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ONE THING FOR ME
2010 | Marbeling Teawash and Guache on Wasli
14.5 x 11.5 inches
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SALVATION
2010 | Guache on Wasli
20.5 x 13 inches
JAISHRI ABICHANDANI
MAANG
2010 | C- type print
Each photograph of 8 x 8 inches (approx 50 photographs)
Installation 12 x 7 feet approx
MITHU SEN
aN iNteLLliGENT dESiGn?
2011 | Mixed media installation
5 canvasses, plumbing pipes, plastic pipes, cup, pill
Dimension of the 5 pieces
1. tHe weiGHTless bURden | 12 x 8.5 inches
2. Pill Junkies | 9 x 10 inches
3. i luvvvv Vaginas! | 8 x 9 inches
4. deep, down Under | 6 x 8 inches
5. fabrication n bEYond | 14 x 10 inches
SARNATH BANERJEE
MONTHLY CYCLE
2010 | 28 mixed-media embroideries on linen in wooden hoops
Each 3 inches diameter
Dimensions of installation variable
FAMILY PLANNING
2001 | 3 mixed-media altered birth control containers
4 x 4 inches each
TAZEEN QUYYAM
1 - 10
ITS COMPLICATED
2010 | Flexible acrylics on rubber bottle | 14 x 8 inches
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THEE ONLY DO I LOVE
2010 | Flexible acrylics, canvas and plastic | Various
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TUSHAR JOAG
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
2010 | Mixed media on rice paper
18 x 27.5 inches each
VITO FUN TUMBARELLO
UNTITLED
2009 | From the series Chloe
Print on fine art pearl
24 x 32 inches each
JAISHRI ABICHANDANI TUSHAR JOAG
Jaishri Abichandani was born in Mumbai, Tushar Joag was born in Bombay in 1966. In
India and immigrated to New York City in 1988, he received his Bachelor’s degree from
1984. She received her Master of Visual Arts the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, and
Degree from Goldsmiths College, University in 1989, he completed his Master’s degree
of London and has continued to intertwine from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja
TAZEEN QAYYUM
art and activism in her career, founding the Sayajirao University, Baroda. The artist’s
Tazeen Qayyum (Canada/Pakistan) is a
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, solo shows include ‘Reconciliation and
contemporary miniature painter who received
(www.sawcc.org), in New York and London. MITHU SEN Truth’ at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai,
her BFA in Visual Arts from the National
She has exhibited her work internationally Mithu Sen was born in West Bengal and in 2008 and ‘Willing Suspension’ at Gallery
College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan in 1996.
at various venues including P.S.1/MOMA, obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees Chemould, Mumbai, in 2005. Joag has
Her work has been shown internationally
the Queens Museum of Art, and Exit Art in painting from Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, also participated in numerous group shows
in both solo and group exhibitions, some
in New York, the 798 Beijing Biennial and and later, completed a postgraduate program including ‘India Art Now: Contemporary
of which include ‘Urban Myths & Modern
ABIR KARMAKAR the Guangzhou Triennial in China, Nature at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Indian Art Between Continuity and
Fables’, University of Sydney, Australia and
Abir Karmakar was born in 1977 in Siliguri, Morte, & Gallery Chemould in India, the Kingdom on the prestigious Charles Wallace SARNATH BANERJEE University of Toronto, ‘A Thousand and
Transformation’ at Provincia di Milano,
India. The artist received his M.A in Fine IVAM in Valencia and the House of World India Trust Award for 2000-2001. Having Sarnath Banerjee is a graphic novelist, Italy, in 2007; ‘Here, There, Now: New
One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women
Art from M.S. University, Baroda in 2003. Cultures in Berlin. participated in numerous shows worldwide, artist, and film maker. He studied image and Recent Work by Artists from India’
Miniaturists’ at the Academy of Art,
Prior to this he received his B.F.A. in Sen’s recent solo exhibition includes ‘Black and communication at Goldsmiths College, at Soulflower Gallery, Bangkok, in 2007;
Honolulu, Hawaii, ‘JAALA Exhibition at
painting from Rabindra Bharati University, KAIF GHAZNAVI Candy,’ (2010) at Chemould Prescott Road, University of London. the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan, ,
‘Pink’ at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke,
Kolkata in 2001. Karmakar lives and works Kaif Ghaznavi is a visual artist who lives and for which she has been awarded the Skoda He wrote graphic novels, Corridor, published Mumbai, in 2007; ‘Subcontingent: The
‘Homecoming’, at the National Gallery of
