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Shilpa Gupta - Bikaner House
by Meera Menezes | Artforum 12 May 2025 It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the gloom surrounding Shilpa Gupta’s sound installation Listening Air ,... Read more -
The everyday goddess: Arpita Singh brings her vision of India to life with deities, dreamscapes and densely packed drama
by Skye Arundhati Thomas | The World of Interiors 11 April 2025 Arpita Singh paints in oil, but her work does not always strike the eye as traditional for the medium. She... Read more -
In a new exhibition, photographer Gauri Gill brings the highway into the gallery
by Somak Ghoshal | Mint Lounge 2 March 2025 In 2020, the Union government introduced three farm laws which were perceived by millions of farmers around the country as... Read more -
The farmers who turned protest into home
by Madhulika Liddle | Frontline - The Hindu 23 February 2025 What does a farmer look like? Turbaned, dhoti-clad, muddy-legged, and sweaty-browed? Driving a tractor or, an old-fashioned stereotype, ploughing a... Read more
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A rising Bangladeshi star crafts empowering narratives for ethnic minorities
by Lena van tijen | Art Basel 19 February 2025 When Ashfika Rahman was a child in Bangladesh, her mother worked as an activist and social worker in a border... Read more -
Uncovering the Drivers Behind the Indian Art Market's Growth With Roshini Vadehra
by Henri robert | Happening 5 February 2025 HR: Beyond economic growth – and the rise of millionaires and billionaires – how can the significant growth of the... Read more -
“I Have Been Moved to Find Beauty in Places of Deep Precarity”: In Conversation with Gauri Gill
by Keshav Anand | Something Curated 4 February 2025 One of India’s most important contemporary photographers, Gauri Gill is renowned for her deeply immersive and collaborative approach to image-making.... Read more -
The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2025
by Yuwen Jiang | ArtReview 3 February 2025 Shilpa Gupta | Bikaner House, Centre for Contemporary Arts, New Delhi, through 14 February The works of Mumbai-based artist Shilpa... Read more
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Gauri Gill’s photographs of the Indian farmers’ protests
by Snigdha Poonam | FT Magazine 1 February 2025 Cauliflower plants stand in orderly rows across a patch of freshly tilled soil. Not yet in bloom, the garden is... Read more -
Gieve Patel and the art of friendship
by Paramita Ghosh | The New Indian Express 28 November 2024 The end of The Iliad is marked by two funerals and a rage. In the 23rd book of the epic... Read more -
Muscle - Novella
by Daniyal Mueenuddin | The New Yorker 7 November 2024 Zaam Arif's illustration is featured as the cover image by The New Yorker for a novella authored by Daniyal Mueenuddin. Read more -
Saris, stories, memories — an Indian-American’s gaze at Ambala over five generations in art
by Malhar Mishra | The Print 7 November 2024 Raised in the United States with yearly visits to her ancestral home in Ambala, artist Joya Mukherjee Logue’s exhibition named... Read more
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Ashfika Rahman wins Future Generation Art Prize 2024
ArtReview 31 October 2024 The PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine has announced Ashfika Rahman as the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2024. Rahman,... Read more -
Ashfika Rahman wins Future Generation Art Prize 2024
e-flux Announcements | PinchukArtCentre 31 October 2024 Ashfika Rahman (35, Bangladesh) is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2024, the seventh edition of the global... Read more -
Inside IIM Bangalore, where BV Doshi's architecture is at one with nature
by Bijoy Ramachandran | Architectural Digest 31 October 2024 “There are various ways you can greet a person: you may shake hands, you may say namaskar, or you may... Read more -
25 drawings of BV Doshi—a lifelong keeper of sketchbooks—show at Vadehra Art Gallery
by Somak Ghoshal | Architectural Digest 16 October 2024 While conferring the prestigious Pritzker Prize to BV Doshi (1927-2023) in 2018, a 10-member jury lauded him for practising “the... Read more
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6 Standout London Gallery Shows to See During Frieze Week
by Margaret Carrigan & Jo Lawson-Tancred & Vivienne Chow & Annie Armstrong | Artnet 8 October 2024 “Cities: Built, Broken” is Indian artist Sudhir Patwardhan’s London solo debut, presented by the New Delhi-based Vadehra Art Gallery at... Read more -
Three iconic female Indian artists, born pre-independence, tell us how they broke into a male-dominated art landscape
by Gautami Reddy | Vogue India 27 September 2024 It has taken a fair bit of coordinating, coaxing and rescheduling, but Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh and Madhvi Parekh finally... Read more -
Art by Joya Mukerjee Logue | Paint in memory
