The artist

Anju Dodiya was born in 1964 in Mumbai where she lives and works. Her paintings, acts of rebellion and exorcism, use the self-portrait form to explore the conflicts between inner life and external reality. The artist provides a new take on historical sources as varied as Indian miniatures, French medieval tapestries and newspaper photographs. Her paintings are striking in the contrast they create between the dramatic intensity of the subjects and the subtleties of how she produces them.

Exhibitions

Tower of Slowness

April 1st - May 22, 2021
Brussels
How to be brave (in pictures)

November 5 - December 23, 2016
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg
Face à Face (d’après Kuniyoshi)

September 4 - October 9, 2010
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in Mumbai in 1964
Residence	Lives and works in Mumbai
Education	1986 the Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021	Tower of Slowness, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2020	Breathing On Mirrors, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2018	Anju Dodiya: The Air is a Mill of Hooks, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2016	How to be Brave (in pictures), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2015	Imagined Immortals, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2012	Room for Erasures, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
2011	Cloud-Hunter and other works, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India

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2010	Face à Face (after Kuniyoshi), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Necklace of Echoes, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008	All Night I Shall Gallop, Tyler Print Institute and Bhodi Art, Singapore
2007	Throne of Frost, Lukshmi Villas Palace, Baroda, India Throne of Frost, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
2006	Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2005	The Cloud-Hunt, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2001	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1999	Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
1996	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1991	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023	Prussian Blue: A Serendipitous Colour that Altered the Trajectory of Art, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UEA Part 2 – Futuring \| CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India On Purpose, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2022	A Lick of Night in the Morning, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Legal Alien, curated by Meera Menezes, fifth edition, Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW), Bikaner House, New Delhi, India Woman Is As Woman Does, curated by Nancy Adajania, CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, India The Politics of Paper, curated by Ushmita Sahu, Emami Art, Kolkata, India Modus Operandi III: Together Alone, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India Conversations on tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom Call me by your name, conceptualized by Udit Bhambri, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2021	On\|Site \| Entry Only, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai India Collective 22, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Erasure, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Red, Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2020	Search and Discovery: The Joy of Collection – Selections from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection, The Private Museum, Singapore A Tapestry of Time, Tao’s 20th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Inspired and Inspired, curated by Sonal Motla, Jegangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, india Frin/Ge, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Visions from India, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, USA Every Soiled Page, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates The Future is Not Fixed, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India A Mind of One’s Own, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India In Touch – Edition 2, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India In Touch – Edition 1, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019	5 Artists, 5 Projects, Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai, India Fracture/Fiction: Selection from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Modus Operandi II, Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai, India
2018	Modus Operandi, Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, Mumbai, India
2017	Here be dragons and other coded landscapes, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Persevering Traditions: The weft and the warp, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Visions from India, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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2016	Given Time: The Gift & Its Offerings, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, India No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India Bhupen's Contemporaries, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK Contemplations: A Tableau of the Real and Imagined, Science Centre, Surat, Gujarat The Journey is the Destination: The Artist's Journey between Then and Now, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders and the Community’ and ‘No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2015	The Ecstasy of Art – 1, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Continuing Traditions, Musee de la Toile de Jouy, France Off the Record: Meditations on the Photographic Image, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India The New Space, 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai Sensorium 2015-2016, Art Oxygen at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts, Panaji, Goa
2014	Noir / Blanc, Sixth Anniversary show, The LOFT, Mumbai. India Drawing 2014: 7 Decades of Indian Drawing, The Exhibition Hall, IGNCA, New Delhi, India The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; China Art Museum, Shanghai and Minsheng Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2013	Aesthetic Bind/Subject of Death, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India Ideas of the Sublime, Lalit Kala Akademi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Terrestrial Bodies, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai Mapmakers II: The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India Zoom: A Collection (A Contemporary Group Show), Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India
2012	Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, National Museum of China, Beijing, China Narratives of the Self, Gallery Espace, Delhi, India Terrestrial Bodies, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Chennai, India Inscribing the Female Body, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, India Art for Humanity, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, India Voicing a Presence: Women Artists in the Jehangir Nicholson Collection, The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India A Further Global Encounter, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK
2011	Indian Contemporary Art: The Intuitive – Logic Revisited, from the Osian’s collection, The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland SIX DECADES Celebrating the Mumbai Artists from the Jehangir Nicholson Art Collection, Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai. India Roots in the Air, Branches Below, Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, USA
