Gayatri Gamuz

SOLO EXHIBITION

2009   Of the same matter (Oils on canvas) Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, India

2007   In a land without trees   (Oils on linen and canvas) Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai

2006   In reverse I tell so you understand me (Oils on Canvas) Centro Cultural CAM, Orihuela, Spain and Lila Gallery, Kochi

2004   Tenderness in the middle of the rat race   (Poems, paintings, bronze and wood sculptures) Red Wall Gallery, Hobart, Australia and Embassy of India, Berlin

2004   The Other Within   (acrylics on canvas) Centro Civico, Besos Mar, Barcelona

2003   Pachamama Celebrates 2053 (Installation with writings, terracotta sculptures, found objects, plastic toy, mirrors, flowers, fire.) Mayalokam Art Collective, Kochi                                            
1999   Running Water (oils on canvas/performance) Kashi and Dravidia Art Galleries, Kochi
1998    Sangha (oils on wood) Tibetan Community Centre, Dharamsala, India

COLLECTIVE SHOWS

2010    The X Must show The Loft at Lower Parel, Mumbai

2010    The Monsoon Chapter 5 Curated by Himanshu Varma, New Delhi

2010    This Location Curated by Binu Bhaskar & Ananda Surya, Mojo Gallery, Dubai

2010    6 person show   1x1 Gallery, Dubai

2010     Coming of Age 18 x 18  Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai

2009     India Art Summit presented by Espace Gallery, New Delhi

2009    Gender Genesis Genetics  Espace Gallery, New Delhi

2008    Balelatina Hot Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, presented by Dukan and Hourdequin Gallery, Marseilles

2008    Trends and Trivia an Indian Story Curated by Bhavna Kakar, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

 2008   Millennium Turks Envisaging Contemporary India Trident Hilton Hotel, New Delhi

2008   Garibaldi 200 Years Museo Storico di Bergamo, Italy and Salon Dorado de la Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo, Uruguay

 2007   Ten Light Years   Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi

 2007   She, India   The Noble Sage Gallery, London

 2007   Maya   Artworld, Chennai

 2007   Vanity Fair   Mon Art Gallerie, Calcutta

 2007   Chronicles of the Unspoken    Travancore House Gallery, New Delhi

 2007   Instilling Life   Curated by Jasmine Shah Varma, Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai

 2007   Does Size Matter?  Art Konsult, New Delhi

 2007   A Slice of Art from India RL Fine Arts, New York

 2006   Stirring Quartet   Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai

 2006   Inaugural Show Red Wall Gallery, Hobart, Australia

 2006   London Biennale   Curated by Jill Rock, Stables Gallery, London

 2003   Open Art Project   Die Bank, Munich

2001   Encounter ‘First Contemporary Art Festival”, Kochi

 1999   Tree Festival Art Exhibition    Kashi Art Café, Kochi

 1999    Brighton Fringe Festival    Brighton, U.K

 1998   Women for Nature   Art Camp in the Periyar Tiger Reserve organized by the Forest Department of Kerala

SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

 2010    Constructs kiln for ceramics and terracotta in the Yeri Karai Kala Mayyam or lake side art collective in Thiruvannamalai and starts weekend workshops for painting and terracotta for local children

 2009-2010    Gives voluntary art classes once a week in local school, TLC, Thiruvannamalai Learning Centre       

 2009     Starts living on the land by the Samuthiram yeri karai in the countryside
in Thiruvannamalai in an art and ecology project growing fruit trees and vegetables and doing various art projects

2008    Panelist in Art and Ecology Discussion at the Mohile Parikh Centre for   Visual Arts (MPCVA), Mumbai

 2005  Creates with children and adults a 30 metre long body banner “Tree” for “Kastanjeboom houdt Zomersoiree” Chestnut Tree Summer Festival in Nijmegen, Holland

2005   Directs the creation by children of a fifteen metre banner with the title “Save the  River Periyar” which was part of the campaign to save the River Periyar  organized by Janaaranya People’s Forest in Kochi,

2003-05   Co-director of the Lila Studio Gallery and the Mayalokam Art Collective in Bazaar Road, Mattancherry, Kochi

2000  Spends two years weekend workshops for local children on art and crafts, theatre, solar cooking, recycled paper etc in the Lila Centre in Thiruvannamalai

1999-2005    Co-founder and art director for the five Annual Tree Festivals in Fort Cochin participating in various exhibitions and art projects in this period

1998   Gives the painting “The dream of Chaliyar Rahman” to the Movement to Save Chaliyar River in Kerala.

1997  Directs a workshop on sculpture for children invited by Press Club, Kottayam, Kerala

1997  Directs sculpture workshops in terracotta and traditional kiln construction in three schools in Vellore, Tamil Nadu

EDUCATION

Studies first and second course in Social Work in the University of Alicante.

1986-88   Studies first and second course in the Art School of Alicante (Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Alicante).

1989-91     Studies first and second course in the Escuela de Ceramica de Manises, Spain.

1992        Starts her professional career as a painter and sculptor with the artistic name of Gayatri Gamuz.

 2010        Selected by the Spanish master Antonio Lopez Garcia to participate in his prestigious annual course, maestros de la figuracion, in the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.