by Arshia | India Today 16 September 2024 Indian-American artist Joya Mukerjee Logue’s paintings are as much about community, as they are about the memory of women nurturing... Read more -
A permanent presence of the past
by Medha Dutta Yadav | The New Indian Express 15 September 2024 The American Midwest and a sleepy city in Haryana, artist Joya Mukerjee Logue straddles two different worlds. Born in Ohio... Read more
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Returning to Ambala Cantt | Joya Mukerjee Logue’s ‘Those Who Walk Before Me’ at Vadehra Art Gallery
by Georgina Maddox | The Hindu 12 September 2024 On a Tuesday afternoon, we settle down for lunch with artist Joya Mukerjee Logue, after a guided tour of her... Read more -
Brushstrokes of heritage and memory in Indian-American artist Joya Mukerjee Logue’s work
by Shireen Quadri | The Tribune 8 September 2024 A haveli can be a continuum of heritage, a receptacle of experiences, memories and stories passed down generations. In Indian-American... Read more -
Joya Mukerjee Logue harnesses identity and belonging at Vadehra Art Gallery
by Ranjana Dave | Stir World 3 September 2024 Artist Joya Mukerjee Logue grew up in the American midwest, though her life in Ohio was punctuated by occasional visits... Read more -
Joya Mukerjee Logue's first solo show in India is a tribute to her family and home
Architectural Digest | by Shaikh Ayaz 30 August 2024 Joya Mukerjee Logue's enigmatic art has always engaged with such complex themes as memory, family, nostalgia, identity, a sense of... Read more
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Nalini Malani: Postmodern Cassandra
by Thomas McEvilley | The Brooklyn Rail 27 August 2024 Having met the Indian artist Nalini Malani in 1985, I have been following her work for nearly 25 years with... Read more -
Artist Joya Mukherjee Logue hosts a solo art exhibition in New Delhi
by Subhadrika Sen | Indian Express - Indulge 27 August 2024 Indian-American artist Joya Mukherjee Logue hosts her very first and solo art exhibition in India at the Vadehra Art Gallery,... Read more -
Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt
by Priya Gandhi | The Brooklyn Rail 26 August 2024 A bodiless voice emanates from a microphone in a room lit by a single lightbulb. The voice states the names... Read more -
He orchestrates his work like a filmmaker: Artist Sudhir Patwardhan on Gulammohammed Sheikh
by Sudhir Patwardhan | Hindustan Times 9 August 2024 I first met Gulammohammed Sheikh about 45 years ago, in Baroda, when Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Malani and I were planning... Read more
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CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residency
CERN | Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia 18 July 2024 Connect is an art residency programme launched by Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia in 2021, which serves as a... Read more -
Leela Mukherjee Proved That 'Gharana' Art Can Be Just as Inventive
by Nilima Sheikh | The Wire 9 June 2024 It was while she was in Delhi in the eighties and nineties that I got to know the range of... Read more -
What ‘South Asia’ signifies today
TAKE on art | by Inakshi Sobti 4 May 2024 It is tempting to fall into the trap of making sweeping statements when it comes to South Asia. The appropriation... Read more -
Gulammohammed Sheikh | The time traveller
India Today | by Priya Pathiyan 29 April 2024 'Painting isn’t only about beauty. It’s also about pain,” says the eminent artist Gulammohammed Sheikh, nodding emphatically. The 87-year-old painter... Read more
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A life less ordinary
by Medha Dutta Yadav | Indian Express - Indulge 28 April 2024 There are times when the pages of history are turned again and gems that have been hiding in plain sight... Read more -
Looking for Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000-2007
India Currents | by Roma Patel 3 April 2024 Immigrants are one of the many groups at the margins of society that Prix Pictet-winning Indian photographer Gauri Gill has... Read more -
Seven contemporary South Asian artists to look out for in 2024
by Teesta Bhandare | Harper's Bazaar 2 April 2024 Zaam’s large-scale works are an idyllic representation of the cross-over between western influences and his South Asian roots. In 2021,... Read more -
Kaarawaan and Other Works: Gulammohammed Sheikh
Platform Mag 2 April 2024 Gulammohammed Sheikh’s oeuvre grows from a deep immersion into cultural narratives with his mastery of painterly and sculptural forms. His... Read more
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Ishara show by Gauri Gill explores ties between City, Nature, and the Sacred
by N.P. Krishna Kumar | Al Arabiya News 26 March 2024 Guided by a research-led approach, Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai, has completed five years, dedicated to presenting contemporary art of... Read more -
