CV 2022

Kausik Mukhopadhyay

12 Nov. 1960

Place Kolkata

Education:

1989 Master of Fine Art, First Class, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.

1986 Bachelor of Visual Arts, First Class, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, India.

Fellowships:

2002 Charles Wallace, grant for residency at Gasworks, London, UK

1994-95 Fellowship for Artists Working In India, Inlaks Foundation.

1990-91 Fellowship at Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad.

Residency:

Khoj, Delhi, 2010

Tamarind Arts, New York, USA, 2007

Gasworks, London, UK, 2002

Kanoria Centre for Art., CEPT, Ahmedabad, 1990 

One man shows

‘Squeeze Lime In your Eye,’ Chatterjee and Lal, 20 January to 25 February 2017, Mumbai

‘Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life,’ Pundole Art Gallery & The Guild Art Gallery 9th to 25th April 2009

"Day And Night Show Peace", Lakeeren, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Bombay, 2000

Selected exhibitions

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, 2018

Delirium/Equilibrium, Curated by Robina Karode, Kiran Nader Museum oF Art, New Delhi, 2018

Waste Land, Curated by Birgid Uccia, Tarq, Mumbai, 2018 

Detritus / Matter out of Place, Curated by Vidya Shivadas, Serendipity, Goa, 2017

Shanghai Biennale, 2012

‘Continuum Transfunctioner’, Curated by Gitanjali Dang, 2010 

‘Mechanisms of motion’, Curated by Marta  Jakimowicz, Anant Gallery, 2008

‘Re-visioning Materiality’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2008

‘Maps, Metaphors and Mythologies’ New York, 2007

“Making Unmaking Objects”, Vadehra, New Delhi, 2007

“Reverse depth”, Tamarind Arts, New York, 2006

‘We are like that only’ collaborative work with Mohua Ray, Vadehra Art Gallery, 2005

‘Edge of Desire’, Perth, Australia, 2004

‘Diverge’, NGMA, Mumbai, Curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya  Sambhrani, 2004

‘Glued’, Sumukha Art Gallery, Bangalore, 2002, 

Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich University, London, 2002  

“Art on the Move”, SAHMAT, New Delhi, 2001

“Century City – Art and Culture in the Metropolis” Tate Modern, London, 29th January 2001

Art for the Art District, Site Specific Work for the "Kalaghoda Artfest", Bombay, 2000.

"Kalaghoda A Meeting Place" Collaboration with Anirudh Paul, Architect, Chemould, 

Bombay, 2000

9th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1999 

“Edge of the Century”, Curated By Amit Mukhopadhyay, New Delhi, 1999

"Icon of the Millennium" Lakeeren, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Bombay 1999.

Presence of the Past -A Response to the British Museum Exhibition “Enduring Image”-As 

A Gift to India, On Its Celebration of 50 Years of Independence, NCPA, Bombay, 1998

‘Collaborative Space’, Collaborative Work with Tushar Joag, sponsored by Pundole Art Gallery, At Y B Chavan Centre, Bombay, 1997.

Gift for India, Sahmat, New Delhi and Bombay, 1997.

Young Contemporaries, Lakeeren, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Bombay, 1996.

100 Years of Cinema, Lakeeren, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Bombay 1996.

Joint Show with Tushar Joag And Jyoti Kolte, Gallerie ‘88, Calcutta, 1995.

Joint Show with Tushar Joag and Jyoti Kolte, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay 1994.

Bibliography 

‘Squeeze Lime In your Eye,’ documentary by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar.

 “Live  Pulse,” Marta  Jakimowicz, for the catalogue of  ‘Mechanisms of motion’, Anant Gallery, February 2008

“Abstract Realities”, Pia Brancaccio, for the catalogue of  ‘Maps, Metaphors and Mythologies’ New York, 14th December 2007

“Edge Of Desire” Chaitanya Sambrani, Perth, 2005

“Century City – Art and Culture in the Metropolis”, Geeta Kapur, Tate Modern, London, 29th January 2001

Twentieth-century Indian sculpture, edited by Shivaji Panikkar, Marg Publications, 2000

“In the Rag and Bone Shop of the Hart” Geeta Kapur, Art India, Volume 5, Issue 4, Quarter 4, 2000

“Day and Night Show Peace” Shubhalakhsmi Shukla, Exhibition Catalogue, Lakeeren, 2000

‘Presence of the Past’, Tasneem Metha, Catalogue, 1998

Of Tradition And Contemporaneity, Ranjit Hoskote, Art India Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1998

Art Speak, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Art India, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1998

 

 ‘Collaborative Space’ Art India, Anupa Mehta, Vol.3, Issue 1, 1998

‘Trends in The ‘90, West Bengal’, Pranabrajan Roy, Catalogue, 1997