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Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery. Founded by Deepak Talwar, it opened in New York City in September 2001 and in New Delhi in 2007.
Overview
Talwar Gallery, New York was launched in September 2001 and Talwar New Delhi opened in 2007. Deepak Talwar, founder of Talwar Gallery, has been working with contemporary artists from India since 1996.
Representing some of the most exciting artists working in the Indian subcontinent today and the essential 20th century artists from India like Estate of Rummana Hussain and Nasreen Mohamedi, Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on artists from the Indian Subcontinent and its Diaspora. Underlying the gallery vision is the belief that the artist is geographically located not the art. Their search and their work traverse any simplified categorization based on geography, religion, culture or race.
Talwar New York
Since opening in September 2001, Talwar Gallery NY has presented the first solo exhibitions of artists that have since been the focus of major museum exhibitions and collections. Talwar Gallery presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–90) in 2003. It was Mohamedi's first solo exhibition outside India and the first ever of her photographs. The Gallery presented Mohamedi again in 2008 and 2013 in two solo exhibitions. Later in 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York presented Mohamedi’s work as their inaugural solo exhibition at The MET Breuer. Talwar NY also presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Ranjani Shettar in 2004. Since then, Shettar has been the subject of solo exhibitions at ICA Boston (2008), The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2008), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019). Amongst other artists introduced by Talwar to the western audiences include Alwar Balasubramaniam, Allan deSouza, Rummana Hussain, Alia Syed, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon, Kartik Sood, Sheila Makhijani, and Paramjit Singh.
Exhibitions
= New York Exhibitions
=2023
Kartik Sood, Elusive Spaces
Paramjit Singh
2022
N.N. Rimzon, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Ranjani Shettar, From Three, Two
Allan deSouza, Flotsam (1926-2018)
20th Anniversary Exhibition, as the wind blows
2021
Sheila Makhijani, Take A Listen
2020
Nasreen Mohamedi, Pull with a Direction
Muhanned Cader, I See Sea
2019
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Becoming Nature
Alia Syed, Meta Incognita: Missive II
2018
Arpita Singh, Trying down time II
Ranjani Shettar, On and on it goes on
Shambhavi Singh, Maati.Maa
2017
Arpita Singh, Tying down time
Allan de Souza, Through the Black Country & Alia Syed, On a wing and a prayer
2016
N. N. Rimzon, And I thank you one again
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Rain in the midnight
Rummana Hussain, Breaking skin
2015
Sheila Makhijani, NowNotNow
Anjum Singh, Masquerade
Allan de Souza, Notes from Afar
Muhanned Cader, Jungle Tide
2014
Ranjani Shettar, Night skies and daydreams
Paramjit Singh, Shifting Terrains
Nasreen Mohamedi, Becoming One
2013
FOUND
Alia Syed, Panopticon Letters: Missive I
Alwar Balasubramniam
2012
Rummana Hussain
2011
Shambhavi Singh, Lonely Furrow
Allan de Souza, Trysts Tropicales
Sheila Makhijani, TOSS
2010
Alia Syed, Wallpaper
2010
Risham Syed, and the rest is history
Ranjani Shettar
2009
Emperor’s New Clothes
Excerpts from Diary Pages
Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged
2008
Alia Syed, New Films & Photoworks
Allan de Souza, (I don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos
2007
Alwar Balasubramaniam
Valsan Kolleri, New Clearage: Retrospective as Artwork
Shambavi Singh, a bird and two thousand echoes, Paintings 2001-2006
2006
Anant Joshi, Local, Kiss Me Kill Me – Push Me Pull Me
Ranjani Shettar, Recent Works
2005
Navjot Altaf, Water Weaving
Sheila Makhijani, BLIP!
