a post-1950s generation, such a ‘reconstruction’ of analogue aesthetics has lead recognition that painting practices today are contributing to new cultural directions.

Through the heights of the dominance of digital aesthetics in global taste, there have been artists who have worked within zones that transgress labour, concept and skill. Thus Painting (not as a medium but as practice) has emerged as an important platform for post-digital, post-conceptual art.

The 'durability' of post-conceptual art through the old media suggests that its practitioners have been re-fashioning and re-defining the medium with some of its earlier histories and aspirations in mind. Today, embedded in the practices of drawing and/or painting, we will find modernist understandings of medium, style, form and surface being re visited, but through the layers of post-modern theory and criticism.

Two concerns that is integral to the curatorial thought.

 Contemporary art’s investment in labour, analogue and old media assumes various forms and it is symptomatic of changes in the economy and taste rather than expressive of a broader left consciousness in the arts. In other words, the rise of labour as a sign-reference in recent art does not (necessarily)amount to a political project, even if it indicates a departure from the staples of postmodernism and, in some quarters, the desire to provide an alternative to capitalist economic relations.

 Within the conventional Contemporary Indian Art production, the emphasis on manual/physical labour comes up as a kind of noise, a disturbance which takes away from the digital/conceptual art itself. This type of art which has come to dictate the art market for a long time emerged simultaneously with the global capitalism which swept the world two decades ago. Labour was sought to be omitted from the art and a clean, sterile, sophisticated, digitised practice which only projected the concept was developed. It is to the extent that the old media art practices refer to and embody forms of temporality, knowledge and subjectivity, which do not easily enter the concept of abstract labour of new media.

The curatorial strands will be manifest in a show The Possibility of Being, bringing together Ashim Purkayasta, Jagannath Panda, Muktinath Mondal, Nataraj Sharma and Rekha Rodwittiya

Please refer to the link for more details: http://theposssibilityofbeing.blogspot.in/

ASHIM PURKAYASTHA, NO TITLE, GRAPH PAPER, PERMANENT MARKER, 28.5” X 19”, 2013

ASHIM PURKAYASTHA

BORN IN DIGBOI, ASSAM.

EDUCATION

1992-94 MASTER OF FINE ARTS, KALA BHAVAN, VISVA-BHARATI, SANTINIKETAN 1987-92 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, KALA BHAVAN,VISVA BHARATI, SANTINIKETAN. AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 2004 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION AWARD, NEW YORK, USA. 2001 THE ELIZABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUNDATION AWARD, CANADA. 1997 JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP, HRD, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. 1993 THE ELIZABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUDATION AWARD, CANADA. 1988-92 ASSAM STATE CULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP.

SOLO SHOWS

2009-FAMILY/FAMILIES, VADHERA ART GALLERY, OKHLA, NEW DELHI, 2006-BORDERLINE, RABINDRA BHAVAN, LKA, NEW DELHI AND ANANT ART GALLERY, KOLKATA, 2006 - DILLI DILWALON KI', VISUAL ART GALLERY, HABITAT CENTRE, ANANT ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI. 2004-05 - ATTACHED WINGS', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI; SRIDHARANI ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI, 2004-GANDHI/MAN WITHOUT SPECS', KHOJ, NEW DELHI,2001-INSURED HOME', CIMA GALLERY, KOLKATA,1999-GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI.

