ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
VIBHA GALHOTRA
Born 1978
B.F.A in Graphics, Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, India (1999)
M.F.A in Graphics, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Santiniketan, India (2001)
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Metropia, Project 88, Mumbai,India
2006 Where Do We Come From? What are we? Where Are We Going?
Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005 Between Me and Delhi, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004 WHITE, Exhibition Hall, Fine Arts Faculty, MS University, Baroda, India
2002 Space within the Space, Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India.
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 Mutant Beauty, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008 Zeitgeist,curated by Latika Gupta, Pallete Art Gallery
2008 ShContemporary 2008 | Best of Discovery,Shanghai
2008 Everywhere Is War (and rumours of war), Curated by Shaheen Merali, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
2008 Destination Asia: Flying over Stereotypes' Conversation- 1, artists from Central Asia and South
Asia, Elementa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2008 Walk The Line: Avanthy Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland,
2008 Rethinking Materiality: Group Show, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
2007 City Cite Site: Group Show, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2007 Urban Similes: Transforming Cities, Gallery Project 88, Mumbai, India
2007 Destination Asia: Non-strict correspondence, artists from Central Asia and South
Asia, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kazakhstan,
2007 Group Show, Austria
2006 Bronze, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
2006 Shadow Lines, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2006 Eternal Recurrence, Hotel Shangrila, New Delhi, India
2005: Team Unteamed, Art Konsult Gallery New Delhi, India
2005: Unclaimed Luggage, Artrageous Group Cyprus, Greece
2005: The Chair project, Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara, India
2004: The Twilight Zone of Digital Divide, West-end, New Delhi, India
2003: Group Show, Lional Went Art Gallery, Colombo, Srilanka
2002: Gutgasteil, An organization for art in landscape, Austria
2001: A symposium, Europas Parkas, Lithuania
2001: Group Show, Saga Art College, JAPAN
2000: ENSEMBLE, Govt. College of Arts, Chandigarh, India
2000: Duo Show at A.B.C. Gallery, Varanasi, India
Particicpations
2008 ShContemporary 2008 | Best of Discovery, Shanghai, China
2006 International Exchange exhibition, LKA, Cyria,
2004 46th National Annual Art Exhibition
2003 Bharat Bhavan Intl Print Biennial, Bhopal, India
2003 International Miniprint de Sarajevo, Moscow, Russia
2003 45th National Annual Art Exhibition
2002 44th Annual National Arts Exhibition
2001 Bharat Bhavan Intl Print Biennial, Bhopal, India
2001 AIFACS All India Annual Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India
2001 Birla Academy Annual Art Exhibition, Kolkata, India
1998 Punjab LKA. Annual Art Exhibition, Chandigarh, India
Residencies, Workshop and Camps
2008 International Sculpture workshop, ITM Universe, Gwalior, India
2006 Brazier International Artists Workshop, UK
2006 Art Meet' ITM Universe, Gwalior, India
2006 Fordsburg Artist Studio (Bag Factory), South Africa
2004 Site specific workshop, Samode (Jaipur)
2004 Workshop, Mukti (Pondicherry), India
2003 Workshop, Chandigarh LKA, India
2002 Workshop, Chandigarh LKA, India
2002 Gut Gasteil, An organization for art in landscape, Austria
2001 Symposium, Europas Parkas, Lithuania
2006 Workshop, Haryana Culture Affairs Dept, India
1999 Worked with eminent Indian print maker involving the Indian Print Makers Guild,
New Delhi, India
Collections
Devi Art Foundation, India
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
GUT GASTEIL, an open air Museum, Austria
Saga Art College, Japan
Europas Parkas, Lithuania
ABC Gallery, Varanasi
Haryana Cultural Affair Department, Chandigarh, India
Various Private Collections
Awards
2003 Inlaks Foundation Fine Arts Award
2001 Honored with National scholarship from HRD Dept.Govt.Of India
1998 Artist Under 30 Yr Award, Chandigarh State Lalit Kala Academy Award
MAYYUR KAILASH GUPTA
Born 1961
Sculpture-Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda (1982-89)
The artist lives and works in Baroda.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2008 Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto
2004, 06, 07 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Prithvi Gallery & Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1995 Prithvi Gallery, Mumbai
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 Ghost of Souza, Aicon Gallery, New York
Gallery Articulate, Mumbai
2007 Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
Saffron Art Gallery, Mumbai
Art & Soul Gallery, Mumbai
Gallery Art Room, New Delhi
2006 Red Earth Gallery, Baroda
Satyagarha Show, New Delhi, South Africa
Aakruti Gallery, Baroda
2005 Kaleidoscope Gallery, Baroda
Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda
Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 Viart gallery, New Delhi
Exhibition in Aid of Riot victim, Gujarat, Baroda
2002 The Banyan City, Nazar Art Gallery, Baroda
Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda
2000 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999-01,07,08 Harmony Show, NCPA, Mumbai
1997 Berllanderi Sculpture studio, Gwent, Raglan, Wales, UK.
ARKS Gallery, London
1996,93,90 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Gallery 88, Kolkata