in Baroda, India. works in Lahore, Pakistan. She received her Prize 2011. by Penguin (India) and Vertige Graphics Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art’
Pakistan and ‘CodeLive Metro’ at the 2010
MA in Fine Arts form the California College (France), 2004 and Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, at Fondazione Sandretto re Rabaudengo,
Vancouver Winter Olympics. Qayyum’s work
AYESHA DURRANI of The Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Prior NANDITA KUMAR on the scandals of 18th century Calcutta by Torino, Italy, in 2006; ‘Hungry God: Indian
was included in the 10th Asian Biennale,
Ayesha Durrani attended fashion design to that, she studied at the National College of Nandita Kumar is a multi-faceted, award Penguin (India) and Denoel (France), 2007. Contemporaries’ at Arario Beijing, in 2006;
Dhaka, Bangladesh (2002), 2nd Painting
school but soon realized that she did not want The Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Ghaznavi has winning filmaker, multi media artist, painter His most recent publication is The Harappa and ‘We Are Like This Only’ at Vadehra Art
Biennale, Tehran, Iran (2002) and has been
to spend the rest of her life making clothes. shown in both solo and group exhibitions, and performer. She holds a joint Bachelors Files, a series of graphic commentaries that Gallery, New Delhi, in 2005.
featured at the Sotheby’s and the Christie’s
So she went to art school instead – and found and has worked on curatorial projects as well. Degree from MS University, India and analyse the cracks in post liberalized India. South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art
her true calling. She received a BFA from Auckland University, in the Elam School Of The artist lives and works in New Delhi. VITO FUN TUMBARELLO
auctions, New York and London(2008-10).
National College of Arts, Lahore in 2003, the Arts, New Zealand and has completed her Vito Fun Tumbarello was born, raised and
Her work has received several critical reviews
and her work has been shown in galleries in Masters Degree in Experimental Animation at SWATI KHURANA including in The New York Times (2009).
continues to reside in Brooklyn’s Park Slope.
Pakistan where she works, as well as in India, California Institute of the Arts, in Los Angeles. Swati Khurana was born in India and raised He is a professional photographer as well as
the US and in the UK. Her first solo ‘Let the Brain Fly’ was held in in New York where she currently lives and a professional DJ. He is also a workaholic.
December 2010 at Latitude 28, New Delhi. works. Her videos, collages, drawings, Continue to expect big things from him,
Her current films include The Linear of Nightmare sculptures and installations mine personal especially now that he found his soulmate
, The Birth of BrainFly and Tentacles of Dimensions. The narratives and explore immigrant issues with (Jessica) to collaborate on projects with. Vito Fun
Birth of Brain Fly was shown in India Art Summit a focus on gender, popular culture, and the has no ethnic, sexual or religious allegiances; he
2011 Video Lounge by Latitude 28. seductive promises made by rituals. can be intimidating as well as intimidated.
Avni Doshi is an independent art historian and curator living between Mumbai and
New York. She completed her BA in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia
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University in New York. After this, she moved to London and received her Masters
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in the History of Art from University College London. She wrote her dissertation
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on the subject of violence and the body in contemporary Indian art, referencing
printing Archana, New Delhi
artists like Rummana Hussain, Nalini Malani, and Anant Joshi. Since 2008, Avni
has been working and writing in Mumbai, for publications like Art Asia Pacific,
I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the exhibition curator Avni Doshi and all the
Art India Magazine, Take On Art, and Platform. She regularly contributes to the
participating artists. I would also like to thank the staff at Latitude 28, Suruchi Khubchandani,
website ArtSlant.com. She is also undertaking curatorial projects with galleries and
Neha Talwar, Mamta Pawar, Anushka Rajendran and all my family and friends.
artists. Recent projects include catalogue writing for the 2011 Skoda Prize. Besides
curating more exhibitions, she hopes to try her hand at fiction writing, build an
International artist residency program in India, and continue traveling the world.
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