Tushar Joag

 

1966 Born in Mumbai

1988 B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai , India .

1989 M.F.A (Master of Fine Arts) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University , Baroda , India .

 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

1984- 1988 Merit scholarship for Sculpture Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai , India

1990- 1992 Fellowship award Kanoria Centre for Art.

1995 Inlaks Scholarship for Sculpture.

1998-2000 Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam ,The Netherlands

2005 Majlis Fellowship for the Arts

 

LIST OF SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1993 • Group Show, Pundole Art Gallery , Mumbai

1995 • Young Contemporaries, Lakeeren Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai

• Group Show, Gallery 88, Calcutta

1996 • 100 Years of Cinema, Group Show, Lakereen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai

1997 • Collaborative Space, a collaborative installation with Kausik Mukhopadhayay,Y.B. Chavan Centre, presented by Pundole Art Gallery , Mumbai

• Gift for India , travelling exhibition organized by SAHMAT, Delhi , Mumbai

1998 • Edge of the Century, Vadhera Art Gallery , New Delhi , curated by Amit Mukhopadhayay

1999 • Icons of the Millennium, Lakereen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai

2002 • Alchemy The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich , London , curated by Arshiya Lokhandwalla and Kelly O' Reilly

• Short and Sweet, German and Indian Short Film Festival, Prince of Wales Museum, Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai, curated by Sharmila Samant and Rubaica Jaliwalla

• Aar Paar a public art project, Karachi , Pakistan . Cross border exchange and exhibition of posters, curated by Shilpa Gupta and Huma Mulji

• Video Festival India Sabka Youth Festival, curated by Sharmila Samant

2003 • Video Show, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, curated by Sharmila Samant

• Sites of Recurrence II, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras , Sweden , curated by Tamara Malmestrom, Elisabet Haglund (India Sabka video compilation)

• Outside Wall, public screening, Lund Art Hall, Lund , Sweden . (India Sabka video compilation)

• Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, curated by Paromita Vohra.

• Video Presentations, Pabellon de Cuba,Vedado, Havana Biennale , Cuba

• I love My India, Total Museum , Seoul , Korea , curated by Johan Pijnapple

• Crossing Generations: diVERGE, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani

2004 • Home With No Walls, for the World Social Forum, curated by Open Circle

• Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India, travelling exhibition,Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

2005 • Video Art from India , SESC, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo , Brazil , curated by Madhushree Datta

• Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India , travelling exhibition,Asia Society and Queens Museum , New York , USA , curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

•Monument for Kala Ghoda, Kala Ghoda Art Festival, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai.

  • Willing Suspension Solo Show Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

• Are We like This Only, Vadehra Art Gallery , New Delhi , curated by Vidya Srinivasan

• Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India, travelling exhibition,Tomayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

•Screening of ‘Jataka Trilogy' single channel video at the cultural program, Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris , curated by Johan Pijnapple

2006 • Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India, traveling exhibition, UC Berkley Art Museum &Pacific Film Archive and Centre for South Asia Studies, CA, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

• Subcontingent The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rabaudengo, Torino, Italy, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Francesco Manacorda

• Hungry God - Indian Contemporaries, Arario Beijing , China

•  Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History, Cinema of Prayoga, Indian Experimental Film and Video, TATE Modern, London, curated by Johan Pijnapple

•  Hungry God - Indian Contemporaries, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan , Korea

•  Bite The Mango, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
Bradford , West Yorkshire, England, curated by Johan Pijnapple

•  Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India , traveling exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi , curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

•  Edge Of Desire-Recent Art in India , traveling exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani

 

2007 • Gulf Art Fair, Dubai , presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai.

•  Short term residency at PULSE, Durban , South Africa .

•  Anniversary Show, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai

•  Making un Making Objects, Vadehra Art Gallery , New Delhi , curated by Vidya Shivdas.

•  Destination Asia , Almaty, Kazhakstan, curated by Sharmila Samant

•  Classe de Danse , Bern , Switzerland , curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi

•  New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India , Exhibit Hall and Sidney R. Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, U.S.A

•  Mumbai Metronomes, Museum Art Gallery , presented by Gallery Art & Soul

•  Pink, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai

•  Shanghai Contemporary,Art Fair, Shanghai , China , presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai.

•  Here, There, Now: New and recent work by artists from India , Soulflower Gallery, Bangkok , curated by Brian Curtin

•  India Art Now : Between Continuity and Transformation, curated by Daniella Palazzoli

•  Focus India Contemporary Art from India , Rome Film Fest, Rome , curated by Deepak Ananth

2008 •  Reconciliation and Truth Solo Show Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

 

ORGANISING AND CO-ORDINATION ACTIVITIES

1998 Founder, Member of Open Circle, an artists' initiative for the organization and development of interactive platforms for artists in Mumbai. ( www.opencirclearts.org )

2002 Convenor, conceptualization and coordination,‘India Sabka Youth Festival'

2003 ‘Ersatz Stadt'- Seven Islands and a Metro, Volksbuhne , Berlin , Germany; in association with Madhusree Dutta and Flavia Agnes

2004 Co-Facilitator, Culture Committee,World Social Forum, Mumbai , India .

2005 Globalisation @ Hunger an exhibition for World Social Forum at India House, Porto Alegre , Brazil

2007 Curated ‘Memories in Transit' an artists camp for World Social Forum at Nairobi , Kenya .

 

Currently lives and works in Mumbai , India .