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ArtAsiaPacific: In Conversation with Subodh Gupta Self-taught Alchemy: Subodh Gupta's Journey Through The Art World The conversation will follow Subodh Gupta's 20-year path through the contemporary art world, form his early years as a disciplined traveling merchant, weighing and playing with the relative worth of everyday objects in different contexts, through his rise to the status of master translator, writing new meanings for art objects as they moves across the hysterical, exclusive trading floor of the international market.
For over 15 years, ArtAsiaPacific has led the field of magazines that report on the powerful creative forces shaping the surge in artistic energy from the Asia-Pacific region. It is published bi-monthly in New York City with editorial desks in Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, UK and the US. Superbly designed and impeccably written, ArtAsiaPacific is unique in offering the latest in contemporary visual culture from Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific.
Speaker: Subodh Gupta (b. India 1964) was born in Bihar and completed his BFA in painting at Patna, India (1988). He has had solo exhibitions around the world, including,
Common Man, at Hauser & Wirth, London, England (2009)
Gupta's work as been include in important international beinnales and museum shows such asStill, steal, steel, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA (2008) Start.Stop, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (2007) Hungry Gods, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (2006) I can't translate Jootha, In SITU, Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France (2005) Jutha, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (2005) I Go Home Every Single Day, The Showroom Gallery, London, England (2004) Saat Samunder Paar, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (2003) This Side is the Other Side, Cabinet PH, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland (2003) Recent Works, Nature Morte at Lokayata, New Delhi, India (2000) Recent Works, Gallery Foundation for Indian Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1999) The Way Home, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India (1997) and Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, USA (1997)
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, England (2009)
Un Certain Etat du Monde? Work from the Pinault Collection, The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Moscow, Russia (2009) Frontlines: Notations form the Contemporary Indian Urban, Bodhi Art, Berlin, Germany (2008) Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London, England (traveling Exhibition) (2008) Objects: Making / Unmaking, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (2007) Sequence 1. Painting & Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (2007) Hungry Gods, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China (2006) Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New York, USA (2005) Indian Summer, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2005) The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary Art from India, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2003) Under Construction, Japan Foundation and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2002) Kapital and Karma, Kunst Wein, Vienna, Austria (2002) Self: Contemporary Indian Video Art, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2002) He has been awarded numerous grants, including UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, at Gasworks Studio, London, England (1997); Emerging Artist Award, Bose Pacia Modern, New York, USA (1997); and All India Painting Exhibition, 1st Prize by M.F. Husain at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (1996). Gupta was further Visiting Professor at L'Ecole des Beaux-arts, at the French Government residency in Paris, France (2004) and has participated in the Taipei Biennial, China (2006); the Havanna Biennale, Cuba (2003) as well as in the Venice Biennale where he was short listed for the Artes Mundi International Visual Arts Prize 2005. The artist has an upcoming solo exhibition at Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine and his works will be included in the group exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery, The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, London England in 2010. |
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