The Day We Screamed, at Red Dot Gallery, Sri Lanka | February 2019

Contemporary Sri Lankan Art : A Cross Section Iranian Cultural Center at Sri Lanka | February 2019

H. A. Karunarathne by Anoli Perera , A book on living master artist H. A. Karunaratne, Published by Tabrobane Collection, Sri Lanka | 2019

Collectivism in the Contemporary Sri Lankan Art by Anoli Perera, Edited by Sasanka Perera & Devnath Patak, Published by Palgrave & Macmillan, New York | 2019

Forget The Body, Think About Before at Kulturhaus Helferei, Switzerland | 29th June 2019

Khushbu Patel was awarded the Drawing Research Residency in partnership between L’AiR ARTS at FIAP Paris and DRAWinternational, Caylus, France | April 2019

Presented an Experimental Paper, “Listening for the Future”, A New North & South Symposium in association with Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka | February 2019

The Quantum City: Territory, Space, Place , Omer Wasim & Saira Sheikh , Curated by Amin Gulgee, Zarmeene Shah, and Sara Pagganwala at International Public Art Festival, Karachi Port Trust, Karachi, Pakistan | March 2019

Contemporary Anxieties: The Body and Its Politics, Co-curated by Omer Wasim & Seher Naveed at IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan | March 2019

Nature \ nature, Omer Wasim & Saira Sheikh, Curated by Mirela Baciak at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna, Austria | June 2019

‘Terra Incognita’, Known Unknown, Online Exhibition | June 2019

Junior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture from the Government of India | 2018 -2020

Osmosis, Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, Tarq, Mumbai | 06 June – 10 Aug 2019

This is What I Look(ed) Like, solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York. | May 2019

Artist guest lecture at University of British Columbia | January 2019

Talk with Sara Khan (Artist) and Rhys Edwards, Curator, Surrey Art Gallery , Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver | 11th July 2019

Unmaking History , Curated by Saher Sohail, Natasha Malik and Laila Rahman, Research and Publication Centre, Lahore | 30th October 2019

The Vogue Art Report: Vogue’s 40 Under 40. Priyesh Trivedi | Sangita Maity | Zoya Siddiqui
December 2018.

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Anoli Perera at Kochi Muziris Biennale, curated by Anita Dube | 12th December – 29th March 2019

As part of Dharti Art Residency in the Serendipity Arts Festival | 15th – 22nd December 2018

Gallery OED, Kochi, during the Kochi Muziris Biennale | 10 December – 9th January 2019

“Contain Her”, Curated by Katie Murdock, Trestle Projects, New York City, USA | September – October 2018

“Reclaimed Baggage”, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL, USA | Curated by Nirmal Raja | March 27 – May 18, 2018

Colombo Scope, 2019 Festival Edition, Colombo, Srilanka, Curated by Natasha Ginwala | 25th – 31st January 2019

Stand by the Door, Red Dot Gallery, Colombo | September 2018

ZHdK, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Organized by Elodie Pong and Erick Steinbrecher as part of their “Un-boxing” series, Zürich, Switzerland | 3rd December

NYU Department of Art and Art Professions Art Alumni Show, Curated by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA | 26th October – 4th November

1st International Print Biennale | Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi | 26th March – 22nd April 2018

AIRspace Residency with Chad Marshall Abrons Arts Center, in the Lower East Side, New York 3rd February – 27th May 2018

Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program with Chad Marshall | Brooklyn, New York | June – May 2019

“The Museum of Broken Windows”, Organized by the Soze Agency & produced by the New York Civil Liberties Union, NYC New York, USA | 22nd – 30th September

Untitled (Red All Over) Manhattan Project(s) Gallery, Manhattan College, New York City  15th May – 30th September 2018

YES Video Screening Night Microscope Gallery’s Brooklyn | 16th April 2018

Parentheses David Nolan Gallery, New York | Curated by David Hartt and Sharon Hayes | 28th June – 26th July

Dharti Art Residency | Serendipity Arts Foundation | June – August 2018

India Iran Exchange Program Kooshk Residency, Tehran | September 2018

Shrine Empire will be a part of Delhi Contemporary Art Week at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center, Lodi Road | 27th – 30th August 2018

