Gigi Scaria

Current Exhibitions and Events

Feb, 2013	The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989
	Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Jan, 2013	City Unclaimed
	Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Statement

Biography

Gigi Scaria

Born	1973, Kothanalloor, Kerala, India
1998	M.F.A. (painting). Jamia Millia University, New Delhi.
1995	B.F.A. (painting) College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram.

Solo Shows

2010	Open windows closed boundaries, Dubai art fair, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2009	Amusement Park, Gallery Chemould,Mumbai
2009	Settlement, Galerie Christain Hosp, Berlin,Germany Curated by Jamila Adeli
2008	Difficult to Imagine, Easy to construct, Art Asia Miami, USA.
2008	Site under construction, Video Space, Budapest, Hungary.
2008	New Perspective from India, Seoul/Delhi, recent photographs and video , H Cube Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
2008	Triviality of everyday existence, recent photographs and video, The National Art Studio, Changdong, Seoul, Korea. Palette art gallery, New Delhi
2007	Absence of an Architect, video installations paintings and photographs, Palette Gallery, New Delhi.
2005	Where are the Amerindians?, Inter America Space CCA7, Trinidad.
2001	Exhibition of recent works, Art Inc., Shahpurjat, New Delhi.

Participations

2011	Every one agrees: it’s about to explode, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, India Pavilion at 54 thVenice Biennale.
2011	Tolstoy Farm : Archive of Uttopia, Curated by Gayatri Singha.
2011	3rd Singapore Biennale, curated by Russell Storer and Trevor Smith.
2010	Freadom to March, Curated by Johny M L AND Anubhav Nath Rabindra Bhavan , New Delhi
2010	FIAC Art fair, Paris, France. Represented by Video Space, Budapest.
2010	West Havens: Place time play: India China Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. Curated by Chitanya Sambrani.
2010	Finding India, Museum of contemporary art( MOCA) Taipei.
2010	SAMTIDIGT Indian contemporary art exhibition, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland and Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
2010	Emerging Asian Artists curated by Yongwoo Lee which is a part of the special exhibition at Art Gwangju 2010 at the KimDaeJung Convention centre.
2010	Indian (sub) way, curated by Yashodhara Dalmia ,Grosvenor Vadehra London.
2010	Constructed Realities, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Guild Mumbai.
2010	Invisible cities, Aicon Gallery, New York
2010	Video Art India, curated by Luissa Ortinez, Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.
2010	The Black Cube, Video art festival curated by Johny M L. This program was a part of the international documentary film Festival at Trivandrum,Kerala.
2010	The way we are, curated by Oindrilla Maity, Mon Art Gallery, Calcutta.
2010	Snow, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Palette art Gallery,New Delhi and Tao Art Gallery,Mumbai.
2010	By George, Curated by Gitanjali Dang,
2010	Volta Art Fair New York, Video Space, Budapest, Hungary.
2010	VIDEO Silvasa art gallery, DN&H, curated by Johny M L.
2009	Marvelous Reality, Gallery Espace (Rabindra Bhavan ) New Delhi curated by Sunil Mehra.
2009	If I were a saint.. Curated by Johny M L At Travencore Art Gallery,New Delhi.
2009	Lost in the urban maze,Palette Gallery ,New Delhi.
2009	What makes India urban? At Aedes Gallery Berlin,Curated By Anand Patel
2009	A new Vanguard, at Guild New York and Saffron Art,New York.
2009	Expressions at Tihar, Ojas Art, Matighar, IGNCA New Delhi.
2009	In Focus contemporary Indian photography, Crimson the art resource, Banglore
2009	Poetic Documentary, Aicon Gallery,London.
2009	India Art Summit , Pragatimaithan ,New Delhi.
2009	ARCO Art Fair, Madrid.
2009	RELATIVE VisA Curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Bodhi Art Mumbai.
2009	BAPU Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Saffron Art, Mumbai.
2008	Video Zone-4, The 4th International video art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2008	MAM SCREEN, Mori Art Museum, Japan.
2008	India Moderna, Ivam Museum, Valencia,Spain.
2008	Chalo India, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
2008	VIDEOMIX.INDIA. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2008	Popular Reality, The stainless, New Delhi.
2008	INDIAVATA (India + Avatar) Contemporary artists from India. Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2008	Young Contemporary Indian Artists, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai.
2008	Walk on line, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland curated by Ranjita Chaney
2008	CLICK! Contemporary photography in India, curated by Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, Vadehra art gallery, Delhi.
2008	Who knows Mr.Gandhi? Aicon Gallery, London.
2007	Re-visioning Materiality, Gallery Espace, New Delhi.
2007	City Cite Site, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2007	Rasa Manthan: The Thematic Art Installations, New Delhi.
2007	Sign2007, video and documentary film festival, Trivandrum, Kerala.
2007	Frieze Art fair, Khoj pavilion, London.
2007	Here There Now, Contemporary art from India Soulflower Gallery, Bangkok.
2007	Public Places/Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art In India, Curated by Gayatri Sinha,The Newark Museum, New Jersey, U S A
2007	After Shock Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Cotemporary Art, a group show supported by Sainsbury Centre in collaboration with Matthew Shaul and the UH Galleries in England, curated by Yasmin Zahir
2007	Indian photo and Media Art: a journey of Discovery Exhibition Vienna, Austria.
2007	Horn Please: Narratives in contemporary Indian Art Kunstmuseam Bern, Switzerland.
2007	Reading Paint, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand.
2007	Dreaming Childhood, at Leap years, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
2007	Making History Our Own, Organized by SAHMAT AIFACS gallery, New Delhi.
2007	Young & Free, at Intercontinental, Nehru place, New Delhi.
2007	World Social Forum, Nairobi.
2006	ROCK, Curated by Himanshu Desai at Kitab Mehal, Mumbai.
2006	Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2006, a film and video festival in Paris and Berlin.
2006	Paper flute, curated by Johny M.L at Gallery Espace New Delhi.
2006	Impossible India, at Frankfurt Kunstverein. Curated by Nina Montmann supported by Goethe-Institute, Germany.
2006	Ghost in the machine and other stories (Video, interactive media and sound) at Apeejay Media Gallery,Delhi, Curated by Pooja Sood.
2006	REAL 2006, organized by Matters of art .com at Visual Art gallery, Habitat Center, New Delhi
2006	Dilli Dur Ast, a lens based workshop in the walled city of Delhi.
2006	Art for Prabhat, Artists paint on paper made by mentally handicapped Students, Visual Art Gallery, Habitat Center, New Delhi.
2006	Infinite-Us, Planet art Gallery, Gurgaon, Haryana.
2006	Art in Cinema, Habitat center, New Delhi.
2005	Eternal Recurrence Return, Shangrila Hotel, New Delhi.
2005	Double – Enders, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2005	Self x Social Self stranger parent resource worker School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, New Delhi curated by Geeta Kapur.
2005	Are we like this only? at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, curated by Vidya Shivdas, Organized by Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi.
2005	Ko video, Durban festival.
2004	Journeys, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2004	Median, an exhibition of paintings & sculptures, Epiques Gallery, Green park, New Delhi.
2004	Between Rivers, C-28 West End, New Delhi.
2004	Making of India, organized by SAHAMAT at Rabindrabhavan, New Delhi.
2003	Crossing Generations Diverge, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani.
2003	Indians + Cowboys, Gallery 4A, Asian-Australia Arts Center, Sydney Australia, Curated by Ruth Watson.
2003	Arting Jerusalem, an art project at Jerusalem, Israel.
2003	Shisha, an exhibition of Indian and French artists at Sanskriti Pratistan, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi. Latter traveled to France.
2003	Invasions, an exhibition of creative posters at Palm Court Gallery, Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2002	Photographica, at Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy
2002	Circo Fragile, a story telling event at Pavia University Italy.
2002	Unidee in Progress, Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy.
2001	Millennium Vision, Arushi Art Gallery, Delhi.
2001	Small but significant, a group show, Arpana Fine Arts, Delhi.
2001	Art for Prabhat, Arpana Fine Arts, Delhi
2001	…and Buddha smiled again, Organized by Master’s Guild, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, New Delhi.
2001	KHOJ BOX, Art Inc. Shahpurjat, New Delhi.
1998	Explorations, a site-specific installation project organized by Jamia Millia University, New Delhi.
1996	Kalamela, Balbhavan, New Delhi.
1996	Traveling Exhibition, organized by Kerala Lalitkala Academy, Exhibited in Madras and Bangalore.
1995	Group shows 95, an exhibition of Painting and Graphics, at Thiruvananthapuram Fine Arts Gallery.
1994	Annual Exhibition conducted by Kerala Lalitkala Academy.

