NEW BIO 2007
PUSHPAMALA N
Born 1956 Bangalore, India
Lives in Bangalore
1977-82 and 1983-85
BA and MA in Sculpture, M S University, Baroda
1974 -77
BA in Economics, English and Psychology, Bangalore University
Solo Exhibitions:
2007
Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Gallery Chemould and MPCVA, Mumbai
Streetside Theatre, Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2007, National School of Drama, Delhi
Streetside Theatre, szene- Salzburg Festival Austria
Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Gallery Chemould, Bangalore
2006
Pushpamala N, photo- performance work, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia, Milan, Italy
Pushpamala N, photo- and video- performance work, Espace Croise, Roubaix, France
Paris Autumn, video and photo installation, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France
Native Women of South India – at Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, USA *book
2005
Native Women of South India- at Nature Morte, Delhi * book
2004
Native Women of South India – Manners and Customs, collaborative photo- performance project
with Clare Arni at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai & Seagull Arts
and Media Centre, Kolkata
Indian Lady, photo- and video- performance work, Bose Pacia, New York, USA *cat
2003
Phantom Lady and Sunhere Sapne, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Anguished Heart, photo-performance work, Nature Morte and Gallery Chemould, at British Council, Delhi *cat
2002
Golden Dreams, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2001
Golden Dreams, photo- performance work, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai *cat
1998
Phantom Lady or Kismet, a photo- romance, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai *cat and at the Artist’s Studio, Bangalore
1994
Excavations, sculpture/ installation, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1983
Pushpamala N, sculptures, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore.
Group Exhibitions
2007
Indian Photo and Media Art- A Journey of Discovery, Fluss, Vienna, Austria
Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada * cat.
4th Sguardi Altrove Women’s Film Festival, Milan, Italy
Reflections: Women Imaging Realities, IAWRT Third Asian Film Festival, Delhi
Private/ Corporate IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Destination Asia, Almaty, Kazhakstan
Indian Photography- Four Voices, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Public Places/ Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The Newark Museum, USA *cat
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, USA *cat
Tiger by the Tail- Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Brandeis University, USA *cat
House Of Mirrors, Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London, UK *cat
Here, There and Now, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand *cat
New Wave/ New Delhi, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy *cat
Prospects – Contemporary Art from India, Rome Film Festival, Italy
Bangalore International Film Festival
Edge of Desire, Asia Society, NGMA Delhi and Mumbai *cat
Making History Our Own, SAHMAT, Delhi
2006
India Express, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland *cat
India in all its Senses, Louis Vuitton Galleries, Paris, France
Bombay Maximum City, Lille 3000, Lille, France
Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2006, Netherlands *cat
Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History, part of Cinema Prayoga: Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006, Tate Modern, London, UK
Edge of Desire, Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
2005
Indian Summer, ENSBA, Paris, France *cat
Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New York, Museo Tamayo & MARCO, Monterrey Mexico *cat
Yokohama Triennale, Open Circle, Japan
Kovideo, 1st Durban Video festival, Durban, South Africa
Fiction @Love, Shanghai, China, and Singapore *cat
I, Me, Myself – Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin *cat
Are We Like This Only- Vadehra Gallery, Delhi *cat
2004
Edge of Desire, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia *cat
Iconography in Transient Times, Gallery Sumukha, Delhi *cat
2003
DiVerge, 40 Years of Chemould, NGMA, Mumbai *cat
Heat - a Picture Show, Bose Pacia New York, USA
City Park, Projects Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland
World Social Forum, Mumbai
2002
New Indian Art: Home, Street, Shrine, Bazaar, Museum, Manchester City Galleries, UK *cat
Ways of Resisting, SAHMAT, Delhi
2001
Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK *cat
Secular Practice: Recent Art from India, Montreal and Vancouver, Canada
1999
