Kiran Subbaiah / Bio

Name: Kiran Subbaiah Ajjikuttira

Born on 13/02/1971

Lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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Education:

1999: MFA (Sculpture), Royal College of Art, London, UK.

1994: MFA (Sculpture), M.S. University, Baroda, India.

1992: BFA (Sculpture), Santiniketan, India.

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Shows/ Performances/ Participation:

2022: Backwards Ahead, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Italy.

2022: De Montañas Submarinas El Fuego Hace Islas, PIVÔ, Sao Paulo.

2021: The South South Show (Webinar). Goodman Gallery, South Africa.

2020-21: NGV Triennial National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

2019: Text Matters, The Guild, Alibaug, India.

2019: Moving Still: Performative Photography from India, Vancouver Art Gallery.

2017: The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

2016: Diesel for Art, Diesel Store, Mumbai.

2015: The Network: Contemporary Art from India, Jonathan Smart Gallery, New Zealand.

2015: Art Exchange, Cona Foundation, Mumbai.

2014: Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh.

2014: Aesthetic Bind - Phantomata, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

2013: Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video, FD ZONE, Films Division, Mumbai.

2013: Zones of Contact, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, India.

2013: La Presencia del Sonido, Espacio de la Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain.

2013: Five Years of CIS, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.

2012: Narcissicon, Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

2012: Generation in Transition -New Art from India, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2012: Indian Highway VII, UCCA, Beijing.

2011: Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

2011: Indian Highway V, MAC Lyon, France.

2011: Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany.

2011: Indian Highway VI, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome.

2011: Khoj Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi.

2011: Skoda Prize Show, Max Muller Bhavan, New Delhi.

2011: Generation in Transition -New Art from India, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.

2011: On the Sidereal, The Guild, Mumbai.

2010: Indian Highway III, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark.

2010: Videoart India, Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona.

2010: 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.

2010: I Think Therefore Graffiti, The Guild. Mumbai.

2010: Indian Highway IV, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland.

2010: Take on Art. 1 Shanti road, Bangalore.

2010: Last Words, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

2009: On Certainty, Bose Pacia, New York.

2009: Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.

2009: Sleepwalker Daydream, Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

2009: Moment as Monument, Travancore Palace, New Delhi.

2009: The View from Elsewhere, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

2009: The View from Elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney.

2009: A New Vanguard, The Guild, New York.

2009: Indian Highway II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

2009: Analytical Engine, Bose Pacia, Kolkata.

2009: A Selection from Travancore Palace, Thomas Erben, New York.

2008-9: Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

2008-9: Indian Highway I, Serpentine South Gallery, London.

2008: Synonymous, The Guild, Mumbai.

2008: First Left - Second Right, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.

2008: Still Moving Image, The Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India.

2008: Singapore Biennale.

2008: By All Means, Scope Basel, Switzerland.

2008: Thomas Erben Gallery at Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

2006: Subcontigent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino.

2005-6: Metrospective, Mumbai & New Delhi.

2005: Me Myself and I, Kashi Gallery, Cochin, India.

2005: Are We Like This Only? Vadhera Gallery, New Delhi, India.

2005: Mirror Worlds, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney.

2004: Another Passage to India, Musee d'Ethnographie, Geneva.

2004: Indo-German Video Art Festival, Goethe Institute, Bangalore.

2004: 10eme Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva.

2004: Location Zero = Infinity, Pixxel Point, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

2004: Have We Met? The Japan Foundation, Tokyo.

2004: LA Freewaves, 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New media, Los Angeles.

2003: Flight Rehersals. Irma Vep Lab, Chatillon, France.

2003: Stopping By (with Dustin Larson). Clean Brothers' Laundry, Amsterdam.

2003: Lost and Found Radio, De Waag, Amsterdam.

2003: Backwards Ahead, Rijksakademie Open Ateliers, Amsterdam.

2003: City Park, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

2003: OK Video Festival, Ruangrupa, Jakarta.

2002: Een Andere Kijk op de Wereld, Fort Vuren, The Netherlands.

2002: Crash Run, Rhizome Art Base. www.rhizome.org.

2002: Festival de Rode Loper, De Niewe Ooster, Amsterdam.

2002: Private Mytholigies, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi.

2002: Moist: Media Arts Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing.

2002: All my Belongings. Rijksakademie Open Ateliers. Amsterdam.

2002: Shhhhh! Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, India.

2001: On The Edge of Volume, Alliance Francaise, Bangalore

2000: Visages de Rencontres, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, Paris.

2000: Home Videos, Alliance Francaise, Bangalore.

2000: Open Circle, Tao Gallery, Mumbai.

1999: Hello I am..., Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury.

1999: Another Place, Levi's Flagship Gallery, London.

1998-99: Absolute Secret for Absolut Vodka, Gulbenkian Hall, London.

1998: Summer Show, RCA, London.

1996: Confronting Gift-wrapped Curses, Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda.

