Talwar Gallery is a contemporary Indian art gallery. Founded by Deepak Talwar, it opened in New York City in September 2001 and in New Delhi in 2007.
Overview
Talwar Gallery, New York was launched in September 2001 and Talwar New Delhi opened in 2007. Deepak Talwar, founder of Talwar Gallery, has been working with contemporary artists from India since 1996. Representing some of the most exciting artists working in the Indian subcontinent today and the essential 20th century artists from India like Estate of Rummana Hussain and Nasreen Mohamedi, Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on artists from the Indian Subcontinent and its Diaspora. Underlying the gallery vision is the belief that the artist is geographically located not the art. Their search and their work traverse any simplified categorization based on geography, religion, culture or race.
Talwar New York
Since opening in September 2001, Talwar Gallery NY has presented first solo exhibitions of artists that have since been focus of museum exhibitions and collections. Talwar presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Nasreen Mohamedi in 2003. It was the first solo exhibition of Mohamedi outside India and the first ever of her photographs, and Talwar presented Mohamedi again in 2008 and 2013 in solo exhibitions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presented Mohamedi’s work as their inaugural solo exhibition at The MET Breuer in 2016. Talwar NY also presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Ranjani Shettar in 2004. Shettar since then has been subject of solo exhibitions at ICA Boston, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC. Amongst other artists introduced by Talwar to the western audiences include Rummana Hussain, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Allan deSouza, Rummana Hussain, Alia Syed, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon and Sheila Makhijani.
Exhibitions
New York Exhibitions
; 2019 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, Becoming Nature ; 2018 : Arpita Singh, Trying down time II ; 2017 : Arpita Singh, Tying down time ; 2016 : N. N. Rimzon, And I thank you one again ; 2015 : Sheila Makhijani, NowNotNow ; 2014 : Ranjani Shettar, Night skies and daydreams ; 2013 : FOUND ; 2012 : Rummana Hussain ; 2011 : Shambhavi Singh, Lonely Furrow ; 2010 : Alia Syed, Wallpaper ; 2010 : Risham Syed, and the rest is history ; 2009 : Emperor’s New Clothes ; 2008 : Alia Syed, New Films & Photoworks ; 2007 : Alwar Balasubramaniam ; 2006 : Anant Joshi, Local, Kiss Me Kill Me – Push Me Pull Me ; 2005 : Navjot Altaf, Water Weaving ; 2004 : Paramjit Singh, Recent Paintings ; 2003 : Nasreen Mohamedi, Photoworks ; 2002 : Anjum Singh, New Paintings, ; 2001 : Allan de Souza, Recent Works
New Delhi Exhibitions
; 2019 : Sheila Makhijani, “This That and The Other” ; 2018 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, “Liquid Lake Mountain” ; 2017 : Ranjani Shettar, “Bubble trap and a double bow” ; 2016 : Muhanned Cader, “ISLAND” ; 2015 : Rummana Hussain, “Breaking Skin” ; 2014 : Ranjani Shettar, “Between the sky and earth” ; 2013 : Sheila Makhijani, “nothing really to know” ; 2012 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, “Nothing From My Hands” ; 2011 : Ranjani Shettar, “Present Continuous” ; 2010 : Rummana Hussain, “Fortitude From Fragments" ; 2009 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, “BETWEEN" ; 2008 : Allan deSouza, “A Decade of Photoworks” ; 2007 : Ranjani Shettar, “Epiphanies" Other exhibitions ; 2019 :Rummana Hussain in Our time for a future sharing, India Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Italy ; 2018 : Allan deSouza, ; 2017 : Allan deSouza in , 2017. ; 2016 : Alia Syed & Allan deSouza in ; 2015 : Nasreen Mohamedi, ; 2014 : Allan deSouza in ; 2013 : Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia ; 2012 : Sheila Makhijani in ; 2011 : Alwar Balasubramaniam,
Publications
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