GROUP SHOWS

2013 PEAK SHIFT EFFECT', CURATED BY GAYATRI SINHA, VADEHRA ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI ,2011- 2012FRAGILITY', CURATED BY RAKHEE BALARAM, ART ALIVE GALLERY, GURGAON, 2011 OF GODS AND GODDESSES, CINEMA, CRICKET, THE NEW CULTURAL ICONS OF INDIA', PRESENTED BY RPG, CURATED BY ARSHIYA LOKHANDWALA, JEHANGIR ART GALLERY, MUMBAI.2011 TIME UNFOLDED, AN EXHIBITION OF MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART' PROJECT CONCEPT ROOBINA KARODE, KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, NEW DELHI. 2008 INDIA CROSSING', STUDIO LA CITTA, VERONA, ITALY. 2008 WHERE IN THE WORLD', CURATORIAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS, JNU AND DEVI ART FOUNDATION, GURGAON. 2008 CHALO! INDIA: A NEW ERA OF INDIAN ART', CURATED BY AKIKO MIKI, MORI ART MUSEUM, TOKYO, JAPAN; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KOREA; ESSL MUSEUM, VIENNA. 2008 SANTHAL FAMILY, POSITIONS AROUND AN INDIAN SCULPTURE', CURATED BY GRANT WATSON, MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST ANTWERPEN, MUHKA, BELGIUM. 2008 MUTANT BEAUTY' CURATED BY GAYATRI SINHA, ANANT ART CENTRE, NOIDA. 2007 - POLYPHONIES', CURATED BY ALKA PANDE, KALA GALLERY, AUSTRIA AND BERLIN 2006 SUBCONTINGENT, THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT IN CONTEMPORARY ART, CURATED BY ILARIA BONACOSSA & FRANCESCO MANACORDA, FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO, TORINO, ITALY. 2006- LILA/PLAY: CONTEMPORARY MINIATURES AND NEW ART FROM SOUTH ASIA CURATED BY HAEMA SIVANESAN, SPAN GALLERY, MELBORN. 2006 SHADOW LINE, A GROUP SHOW OF DRAWING, VADEHRA, NEW DELHI. 2005 SELF X SOCIAL: SELF, STRANGER, PARENT, RECOURSE, WORKER', CONCEIVED BY GEETA KAPUR, SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS, JNU, NEW DELHI. 2005-‘NEGOTIATING MATTER/S’ CURATED BY ROOBINA KARODE, ANANT ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI.2004-HINDU MOON IN MUGHAL GARDEN', NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI. 2004 THE MAKING OF INDIA PROJECT’, SAHAMAT, LALIT KALA AKADEMI,NEWDELHI. 2003PROJECT: ‘PARCEL COVER’, NATIONAL EXHIBITION, KALAKENDRA, GUWAHATI, ASSAM 1998 ‘NEW PERCEPTIONS, IMAGES AND MEDIA’, ORGANISED CIMA, KOLKATA,ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS AND LITERATURE, NEW DELHI. 1997‘PALASH’, RABINDRA BHAVAN, LALIT KALA AKADEMI, NEW DELHI.1996VI BHARAT BHAVAN BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART, BHOPAL.1993ART EXHIBITION, STATE ART GALLERY, GUWAHATI.

LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW DELHI.

JAGANNATH PANDA, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, FABRIC GLUE, 91.2” X 72”, 2013