Art from India, Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles Biennale, USA
1998
The Presence of the Past, NCPA, Mumbai *cat
1997
Telling Tales, Bath Festival Trust, traveling show, 4 cities, UK *cat
Telling Times, British Council, Delhi
1996
Shilpayan: Contemporary Indian Sculpture, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi *cat
The New South, London, UK *cat
Fire and Life, Asia Link Art Project, Mumbai and Perth, Australia *cat
1995
First Africus Biennale, Johannesburg South Africa *cat
100 Years of NGMA, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi *cat
Sculpture 95, Gallery Espace, Delhi *cat
Postcards for Gandhi, SAHMAT, in 6 Indian cities *cat
1994
Still Life, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1992
A Nest for Sparrow, Mumbai
2nd International Women’s Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
1990 -91
Pushpamala N and Alex Mathew, CMC Gallery, New Delhi *cat
At Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
And Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore *cat
1989
Timeless Art – Times of India, VT Station, Mumbai *cat
Artists’ Alert, SAHMAT, Delhi *cat
1987
The Sculpted Image - Bombay Arts Festival, Mumbai *cat
1986
VI Triennale-India, Delhi *cat
1985
Pushpamala N., Atul Dodiya and Akkitham Vasudevan - Gallery 7, Mumbai *cat
Seven Young Sculptors, Kasauli Art Centre, Delhi *cat
1983-84
National Exhibitions *cats
Honours
Karnataka Shilpa Kala Akademi Award 1998
Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi Silver Jubilee Award 1988
Karnataka State Rajyothsava Award -1986
Gold Medal for Sculpture, VI Triennale, India 1986
National Award for Sculpture- 1984
Distinguished Artist, Lalit Kala Akademi, India
Grants
Rockefeller Foundation artist residency at Bellagio Study Centre, Italy 2006
French Embassy SCAC artist residency in Paris, France 2005
Majlis Cultural Fellowship, 2002
India Foundation for the Arts, Arts Collaboration Grant 2000-2002
Senior Fellowship, Govt. of India 1995-97
Charles Wallace Trust [India] residency in London, UK 1992-93
Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi art student scholarship 1978-85
Bangalore University English scholarship 1975-77
Film and video
Paris Autumn (created from B&W stills, Dolby sound, English, 35 mins. 2006)
Shown at Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France; Bellagio Study Centre, Italy; Bose Pacia Gallery, Columbia University and NYU, New York, USA; Dorothy McCarthy Gallery,Toronto and La Centrale Gallery, Montreal Canada; Bangalore International Film Festival; Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore; Gallery Chemould, Bangalore; 4th Sguardi Altrove Women’s Film Festival, Milan, Italy; Gallery Chemould and MPCVA Mumbai
Rashtriy Kheer and Desiy Salad (National Pudding and Indigenous Salad) ( Mini DV, B&W, Dolby Sound, English,11 mins., 2004 )
Shown at Majlis, Mumbai; Cinematexas 9, Austin; 0110 International British -India Digital Film Festival, India; Vikalp Mumbai; South Asian International Film Festival SAIFF, New York USA; Seagull Arts and Media Centre Kolkata; CIEFL Hyderabad; Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda; Are We Like This Only? Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi; India Contemporanea, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Collective Chaos, Bangalore; Venkataramanan Associates, Bangalore; Srishti School of Art and Design Bangalore; Ecole Nationale Superior Des Beaux Arts, ENSBA Paris, France; Ecole Superior des Arts, Cergy Pontoise, France; University of Westminster, London, UK; Open Circle, Mumbai; SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai; Espace Croise Roubaix France; Indian Video Art, Tate Modern, London UK; Bellagio Study Centre Italy; Bose Pacia Gallery, Columbia University and NYU, New York USA; Independent Film Show 6th Edition, Naples Italy; IAWRT Third Asian Film Festival, India; Archiving Women’s Lives seminar, Mumbai University; Dorothy McCarthy Gallery, Toronto Canada; La Centrale Gallery, Montreal Canada; Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore; Gallery Chemould, Bangalore; New Narratives- Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre USA; Here There and Now, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok Thailand; Public Places Private Spaces, Newark Museum, USA; Gallery Chemould and MPCVA Mumbai
Indian Lady video loop ( VHS, colour, silent,1997)
Shown at Fire and Life, Perth, Australia; Moving Ideas, Montreal and Vancouver, Canada; Indian Lady, Bose Pacia New York, USA; World Social Forum, Mumbai; Are We Like This Only? Delhi; Espace Croise, Roubaix, France; House of Mirrors, Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London, UK; Here There and Now, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand.
