Jiten Thukral
Born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Lives and works in New Delhi
Education: 1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College
2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art
Sumir Tagra
Born 1979, New Delhi, India
Lives and works in New Delhi
Education: 2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art
2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts, New Delhi
Thukral & Tagra
Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between Fine Art and Popular Culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. Their works comment on the globalization of consumer culture and the repercussions of this as it is being experienced in India today. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions about the nature of Indian identity as it is articulated by Indians themselves and projected on to India by the rest of the world.
Solo Exhibitions -
2013
“Solo Show” – ART PLURAL, Singapore
2012
“Longing for Tomorrow” – Nature Morte, Berlin
“Nosturistic” – Hilgar contemporary, Vienna
2011
“Put It On, Again!” – Nature Morte, New Delhi
“The Beautiful Game – Foundation Thukral & Tagra” – Project Booth, Art Summit, New Delhi
“Science, Mystery and Magic” – BTAP_Tokyo Gallery and Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
“German Returned” Nature Morte, The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2010
“Low-Tech Family Vacations”, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
“Middle Class Dreams”- “Arario Gallery, Seoul
“Match Fixed/Fixed Match”- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2009
“Nouveau Riche” – Nature Morte, Berlin
“Thukral & Tagra, 315 Sector 23, Opp Bosedk Mall”- Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2008
“New Improved Bosedk” - Gallery Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
“Somnium Genero 02″ – Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
“Somnium Genero Cafe”- Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
2007
“Adolescere-Domus” – Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia
“Put it On”- Bose Pacia, New York
“Everyday Bosedk,”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006
“Vector Classics” – Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai
“Vector Classics” – Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2005
“Iconography” bosedkdesigns.
Group Exhibitions -
2012
“Indian Highway v” UCCA, Beijing
2011
“Maximum India”- Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
“Samtidigt” (Concurrent) – KULTERHUST, Stockholm
“Samtidigt” (Concurrent) - Helsinki Art Museum
2010
Bosedk project, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver
“Urban Matters 2″ - SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo
“Khoj-in-Context” – Public Art.Ecology, New Delhi
“11th Hour” – Tang Contemporary, Beijing
“Inside India” – Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin
Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademie, New Delhi
2009
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art” - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Essl Museum, Vienna
“Escape! for the Dream Land” – Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 06,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2008
“The Audience & the Eavesdropper” – Philips de Pury, London and New York
“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art” – Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Make Art Stop AIDS” – UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
“Imaginery Realities” – Max Wigram Gallery, London
“Face East”- Wedel Fine Art, London
2007
“Animamix Biennial” – The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
“New Delhi New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan
“Size Matters”- Art Consult, New Delhi
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006
“Global Edit 06,”- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan
2005
“New Paintings”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004
“Visual Dialogue” Brooklyn Gallery, london
25/01/2011 – 29/01/2011
INDIAN ART SUMMIT
PRAGATI MAIDAN
NEW DELHI,
INDIA
