MANISH NAI
Born in 1980, Gujarat, India
Diploma in Drawing and Painting, L S Raheja School of Art, Mumbai, India
Lives and works in Mumbai, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 'SURFACING', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
'Indeterminate Traces', Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2021 'Form and Void', Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA
2019 'Meridians', presented by Kavi Gupta, Art Basel Miami, USA
'A History of Gestures', Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
'Materiality', Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2018 'Paper City and Ghost Modernity', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
'Capturing Time', Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Manish Nai–Recent Works, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
2017 'Expo Chicago', curated by Florence Derieux, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
Manish Nai, Fondation Fernet-Branca, St. Louis, France
2016 'Matter as Medium', Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2014 Manish Nai, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2013 'Sculpting in Time', presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Art Basel Hong Kong
2012 'COMPACT', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
2010 'Extramural', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2007 'Minimal Structures', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2005 'Threading A Coded Path, Apparao Galleries, Delhi and Chennai, India
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 'Botanical Campus', curated by Lucrecia Piedrahita, EI Castillo Museum, Medellín, Colombia
2020 'Memoirs of a Perennial Bouquet', Curated by Bose Krishnamachari,
Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune, India
'The Idea of the Acrobat', presented by Nature Morte, The Center for Contemporary Art,
Bikaner House, Delhi, India
2019 'Burnish/Tarnish', curated by Girish Shahane, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
'Alteration Activation Abstraction', Curated by Betty Seid, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA
'DEEPER WITHIN ITS SILENCE', Curated by Sumakshi Singh, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
'Alchemy', presented by Arvind Indigo Museum, Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, Ahmedabad, India
2018 'Connecting Threads – Textiles in Contemporary Practice', Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and
Puja Vaish, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
'Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material Part I', curated by Ute Meta Bauer,
NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Museum of Modern Art, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Warsaw, Poland
2017 'The Sculpture Park', Madhavendra Palace, Nahargrah Fort, Jaipur, India
'Asymmetrical objects', curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta,
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
'DWELLING – 10th Anniversary Show (Part II)', Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2016 'Abstract Chronicles', curated by Girish Shahane, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
2014 'Whorled Explorations', Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by Jitish Kallat, Kochi, India
'Ethereal', Curated by Dr. Amin Jaffer, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
'Midnight’s Grandchildren', Curated by Girish Shahane, Studio X, Mumbai, India
2012 'The Indian Parallax or the Doubling of Happiness', curated by Shaheen Merali,
Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, India
'news', with Eberhard Havekost, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
Art HK12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong,
presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
'examples to follow!', Curated by Adrienne Goehler, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India
2011 'Abstract Articulations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
'Home Spun', Curated by Girish Shahane, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
'India Inclusive: Contemporary Art from India', curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta,
2009 'PANORAMA: INDIA', presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, ARCO Madrid, Spain
'Relative Visa', Curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2008 Gallery Weekend, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke,
Leipzig, Baumwollspinnerei, Germany
2007 1st Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2005 'Present-Future', Curated by Dr. Saryu Doshi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
PUBLICATIONS
2015 MANISH NAI, published by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2016 Featured in Künstler: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthandel Verlag
GMBH, Frankfurt, Germany
2013 Vitamin D2 – New Perspectives in Drawing, PHAIDON