Gigi Scaria Indian, b. 1973

Born in 1973 in a village in southern Kerala called Kothanalloor, Gigi Scaria completed a bachelor’s of fine arts at the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, and a master’s of arts at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. While he trained in the discipline of painting, Scaria has developed a cross-media practice that includes photography, installation, sculpture and video. His work explores issues of urban development, particularly in relation to migration, economic development and urban architecture. He is interested in the quality of social space in a drastically changing urban environment, with concomitant implications on psychological experiences.

Scaria has participated in major curated exhibitions and biennales, including the Venice Biennale; Kochi–Muziris Biennale; Smart Museum, Chicago; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kunstverein Frankfurt; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; Kunsthaus Bern; Fredric Jameson Gallery, Duke University; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; Videospace Budapest; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA; Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur; and Lalit Kala Academi, Chennai and New Delhi.

Scaria was a 2012 University of Melbourne MacGeorge Fellow and was awarded an Inlaks Scholarship in 2002.

The artist lives and works in New Delhi.