JAGANNATH PANDA

1970 BORN IN BHUBANESWER, INDIA

1990 ORISSA STATE LALIT KALA AKADEMI AWARD , SILVER MEDAL FROM A.I.U.A, BANARAS , ALL INDIA AWARD FROM SOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE, NAGPUR 1991 RECEIVED A BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (SCULPTURE) FROM B.K COLLEGE OF ART AND CRAFTS, BHUBANESHWAR ,SUMMER SHOW STATE AWARD BY WORKING ARTIST ASSOCIATION, ORISSA , ALICE BONER MEMORIAL AWARD 1994 RECEIVED A MASTER OF FINE ARTS (SCULPTURE) FROM M.S UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, BARODA INDIA AWARD FROM SOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE, NAGPUR 1995 NATIONAL ACADEMY AWARD FROM CENTRAL LALIT KALA AKADEMI, NEW DELHI, INDIA ALL INDIA DRAWING AWARD FROM PUNJAB LALIT KALA AKADEMI, CHANDIGARH 1996 ALL INDIA FINE ART AND CRAFTS SOCIETY AWARD, NEW DELHI, INDIA 1997 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, JAPAN 2002 CENTRE PRIZE, C.I.I.C LONDON, UK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012-CULTS OF SERENDIPITY, GALLERY WENDI NORRIS TALKS: DAY OF DIALOGUE, ASIAN ART MUSEUM 2012- A FURTHER GLOBAL ENCOUNTER, GROSVENOR VADEHRA. 2011-AMERICAN DREAM, VALENTINA BONOMO ROMA, METROPOLIS OF MIRAGE, NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, JAGANNATH PANDA: "METROPOLIS OF MIRAGE", NATURE MORTE BERLIN,2010-MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, STUDIO LA CITTÀ NATURE REVISITED, GALLERY SANSKRITI – K OLKATA ON VIEW, SAKSHI GALLERY (MUMBAI) 2009-BEYOND GLOBALIZATION, BEYOND ART SPACE, BEIJING, CHINA, THE HUMAN ANIMAL, GALLERY THRESHOLD, INDIA XIANZAI, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART AT MOCA SHANGHAI, MOCA SHANGHAI (MUSEUMS OF CONTEMPORARY ART SHANGHAI) ,THE ACTION OF NOWHERE, NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, CHALO! INDIA, ESSEL COLLECTION, VIENNA ,THE ACTION OF NOWHERE, GOETHE & LINA LTD, 2008 -ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK, NY ART BASEL, BASEL, SWITZERLAND ,FIAC, PARIS, FRANCE ,CHALO ! INDIA: A NEW ERA OF INDIAN ART, MORI MUSEUM, TOKYO, JAPAN, 2007-HERE AND NOW: YOUNG VOICES FROM INDIA, GROSVENOR VADEHRA GALLERY, LONDON, UK ,ZHANG HUAN, SHILPA GUPTA UND JAGANNATH PANDA, DIEHL PROJECTS, BERLIN, GERMANY NOTHING IS SOLID, GALLERY CHEMOULD, MUMBAI, INDIA (SOLO),2006-SHADOW LINES, VADEHRA ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI, INDIA , BERKLEY SQUARE GALLERY, LONDON, UK (SOLO), 2005- PALETTE GALLERY, NEW DELHI, INDIA - GALLERY NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, INDIA (SOLO) ,PATHS OF PROGRESSION, BODHI ART, NEW DELHI AND SAFFRONART, MUMBAI, INDIA ,GALLERY NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, INDIA,NEGOTIATING MATTER, ANANT ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI, INDIA ARE WE LIKE THIS ONLY?, VADHERA GALLERY AT RABINDRA BHAWAN, NEW DELHI, INDIA ,GALLERI 27 OSLO, NORWAY, 2004 GENERATION-1, SAFFRONART AND THE GUILD ART GALLERY, MUMBAI, INDIA ,GALLERY NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, INDIA. 2003 DOTS AND PIXELS, GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI, INDIA. 2002-GRADUATE SHOW, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, UK , HOCKNEY GALLERY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, UK , DALI UNIVERSE, LONDON, UK, 2001 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, 2000-KHOJ INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, THE BRITISH COUNCIL, NEW DELHI, INDIA , LALIT KALA AKADEMY, BHUBANESHWAR, INDIA ,GALLERY CHEMOULD, MUMBAI, INDIA (SOLO) ,NATURE MORTE AT THE HUNGARIAN INFORMATION AND CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI, INDIA (SOLO) 1999-EDGE OF THE CENTURY, ART INC. GALLERY, NEW DELHI, INDIA. 1998-ZA MOCA FOUNDATION GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN (SOLO).,1997-THE SIGHT OF ASIA, FUKUOKA, JAPAN,1996-MANIFESTATION OF VISUAL AND VERBAL, NEW DELHI, INDIA PUNJAB LALIT KALA AKADEMI, CHANDIGARH, INDIA

MUKTINATH MANDAL, PADMA, OIL ON CANVAS, ACRYLIC ON WOODEN FRAME & PADESTAL, 38” X 74” EACH, PADESTAL 6” X 6” X 6”, 2013

MUKTINATH MONDAL

RD DATE OF BIRTH: 1982, 23 OCTOBER

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION: 2009 N E T: UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION, NEW DELHI 2007 M.F.A.: (GOLD MEDAL) UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, HYDERABAD 2005 B.F.A.: INDIRA KALA SANGEET VISWA VIDYALAYA, CHHATTISGARH 2000-01 B.SC (BIO): TAMRALIPTA MAHAVIDYALAYA, MEDINIPUR , W.B. 2000 HIGHER SECONDARY: WBCHSE 1998 SECONDARY: WBBSE 1995 DIPLOMA: SARBABHARATIYA SANGEET O SANASKRITI PARISHAD, W.B.