1996: Garden of Delight, Vlaardingen Boomgard, The Netherlands.

1997: Antonin Artaud Centenary Show, Eicher Gallery, New Delhi.

1997: Revised Lessons in Taking and Giving, Images gallery, Bangalore.

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Residencies/ Workshops:

2011: Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Norway.

2011: The Sidereal Residency, The Guild, Mumbai.

2008: Art and Sound. Khoj Studios, New Delhi.

2005: Khoj Workshop, Mumbai.

2005: Stiftung Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Germany.

2002-3: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam.

2002: Skoki Workshop, Poznan Akademie, Poland.

2000: Open Circle, Mumbai.

1999-2001: Shankara Centre for the Arts, Bangalore, India.

1998: Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

1995: European Ceramic Work Centre,'s Hertogenbosch Holland.

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Grants:

2011: Muncipality of Bergen, Norway.

2005: Stiftung Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen.

2002 -3: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1997: Inlaks scholarsh

1995: Unesco Aschberg Bursary

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'Work' Experience:

2012: Visiting Faculty, Srishti Institute of Art, Bangalore.

2006: Seminar Coordinator, 'The Expanding Field of Video', CKP/ Max Muller Bhavan, Bangalore.

2005: Co-Curator, World Information City Exhibition, Bangalore, IN.

2003: Visiting Artist, Den Bosch Academy of Art and Design, s'Hertogenbosch, NL.

2001: Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Design, Ahemadabad, IN.

1998: Visiting Artist, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, UK.

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Publications:

2021: Self as Other: The Cinematic Space of Kiran Subbaiah by Anisha Baid. © ASAP|ART

2021: Material Inversals: The Works of Kiran Subbaiah by Anisha Baid. © ASAP|ART

2020: Kiran Subbiah: A Dinosaur Who is Still Awake by Nina Badhwar. © The Indian Down Under.

2014: Dhaka Art Summit, © Samdani Art Foundation.

2013: The Presence of Sound - La presencia del sonido, © Fundación Botín.

2015: Imago Aevitas – Reserch on Net Art in India by Charu Maithani. © Sarai.

2013: Kiran Subbaiah by Ryan Holmberg. © Art in America.

2012: The Art of Daydreaming by Soma Das, © Midday.

2011: Paris-Delhi-Bombay..., © Centre Pompidou.

2011: Philippe Pratx Interviews Kiran Subbaiah, © La Nouvelle Revue de l'Inde.

2011: Being Antikiran by Girish Shahane, © Art India.

2010: Last Words, © 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

2010: I'm Not There: A Sourcebook, © Gwangju Biennale Foundation.

2010: The Khoj Book 1997-2007: Contemporary Art Practice in India. © Khoj international Artists' Association.

2009: A New Vanguard: Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, © Saffronart and The Guild.

2009: Kiran Subbaiah's Suicide Note by Girish Shahane. © Shoot First, Mumble Later.

2009: The View from Elsewhere, © Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.

2009: Kaushik and Kiran by Girish Shahane, © Shoot First, Mumble Later.

2009: Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, © National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.

2008: A Gift for Khoj - Edition II, © Khoj international Artists' Association.

2008: Still Moving Image, © Devi Art Foundation.

2008: Singapore Biennale 2008: Wonder (Guide), © Singapore Biennale Secretariat.

2006: Subcontigent. By Ilaria Bonacossa and Francesco Manacorda. © Electa | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

2006: Autobiography of a Truthfull Man (videos on DVD), Copyleft, Autonomous.

2005: KHOJ 2004-2005. © Khoj international Artists' Association.

2005: The Ludic Epiphany of Kiran Subbaiah, by Abhishek Hazra, © Art and Deal.

2005: Mirror Worlds, © ACP.

2005: Are we Like This Only?, © Vadhera Gallery.

2004: Have We Met? © The Japan Foundation. 

2004: USE_ME.EXE, (CD ROM), Copyleft. Autonomous.

2003: Video Art in India, © Apeejay Press, e.books World Pvt Ltd.

2002: Multimedia Art Asia Pacific 2002 Beijing, © MAAP.

2002: Concealments (videos on DVD), Copyleft, Autonomous.

2002: Original Photocopy, Copyleft, Autonomous.

2002: CRASHRUN v2.0, (CD ROM), Copyleft, Autonomous.

2001: On the Edge of Volume, by Marta J Karle, © Synergy Foundation.

2001: Art Utopia and the Allegorical Impulse, by Shankar Natarajan, © Art India Magazine.

2000: 20th Century Indian Sculpture, edited by Dr Shivaji Panikker, © Marg Publications.

1999: The Show, © RCA.

1999: Visages de Rencontres, by Estelle Pages, © Au figur et Maison Populaire.

1997: Garden of Delight, Vilma Henkelman, © Stichting Ceramic Circle.

1997: Revised Lessons in Taking and Giving, Copyleft, Autonomous.

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Kiran Subbaiah / Bio