NAVJOT ALTAF
Navjot was born in 1949 in Meerut and moved to Mumbai in 1969. She graduated with a diploma from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai in 1972. An accompolished painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and installation artist; she has travelled extensively across the world, empowering people through these mediums. Inspired by Marxist ideologies, she constantly pushed the boundaries of material and genre to express her social concerns. Both in their process of creation and in their subject, her sculptural work addresses issues of social injustice and religious violence in India through a unique feminine perspective. In the seventies, she was also associated with the Progressive Youth Movement.
Throughout her career, Navjot contextualises memory, history and culture, gender and sexuality through her own experiencies and addresses social, political and artistic issues. Through her work we see a sense of social commitment and a need to interrogate existing power structures and expose the injustice practiced against weaker sections of society...Read More
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Known for
Artist, Abstractionist, Sculptor, Visual Artist, Painter
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Schooling / Education
1961-66 Studied Art at St. Martins and other colleges in England 1967-72 Diploma in Fine Arts and Certificate in Applied Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India 1972-75 University Club House, Matunga Labour Camp and Cheetah Camp etc., Mumbai, India 1981 Graphics under Devraj Dhakoji, Garhi Studios, New Delhi, India 2001 Cyfuniad, Residency Programme at the Department of Fine Arts and Design, Hope University Liverpool, UK 2006 Khoj, International Artists Residency, New Delhi, India 2008 The Guild Residency Programme, New York, USA 2008 48 Degrees Celsius Public Art Ecology Project, KHOJ International Artists Residency, New Delhi, India 2010 IN CONTEXT: Public Art Ecology, 2010 Project, Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi, India
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Biography
Born Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Group Shows
1970
Exhibition with Ambadas, Satish Panchal and Darshan, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1972-75
Exhibited at Elphinstone College, St. Xavier College, University Club House, Matunga Labour Camp, Cheetah Camp, Mumbai, India1973
Oil Paintingsu2019 with Shobha Ghare and Salim, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1974
All Womenu2019s Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1976
Works on Paper, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1977
Nalini Malani, Navjot, Krishan Khanna, Zeitgenossische Indische Kunst, Germany1979
Works on Paper, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1980
National Exhibition, Ravindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India1981
Prithvi Foyer Gallery, Mumbai, India1981
Womenu2019s Conference, Mumbai, India1983
Andhra Lalit Kala Akademi Exhibition, Hyderabad, India1983
Seven Women Artists, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India1983
Drawing 83, An All India Exhibition of Drawings, Lalit Kala Academi, Chandigarh, India1983
Eighth International Prints Biennale, Bradford, England1983
9th Independents Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan1984
Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India1984
Women in Contemporary Art, Gallery 7, Mumbai, India1984
10th Independents Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan1984
Works on Paper, Altaf, Lalita Lajmi and Navjot, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India1985
First International Biennale of Prints, Sao Paulo, Brazil1985
Exhibition at the All India League for Revolutionary Culture, Dhanbad, India1985
Graphic Art in India Since 1850u2019 New Delhi, India1985
Navjot and Altaf: Works on Paper, Zeitgenossische Indische Kunst, Germany1986
Exhibited prints at Male Formy Grafiki, Poland1986
Lalit Kala Akademi, Goa, India1986
Intergrafik 87, an International exhibition of Graphics, at Berlin, East Germany1987
Indian Graphics, England1987
Daya's Collection, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1987
Prints with a Point 1987, an International Exhibition of Dry points and Polemical Prints, Bristol, England1987
Indian Drawing Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1987
A Galaxy of Graphics, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India1987
Help, Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Mumbai, India1987
MALE FORMY GRAFIKI, Lodz u201887, Poland1988
Triveni Art Gallery, New Delhi, India1988
Festival of Indian Contemporary Art 1, Smithu2019s of Convent Garden, London WC2 & Gallery 7, Mumbai, India1988
STRI, Festival of India, USSR1988
Art for Cry, Mumbai, Kolkata & New Delhi, India1988
Indisdie Aspekte, Exhibition of Graphics, Frankfurt, Germany1988
First International Graphic Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India1989
Artists Alert sponsored by Sahmat, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India1989
