MANISH NAI
b. 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: Manish Nai’s New Paintings, 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, Chicago, USA
Materiality, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2018
Paper City and Ghost Modernity, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
Manish Nai–Recent Works, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Manish Nai: Capturing Time, Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2017
Expo Chicago, curated by Florence Derieux, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA
Manish Nai, Fondation Fernet-Branca, St. Louis, France
2016
Matter as Medium, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2015
Manish Nai, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
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
2009
Manish Nai – New Works, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
2007
Minimal Structures, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2005
Threading A Coded Path, Apparao Galleries, Delhi and Chennai, India
2004
The Museum Gallery, curated by Pinakin Patel
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
Four Flags, Nature Morte, New Delhi, 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
A BEAST, A GOD, AND A LINE, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, presented by Para Site Hong Kong
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
Gallerists as Interventionists: Collaboration as Strategy, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
Abstract Chronicles, curated by Girish Shahane, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
2015
Prudential Eye Award Exhibition, Art Science Museum, Singapore
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
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post) modern Moment, curated by Kathleen Wyma, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
2012
The Indian Parallax or the Doubling of Happiness, curated by Shaheen Merali, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, India
9th Shanghai Biennale – Mumbai Pavilion, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt and Susan Hapgood, Shanghai, China
news, with Eberhard Havekost, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
Art HK12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
The Skoda Prize Show, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
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,
World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2009
PANORAMA: INDIA, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, ARCO Madrid, 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