SOLO SHOW: 2011 FRESH FROM TULIA, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI, INDIA

PARTICIPATION: 2013 BARODA AT CROSS ROADS- PATHS AND PATHWAYS CURATED BY PARNAB MUKHERJEE, BIRLA ACADEMY OF ART AND CULTURE, KOLKATA, THE MOHUA SHOW, MOHUA ART GALLERY, BANGALORE, INDIA, THE BARODA MARCH, PRINCE OF WALLACE MUSEUM, MUMBAI , INDIA ART FAIR, PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT320, NEW DELHI, INDIA 2012 AMITABH BACHCHAN AT 70, NEHRU CENTRE, MUMBAI, INDIA, SHANGHAI ART FAIR, SHANGHAI; PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT320, DELHI, INDIA ART FAIR, INDIA; PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT320, NEW DELHI. 2011-12 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY CURATED BY ZAHIR SHAIKH & SANDHYA , BORDEWEKAR, DERBY, EAST MIDLAND AIRPORT, NOTTINGHAM, ART CORE, EMBRACE ARTS, UK, 2011- ART HK, HK,FUTURE; PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI , 2010-HOTEL ART FAIR, SEOUL, KOREA: PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI, THE STORY OF THE MULTIPLES CURATED BY AMIT MUKHOPADHYAY; EMAMI CHISEL ARTS, KOLKATA, GEN NEXT-V, AAKRITI ART GALLERY, KOLKATA, ASIAN STUDENTS & YOUNG ARTISTS FESTIVAL, SEOUL, KOREA; PRESENTED BY EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI , TATHAGAT, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, M S U, BARODA 2009 - CUTTING CHAI, SARJAN ART GALLERY, BARODA. 2008 GEN NEXT-III, AAKRITI ART GALLERY, KOLKATA, ST 13TH HARMONY SHOW, NEHRU CENTRE, MUMBAI , 2007 21 ALL INDIA ART CONTEST, NAGPUR ,2006 TH TH 49 NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART, BHARAT BHAWAN, BHOPAL, 20 ALL INDIA ART CONTEST, NAGPUR. CAMLIN ART EXHIBITION, LALIT KALA ACADEMY, CHENNAI, 2001-04 COLLEGE EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITION:

2012 - SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS CURATED BY MAYA KOVSKAYA; EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI, THE NEXUS SHOW, AMDABAD NI GUFA, AHMEDABAD, INDIA , COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES, AMAN HOTEL, NEW DELHI; BY EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI & APPARAO GALLERIES, BANGALORE, WE WALK, KANORIA GALLERY, CATHERSIS ART GALLERY, AHMEDABAD, CONTEMPORARY SULTANATE CURATED BY VEERANGANA KUMARI SOLANKI; 1-STYLE MILE, OLIVE; EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI , 2010 - ART MAKERS CIRCA 2010 THE NEXT LEVEL -1, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI , THE BIG BARODA SHOW, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, M S U, BARODA, PRIYASRI ART GALLERY, MUMBAI , BARODA MARCH, THE STRAND ART ROOM, MUMBAI , ARTS.I REDUX, RELIGARE ARTS INITIATIVE, NEW DELHI 2009 HUB SHOW-2, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, M S U, BARODA, VIEW BETWEEN THE TREES, CHITHRA KALA PARISADH, BANGALORE ,WATER COLOUR AND PRINTS, SPACE ARTIST’S STUDIO, BARODA, OBTUSE- ACUTE, PRIYASHREE ART GALLERY, MUMBAI. 2008 - FRESHLY SQUEEZED, SUCHITRA ARTS, MUMBAI, MINDSCAPE, MAGIC & MYSTERY, ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, KOLKATA 2006- WORLD IS A COLLAGE, HYDERABAD FRESH FACE”, HYDERABAD

DUO SHOW: 2010 I-SO-LATED, OSMOSIS GALLERY, MUMBAI 2008 -09 URBAN REALITY, OSMOSIS GALLERY, MUMBAI

ACHIEVEMENTS: 2008 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU FOUNDATION, NEW DELHI 2005-06 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD 2004 BEST AWARD FOR PAINTING, COLLEGE EXHIBITION.