The Bombay Art Society Centenary Invitees Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1989-90
Self Portrait, Village Art Gallery, New Delhi & Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India1990
Yesterday, Exhibition of vintage drawings, Mumbai, India1990
Ten Bombay Artists, C.M.C. Gallery, New Delhi, India1990
Gadhya Parva, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India1990
3rd Painting Biennale, Bharat Bhavan,Bhopal, India1990
Tribute to Van Gogh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India1990
Art Mosaic, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1990
Xal Praxis, Exhibition of Graphics, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.1990-91
Works on Paper, Anjana, Navjot and Shakuntala, New Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai, India1990-91
Changing Images, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1991
Nest for Sparrow, Artist's Centre Mumbai, Art Plaza, Mumbai, India1991
VII International Triennale, New Delhi, India1991
Artists Against Communalism: Words and images, Sahmat, New Delhi, India & 15 other cities.1992
Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1992
Collection of Works for Hussain Ki Sarai, New Delhi, India1992
Man and Woman, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1992
Silver Jubilee West Zone, Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India1992
Journey Within Landscapes, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1992
State of the Arts exhibition of computer aided graphics, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, and New Delhi, India1992
Graphics, Curated by C.I.M.A., Maltwood Museum, Victoria, Canada & C.I.M.A. gallery, Kolkata, India1992
Pioneers to the New Generation, Arts Acre, Kolkata, India1992
Man and Woman, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1993
Sakshi Gallery Chennai & Bengaluru, India1993
Small format, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1993
Exhibition in aid of Latur Earthquake-Vadodara, Delhi, India1993
Circling the Square, Sculpture furniture, Mumbai & New Delhi, India1993
First International Print Biennale, Maastricht, The Netherlands1993
Parallel Perceptions, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai & Pune, India1994
Daya's Collection Mumbai, India1994
Mumbai, sponsored by Ceat Mumbai, India1994
Graphics, C.I.M.A. Gallery, Curated by Centre for International Modern Art (C.I.M.A.), Kolkata, India,1994
Still Life, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India1995
Prithvi Foyer Gallery, Mumbai, India1995
A view from the edge, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India1995
Portraits, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai & Bengaluru, India1995
Contemporary Miniatures, Arts Trust, Mumbai, India1995
Ten Women Artistu2019s, L.T.G. Art Gallery, New Delhi, India1995
Bombayu2013An Artistu2019s Impression, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1995
Postcards for Gandhi, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai,Gallerie 88,Kolkata, Alliance Francaise, Chennai, Sakshi Gallery Bangalore,Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi & Contemporary Art Gallery Ahmedabad, India1995
SPARROW, Exhibition of art works, Artistsu2019 Centre, Mumbai, India1995-96
Women Artists of India, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, UK & Mills College Art Gallery, California, USA1996
6th Painting Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India1996
A Tree in my Life, Village Gallery, New Delhi, India1996
Harmony, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India1996
Urban Signals: Shifting Images, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, Kolkata, India1996
Cinemascope: Artists Tribute to 100 Years of Cinema, Lakereen Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1996
A Broader Spectrum, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India1996
British Identity in Art, Weston, UK1996
Inside Out: Women Artists of India, Middlesborough Art Gallery, UK1997
Glenbarra Art Museum Collection, N.G.M.A., New Delhi, India1997
Mumbai 50 Years of Indian Art, Sponsored by Vadehra Art Gallery, N.G.M.A., New Delhi & Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1997
50 Years of Indian Art Sponsored by RPG, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1997
San Tache Mumbai, India1997
The Looking Glass Self, Lakereen Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1997
The Intutive Logic Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India1997
Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, U.S.A. (Curated by Mary Ann, Lutzker)1997
Cross Currents, Women Artists from India, Britain and Norway, Oslo and four other cities in Norway (Curated by Jennifer Lloyd & Rekha Rodwittiya)1997
Directions, Emerging Trends of Contemporary Indian Art, The Air Gallery, London, U.K.1997
The Self and the World, an exhibition of Indian Women Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art and Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India (Curated by Gayatri Sinha)1997
Post Independence, Indian Contemporary Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India1997