1990 Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
Awards & Fellowships
1997 Charles Wallace India Trust Award, fellowship for the U.K.
1991 Bombay Arts Society Awards, Mumbai
1986 Gujarat Lalit Kala State Award, Ahmedabad
DAN HOLDSWORTH
Born 1974, Welwyn Garden City, England, UK
BA Hons, Photography, London College of Printmaking, University of The Arts, London,UK (1998)
Select Solo Exhibitions
2007 Ultravisitor, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
White Noise, STORE, London
Dan Holdsworth and Paul Shepheard, Geographics, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of
Modern Art, UK
Dan Holdsworth , At The Edge of Space, Parts 1-3', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006 Dan Holdsworth, At The Edge of Space, Parts 1-3', National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
London, UK
2005 The Gregorian, STORE, London, UK
2003 Dan Holdsworth, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2002 Black Mountains, Entwistle, London, UK
Dan Holdsworth, Chelsea Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany
2001 The World in Itself, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Dan Holdsworth, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Dan Holdsworth, Entwistle, London, UK
Commissions
2008 Imaging the City, Cardiff, Ffotogallery, Safle and University of Wales, UK
2006 New Visions, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
2005 Geographics, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK.
Select Group Exhibitions
2009 The Little shop on Hoxton Street, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK
2008 "Time to Play?" APT Web Gallery, Artist Pension Trust, Participant Inc. 253 E Houston Street,
New York, NYC, USA
From Dusk Till Dawn, Darkness dreams and drama, recent acquisition's from Art's London's
permanent collection, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London, UK
Material Culture, Recently Gifted Works, Mima, Middlesbrough Institute
of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Night: A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2007 Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, UK
Bienal de Lanzarote (Islas Canarias) organizada por el MIAC-Museo
Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Lanzarote. Spain
Weather Report. Climate Change and Visual Artists, CAAM, Centro Atlantico
de Arte Modern, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Spectacular City, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Germany
All Tomorrow's Pictures, ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, UK
2006 Peintres de la vie Moderne, Modern-Life Painters – Donation – caisse des depots
Photography Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Spectacular City, The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Temporal Landscapes, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
2004 Aspects of Architecture: Photographs from the Victoria + Albert Museum, at the
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2003 Consuming Nature + Man, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960-2003, touring exhibition, Pavilhao Luca Nogueira
Garcez, Sao Paulo, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, UK
Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
2002 TRADE, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2001 Looking With/Out, East Wing Collection No. 5, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House,
London, UK
Horizon, Arts Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
UK/NY, Asprey Garrard Gallery, New York, USA
Andrew Cross and Dan Holdsworth, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Antarctica, Entwistle, London, UK
Neue Welt, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
TRADE, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Department, Changing Rooms, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Becks Futures 2, ICA, London, UK; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
BluecoatGallery, Liverpool, UK; Sotheby's, New York, USA
2000 Photospin, Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
What We Call Progress (curated by Anthony Iles and Michael Craig Martin), Watershed Gallery,
Bristol; Gasworks, London, UK
1999 School Reunion, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Later (curated by Leslie Farrell), Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK
Department (curated by Ben Harmen and Kirsten MacDonald) Victoria Plaza, Southend, UK
Dub Housing (curated by Jason Evans for Camera Austria), Steirischer Herbst 99, Graz, Austria
Path (co-curated with Darren Flook), Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Architecture Symposium exhibition, British Council, Berlin, Germany
Signs, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK
1998 Future Map, University of the Arts, London, UK
Autopia, Light box, Speed, Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
Hover and Return, Windows Gallery, Central St Martins, London, UK
{X}HIBIT, University of the Arts, London, UK
Awards
2008/2009 Visiting Fellowship, The European Centre for Photographic Researc, University of Wales,
Newport, UK
2007 Short listed for Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2006 Art Council of England Award
2002 Arts Council of England Award
2001 Short listed for Beck's Future's Prize, ICA, London, UK
Public Collections
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Pompidou Centre Collection, Paris, France
Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London, UK
The Government Art Collection, London, UK
DG Bank Collection, Munich, Germany
Worchester City Art Gallery, UK
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
UBS Art Collection, London, UK
MIMA Collection, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
University of the Arts, London, UK
Hackney Museum, London, UK
British Airways Art Collection, UK
Artist Pension Trust Collection, UK
The Northern Canon Collection, UK
SANATAN SAHA
Born 1975
M.F.A. in Painting, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan (2005)
B.F.A. in Painting Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan (2003)
Two Year certificate course in Design, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati (1997)
The artist lives and works in West Bengal.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2007 You shall remain hidden, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Materia Prima, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Select Group Exhibitions
2007 Eastern Edge, curated by Jayashree Chakravarty, Aicon Gallery, New York
Creativity, Jagriti Art Initative, Kolkata
Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata
2006 Framed Spaces, bound less limits, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
Beyond Boundaries, Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore
2005 Chitra kala Parisod, Bangalore
Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2004 Kolkata Art Foundation, Kolkata
Srijani, Rabindra Sadan, Suri
2003 Kolkata Art Foundation, Minto Park
Exhibition organized by 'Hill Lovers Society' at Town Hall, Naini Taal
Camlin Art Foundation, Kolkata
1998 –05 Kala Bhavana, Nandan Gallery, Visva Bharati Santiniketan
Awards
2004 Annual Award for excellence in painting of 'Kolkata Art Foundation
Award of Nirman, B. D. Bangur Empowerment, Kolkata
MAHENDAR SONI
Born 1980, in Chhatapur, India
MA in Drawing and Painting, Bhopal, India (2005)
The artist lives and works in Chhatarpur, India.
Select Group Exhibitions
2008 Sanjog, UAKSKA, Bhopal, India
2008 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Alliance Francaise, Bhopal, India
2008 Sath - Sath, Alliance Francaise, Bhopal, India
2008 Tritya, Bhopal, India
2007 Amurta, Curated by Akhilesh, Kolkata, India
2007 Abhar, UAKSKA, Bhopal, India
2006 49th National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi, India
Collections
2005 Swaraj Bhawan, Bhopal, India