NATARAJ SHARMA, VINU, OIL ON PAPER ON BOARD, 30” X 26” , 2008-12

NATARAJ SHARMA

BORN 1958 - MYSORE EDUCATION 1982 GRADUATE IN APPLIED ART, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA EXHIBITIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008-09 'AIRSHOW', BODHI ART, SINGAPORE, 2008 'WORK IN PROGRESS', BODHI SPACE, MUMBAI, 2007 ‘STRETCH’, TRAVELING EXHIBITION AT SINGAPORE TYLER PRINT INSTITUTE, SINGAPORE AND BODHI ART AT SINGAPORE, MUMBAI AND NEW YORK, 2007 ‘FLIGHT’, ART AND PUBLIC, GENEVA AND BODHI ART, MUMBAI 2005 BOSE PACIA, NEW YORK, 2005 'NATARAJ SHARMA: VAPI HORSE AND OTHER STORIES', NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI, 2000 ‘RECENT WORKS’, SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2000 NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 'IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME', PRESENTED BY VADEHRA ART GALLERY AT LALIT KALA AKADEMI, NEW DELHI 2012 'WORKS ON PAPER- 2012', GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI, 2011-12 'BACK TO SCHOOL: BARODA 1979-89', TAO ART GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2011 'BACK TO SCHOOL: BARODA 1979-89', PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI 2010 'LOOKING GLASS: THE EXISTENCE OF DIFFERENCE', TWENTY INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS PRESENTED BY RELIGARE ARTS INITIATIVE, NEW DELHI IN COLLABORATION WITH AMERICAN CENTRE; BRITISH COUNCIL; GOETHE-INSTITUT/ MAX MUELLER BHAVAN, NEW DELHI, 2010 'INDIAN (SUB)WAY', VADEHRA ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI; GROSVENOR VADEHRA, LONDON, 2009 'LIVING OF THE GRID', ANANT ART CENTRE, NEW DELHI 2009 'ZIP FILES', TAO ART GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2009 'RELATIVE VISA', BODHI SPACE, MUMBAI 2008 'FRAME FIGURE FIELD: 20TH CENTURY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART', DELHI ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI, 2008 ‘FRONTLINE: NOTATIONS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN URBAN’, BODHIBERLIN, BERLIN 2008 ‘INDIA CROSSING’, STUDIO LA CITTA, VERONA, 2007 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE’, NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART (NGMA), MUMBAI, 2006 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM 2006 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, MONTALVO ARTS CENTER, SARATOGA, 2006 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, MARCO MONTERREY, 2006 ‘INDIAN SUMMER’, ECOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX ARTS, PARIS, 2006 ‘HUNGRY GOD: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA’, AARIO, BEIJING AND MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, BUSAN,2006 ‘EL FILO DEL DESEO - ARTE RECIENTE EN INDIA’, MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE MONTERREY MARCO, MEXICO, 2005 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, MUSEO TAMAYO, MEXICO CITY 2005 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, ASIA SOCIETY AND MUSEUM, NEW YORK, 2005 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, 2005 ‘EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA’, ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, 2005 ‘THE ARTIST LIVES AND WORKS’, HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN, 2003 ‘WAYS OF RESISTANCE’, SAHMAT, RABINDRA BHAVAN, NEW DELHI AND MUMBAI 2001 ‘KITSCH KITSCH HOTA HAI’, PRESENTED BY GALLERY ESPACE AT INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI

PARTICIPATIONS

2012 ‘TO LET THE WORLD IN: NARRATIVE AND BEYOND IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART’, AS PART OF ART CHENNAI, EDITION II AT LALIT KALA REGIONAL CENTRE, CHENNAI 2011 'HOMESPUN', DEVI ART FOUNDATION, NEW DELHI 2011 'THE INTUITIVE: LOGIC REVISTED', FROM THE OSIANS COLLECTION AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, 2009 VANCOUVER BIENNALE, VANCOUVER, 2009 'CONTEMPORARY EXOTICISM', STUDIO LA CITTA, VERONA, 2009 'INDIAN HIGHWAY', ASTRUP FEARNLEY MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, OSLO 2009 'CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART: OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE', NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SEOUL, 2009 'ARCOMADRID', SPAIN PRESENTED BY CURATOR BOSE KRISHNAMACHARI FOR 'PANOROMA: INDIA' 2008 'CHALO! INDIA: A NEW ERA OF INDIAN ART', 5TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION, MORI ART MUSEUM, JAPAN 2008 REPRESENTED BY BODHIBERLIN AT ART BERLIN CONTEMPORARY (ABC), BERLIN, 2005 ‘ICON: INDIA CONTEMPORARY’, 51ST VENICE BIENNALE, ITALY

HONOURS AND AWARDS 2006 RESIDENCY AT SINGAPORE TYLER PRINT INSTITUTE (STPI), SINGAPORE 1993 SOTHEBY’S AWARD FOR BEST EMERGING ARTIST