2010	Looking Glass –The Existence of Difference, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Changing Skin, Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Modern Art of India: The Ethos of Modernity, Sichuan Museum, Shenzen Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, China
2009	India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art, Diana Freundl, MoCA Shanghai, China SPECTRUM - Indian Art in Abu Dhabi 2009, Indian Embassy in UAE and Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage, Abu Dhabi Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice. Italy 2008 Everywhere is War and Rumors of War, Bhodi Art, Mumbai, India Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Expanding Horizons; Bodhi Art; Mumbai, Amravati, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Sholapur, Kolhapur, Pune and Nasik, India 2007 53rd Biennial, Venice, Italy Here and Now: Young Voices from India, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture – Women’s Studies, Research Center, Brandies University, Massachusetts. Mabel Douglas Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA 2006 Harmony Show, Reliance Industries, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India A Work of Art – A Work on Paper – 35th Anniversary show, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 2005 Angkor - the silent centuries, Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Singapore Endless Terrain, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India The Artist Lives and Works in Baroda/Mumbai/Calcutta/Mysore/Rotterdam/Trivandrum, organised by Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke; House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany Bhupen among Friends, A tribute to Bhupen Khakhar by friends, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India 2004 Interlude in Sri Lanka, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai Red, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India The Search, Paintings from National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India Omni Society for Fine Arts, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Emirates, Dubai After Dark, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India A Tribute to Bhupen Khakhar, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Stree, Bodhi Art, Singapore, Singapore Face-to-Face, 19th century to contemporary portraiture, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India 2003 Inside the Whale, Gasser & Grunert Inc., New York, USA Portraits of a Decade, 10th anniversary show, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India Crossing generations: DIVERGE, an exhibition spanning four generations of Indian artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India 2002 Transfiguration, Art Inc. India Habitat Gallery, New Delhi, India Brahma to Bapu - icons and symbols in Indian art, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India Real in Realism, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Leela, Artists' response to Haridwar, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India 2001 Bodied Self, a show, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai, India In Conversation, sketchbooks and works on paper, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India ARS 01, Unfolding Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland 2000 Family Resemblance, Birla Century Gallery, Mumbai, India Embarkations, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Transpositions, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India Celebration of the Human Image, Gallery 42, New Delhi, India Once Upon a Time, Story/Image, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India A Global View – Indian Artists at Home in the World, The Fine Art Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Harmony Show, Reliance Industries, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India Mumbai Magazine Show, Artist's Choice section Akbar Padamsee, NGMA, Mumbai, India Art in the World 2000, show organized by Beaux Art magazine, Paris, Prance 1999 Legatee – Sir J.J. School of Art, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India Icons of the Millennium, organized by Lakeeren Gallery at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India Watermark, watercolor, show organized by the Fine Art Resource, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Two for Two, Thousand Art Today, New Delhi, India 1998 The Looking Glass Self, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India 'Artists for a sustainable World', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India A Collector's Eye, Jehangir Nicholson Collection, NGMA, Mumbai, New Delhi, India Indian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Contemporary Indian Art, The Sotheby's Show, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai, India 1997 Years of Art in Mumbai, 1947-1997, NGMA, Mumbai, India 50 Years of Freedom of Expression – sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 50 Years of Freedom of Expression sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Gift for India, show organized by SAHMAT, LKA Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India 1996 Cinemascape, An artists' Tribute to 100 years of cinema, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India Indian Contemporary Art, Post Independence, NGMA, organised by Vadehra Art Gallery; New Delhi, India. 1995 Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 'Portraits', Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore, India 1994 Art for Cry, Mumbai, New Delhi, India 1993 In Small Format, Works on Paper, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India 1990 Works on Paper, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India 1986 Monsoon Show, Sponsored by Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

AWARDS AND HONORS

2015	FIND Residency Programme, India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, Zagarolo, Rome, Italy
2008	Great Women Achiever’s Award 2008, presented by the women’s wing of FICCI.
2007	Zee Astitya Award present by Qrchqnq Trust & Zee TV
2001	Indo-American society's "Young Achiever Award"
1998, 2000	Nominated for the 'Sotheby's Prize' for contemporary art
1999	'Harmony Award' presented by Reliance Industries

COLLECTIONS

	Art Institute of Chicago, USA
	Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
	Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
	Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
	Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
	Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
	National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, India

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	Procter and Gamble India Ltd, India
	RPG Enterprises, Mumbai, India
	TAPI Collection of Shilpa and Praful Shah, India Tate Modern, London, UK The Drawing Center, New York City, USA The Marguerite Steed Hoffman Collection, Dallas, USA Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

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Anju Dodiya
Jitish Kallat
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018

KOCHI, INDIAFrom 12/12/2018 to 29/03/2019

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, and the public. Curated by Anita Dube

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The artist

Exhibitions

Tower of Slowness

How to be brave (in pictures)

Face à Face (d’après Kuniyoshi)