Film Appreciation Course, National Film Archive, Pune, 1998
Researched Kannada Theatre and Film History for the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema
[ed Ashish Rajadhyaksha/ Paul Willeman] London/ New Delhi, 1995
Performed in Kumar Shahani’s film Khayal Gatha, 1988
Made sculpture model for Anand Patwardhan’s film Father, Son and Holy War, 1988
Curating and Organizing
Curated and organized an exhibition of large public site-specific works- Sthala Puranagalu [Place Legends], with three young artists exploring the histories of three important places in Bangalore, 1999 *cat
Conceived and organized a series of seminars : The Idea of the Folk [Film and the Folk, Architecture and the Folk, Environment and the Folk, Technology and the Folk, Art and the Folk, Law and the Folk], each session with three distinguished speakers, at the artist’s studio, Bangalore, 1997-99.
Visual Art Co-ordinator, Artists Against Communalism culture festival, SAHMAT, Mumbai, 1992
Theatre
Stage Design for World Social Forum, Mumbai, 2003
Designed and made sets and costumes for Gunde Gowdana Charitre, Kannada adaptation of Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt’ for Rangayana, Mysore, directed by Rustom Bharucha. 1999
Teaching:
Visiting lecturer, NIFT Bangalore, 2000
Visiting lecturer, Sculpture Dept., CAVA Mysore, 1987-88
Conducted Terracotta sculpture workshop, CAVA Mysore, 1987
Writing
Mother India: Images of Woman and Nation, essay, Cult of the Goddess, National Museum, Delhi to be published
Native Women, fictitious interview for Native Women of South India- Manners and Customs, published by Nature Morte, Gallery Chemould and Bose Pacia, 2007
Bagged and Floured, Interview with Smitha Cariappa 2007
Sakshi Gupta: I- Object, catalogue essay, 2006
Photographing the Natives, essay, Pushpamala N, pages 167-169, published in India Poems, The Photographs, Waxwo X Waswo, Rooftop Vista publications, Mumbai, 2006
National and Global, fictitious interview, Indian Lady catalogue, Bose Pacia, New York, 2004
Enjeux Contemporains du Feminisme Indien , eds. Danielle Haase-Dubosc and Mary E John et al., Maison des Sciences de L' Homme, Paris, 2002 , Notes sur la Sculpture Pushpamala N. pages 329-338
Woman Artist in India, fictitious interview for La Centrale Gallery Annual, Montreal, 2002
Curatorial essay, City Stories, Sthalapuranagalu catalogue, 2002
10 Questions, fictitious Interview for Golden Dreams catalogue, 2001
Little Known Journeys, book review, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 27-5-2001
Series of artist interviews for Saffronart Art Café, 2000
The Dilemma of Indianness, paper for international seminar on Fundamentalism in the Arts, SAHMAT, Delhi 1999
Book review of Bhupen Khakhar by Timothy Hyman, Art India magazine, 1998
Inner Space Outer Space, The Female Image in Contemporary Indian Art, paper for the International Seminar on The Human Image, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai 1995
Evading Choices, Times of India, Bangalore, 2-10-1989
Sculptor’s Notebook, MA Thesis, 1985
Seminars/ Conferences
Invitee, International seminar, Via Mumbai, Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai, 2006
Speaker, Cult of the Goddess seminar, National Museum, Delhi, 2005
Speaker, seminar on Indian art, Edge of Desire, Museo Tamayo, Mexico, 2005
Artist talk, seminar on contemporary art, Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi, Bangalore, 2000
Speaker, International seminar on Fundamentalism in the Arts, SAHMAT, Delhi, 1999
Panelist, Art Objects in a Post Modern Age, International Seminar, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai, 1996
Speaker, International Seminar on The Human Image, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Mumbai, 1995
Selected Artist talks
2005
Lumiere Hall, University of Westminster, London
ENSBA Paris, France
Ecole Superior des Beaux Arts, Cergy Pontoise, France