Gulammohammed Sheikh ‘Kaarawaan and Other Works’: Maps for a lost nation
The Tribune | by Malvika Kaul 10 March 2024 At his new exhibition (‘Kaarawaan and Other Works’), organised by Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, Gulammohammed presents an exhaustive... Read more -
New Delhi: Atul Bhalla
Art Asia Pacific | by Meera Menezes 1 March 2024 During a tea break in Ranjeetpura, a village in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, the multidisciplinary artist Atul Bhalla noticed marbled sandstone... Read more -
Meet Asia's female video art pioneers
Art Basel | By Adeline Chia 1 March 2024 Other than being a time-based medium that allows for metaphysical enquiry, video has also been harnessed to make complex, multimedia... Read more
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SPOTLIGHT: ZAAM ARIF
by Martin Lerma | Platform Art 28 February 2024 For Zaam Arif, it's all connected. Movies, philosophy and physics are just three of his touchstones–and he's even pursued more... Read more -
A. Ramachandran (1935-2024): The artist who broke free of limitations
by Avantika Bhuyan | Mint Lounge 18 February 2024 'I do not adhere to limitations, which is why I consider myself a ‘bohurupi’ in Indian art,” artist A. Ramachandran... Read more -
Painting the Self
Open Magazine | by Somak Ghoshal 16 February 2024 In 2021, Zaam Arif, a Pakistani American artist based in Houston, Texas, got a call from The New Yorker .... Read more -
He wore his craft with grace and humility
The Hindu | By Uma Nair 11 February 2024 Known for translating the poetics of nature into a distinct language of realism rooted in Indian ethos, Achuthan Ramachandran Nair,... Read more
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Contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s works are an ultimate source of inspiration
by Rakesh Kumar | Gulf News 2 February 2024 “I am intrigued by how we look, register, remember and what we see—in the gaps and fractures between the image,... Read more -
Shows to See in New Delhi, February 2024
Art Asia Pacific 29 January 2024 Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the India Art Fair (IAF) will take place from February 1 to 4 at the NSIC... Read more -
Mother-daughter artist duo Anju and Biraaj Dodiya open up about their distinct journeys with art and each other
Vogue India | by Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar 12 January 2024 As someone who emerged as an éminence grise in India’s contemporary art scene during the 1990s, Anju Dodiya’s geniality takes... Read more -
Jagannath Panda’s art is beyond realms of predictable vision
by Purtika Dua | The Hindu 5 January 2024 Delhi-based artist Jagannath Panda is taking art lovers in the Capital on a journey into the natural and unnatural spaces... Read more
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Jagannath Panda’s new exhibition: Observations, memories, imaginations
by Monica Arora | The Tribune 17 December 2023 ‘Echoes of Unfathomed Worlds’, artist Jagannath Panda’s latest show, currently on at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, is... Read more -
‘This was my own tribe!’: Pride before it went commercial – in pictures
The Guardian 22 November 2023 When Sunil Gupta moved to London from New York in the late 70s, he was surprised to find no equivalent... Read more -
"The Whole World is in a Figure" Zaam Arif
India Art Fair 15 November 2023 Zaam Arif works primarily between the hours of 8 PM and 4 AM, accompanied by the calm of the night... Read more -
Auscultation: False Clouds and Real Deluges – I | Atul Bhalla
Platform Magazine 9 November 2023 Motivated by the search for social and environmental inquiries through an oeuvre that incorporates sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography and... Read more
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Looking into a well and Remembering Gieve Patel
By Uttaran Das Gupta | The Wire 5 November 2023 One of Gieve Patel’s best-known paintings is Looking into a Well: Full Moon (2001). It depicts, in rich grey-blue shades,... Read more -
Sunil Gupta shot a different era of queer protest
By Sara Quattrocchi Febles | i-D 24 October 2023 When photographer Sunil Gupta arrived in London in 1978, he realised the queer scene in the British capital was nothing... Read more -
An Indian Artist Questions Borders and the Limits on Free Speech
By Aruna D'Souza | New York Times 20 October 2023 In 2013, after years trying to get permission from layer upon layer of authorities in India to put up an... Read more -
Gauri Gill's Award-Winning Photo Series Captures The Art Of Survival In Rural Rajasthan
by Vaaswat Sarkar | Homegrown 5 October 2023 If you are a contemporary Indian photographer or a photography enthusiast, Gauri Gill needs no introduction. The illustrious publication, The... Read more
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Photographer Gauri Gill wins the 10th Prix Pictet.