Art For Ashraya, Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru, India1997
J.J. Alumni: 7 Artists, Images Art Gallery, Bengaluru, India1998
50 Years of Mumbai Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India1998
Zeitgenossiche Kunst Aus Indien-The R.P.G. Collection of Indian Contemporary Art, Germany1998
The Presence of the Past: response of eight Indian artists to The Enduring Image, an exhibition of objects from the British Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art and Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai, India (Curated by Girish Shahane)1998
SPIN, Sakshi Gallery Inaugural show, Mumbai, India1998
Artists from India and Pakistan, Martini Gallery, Hong Kong, China1998
Small Format, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai, India1998
Inaugural Show, The Guild Mumbai, India1998
The Probing Eye, Photographic impressions by painters and sculptors, Surrendra Paul Art Gallery, organized by Art Indus, New Delhi, India1999
Harmony, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India1999
Communication: Channels for Hope, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, curated by Kuroda Raiji, Japan1999
Creative Process, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1999
Edge of the Century, Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, New Delhi, India1999
The Art of Charity, an Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, 150 Years of Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India1999
Paintings and Sculptures, Gallery Alternatives, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India (26 February - 21 March)1999
MSSI, Multiple Images, Y.B.Chavan Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1999
Legatee-The J.J. School of Art, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India2000
Erotica-Fine Art Co. Mumbai, India2000
Two for Two Thousand, Art Today, New Delhi, India2000
Masks, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, India2000
Triptych-Fine Arts Academy, Mumbai, India2000
Harmony, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India2000
Ignition-Part 1, Crimson Gallery, Mumbai, India2000
Couple Show, Art today, New Delhi, India2000
Early Works, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India2000
Small Format, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2000
Figures within a Landscape, The Guild Mumbai, India2000
Art of Charity, J.J. Gallery, Mumbai, India2000
Small Format, Art Today, New Delhi, India2000
Icons of the Millennium, Lakereen Art Gallery, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India2000
Inaugural Show, The Fine Art Co. Mumbai, India2000
Juxtapose, Son-Et-Lumiere Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2001
Multiples-Fire Series, Prithvi Foyer Gallery & The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2001
Century City: Mumbai/Mumbai: City Politics and Visual Culture in the 90s, Tate Modern, London, U.K.2001
Similarities and Dissimilarities, Curated by Anhita Contractor & Jyotee, Tao Gallery, Mumbai, India2001
An Aesthetic Experience: New Media Art, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2001
The Commitee of Soilidarity with Gujarat against Communalism, Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India2002
Life in the time of cholera, 4 installations incorporating Video and Internet, curated by Pooja Sood, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India2002
Ways of Reisisting 92-02, Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, New Delhi, India (Curated by Vivan Sundaram and oraganised by SAHMAT)2003
Crossing Generations: diverge, Forty Years of Chemould Prescott Road, N.G.M.A., Mumbai, India (Curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitnya Sambrani)2003
8th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba2003
Men Against Violence and Abuse, Artists Centre, Mumbai, India2003
Subterrain: Indian Contemporary Art, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany2003
Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India2004
Zoom-Art in Contemporary India, Edificia Sede da Caixo Garal de Depositos, Lisbon, Portugal2004
Another Passage To India, Theatre Saint Gervais & Musee d' Ethnographie, Geneva, Switzerland2004
The Underlying Spirit, The Inaugural Exhibition from the Osian 's Archive Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (09-18 November)2004
Along The Axis, Digital Art from India and Pakistan, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India2005
Groundworks, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.2005
Identity Alienation Amity, Twenty five artists Four photographers for Kashmir, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (Curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias)2006
Zones of Contact, 15th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia2006
Bombay Maximum City, Lille, France2006
Avatars of the Object: Sculptural Projections, Curated by Nancy Adajania, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery N.C.P.A. and The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (4 - 12 August)2006
The Human Figure, Threshold art Gallery, New Delhi, India (1 August - 1 September)2007
