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Biography
Shilpa
Gupta (b.1976) lives and works in Mumbai, India where
she has studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts
from 1992 to 1997.
Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects,
photographs, sound and public performances to probe and examine
subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security
on the street and on the imagined border.
In February 2010, she will have her first museum solo at Contemporary
Art Center in Cincinnati. Later in the year, she will have solo
show at Castle Blandy in France and a mid career retrospective
at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz.
Her project ‘While I Sleep’, where she worked alongside
psychologist Mahazarin Banaji (Harvard professor) on the reception
of images exploring fear and prejudice and interviewed Noam Chomsky,
opened at Le Laboratoire in Paris in mid 2009, after which it
travelled to theLouisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and
will be shown next at the Auckland Triennale 2010.
In 2009, she had solo shows at Gallerie Yvon Lambert in Paris,
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano and at the public gallery 'Lalit
Kala Akademi' in New Delhi hosted by Vadehra Gallery.
Previously
she has shown at 'The Generational: Younger Than Jesus', the first
Triennale of the New Museum, New York; ‘Everyday Miracles
– Lyon Biennale 2009' curated by Hou Hanru; ‘Gwangju
Biennale 08’, directed by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Ranjit
Hoskote; ‘Yokohama Triennale 08’ curated by Hans Ulrich
Obrist; ‘3rd Seville Biennial’ curated by Peter Weibel
and Wonil Rhee; ‘Zones of Contact – Biennale of Sydney
06’ curated by Charles Merewether and ‘Liverpool Biennale
06’ curated by Gerardo Mosquera and has participated in
Asian Art Triennales in Manchester and Fukuoka and Biennales in
Linz, Seoul, Havana and Shanghai.
Her work has been shown in leading international institutions
and museums such as the Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery in
London, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino, Daimler
Chrysler Contemporary in Berlin, Mori Museum in Tokyo, Astrup
Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New Museum and Queens Museum in New York, Chicago Cultural Center,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk and Devi Art
Foundation in Gurgaon amongst others.
She
has initiated the Aar Paar - a public art exchange project between
India and Pakistan and the Video Art Road Show, screenings of
video art on streets in Mumbai and Delhi. In 2005, she is co-facilitated
Crossovers & Rewrites: Borders over Asia for the ‘World
Social Forum’ in Porto Alegre, Brazil and in 2008 initiated
‘Making Art Public’ in which prints by artists, graphic
novelists and photographers were distributed in Timeout Mumbai.
Gupta
has received the Transmediale 2004 Award, Berlin and Sanskriti
Prathisthan Award, New Delhi. Her work is the collections of Asia
Society, Daimler Chrysler, Mori Museum, Fukuoka Museum, Hauser
& Wirth, Kramlich Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Caixa Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art – Val De Marne,
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Devi Foundation besides other public and
private collections in India and abroad.
In 2010, a 248 page monograph will be released by Prestel Publishers
and Vadehra Bookstore, with texts by Nancy Adajania, Peter Weibel,
Shanay Jhaveri and Quddus Mirza.
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