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- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous
Education
2009 – Bachelors in Philosophy (Honours), St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Awards/Fellowships/Honours
2020 – Finalist, Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award
2019 – Finalist, Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia
2018 – Finalist, New Discovery Award, Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 – Vogue 40 under 40 artists to watch out for
2018 – Nominated, Mast Foundation for Photography Grant
2018 – Nominated, Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2017 – Tata Trust Grant to pursue a long-term documentation project.
2016 – Ink Fellowship for book making and photo-documentation.
2016 – Nominated, Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo
2015 – Nominated, Prix Pictet Award
2014 – Foto Visura Spotlight Grant for the artist book ‘This World of Dew’
2014 – Listed amongst India’s ten best contemporary photographers by Culture Trip, UK
(http://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/india-s-10-best-contemporary-photographers-you-should-know/)
2013 – Neel Dongre Award in Photography, supported by the India Photo Archive Foundation
2013 – Oslo University College Fellowship to participate & showcase work at Chobi Mela VII013 CV_ChandanGomes
2011 – India Habitat Centre Fellowship For Photography for the series ‘Elegy for the Unsung Cubicle’
Exhibitions (Selected)
2020 – Artist books at MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2019 – ‘Chandan Gomes: Works 2013-18, Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University, Durham, USA
2019 – ‘View India’, Landskrona Photo, Sweden
2018 – ‘There are Things I call Home’, FotoFest 2018 Biennale, Houston, USA
2018 – ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2018 – ‘This World of Dew’, Asia House, London
2018 – ‘Intimate Documents’, Serendipity Arts Festival, India
2018 – ‘People You May Know’ at Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 – ‘Intimate Documents’, Serendipity Arts Festival, India
2017 – ‘Another life, another time, another death’ at ‘Odds & Ends’, GALLERYSKE
2017 – ‘This World of Dew’ at GALLERYSKE
2017 – ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘There are things I call home’ at C-13, supported by FICA
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, Parc Des Ateliers (Photo book exhibition), Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, Benaki Museum (photo book exhibition), Athens Photo Festival
2015 – ‘Promise of Beauty’, PHOTOINK, Delhi
2014 – Foto Visura Spotlight 2014, Brisbane Power House Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2014 – Foto Visura Projection, Month of Photography, Los Angeles, USA
2013 – ‘Elegy for the Unsung Cubicle’, Delhi Photo Festival
2013 – ‘The Unknown Citizen’, United Art Fair, Delhi
2013 – ‘The Unknown Citizen’ at Sarai Reader 09: Episode 3, Devi Art Foundation
2013 – Chobi Mela VII, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2012 – ‘Apna Ghar’, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi
2012 – ‘Trespass’, Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi (supported by Pix Quarterly & The Japan Foundation)
Published Works (Selected)
2018 – ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, New York Times
2018 – ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, The Hindu
2018 – ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, New Indian Express
2018 – ‘People You May Know’, India Today
2018 – ‘People You May Know’, Firstpost
2018 – ‘People You May Know’, Scroll
2017 – ‘There are things I call home’, Reader’s Digest
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, The Indian Express (Sunday Edition)
2016 – ‘Promise of Beauty’, Wall Art Magazine
2015 – ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘Promise of Beauty’, Creative Image Magazine
2014 – ‘There are things I call home’, Feature Shoot
2014 – ‘There are things I call home’, Boston Coffee House
2013 – ‘The Unknown Citizen’, Sarai Reader 09: Projections
2012 – ‘There are things I call home’, The Sunday Guardian
2012 – ‘There are things I call home’, Pix Quarterly (Issue: Trespass)
Work Experience
2019 – Ongoing – Extra Curricular Faculty, Ashoka University, Haryana
2016-17 – Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Design (NID), Gujarat
2014 – Ongoing – Core Faculty, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communications, Delhi
Books
2015 – ‘This World of Dew’, an artist book published by PHOTOINK, Delhi
2015 – ‘Voices and Images’, an anthology to celebrate a decade of the India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography, published by Penguin Random House (contributing artist, winner of the fellowship in 2011)
Chandan Gomes has studied Philosophy at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (2009). Emotional and intellectual anxieties drive him as a photographer.
Chandan is the recipient of the India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography in 2011, Oslo University Scholarship to participate in Chobi Mela in 2012, Neel Dongre Award in Photography in 2013, the Foto Visura Spotlight Grant in 2014 and the INK Fellowship in 2016. He was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award in 2015 and the Sovereign Asia Art Prize in 2018.
His artist book, ‘This World of Dew’, published by PHOTOINK, was released in 2015 and went on to garner critical acclaim. ‘This World of Dew’ has been shown at the Benaki Museum, Athens, Parc Des Ateliers, Arles and Zeytinburnu International Photography Festival, Istanbul, amongst other places. His photo essay ‘There are things I call home’ was on view at Asia Society Center, Texas as part of FotoFest 2018 Biennale, Houston. He exhibited his latest body of work ‘People You May Know’ at Les Recontres d’Arles in July, 2018 as part of the prestigious New Discovery Award; the exhibition was supported by PHOTOINK. Chandan has also exhibited at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 and Serendipity Arts Festival 2018. He was amongst the three finalists in the visual arts category for the Art Spectrum South Asia Awards 2019. Chandan was invited to Centre for Documentary Studies, Duke University to exhibit his work and run workshops on book making and narrative building.
He currently teaches at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communications, Delhi and Ashoka University, Haryana.
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