Participating galleries: Blueprint 12 | Exhibit 320 | Gallery Espace | Latitude 28 | Nature Morte | Shrine Empire | Vadehra Art Gallery

Zoya was the awarded a residency at Delfina Foundation, London | 25th June – 23rd September 2018

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Neerja Kothari was awarded a residency at Ucross Foundation, Wyoming October – November 2018

“How to See in the Dark”, Curated by by Christian Camacho-Light, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, USA | 26th Oct – 9th Dec 2018

Paradise | Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx, New York | 1st July – 26th August 2018

Not an edge, but a hinge | AIRspace Exhibition, Abrons Arts Center  | Curated by Alexis Wilkinson and Christian Camacho-Light | 29th June – 5th August 2018

Shrine Empire Collaboration with Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
12th April – 12th May 2018

Participating Artists: Anoli Perera, Gautam Kansara, Kartik Sood, Neerja Kothari, Puja Puri, Raj Jariwala, Ranbir Kaleka, Samanta Batra Mehta, Samit Das, Subrat Kumar Behra, Tayeba Begum Lipi

Radiate: Art of the South Asian Diaspora | Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago | November 2- December 15, 2012

Participating artist include: Soina Benjamin, Tenzin Wangchuk, Amina Ahmed, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Vijay Kumar, Sonia Chaudhary, Samanta Batra Mehta and Neil Chowdhury, Shelly Bahl, Annu Palakunnathu Mathew and Anjali Deshmukh

Tayeba Begum Lipi’s elephant was part of the first Elephant Parade in India which was inaugurated on 25th February 2018 at the Gateway of India. It included 101 gorgeous elephant sculptures by leading artists and designers including L.N. Tallur, Princess Pea, Christian Louboutin, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Masaba Gupta to name a few.

Raj Jariwala was hosted by The Gujral Foundation at 24 Jorbagh as part of their program Studio 24 in association with Shrine Empire. Raj worked with the space on site for two weeks.

Tayeba Begum Lipi’s elephant was part of the first Elephant Parade in India which was inaugurated on 25th February 2018 at the Gateway of India. It included 101 gorgeous elephant sculptures by leading artists and designers including L.N. Tallur, Princess Pea, Christian Louboutin, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Masaba Gupta to name a few.
Artwork detail:

Mirror
Stainless steel razor blades
61 x 50 x 122 cm
2017
 

Upcoming Exhibitions include:

‘The City, My Studio / The City, My Life’, Kathmandu Triennale 2017, Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren, 24 March – 9 April 2017.

Anoli Perera is part of the project A Tale of Two Cities | India & Sri Lanka, conceptualised by Renu Modi, IGNCA, New Delhi, 9 – 31 March.

This project is a strong step towards addressing the issues of shared histories within the sub-continent. Six artists from India and five from Sri Lanka embarked on a journey to understand the politics of cities, religions and the stories that places tell through Anuradhapura and Varanasi. Presented by Gallery Espace, New Delhi & Serendipity Arts Trust, New Delhi. Supported by Theertha International Artists’ Collective, Sri Lanka.

Participating artists: Anoli Perera | Bandu Manamperi | Chintan Upadhyay | Jagath Weerasinghe | Manisha Parekh | Manjunath Kamath | Pala Pothupitiye | Paula Sengupta Pradeep Chandrasiri | Ram Rahman | Riyas Komu

She was recently also part of ‘Imagined Futures and Reconstructed Pasts’, curated by Meera Menezes, Bikaner House, New Delhi, 7 – 18 December 2016

Upcoming exhibitions include: ‘Portraits of Intervention’, curated by Bansie Vasvani, Aicon Gallery, New York, 31 March – 29 April 2017

Participating Artists include: Anoli Perera, Gautam Kansara, Kartik Sood, Neerja Kothari, Paula Sengupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Samanta Batra Mehta, Samit Das, Shilpa Gupta and Tayeba Begum Lipi.

Featured works by Gautam Kansara, Neerja Kothari, Priyesh Trivedi, Puja Puri, Samanta Batra Mehta, Sangita Maity, and Tayeba Begum Lipi.