Department of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda
2004
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
Mt. Holyoke College
Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts. Mumbai
Seagull Arts and Media Center, Kolkata
2000
Lalit Kala Akademi, Bangalore
1999
Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Art Centre, Los Angeles, USA
1997
Adelaide, Gallery 4A and Art School, Sydney, Australia
1995
Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata
1992
Royal College of Art, London
Art in General, New York
1991
Anveshi, Hyderabad
Central University, Hyderabad
Workshops
Artists’ Camp, Pachmarhi, 2005
Khoj International Residency, Delhi, 2002
Open Circle International workshop, Mumbai, 1998
Khoj International Workshop, Modinagar, 1998
Artist’s Camp, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1985
Bibliography
Selected Reviews/ Essays
Pushpamala N, Paris Autumn show review, Le Monde, Paris, 9 October 2006
Physical Anthropology Reconsidered: Human Remains at the Tropenmuseum, David van Duuren et al, Bulletin 375, Tropenmuseum
Pushpamala N, Jonathan Goodman, Art Asia Pacific, winter 2005
Heroic or the Mock Heroic, Gayatri Sinha, The Hindu, Delhi 25-2-2005
When the Real is Fake, interview, Tehelka, Delhi 12-3-2005
Altered Egos, lead essay, Girish Shahane, Art India magazine, Mumbai, quarter 1, 2004
Pushpamala N, Staging the Orient, Holland Cotter, New York Times, 7-5-2004
Performance Photography, Aditi De, The Hindu, Sunday magazine, 28-3-2004
Sister Act, Aditi De, The Hindu, 4-3-2004
Telling Tales, Five Women Artists from India, Jorella Andrews, Third Text. Summer 1998, UK
Under the Skin of the Sculpture- cover feature by Marta Karle, The India Magazine, Mumbai, March 1991.
Pushpamala N – essay by Srinivasa Murthy, Shudra magazine (Kannada) 1986
Pushpamala N, Cover feature,] interview by S. Diwakar, Bangalore, Sudha magazine [Kannada 1986.
Books
Bollywood Empire: The Transnational Travels of the Hindi Film Song and Dance, edited by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, University of
Minnesota Press - forthcoming
The Southern Terrain, edited by Ashrafi Bhagat, Marg Publications, forthcoming
Made by Indians, French publication
Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007.
Native Women of South India : Manners and Customs, published by Nature Morte Delhi, Gallery Chemould Mumbai and Bose Pacia New York, 2007
Global Feminism, Elizabeth Sackler Gallery, Queen’s Museum, New York, USA. Essay by Geeta Kapur, 2006
Art and Social Change, Australian National University, 2005
101: A Guide to Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists, Amrita Zhaveri, India Book House, 2005
When was Modernism? Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, Geeta Kapur, Tulika Press, New Delhi, 2000.
Contemporary Art in Baroda - edited by Gulammohammad Sheikh, Tulika Press,
New Delhi, 1997
Twentieth Century Indian Sculpture - The Last Two Decades, Shivaji Panikkar, Marg Publications, Mumbai, 2000.
Virtual
The Legacy Project, USA
Interviews on Film/ TV
Pushpamala N, Interview on ETV by Jayant Kaikini., 2002
Stree Shrushti, Kannada Documentary film on Six Creative Women of Karnataka,
by Kavitha Lankesh, Bangalore Doordarshan, 1999
Contemporary Indian Sculpture, documentary film by Buddhadev Dasgupta, 1988.
Pushpamala N, Interview on Bangalore Doordarshan, 1986
Pushpamala N, Interview on Bangalore Doordarshan, 1984
Important Collections:
Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
Bradford Museum, UK
Manchester City Art Galleries, UK
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Centre Georges Pompidou New Media Collection, France
National Gallery of Australia
Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
Arani and Shumita Bose, USA
Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
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