INDIA: Public places private spaces-Contemporary Photography and Video Art, The Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA (Curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Sternberger)2007
Tiger By The Tailu2013Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, Elinor W.Gadon and Roobina Karode, Brandies University, Massachusetts, USA; New Brunswick Rutgers University, Douglass Library, Newark, USA2007
Ltd. Edn. Sculptures by Indian Contemporaries, Gallerie Romain Rolland Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, India2007
INDIA NOW: Contemporary Indian Art between Continuity and Transition, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (Curated by Daniela Palazzoli)2008
Mechanisms of Motion, Anant Art Centre, New Delhi, India (Curated by Marta Jakimowicz)2008
Bapu, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai, India (15 January - 15 February)2008
Synonymous, Video & Photography,The Guild Art Gallery Mumbai, India (7 - 25 November)2008
Shifting Terrains Altered Realities,The Arts House of The Old Parliament , Singapore2008
Shakti-Women in the Vanguard of Indian Art, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India2008
INDIA: Public places private spaces-Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA (Curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Stern Berger)2008
Tiger By The Tailu2013Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, New Brunswick Rutgers University, Douglass Library, Newark, USA (Curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, Elinor W.Gadon and Roobina Karode)2009
Excerpts from My Diary Pages, Talwar Gallery, (Curated by Sasha Altaf), New York, USA (13 March - 25 April)2008
Small Format, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2009
Small Format, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2009
Changing Skin, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India (curated by Marta Jakimowicz, Kumaraswami)2010
Manifestations IV, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India2011
Indian Contemporary Art: The Intuitive Logic Revisited, From The Osian's Archive & Library Collection, The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, (26 - 30 January)2012-13
Women Inu2013Between: Asian Women Artistsu2019 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of fine Arts and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan2013
Water, EuropaliaIndia Liege, Belgium, Germany (Curated by Gayatri Sinha)2013
Rewriting the landscape: India and China: Contemporary Art from China and India, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Curated by Choi Eunju and Kate Lim)2014
Forms of activism, Rabindra Bhavan, curated by Vivan Sundaram, New Delhi, India2014
Is it what you think?, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, curated by RoobinaKarode, New Delhi, India.2014
Devotion Art in the Service of Truth, 10th annual show, Gallery Art Positive, New Delhi, India (Curated by Ina Puri)2014
Dead Reckoning: Whorled Explorations, second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale,Kochi,India2015
Resist 377, Engenderd Space, New Delhi, India (Curated by Georgina Maddox)2015
Making Sense of Crisis: Art as Schizoanalysis: Exhibition at KHOJ, New Delhi, India2016
Summer show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2017
India Art Fair 2017: Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art u2013 Edition II, New Delhi, India (2 - 5 February)2017
Interpositions: Replaying the Inventory, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India -
Solo Shows
1968
Taj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1971
Nielsen's Pavement Gallery, Mumbai, India1982
Exhibition of painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1982
Exhibition of drawings, Prithvi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1983
Drawings and Lithographs, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1984
Paintings & Water colour, Gallery 7, Mumbai, India1985
Exhibition of drawings and paintings, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1985
Exhibited outside Union Carbide on the first Anniversary of Bhopal tragedy, Bhopal, India1985
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1987
Gallery7, Mumbai, India1988
Retrospective at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1991
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1994
Links Destroyed and Rediscovered, installation with paintings, serigraphs, films and audio, Gallery 7& Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1996
Gallery Espace-New Delhi Sakshi Gallery, Bengaluru, India1996
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India1997
Images Redrawn, Gallery 7, Mumbai & Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India1998
Journey, an animation short, single/multiple channel projection, 7 minutes, colour, sound, loop1998
Bricks, single channel projection, 5 minutes, colour, sound, loop1998
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India1998-99
Modes of Parallel Practice: Ways of World Making, Sculpture installation with video films1999
