Born. 22nd June 1982 Orissa, India
EDUCATION
2006 Master in History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India
2004 Bachelor In Fine Art, (Printing Making) Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Odisha, India
SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 Trees are Stranger Than Alien in the Movies, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2012 Kino is the Name of a Forest, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS and FILM FESTIVALS
2019 VAICA 2019 Video art festival, curated by Bharati Kapadia, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
2019 ARTISTS UNITE! RESIST HATE CELEBRATE LOVE! CHALO LAL QILA!, New Delhi
2018 Labocine October Issue (#27) in "LIFE & OTHER CATACLYSMS", 11th Annual Imagine Science Film
Festival
2018 Paperweight Biennale curated by Zebulon Zang at Llorar, CDMX, Mexico
2018 वह प"ंचने क" दशा, An Exhibition in response to Kahe Gaile Bidesia Gallery, GB Pant Institute of Social
Sciences, Allahabad
2018 March Meeting: Active Forms 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2017 Workshop on Games, Exhibition Botin foundation, Santander, Spain
2017 Trace, Curated by Sarojini Lewis, School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, JNU, New Delhi.
2017 Hangar for the passerby, Curated by Akansha Rastogi, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Noida.
2016 Enactments and each passing day, curated by Roobina Karode, KNMA-Noida, India
2016 Transart Triennale 2016: The Imperceptible Self and MANILA Pollination: Synchronisations-
Syncopations, London Biennale 2016.
2016 Great Eternal Return: A Social Media Film, a lecture performance and exhibition at South Asia
Institute, Harvard University, Boston.
2016 Regained, 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam.
2016 Never More! – Hiroshima-Fukushima, CTF Collective Trauma Film Collecions, CologneOFF
2016 Video Library Collection LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES, nouveau cinéma et art
contemporain, Paris, France
2015 BLAST! ASIA NOW, Stand SP1, Espace Pierre Cardin, 1 Avenue Gabriel, 75008 Paris.
2015 59th BFI London Film Festival, curated by William Fowler London, United Kingdom.
2015 Rendez-vous Singapore Exposition, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore.
2015 Undivided Mind Part- ii, Art + Science Exhibition, Curated by Lieah Smith, KHOJ international
Artist Association, New Delhi, India
2015 Forever Now, Curated by Willoh S. Weiland, Brian Ritche, Thea Baumann and Jeff Khan, Aphids
Epic Contemporary Project, Mofo, Hobart
2014 Tokyo Story Part- ii, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Field Trip Project, Curated by Daisuke Takeya, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Insert- Common Ground Curated by Raqs Media Collective, IGNCA, New Delhi India
2013 Rendez-vous 13, Institute of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France
2013 Ideas of the Sublime curated by Gayatri Sinha, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, India
2012 Sarai Reader 09: Exhibition, Curated by Raqs Media Collective, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon,
India
2012 Video Wednesday II, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2012 Broadening the Canvas: Contemporary Visual Culture of Alternate Sexuality, Curated by Rahul
Bhattacharya, Part of Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival, Kolkata
2012 In Other Words, Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi
2011 Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011 Collective Metamorphosis, Curated by Kapil Chopra, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 To be continued… The FICA Group Show, Curated by Bhooma Padmanabhan, Volte Gallery,
Mumbai
2011 Hong Kong Art Fair, works presented by Nature Morte
2011 Outset Inaugural Exhibition, co-ordinated by Peter Nagy and organized by Feroze Gujral, New
Delhi
2010 Drifiting Still, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi
2010 ARTIST + NATURE = ART The Sandarbh Workshop and residency. The Lahori Forest, Dadra Nagar,
Gujarat
2010 Present is Now, Curated by Peter Nagy, Bestcollegeart.com
2010 City as Studio: EXB 10.04, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi.
2010 City as Studio: EXB 10.01, curated by Iram Ghufran and Amitabh Kumar as part of ‘Ten Years of
Sarai’, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi (Feb 15 – March 10)
2010 Renewed Intensity, Curated by Jagannath Panda, B K College of Art, Bhubaneswar
2010 Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai (as part of Kala Ghoda Arts
Festival, February)
2009 Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi (18 Dec – 10th Jan)
2009 Fantasy, Curated by Sunil Gupta and Gautam Bhan, Nigah Queer Festival, Max Mueller Bhavan,
Delhi.
CURATION, ORGANISATION, SYMPOSIUMS, AND SEMINARS
2019 8/4 Exhibition, co-curated with Jasone Miranda and Akansha Rastogi, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
2018 8/4 Exhibition, co-curated with Jasone Miranda and Akansha Rastogi, OED Gallery, Fort Kochi
2018 InC, a two days performance event in Delhi with artist friends in Delhi.
2018 De-Text, performance philosophy in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound, JNU, New Delhi
2018 When does curatorial work end? School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi
2017 The Future of Art Education in India, Tracing institutional Histories, Kochi, Kerala
2016 Student’s Biennale, Part of Kochi Muzuris Biennale 2016, Kochi, India.
2016 Chance Dice, Questions around students’ work, Buddha Art Gallery, Lalitkala Academy,
Bhubaneswar
2014 36HRS (Event), Sarai CSDS, New Delhi India
RESIDENCIES, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND WORKSHOPS
2019 Five Million Incidents, a year long series of events at Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2019 Onassis Artist in Residency, Onassis Foundation, Athens
2019 LowRes Jerusalem - Art Cube Artists' Studio, International Residency Program, Jerusalem
2018 Soma Summer Program 2018, Mexico City.
2018 March Meeting: Active Forms 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2018 ROOP-AROOP, a collective of young writers’ workshop, Raza Foundation, New Delhi.
2017 Workshop on Games, conducted by Carsten Holler, Botin foundation, Santander Spain
2017 Residency Scholarship for artistic research // arts-based-philosophy at the research center
BASE art philosophy ecology, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India. Supported by Vienna based cultural factory
GRENZ_film wiener kulturweksatte.
2016 Skowhegan Artist Residency, Skowhegan School Of Painting & Sculpture, New York. USA
2016 South Asia Institute ‘Visiting Artist Program’, Harvard University, Boston.
2015 Kochi Biennale Foundation Young Curatorial Award- 16-month Fellowship 2016/2017 on the
KBF Student’s Biennale.
2015 T.A.J. RESIDENCY & SKE PROJECTS, Bangalore, India
2015 Undivided Mind- Part II, Art + Science One Month Residency at KHOJ, KHOJ International Artist
Association, New Delhi, India.
2014 Writing Intensive, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, New Delhi
2014 International Creator Residency Program 2013, Tokyo Wander Site, Tokyo, Japan
2013 An Anatomy and Politics of Video Art, A workshop by Marcel Odenbach, Kolkata, India
2011 Three-months residency hosted by Stadt galerie, Bern (Switzerland) in collaboration with Pro
Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) and FICA
2010 EMERGING ARTIST AWARD, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi
2010 Awarded ‘City as Studio’ – Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and
Media Practices and Residency.
2010 Sandarbh Artists Residency, Dadra Nagar and Havelli