Priyesh Trivedi’s first solo exhibition ‘Meinong’s Abyss’ opened at l’agence en residence, Bordeaux, France on 17 February, 2017. The exhibition explores the nature of objects and dimensions from an ontological perspective, based on Austrian Philosopher Alexius Meinong’s writing.

Priyesh Trivedi was an artist-in-residence at Gasworks, London, July – October 2016.

The work derives from the lost histories of South Asian sailors, who, in the late 19th and early 20th century, married into the Black and Latino communities in Harlem, and passed as Black, in order to escape deportation and circumvent the harsh laws against Asian immigrants in the US at the time.

Upcoming exhibitions include:

‘Archival Alchemy’, curated by Saisha Grayson, SAWCC, Abrons Arts Center, New York, 6 April – 10 May 2017

‘Loving Blackness’, curated by Jaishri Abichandani, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, 3 February – 21 April 2017

Ornate Activate, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 16 February – 14 May 2017

In 2016 Neerja Kothari was awarded residencies at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico and The Corporation of Yaddo, New York.

Upcoming exhibitions include: ‘Lucid Dreams/Distant Visions’, curated by Michelle Yun, Boon Hui Tan and Jaishri Abichandani, Asia Society Museum, New York City, 26 June onwards. Exhibiting artists include: Gautam Kansara, Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani, Priyanka Dasgupta, Jaishri Abichandani, Rina Banerjee, Ruby Chishti, Vandana Jain, Shahzia Sikander, Naeem Mohaiemen, among others.

The Bangladeshi artist always applies a critical feminist lens to her work. She first caught the art world’s attention with the razor blades sculptures. She showcased at the Venice Biennale in 2011.

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The artist draws from medieval sketches and old textbook to create illustrations, photos, and illustrations that intersect between personal history, colonisation and the new world order.

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Solo exhibition by Tayeba Begum Lipi at Sundaram Tagore Gallery

A group show by Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman at Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum- The Artist as Activist, from Mar 5 to August 7, 2016

Memory Keeper at Hempel Galleries, Colombo | 24th June 2016 – 21st August 2016

Heartwarming artist crafts her exhibition around the journey and experience of Anonya, a transgender.

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Shrine Empire showing the works of seven artists at the India Art Fair 2015. The gallery which promotes contemporary artist will be showing the works of Anoli Perera, Fariba S Alam, Gautam Kansara, Priyanka Dasgupta, Puja Puri, Samanta Batra Mehta and Tayeba Begum Lipi.

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“Second Skin” by Sri Lankan artist Anoli Perera is an installation cum photo performance that traces the control of the artist’s body with an elastic red dress that overwhelms her in a series of photographs.

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Reverse Reality – Shrine Empire presents Pro.ject 2015.03 “Reverse Reality” by Tayeba Begum Lipi. Pro.ject invites young and established artists to purpose an exhibition that will utilise the space of the Shrine Empire for a single comprehensive project.

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Sakshi gallery represents – A Journey of Secrets, solo show by Samanta Batra Mehta

Anoli Perera at Memorabilia at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore curated by Lina Vincent Sunesh

Nature Morte Gallery represents Suchitra Gahlot at Dhaka Art Summit

Samanta Batra Mehta nominated for the Forbes Art Award 2014 in the category of Best Debut Solo for the show The Other Side of Time held at Shrine Empire in April 2013

A Bomb, with Ribbon about it by Priyanka Dasgupta at Queens Museum, New York, curated by Raul Zamudio | December 2014

Radiate: Art of the South Asian Diaspora | Windsor Art Center | May 12- June 15, 2012 | Curated by Kathryn Myers

Participating Artists: Amina Ahmed, Shelly Bahl, Siona Benjamin, Sonia Chaudhary, Neil Chowdhury, Anjali Deshmukh, Vijay Kumar, Annu Palakunnathu Mathew, Samanta Batra Mehta, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Tenzin Wangchuk

Multiple, Unique, Limited: Selections from the Permanent Collection | Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX | May 31- August 25, 2012 | Curated by Alexander Campos with assistance from Jen Larson

Works by artists such as Ed Ruscha, Bruce Naauman, Martha Rosler, Kiki Smith, Barbara Henry, Pablo Helguera, Carlos Motto, Karina Skvirsky, Gautam Kansara, Sarah Plimpton, Chitra Ganesh and many other emerging and established artists are countered among the Center’s collections.