by Josie Thaddeus-Johns | Artsy 29 September 2023 Gauri Gill has been announced as the winner of the 10th Prix Pictet, a prestigious award for photography and sustainability.... Read more -
Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures
The Guardian 29 September 2023 The Indian photographer Gauri Gill has been declared the winner of the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global... Read more -
Artists Who Caught Our Eye At Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2023
Grazia 15 September 2023 Delhi Contemporary Art Week returned with its 6th edition, featuring six galleries that curated works by artists from India and... Read more -
Shilpa Gupta's monograph in Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series is fiercely personal
By Radhika Iyengar | Architectural Digest India 4 July 2023 One of the first things you learn while thumbing through ‘Shilpa Gupta: Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series’—a comprehensive monograph dedicated to... Read more
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Vehicles for change: Gauri Gill on capturing the Indian farmers’ protests
by Ravi Ghosh | British Journal of Photography 8 June 2023 When, in November 2020, thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana parked their vehicles (and grievances) outside New Delhi, photographer... Read more -
‘Rural life is being written out’: Gauri Gill on photographing India’s forgotten people
by Dale Berning Sawa | The Guardian 22 May 2023 Gauri Gill started out in her 20s, a Delhi-based photojournalist covering stories right across India . She’d drop in, drop... Read more -
An art exhibition showcases Shrimanti Saha's multi-layered narratives
by Georgina Maddox | Livemint 9 April 2023 As you take in Shrimanti Saha’s work, it might be natural to get overwhelmed by the multiplicity of layers and... Read more -
Shrimanti Saha’s latest solo show in Delhi is a surrealist fantasy come to life
by Adarsh Soni | Architectural Digest 6 April 2023 “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality,” wrote the 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Shrimanti... Read more
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Remembering Balkrishna Doshi, artist, teacher and father of modernist Indian architecture, who has died, aged 95
By Louis Jebb | The Art Newspaper 22 March 2023 Balkrishna Doshi, one of the most thoughtful and original architects of his generation and creator of a string of highly... Read more -
Leading Indian Modernist SH Raza gets first public museum retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris
By Kabir Jhala | The Art Newspaper 16 March 2023 One of India's best-known Modernist painters, the late SH Raza, receives his largest-ever retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.... Read more -
Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different | National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship with Art Fund
The National Gallery 1 March 2023 Artist Nalini Malani, our first National Gallery contemporary fellow, presents new ways of seeing well-known works of art. Taking her... Read more -
In Bangladesh, the Dhaka Art Summit Blooms
by Stepahnie Bailye | Ocula 15 February 2023 The sixth edition of the biennial Dhaka Art Summit (DAS 2023) (3–11 February 2023) was given a Bengali name for... Read more
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S.H. Raza at Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou 15 February 2023 With nearly one hundred pieces, this exhibition is the first monographic presentation of the work of Indian painter Sayed Haider... Read more -
Gauri Gill's 'Acts of Resistance and Repair' presents over 20 years of her work
by Shraddha Nair | Stir World 21 December 2022 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt was founded in 1986, and is an exhibition venue of significant influence in the European art landscape.... Read more -
A Benode Behari Mukherjee retrospective looks back at the modernist genius of the artist
by Uma Nair | Architectural Digest 17 December 2022 Think Bengal and Modernity, early 20th-century art in India, and Benode Behari Mukherjee, one of the pioneers of Constructivist Modernsim... Read more -
How Sudhir Patwardhan’s art portrays Mumbai’s fractured political landscape
by Nancy Adajania | Scroll.in 29 November 2022 When [Sudhir] Patwardhan came to Bombay in 1973, he was shocked to see so many people on the streets, many... Read more
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‘False Clouds and Real Deluges’: Professor Atul Bhalla is on a mission to map climate change through art
by Jayashree Narayanan | Indian Express 3 August 2022 The most significant conversations many people have in a day, almost always, include a discussion about the weather. But, its... Read more -
Anju Dodiya’s new London exhibition brings together her pandemic-inspired body of work
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 14 June 2022 In the heart of London’s Mayfair, on the ground floor of Frieze’s space at No. 9 Cork Street, the Vadehra... Read more -
An Indian avant garde unveils in London
By Uma Nair | Times of India 13 June 2022 What happens when Vadehras, Experimenter, Chemould and Jhaveri Contemporary fuse their artist lexicon and cultivate a show that couples the... Read more -
Exploring versions of reality through art
By Dyuti Roy | The Indian Express 2 June 2022 Walk into Vadehra Contemporary and you will notice how six steel contraptions that have been programmed with a motor circuit... Read more
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Four Indian galleries take over Sadie Coles for London Gallery Weekend
By Kabir Jhala | The Art Newspaper 9 May 2022 What looks like a gallery show, functions like an art fair and feels like a biennial? The answer: Conversations on... Read more -
9 art shows you cannot miss this month
By Avantika Shankar | Vogue India 14 March 2022 In this month's art shows, banned books take on a new lease of life as works of art; a photographer's... Read more -
NS Harsha's portrait of the present moment in ‘Stomach Studio’
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint Lounge 13 March 2022 In Emission Test , for instance, you initially feel you are looking at rows upon rows of people sitting for... Read more -
‘Interwoven metaphors make art a great bridge to understand time and space of life’: Artist NS Harsha
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 12 March 2022 Q. Humour seems crucial to your work. How important is it in getting your idea across? Ans.Layers of humour such... Read more
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