Allan de Souza, The Lost Pictures
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Into Thin Air
2004
Paramjit Singh, Recent Paintings
Ranjani Shettar, The Indian Spring
Sheila Makhijani, Recent Works
Alia Syed, Eating Grass
2003
Nasreen Mohamedi, Photoworks
Allan de Souza, people in white houses
Navjot Altaf, In Response To…,
Alia Syed, Film Works,
2002
Anjum Singh, New Paintings,
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, MANGO,
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Recent Works
Subba Ghosh & Sheila Makhijani
Rajendra Dhawan & Paramjit Singh, Inner/Outer,
2001
Allan de Souza, Recent Works
Zarina Bhimji, Cleaning the Garden
= New Delhi Exhibitions
=2023
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Mirror on the Ground
Sheila Makhijani, Just like that
2022
Ranjani Shettar, Summer garden and rain clouds
Kartik Sood, In Thin Air
2021
N. N. Rimzon, The Round Ocean and the Living Death
2019
Anjum Singh, I am still here
Sheila Makhijani, This That and The Other
2018
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Liquid Lake Mountain
2017
Ranjani Shettar, Bubble trap and a double bow
2016
Muhanned Cader, ISLAND
N.N. Rimzon, Forest of The Living Divine
2015
Rummana Hussain, Breaking Skin
Alwar Balasubramaniam, layers of wind, lines of time
Shambhavi Singh, Reaper’s Melody
2014
Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth
Navjot Altaf, Horn in the Head
2013
Sheila Makhijani, nothing really to know
Allan deSouza, Painting Redux
2012
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Nothing From My Hands
2011
Ranjani Shettar, Present Continuous
2010
Rummana Hussain, Fortitude From Fragments
Navjot Altaf, Touch IV
2009
Alwar Balasubramaniam, (IN)BETWEEN
Alia Syed, Elision
2008
Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks
Shambhavi Singh, Lullaby
2007
Ranjani Shettar, Epiphanies:Alwar Balasubramaniam, (in)visible
= Other exhibitions
=2023
Alwar Balasubramaniam in Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Rummana Hussain in The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Institute of Arab & Islamic Art, New York, NY
Nasreen Mohamedi in Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
Ranjani Shettar in Confluence: Sangam, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, Mumbai, India
2022
Allan deSouza in Elegies of Futures Past, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Nasreen Mohamedi and Arpita Singh in Elles font l'abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2021
Ranjani Shettar in 150th Anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2019
Allan deSouza in New Cartographies, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
Rummana Hussain in Our time for a future sharing, 58th Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Italy
Ranjani Shettar, Earth Songs for a Night Sky, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Arpita Singh, Arpita Singh: A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Alia Syed in Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Alwar Balasubramaniam in Alchemy: Explorations in Indigo, Arvind Indigo Museum, Ahmedabad, India
2018
Allan deSouza, Through the Black County, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Alwar Balasubramaniam in You Remind Me of Someone, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Ranjani Shettar, Seven ponds a few raindrops, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2017
Allan deSouza in Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York, NY, 2017.
N.N. Rimzon in Pond Near the Field, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
2016
Alia Syed & Allan deSouza in Contents Under Pressure, Van Every/Smith Museum Galleries, Davidson, NC
Nasreen Mohamedi, MET Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2015
Nasreen Mohamedi, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Shelia Makhijani in Working Spaces, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Alwar Balasubramaniam & Allan deSouza in Intersections @5, Works from the permanent collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Allan deSouza in Time / Image, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2014
Allan deSouza in Earth Matters, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Rummana Hussain in The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Nasreen Mohamedi in Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Nasreen Mohamedi, Tate Liverpool, UK
Rummana Hussain in Is it what you think? Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
2013
Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Nasreen Mohamedi, A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Ranjani Shettar, High tide for a blue moon, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
Ranjani Shettar in Now Here is also Nowhere: Part 1, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Alia Syed, Eating Grass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Sheila Makhijani in 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2012 Alwar Balasubramaniam, all our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney Australia
Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines of Thought, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
Ranjani Shettar, Dewdrops and Sunshine, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2011
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Sk(in), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Alwar Balasubramaniam in Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Allan deSouza, The World Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Ranjani Shettar in Flame of The Forest, Hermes Foundation, Singapore
Nasreen Mohamedi, A. Balasubramaniam, Sheila Makhijani, Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
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Press Coverage
The Barbican Center (2023). "Press room Ranjani Shettar: Cloud songs on the horizon."
Powers, Sophia (2023). "Kartik Sood," ARTFORUM.
Jenkins, Mark (2023)."Alwar Balasubramaniam in the Phillips Collection," The Washington Post.
Menezes, Meera (2023). "Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM.
Civin, Marcus(2023). "Al-An deSouza: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art," ARTFORUM.
Sharma, Kamayani (2022). "Kartik Sood - In Thin Air," Art Asia Pacific.
Menezes, Meera (2020). "N.N. RIMZON, TALWAR GALLERY | NEW DELHI," ARTFORUM.
Smith, Roberta (2020). "NASREEN MOHAMEDI, TALWAR GALLERY, NEW YORK," The New York Times.
Heffner, Ariana (2020). "Obituary: Anjum Singh (1967–2020)," Art Asia Pacific.
Sharma, Kamayani (2019). "Critic’s Pick: Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM.
Publications
2021: Alwar Balasubramaniam, BALA, text by Vesela Sretenović, Alwar Balasubramaniam, and Deepak Talwar
2019: Arpita Singh, Tying down time, text by Ella Datta and Deepak Talwar
2017: Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth, text by Catherine deZegher, Ranjani Shettar, Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery
2009: Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged, text by Geeta Kapur, Deepak Talwar, Anders Kreuger, John Yau, Talwar Gallery
2009: Alwar Balasubramaniam, (In)between, text by Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery
2008: Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks, texts by Allan deSouza, Eve Oishi, Moi Tsien, Luis Francia, Steven Nelson, Talwar Gallery
2005: Nasreen Mohamedi, Lines Among Lines, Drawing Papers 52, texts by Geeta Kapur, Susette Min, Drawing Center
2005: (Desi)re, Talwar Gallery, 2005
References
External links
Official website
Talwar Gallery, New Delhi on India Express
Talwar Gallery on Artinfo
Talwar Gallery, New Delhi on ArtSlant
Talwar Gallery, New York on ArtSlant