CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1940 in Mumbai
1964 Graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from Grant Medical College, Mumbai
Self-Taught Artist
Lives in Mumbai
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Footboard Rider, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2011 Wells Clouds Skulls, Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2009 Gieve Patel: Select Works 1971-2006, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi and Chemould Prescott Road,
Mumbai, India
2007 Eklavya/Daphne, the Museum Gallery (presented by Guild Art Gallery), Mumbai, India
2003 Gieve Patel, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2000 Gieve Patel Paintings 1997-2000, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1995 Gieve Patel – Looking into a Well (presented by Gallery Chemould), Jehangir Art Gallery,
Mumbai, India
1994 Gieve Patel, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1990 Gieve Patel, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1987 Drawings by Gieve Patel, Gallery Chemould, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1984 Gieve Patel: Paintings, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1979 Gieve Patel, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1975 Gieve Patel, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1972 Gieve Patel, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1970 Gieve Patel Paintings and Prints, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India
1967 Gieve Patel, Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India
1966 Gieve Patel Paintings and Pastel Drawings, sponsored by Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom,
Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Incarnate, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India
2019 Outside/In: An exhibition of Portraits, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019 India Art Fair, New Delhi presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India
2018 From the Collection, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2017 India Re-Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation, curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala,
Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, India
2016 DWELLING, 10th Anniversary Show (Part I), curated by Ranjit Hoskote,
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2016 No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2013 No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
2013 Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2013 Subject of Death, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2011 The Body Unbound, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
2008 Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2007 '1st Anniversary' show, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2007 Gateway Bombay, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
2006 The Startling View from the Studio: Gieve Patel & Sudhir Patwardhan, Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2003 Crossing Generations: Diverge, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art,
Mumbai, India
2000 Embarkations: the Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
1997 Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
1987 Coups de Coeur, Halle de I'lle, Geneva, Switzerland
1986 Contemporary Art of India: The Herwitz Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1985 Contemporary Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre, New York University, New York, USA
1985 Exhibition of the Collection of Richardson Hindustan Company, organized by Mr. Gurucharan Das,
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India
1982 India, Myth, and Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1982 Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
1979 Focus: 4 Painters 4 Directions, with Bhupen Khakhar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee,
Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1978 Six Who Declined to Show at the Triennial, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
1978 New Contemporaries, curated by Gulammohamed Sheikh for MARG,
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1977 Pictorial Space, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
1976 Biennale de Menton, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
AWARDS
1992 Rockefeller Fellowship, University of Chicago, Illinois
1984 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, The Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.