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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.
She had her first museum solo show at Contemporary Art Center
in Cincinnati in 2010 followed by a solo at Castle Blandy in France.
Last year, OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria held
a ten year survey show of her practice. She has had gallery solos
with Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano,
and at the public gallery, Lalit Kala Akademie hosted Vadehra
Gallery, New Delhi.
Shilpa
has been invited to the Younger Than Jesus Triennale at New Museum,
New York; Lyon Biennale ‘09 curated by Hou Hanru; Gwangju
Biennale ‘08 directed by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Ranjit
Hoskote; Yokohama Triennale ‘08 curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist;
Liverpool Biennale ‘06 curated by Gerardo Mosquera and biennales
at Auckland, Seoul, Havana, Sydney and Shanghai.
Her work has been shown in leading international institutions
and museums such as the Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Mori Museum,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Chicago Cultural Center,
Louisiana Museum and Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon amongst others.
Her work is the collections of Asia Society, Daimler Chrysler,
Mori Museum, Fukuoka Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kramlich
Collection, Caixa Foundation, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain
- France, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hauser &
Wirth, Jerusalem Museum, Devi Foundation besides other public
and private collections in India and abroad.
Upcoming shows include solo at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai; Arnolfini,
Bristol and at Darling Foundry, Montreal, which will travel to
two museums in Europe in 2012.
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