REKHA RODWITTIYA, UNTITLED,DIGITAL INKJET PRINT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIC PHTO IMAGES & HAND PAINTED WATERCOLOUR ON WATERCOLOUR PAPER, 43.5” X 102”, 2011-2012

REKHA RODWITTIYA BORN OCTOBER 31, 1958 - BANGALORE EDUCATION 1982-84 M.A.(PAINTING), ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON 1982-83 STUDIED FILM AND VIDEO, FULHAM INSTITUTE, LONDON 1978-81 STUDIED AND PRACTICED PHOTOGRAPHY UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PROF. JYOTI BHATT 1976-81 B.A.(FINE ARTS), FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA EXHIBITIONS SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 'INTANGIBLE INTERLOCUTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BELONGING', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2008 'REKHA@FIFTY', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2007 ‘SECOND SKIN’, PRESENTED BY SAKSHI GALLERY AT THE AIR GALLERY, LONDON , 2006 ‘ONCE UPON A TIME….’, SHRIDHARANI GALLERY, NEW DELHI 2005 ‘ENCRYPTED SOLILOQUIES’, SINGAPORE, 2003 'BYE BYE BABY!', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI 2001 'SUBTEXTS', SAKSHI GALLERY, BANGALORE , 2000 WORKS PRESENTED AT ART AMSTERDAM BY GALLERY FIA, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS , 1999 'TIME ZONES: HOME & AWAY', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI 1998 'EVOCATIONS', STUDIO BARBIERI, VENICE, ITALY , 1997 'BORDERS/TERRITORIES', APPARAO GALLERY AT GALLERY 678, NEW YORK , 1997 'MY BODY-MY LAND', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI , 1996 'IN SHADES OF RED', SAKSHI GALLERY, BANGALORE , 1994 SAKSHI GALLERY, BANGALORE , 1993 ART HERITAGE, NEW DELHI ,1992 SEAGULL FOR ARTS, KOLKATA , 1992 SAKSHI GALLERY, BANGALORE , 1991 SAKSHI GALLERY, CHENNAI , 1990 CYMROZA ART GALLERY, MUMBAI , 1989 ART HERITAGE, NEW DELHI , 1988 GALLERY SASSI, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN , 1987 ART HERITAGE, NEW DELHI , 1986 CYMROZA ART GALLERY, MUMBAI , 1985 ART HERITAGE, NEW DELHI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 'DIVA', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2012 'LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2012 'AQUA', GALLERY BEYOND, MUMBAI, 2012 'CONTEMPORARY: A SELECTION OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART', PRSENTED BY SAKSHI GALLERY AT THE PARK, CHENNAI, 2011-12 'BACK TO SCHOOL: BARODA 1979-89', TAO ART GALLERY, MUMBAI,2011 'ANECDOTES', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI 2011 'PAUSE: A COLLECTION', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2011 'HIGH-LIGHT', PRESENTED BY SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI AT THE OBEROI, GURGAON, 2011 'BACK TO SCHOOL: BARODA 1979-89', PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI,2010-11 'A COLLECTION', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI 2010 'DALI'S ELEPHANT', AICON GALLERY, LONDON, 2010 'SINGULARITIES', RL FINE ARTS, NEW YORK, 2009 'INAUGURAL SHOW', SAKSHI GALLERY, TAIPEI, 2007-08 ‘PAISLEY - EXPLODING THE TEARDROP’, PM GALLERY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PATTERN LAB, EALING, 2006 ‘MAKING OF DIVINITY’, SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI, 2004 ‘CHINA MEETS INDIA IN BERLIN’, ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN, BEIJING, 2003 'THE SAID AND THE UNSAID', APPARAO GALLERIES, MUMBAI, 2002 'CINEMA STILLS' APPARAO GALLERIES, NEW DELHI , 2001 'FIGURES IN MY MIND', GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI ,2000 'CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN IMAGE', GALLERY 42, NEW DELHI, 2000 'TIMELESS VISIONS: CONTEMPORARY ART OF INDIA', FROM THE HERWITZ COLLECTION, PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM, MASSACHUSETTS, USA , 1999 'IMAGINED SPACES', A ONE YEAR TOURING EXHIBITION WITH SURENDRAN NAIR AT MAJOR ART CENTERS IN AUSTRALIA, NOOSA REGIONAL ART GALLERY, AUSTRALIA , 1999 'PACAEMBU', SAO PAULO, BRAZIL ,1999 'THE TALE OF SIX CITIES', LAKEEREN ART GALLERY, MUMBAI , 1998-99 'LINES OF DESIRE', A LIVERPOOL ART SCHOOL & OLDHAM ART GALLERY & MUSEUM TOURING EXHIBITION, 1998 'INDIAN SPRING', APPARAO GALLERIES & GALLERY MARTINI, USA .,1997-98 'THE EDGE OF AWARENESS', 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO), GENEVA, SAO PAULO, NEW YORK, NEW DELHI, 1997 'EPIC REALITY', CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM, HOUSTON, USA , 1997 'WOMEN ARTISTS OF INDIA - A CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE', MILS COLLEGE ART GALLERY, CALIFORNIA, USA, 1997 'NIRGUNA/SAGUNA', NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI , 1996 'ACRO DA LAPA', LABORATOIRE, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL , 1996 '12 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS FROM 1984 TO 1996', THE FINE ART RECOURSE, MUMBAI , 1996 'OF WOMEN, ICONS/STARS/FEASTS', EICHER GALLERY, NEW DELHI .,1995-96 'INSIDE OUT: WOMEN ARTISTS OF INDIA', A TOURING EXHIBITION IN ENGLAND, MIDDLES-BOROUGH ART GALLERY, UK , 1995 'CONTEMPORARY ART, DEUTCHE BANK BOMBAY', THE FINE ART RESOURCE, MUMBAI , 1995 'BOMBAY', AN RPG EXHIBITION, MUMBAI , 1995 'DIALOGUES OF PEACE', GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 1995 'ART FOR CRY', MUMBAI & DELHI ,1994 AN EXHIBITION OF WOMEN'S ART: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF ART, HYDERABAD ,1993 'IMAGES & WORDS', A TRAVELING EXHIBITION FOR COMMUNAL HARMONY, SAHMAT INDIA ,1993 'HUSAIN KI SARAI', VADHERA ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI,1992 'JOURNEYS WITH LANDSCAPES', SAKSHI GALLERY, MUMBAI , 1989 'ARTISTS ALERT', IN MEMORY OF SAFDAR HASHMI, NEW DELHI ,1987 PRINT EXHIBITION, BRISTOL, UK , 1987 PRINT EXHIBITION, CENTRE FOR ENGRAVING, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ,1987 'ALEKHYA DARSAN', SIX YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 1984 YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES, SHEFFIELD, UK