Sakshi Gallery Bengaluru, India2000-01
Images of Images and Images from Images, 3 channel video installation, 5 minutes, color, sound, loop2001
A Dog A Dog, an animation short, single monitor, 5 minutes, colour, sound, loop, Exhibitions: Baroda and Sakshi gallery Mumbai, India2002
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India2003
In Response To, sculpture installation with photographs by Ravi Agarwal,Talwar Gallery, New York, USA (21 February - 5 April)2003
Lacuna in Testimony, Installation, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India2003
Lacuna in Testimony, Version 1, 3 channel video installation, 9 minutes, colour, sound, loop. Exhibitions: Liminal Zones, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi & Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India2004
Mumbai Meri Jaan, four channel video installation, 13 minutes and 37 sec.color, sound, loop. Exhibitions: along the axis, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, India2005
Water Weaving, Installation, Talwar Gallery, New York, USA (19 November - 21 December)2005
Water Weaving-single channel projection, 18 minutes, color, sound, loop, Exhibition: Talwar Gallery, New York & Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (19 November - 22 December)2006
Jagar, Installation, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India2006
Junctions 1-2-3, Installation, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai, India (8 - 24 January)2007
Catch, three channel projection, 50 seconds, color, sound, loop, Mechanism of Motion, Anant Gallery Noida & Delhi, India2007-08
Touch, 3 channel projection, 8.40 minutes, colour, sound, loop2008
Mumbai Shots, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai, India (14 January - 3 February)2008
Barakhamba 2008, 3 channel projection, 1hour 20 minutes, colour, sound, loop, 20 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, India2008
Touch IV, Installation, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai & Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India2008
Synonymous, single channel projection, 4 minutes, colour, sound, loop, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (7 - 25 November)2008
Minus into Minus equals?, three versions, single channel projection,1.26 minutes, 1.8 minutes and 6 minutes.colour, sound, loop, Saffronart Gallery, Mumbai. India2009-10
Lacuna in Testimony, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida. USA (9 October - 10 January)2010
Barakhamba 2010, single channel projection, 35 minutes, colour, sound, loop, 20 Barakhamba Road, Delhi, India2010
A Place in New York, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai, India (18 February - 5 April)2010
Touch IV, Installation, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India (30 March - 29 May)2013-14
Horn in the Head, Sculpture Installation with audio and video, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India (29 September - 4 January)2014
Trail of Impunity, 2 parts video: 125 minutes: colour, sound, loop Exhibition: Forms of activism, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India2014
Anthropogenic Landscapes: 2 parts video: 10 minuts each: colour sound, loop Part of an installation, Mary wants to read a book, Exhibition: Second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India2016
How Perfect Perfection Can Be at Chemould Prescott Roadnin collaboration with The Guild, Mumbai, India (9 - 30 September)2018
Lost Text at The Guild, Alibaug, Mumbai, India (25 February - 1 April) -
Awards And Achievement
1968-72
Drawing & Painting, Sir J.J. School, College of Fine Arts, Mumbai, India1971
Annual Art Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India1980
Maharashtra State Art Exhibition, Mumbai, India1983
All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, India1984
Drawing 1983, Chandigarh, India -
Additional And extra details
1969-75
Worked with PROYOM: Progressive Youth Movement, Mumbai, India1971-74
Worked at Matunga Labour Camp, Mumbai, India1972
Excuted mural for Dawoodbhoy Fazalbhoy High School, Mumbai, India1972-75
Worked with mobile creche, Mumbai, India1974-79
Worked with PROYOM: Progressive Youth Movement, Mumbai, India1977
Joined New Habib High School as art teacher1982
History of India Through the Arts, an educational Project-New Habib High School, Mumbai, India1983
Graphic Workshop, Organized by Urja Art Gallery, Vadodara, India1984
Freedom Struggle, 1847-1957, an educational Project, New Habib High School, Mumbai, India1984
Graphic Workshop, J.J. School of Arts, Organized by U.S.I.S. and Prof. Lingran, USA & Mumbai, India1984
Curated an exhibition of women artists for Expression: Women's Cultural Festival, Mumbai, India1986
Workshop of Paintings, Organized by C.M.C., Kolkata, India1986
Twenty Contemporary Painters-an educational Project, New Habib High School, Mumbai, India1986-88
Workshop of Paintings, XAL PRAXIS, Goa, India1987
Organised an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Artists for The Convention on Communalism and the Threat to Diversity, C.P.M.L., Kolkata, India1988
Workshop of Paintings, Organized by Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata, India1990