1. Holy BOS! Films and Videos, Bobby Red Space ( The Chruch), Brooklyn, NY | June 3, 2012 | Curated by Microscope Gallery

2. Multiple, Unique, Limited: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Minnesota, Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN | Feb 3 – May 21, 2012 | Curated by Alexander Campos with assistance from Jen Larson

3. DRIFT 2012, Cerro Gordo Temple, Sante Fe, New Mexico | April 19, 2012 | Curated by Eileen Torpey

4. Collapsing Giant, Malcolm Low/ Formal Structure, Joyce Soho | March 2-3, 2012

Transparent Studio Bose Pacia Gallery, Brooklyn, New York | July- October, 2012

Events:

1st Thursday events are held 6-9 pm

Thursday, August 2: A sharing of work in progress and opportunities for collaboration.

Thursday, September 6: An Exhibition of work in progress and panel discussion focused on interdisciplinary collaborations

Thursday, October 4: An interdisciplinary installation and literary event in collaboration with Billy & CO

Skin Deep at Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India | 10 August- 24 September, 2012 | Curated by Lyla Rao and Mohini Varma

Artists includes: Samanta Batra Mehta, Priyanka Dasgupta, Pranati Panda, Parvati Nayar, Lavanya Mani, Sumakshi Singh, Megha Joshi, Kavita Jaiswal, Vishwa Shroff, Remen Chopra, Koumadi Patil, Yardena Kurulkar, Neha Lavingia and Riya Chatterjee.

Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective

Queens Museum of Art, New York | August 11- October 7, 2012 | Curated by Jaishri Abichandani

Artists include Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abhichandani, Nida Abidi, Fariba Alam, Samanta Batra Mehta, Indrani Ashe, Shelly Bahl, Anjali Bhargava, Monica Jahan Bose, Marcy Chevali, Nandani Chirimar, Ruby Chisti, Poulami Desai, Mariam Ghani, Roya Farassat, Chitra Ganesh, Hayat Gul, Aisha Abid Hussain, Vandana Jain, Mona Kamal, Jesal Kapadia, Asma Kazmi, Tara Kelton, Sarita Khurana, Swati Khurana, Pooneh Maghazehe, Annu Mathew, Jayna Mistry, Sabelo Narsimhan, Yamini Nayar, Bhanu Palam, Shruti Parekh, Amruta Patil, Kaveri Raina, Sa’da Rehman, Tara Sabarwal, Sadia Salim Negin Sharifzadeh(Moss), Pallavi Sharma, Meenakshi Thirukode, Anahita Vossoughi, Nazneen Ayyub Wood

Interpreting Rituals: The Butterfly Effect, New York Art Residency and Studios(NARS) Foundation | 10 – 23 September 2012

Gautam Kansara is the part of the group exhibition and he will be showing a new video as well as a new photographic installation at the NARS foundation in Brooklyn, for Asian American Arts Alliance’s locating the Sacred Festival.

This is Familiar But I Can’t Remember Now….
28th September- 30th September 2012
A video installation by Gautam Kansara 

A Video/Sound Installation that address the fragility of memory as daily life becomes increasingly mediated by recording devices that augment, replace, and alter how events are remembered as well as experienced. The tendency to be looking at live events through our cameras or phone cameras is so prevalent, which introduces a negotiation between the way one remembers things in their own mind and how these events are represented through various recorded media. The veracity of memory becomes questionable, as memory is increasingly viewed through a lens that can be re-focused.

Projections illuminate large sheets of paper that are torn, restitched and assembled together in voluminous abstract 3D forms. These video sculptures are in a constant motion, fluttering in an artificial wind, highlighting their disjunctive and mutable nature. Monologues that draw on personal stories of those close to the artist accompany the video. Some are his memories, some are borrowed, some are embellished, some are truth. As a whole the work points to the malleable nature of our remembrances, where one memory often conceals or alters another.

Gautam’s first solo of photo-installations at Shrine Empire Art Gallery.

https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/Back-and-forth/article16614642.ece

For more details: http://johnyml.blogspot.com/2009/08/performative-tears.html