Shilpa Gupta

Born in 1976 in Mumbai, Shilpa Gupta completed her BFA in sculpture at the Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai, in 1997. Gupta’s multi-disciplinary practice comprises a wide array of media and processes, focusing on issues of power, identity and expression that occur across spatial and conceptual boundaries.

Gupta’s most recent solo exhibitions include Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2025); Centre Botin, Spain (2024) Amant Arts, Brooklyn (2023) – travelling to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin. In 2024, she presented her work at the Hangar Y, Paris; the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine; Palazzo Contarini-Polignac for collateral Venice Biennale; Kunsthaus Hamburg and San Jose Museum of Art and opened a permanent sculpture at ArtLine Milano. In 2023, She participated in a two-person show at MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century, L’Aquila and presented outdoor works at ‘Hangar Y’, Paris Meudon Park and on the Corniche in Manar, Abu Dhabi.

Her other recent exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (survey show) (2021); Barbican Centre, London (2021); Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2021); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (two-person show) (2019); Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar (2018); – as well as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; Arnolfini Arts, Bristol; Kiosk, Ghent; and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, among others.

Gupta’s work has also been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; and Mori Art Museum, Japan – as well as at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Kochi–Muziris Biennale (2018); Berlin Biennale (2014); Sharjah Biennial (2013); and Gwangju Biennale (2008), among many other reputed international venues.

Her work is in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Tate Modern; Centre Georges Pompidou; Mori Art Museum; M+ Museum; Louisiana Museum; Asia Society; National Gallery of Victoria; National Gallery of Canada; the Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai; Jameel Art Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, among other public collections.

Gupta is also the recipient of the 2025 Asia Arts Pathbreaker Award and the prestigious Possehl Prize for International Art 2025.

The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.