Workshop of Paintings, Organized by Goodrick & Genesis Art Gallery, Kolkata, India1993
Painting Workshop, Organized by Sanghis, Hyderabad, India1994
Curated an exhibition, Nasreen In Retrospect, Jehangir Art Gallery & Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India1995
Co-ordinated an exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Graphics and Sculptures for SPARROW: Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai, India1996
Organised Art Discourse workshop, for students from J. J. School of Art Mumbai, Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, India1997
Presented a paper at the Symposium Urban and Village Women Artists of India, U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, USA1997-09
Founder member and trustee, Dialogue-Interactive Artists Association, Kondagaon, Bastar, India1997-09
Organised a seminar Samvad, Dialogue-Interactive Artists Association, Kondagaon, Bastar, India1997-09
Organised a workshop, 'Reviewing The Self', sponsored by UNIFEM, Dialogue-Interactive Artists Association, Kondagaon, Bastar,India1997-09
Organised community based projects Nalparand Pilla Gudialongside four local artists from Kondagaon, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India1997-09
Organised workshops for the students from local schools In Kondagaon, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India1997-09
Curated an exhibition The Self, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India1998
Presented a paper 'Working Towards Co-existence and Invigoration' at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Seminar, during the First Asian Art Triennale, Japan1998
KHOJ, International Artists Workshop, Modinagar, Delhi, India1999
Presented a Paper 'Discursive Invisibility' at a Conference Indigenous Asia, Knowledge, technology and gender relations, at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand2000
Presented a paper' Culture of Difference: Right To Life' at a Conference, Experiments in Conceptual Curating: lmaging The Future of Indian Art, written in collaboration with Dr. Panikkar, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai, India2001
Rice Lane City Farm, supported by Bluecoat Arts Centre, worked with the people from culturally diverse backgrounds, Liverpool, UK2001
Slide Lecture 'My Art Practice and Questions of Collaboration', Hope University, Liverpool & University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK2001
Invited to participate in a Slide Session 'Where Lies the Frame', a part of a Symposium of Women artists and writers titled Expression as Empowerment organised by Majlis, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India2001
Presented a paper 'Mumbai Since the 70's' in a Symposium Mumbai/Mumbai: City Politics and Visual Culture in the 90s, as part of Centry City Events, Tate Modern, London, UK2001
The Aesthetic Experience: An Experimental Workshop, organised by Artunderground, Vadodara, Gujarat, India2001
Project: Between Memory and History, installation with audio, video and text, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India2001
A-ORTA-Project -Contemporary Indian Art, curated by H.S. Schero, BBK Kunst forum, Dusseldorf and stiftung Wilhelm Limerick, Duisburg, Germany2002
Presented a Slide Lecture 'My Bastar lnterventions', University of Mumbai, Kalina, Mumbai & Chitrakala Parishath Art Complex, Bengaluru, India2002
Presented a Slide Lecture 'Understanding Cross-Cultural Art Collaboration Initiatives: Some Hows and Whys', Little Theatre, National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India2002
Three Halves, Collaborative project with two artists from Liverpool, Hope University, Liverpool, Sakshi gallery Mumbai and Bolton Museum and Galleries, Lancashire, UK2003
Displaced Self , Interactive project with artists from Israel and Ireland, Sakshi gallery Mumbai, India2003
Presented a paper 'Cross-cultural Art Collaborative Endeavours and Experiments' at the conference, The Artist and the Historian, Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat, India2004
Presented a paper 'Art-a Process of Change', Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India2004
Lecture 'Towards Installation', Fine Arts Department, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth, Pune, India2005
Presented a paper 'Cross Cultural Collaborative Art Endeavours and Experiments' at the Conference Shifting Paradigm as part of the exhibition Groundworks, curated by Grant Kester, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA2006
Lecture Video Installation and Space, Kamla Raheja College of Architecture, Mumbai, India2008
Presented a paper Transit spaces in the Public Places, Minneapolis Institute of Arts during the exhibition, Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporal Photography and Video Art, curated by Gayatri Sinha Minneapolis, USA2009
Presented a paper, 'Is Art For Art Sake', Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada2016
Not under Great Law, not under Sacred Law, Curated by Navjot Altaf, Mumbai, India (23 October - 15 December)
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