Residency

2008 worked on a multi media installation project on Hybridity in collaboration with London based artist/photographer Dave Luise. Facilitated and organized by Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

2007-08	The National Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
2005	At CCA7 (Caribbean Contemporary Arts), Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
2004	At Khoj Studios, Khirkee Village, New Delhi
2002	Unidee, at Cittadellarte, Foundation Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.

Workshop

2009	Imagine peace, Khoj Studios,Kirkee Ex. New Delhi.
2006	Dilli Dur Ast, a lens based workshop in the walled city of Delhi.
2005	Sandarbh, an artist workshop and residency programme organized by Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan at Partapur, Rajasthan
2002	GASTH OF 2002, an event organized by Stadelschule at Frankfurt, Germany Worked for a month at College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia in Connection with an exhibition project, Indians + Cowboys
2002	Worked for a month at College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia in connection with an exhibition project, Indians + Cowboys.
2001	Khoj International artists workshop at Modinagar
1998	Yuva Mahotsav, organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad, at Sapru House. New Delhi.

Upcoming shows

Singapore Biennale 2011
Venice Biennale/ India pavilion 2011
Tolstoy Farm 2011

Scholarships | Award

2007	Asian art fellowship, Museum of contemporary art, Korea.
2005	Sanskriti Award in Visual Art
2002	Awarded Inlaks Scholarship
1995-97	Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Scholarship for Visual Arts

Presentation and talk

2010	Video presentation and talk at Faculty of fine arts, Jamia Millia University ,Delhi.
2010	Lecture and workshop on video art Collage of fine arts, Trivandrum, Kerala.
2008	Lecture and workshop at Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea.
2007	National workshop on gender and space, School of social sciences, JNU, New Delhi
2007	U H Galleries, University of Hatfield, England.
2005	Inter America Space, CCA7, Trinidad and Tobago.
2005	Rabindra Bhavan Auditorium, Mandi House, New Delhi.
2002	Conservatory, Birmingham University, England

Recent Exhibits

Gigi Scaria participated in these exhibits:

Mar, 2013	Organic dreams of electric sheep : Image, Empathy and Pluse: After Philip K. Dick
	The Guild Art Gallery

Mar, 2013	Poseurs
	Sakshi Gallery (Mumbai)

Mar, 2013	ZegnArt / Public India
	Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Feb, 2013	BETWEEN DARKNESS & MAGIC - EXAMINING THE KERALA METAPHOR
	India Habitat Centre - Visual Arts Gallery

Feb, 2013	LIVING WALLS (where gallery walls become artist’s canvas)
	Art Alive Gallery, GURGAON

Jan, 2013	French Heritage (Bonjour India)
	Galerie Romain Rolland - Alliance Francaise Delhi

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