PARTICIPATIONS

2013 'THE NAKED AND THE NUDE: THE BODY IN INDIAN MODERN ART', DELHI ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI 2011 ‘MANIFESTATIONS V', DELHI ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI,2011 'ROOTS IN THE AIR, BRANCHES BELOW: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART FROM INDIA', SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART, SAN JOSE ,2011'THE INTUITIVE: LOGIC REVISTED', FROM THE OSIANS COLLECTION AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND 2010 'FINDING INDIA: ART FOR THE NEW CENTURY', PRESENTED BY SAKSHI GALLERY AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA), TAIPEI ,2010 'EVOLVE: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW', TAO ART GALLERY, MUMBAI ,2010 'ROOTS', 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF SAKSHI ART GALLERY, MUMBAI AT THE PARK, CHENNAI,2005 ‘SHAKTI 2005’, AICON GALLERY, NEW YORK.,1987 SECOND BIENNIAL OF HAVANA, CUBA 1986 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL, NEW DELHI ,.1981 ALL INDIA GRAPHIC EXHIBITION, AHMEDABAD 1980 ALL INDIA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, MYSORE

HONOURS AND AWARDS 2010 MONTALVO ARTIST RESIDENCY, MONTALVO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SARTOGA, CA 1994 JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 1990 CONFERRED THE STAFF FELLOWSHIP FROM THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL TO WORK IN THE U.S. 1988-89 INVITED FACULTY AND ARTIST –IN- RESIDENCE, THE KONSTHOGSKOLAN ART COLLEGE, BY INVITATION FROM SVENSKA INSTITUTE, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 1984 UNILEVER PAINTING AWARD, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON 1982 INLAKS SCHOLARSHIP FOR HER M.A. IN PAINTING FROM ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON