CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1977 in Siliguri, India
BVA (Painting), Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
MFA (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
Lives in Baroda
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Everyday', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2020 'Here everything is fine', GALLERYSKE, New Delhi, India
2017 'Displacement', curated by Birgid Uccia, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2015 'Uncanny Space', Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, India
2012 'Room, Interrupted in Passage', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2011 'The Morning After', Aicon Gallery, New York, India
2008 'Within the Walls', Gallery Espace, New Delhi and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2007 'In The Old Fashioned Way', Aicon Gallery, London, UK
2007 'Whispering Palette', Red Earth Art Gallery, Baroda, India
2006 'Interiors', Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin, Germany
2005 'from my photo album', presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke,
The Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2024 ‘Miracle of Absence: The Embrace of Time’, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Art Exposure, Kolkata, India
2021 'We Do Not Dream Alone', Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2019 India Art Fair, New Delhi, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India
2018 'Drawn From Practice', Experimenter, Kolkata, India
2018 India Art Fair, New Delhi, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India
2018 '20 / 20 Artists for Khoj', Khoj International Artist' Association, New Delhi, India
2017 Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fund-Raiser Auction, Saffronart, Mumbai, India
2017 Culture of the Streets, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2017 'DWELLING', 10th Anniversary Show (Part II), curated by Ranjit Hoskote,
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2016 'Forming in the pupil of an eye', curated by Sudarshan Shetty, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2016 Abir Karmakar, Sunil Padwal, Galleryske, Bangalore, India
2015 'In the depths of our crater lake, all is silent...' 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2015 'Three Projects', Abir Karmakar, Sunil Padwal, Unnikrishnan C; Galleryske, New Delhi, India
2014 'Mapmakers III: The Evolution of Contemporary South Asian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2014 'Residual Remnants' curated by Rekha Rodwittiya, SITE art space, Baroda, India
2014 India Art Fair, New Delhi, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2014 'My Sweet Lord', 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2014 'Reviving the Retinal' curated by Kat Wyma, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
2013 'Touched by Bhupen', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2013 'Peak Shift Effect', curated by Gayatri Sinha, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2012 'Four Projects', Gallery Ske, Bangalore, India
2012 'Cynical Love: Life in the everyday', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
2012 'Reconstructing (White) 3' curated by Himali Singh Soin, The Loft, Mumbai, India
2011 'Adbhutam Rasa in Indian Art', CIMA Gallery, Kolkata and India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
2011 'Window in the Wall: India and China- Imaginary Conversations',
Curated by Gayatri Sinha and Gao Minglu, Pearl Lam Fine Art, Shanghai , China
2011 'Dolls', curated by Marta Jakimowicz, Gallery Sumukha,
Bangalore and Chennai and Rob Dean Art, London, UK
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket The New Cultural Icons Of India',
Curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala for RPG Academy of Art & Music, Mumbai, India
2011 'Yeh Image Mahaan' India meets Bharat, organized by CIMA Gallery, Kolkata,
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
2011 'Pills', curated by Avni Doshi, Latitude 28, Delhi, India
2011 India Art Summit, New Delhi, India
2010 'Changing Skin', curated by Marta Jakimowicz for The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India
2010 'INDIA AWAKENS – Under the Banyan Tree', Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2010 'Have I Ever Opposed You?, New Art from India and Pakistan',
Faye Fleming & Partner, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 'Trial and Error, Abir Karmakar, Debraj Goswami and Rahul Mukherjee',
Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, India
2009 'A New Vanguard: Trends in Contemporary Indian Art',
Saffron Art & The Guild Art Gallery, New York, USA
2009 'Failed Plot', Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
2009 'New Fables: Contemporary Voices', Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
2009 'Long Gone & Living Now', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2009 'Threshold: Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art', Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2009 'Shifting Shapes – Unstable Signs',
Curated by Robert Storr and Jaret Vadehra Yale University School of Art,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2009 'PANORAMA: INDIA', presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, ARCO_Madrid
2009 'Mutant Beauty' curated by Gayatri Sinha, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008 Gallery weekend presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke,
Baumwollspinnerei Factory Complex, Leipzig, Germany
2008 'A MAZ ING', curated by Anupa Mehta for Harsh Goenka/RPG Academy of Art and Culture,
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2007 1st Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2007 'Reality Bites', CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, India
AWARD
2016 Asia Society's Future Artist Award