EDUCATION:
1995: Master of Fine Arts (Art Criticism), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India.
1989: Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), St. Xavier's College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2006: 'Wise Man’s Drink', exhibition at Lemongrasshopper Gallery, Ahmedabad.
2005: 'Abstraction is Alive and Kicking', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai.
2005: 'The Second Coming' (The Quotable Stencil – part 2), Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2005: 'Spurensucher', recent works of Antje Goerner (Berlin), Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2005: 'Subtlety, Where Art Thou?', Nilesh Palav and Manish Mistry, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2003: 'Talking Over The Wall', Retrospective exhibition of Naina Dalal, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2003: 'Light Hearted' - An exhibition of light and drawing based work by Bindu Mehra, Dilip Sharma, and Jayant Naik.
2003: Shantipath - An exhibition for world peace, featuring 23 prominent Indian artists.
2002: 'Songs From The Wood' - An exhibition of the works of Rajeshree Thakker and Chippa Sudhakar.
2002: 'The Quotable Stencil' - Contemporary Photographic Art by 22 artists.
2002: 'Tasveer' - 19th Century Indian Photography along with Private Collector and director of Archer Art Gallery Anil Relia.
2002: 'His Story', Private Collection, The Tao Art Gallery.
2002: 'Unreal but Probably True, True but Probably Unreal' - Dilip Dhore, Aniket Khupse, Manoj Veyloor, Minal Damani, Prajakta Potnis, and Pramod Gaikwad.
2002: 'Five Young Artists' - Ravi Mandlik, Santosh More, Virendra Shah, Samit Dey, and Anvar.
SOLO SHOWS:
2004: "Stories of The Mountain Man" - The Courtyard, Mumbai.
2000: 'Art at Random' - Solo Exhibition of Paintings, Random Access Café, Ahmedabad.
1999: 'Hunting High And Low' - Solo Exhibition of Paintings, The Darpana Academy of Performing Arts.
GROUP SHOWS:
2006: Real 2006, mattersofart.com, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2005: The Second Coming, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2005: Present-Future, National Gallery of Modern Art, curator - Dr. Saryu Doshi, Mumbai.
2005: Travancore House, New Delhi, India, curated by Johny M.L.
2004: 'Images and Ideas VI', National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
2004: 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty', along with artist Bindu Mehra, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2004: 'The Tao of Shiva', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2004: 'Stories of the Mountain Man', solo exhibition Ashish Balram Nagpal Gallery, The Courtyard, Colaba, Mumbai.
2002: Reclaim Our Freedom Week, Group Exhibition, Open Circle Artists Trust.
1996: Collaborative exhibition of paintings and poetry 'Into the Great Wide Blue' along with Bindu Mehra.
1995: Exhibition of Drawings for 'Seminar on Artist Critic Nexus', Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.
PARTICIPATIONS:
2006: Dilli Dur Ast- Lens Based Workshop, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi.
2006: Hybrid Sonicscapes- Sound Art Workshop, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi.
2006: Seminar Participation- “New Art History”: Interrogating Contemporary Indian Art Historical Practices the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.
2005: Participation- ‘Sandharbh’ International Artists Workshop, Vagad, Rajasthan.
PUBLISHED WRITINGS:
2006: Drawing From Memory, Vivan Sundaram’s Bad Drawings for Dost, Art India Magazine.
2006: New Presence- Indian Contemporary Art- ‘Larasati, Pictures of Asia’ Fine Art Auction, Singapore.
2006: The Irresistible Urge to Experiment, Shanti Dave, Art India Magazine.
2006: Speech is Dirty-
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2006: “But Death, Beauty Is…”- paintings of Prof. Ratan Parimoo.
2005: “Drawing from Control and Chaos”, Art India Magazine.
2005: ‘…Ce qui Vous Effraie et Vous Caresse’*, essay on an exhibition by Francois Roche and R&Sie(n) architects’, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France.
2004: Pun and Punches- Rajendra Kapse’s solo exhibition at Alliance Francaise de Bombay, Mumbai.
2003: ‘Dileep Sharma- Watercolours’, Jehangir Art Gallery.
2003: Critical essay on the recent paintings of Anwar.
2003: ‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust’- Critical essay- Collective artist workshop, curated by Chintan Upadhyay.
2003: Critical essay on the paintings of Rajendra Kapse.
2003: ‘Relocating the Mythic’- Review in Art India (Contemporary Indian Art magazine)- ‘Anti Terrain’- by Australian digital artist ‘Peter Callas’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
2002: ‘The Legend of Mt. Weast’- Crosscurrents- Indian Danish Painters Meet- Curated by Fawad Tamkanat and Mona Lauridsen.
2002: ‘Kitsch is Impossible’ for exhibition titled ‘Commemorative Stamps’ by Chintan Upadhyay, at the Ashish Balram Nagpal Art Gallery (as an invited critic)
2002: Masquerades- Oriental Spirit, African Mystery- An Exhibition of Paintings by Kamal Shah at the Jehangir Art Gallery.
EDITORIALS:
2004: Documentation- ‘The Search- Paintings From The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai’, curated by Dr. Saryu Doshi, Omani Society of Fine Arts, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
2003: Documentation. ‘De Curating’ – by Bose Krishnamachari. Published by Spenta Multimedia, Mumbai.