Anju Dodiya

The artist

Anju Dodiya was born in 1964 in Mumbai where she lives and works. Her paintings, acts of rebellion and exorcism, use the self-portrait form to explore the conflicts between inner life and external reality. The artist provides a new take on historical sources as varied as Indian miniatures, French medieval tapestries and newspaper photographs. Her paintings are striking in the contrast they create between the dramatic intensity of the subjects and the subtleties of how she produces them.


Exhibitions

Biography

Birth Born in Mumbai in 1964
Residence Lives and works in Mumbai
Education 1986 the Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021 Tower of Slowness, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Breathing On Mirrors, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2018 Anju Dodiya: The Air is a Mill of Hooks, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2016 How to be Brave (in pictures), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2015 Imagined Immortals, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2012 Room for Erasures, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
2011 Cloud-Hunter and other works, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India

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2010 Face à Face (after Kuniyoshi), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Necklace of Echoes, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008 All Night I Shall Gallop, Tyler Print Institute and Bhodi Art, Singapore
2007 Throne of Frost, Lukshmi Villas Palace, Baroda, India
Throne of Frost, Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India
2006 Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2005 The Cloud-Hunt, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2001 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1999 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
1996 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1991 Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023 Prussian Blue: A Serendipitous Colour that Altered the Trajectory of Art, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UEA
Part 2 – Futuring | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
On Purpose, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2022 A Lick of Night in the Morning, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Legal Alien, curated by Meera Menezes, fifth edition, Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW), Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
Woman Is As Woman Does, curated by Nancy Adajania, CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, India
The Politics of Paper, curated by Ushmita Sahu, Emami Art, Kolkata, India
Modus Operandi III: Together Alone, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
Conversations on tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
Call me by your name, conceptualized by Udit Bhambri, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2021 On|Site | Entry Only, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai India
Collective 22, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Erasure, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Red, Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
2020 Search and Discovery: The Joy of Collection – Selections from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection, The Private Museum, Singapore
A Tapestry of Time, Tao’s 20th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Inspired and Inspired, curated by Sonal Motla, Jegangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, india
Frin/Ge, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Visions from India, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Every Soiled Page, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Future is Not Fixed, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
A Mind of One’s Own, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
In Touch – Edition 2, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
In Touch – Edition 1, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019 5 Artists, 5 Projects, Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai, India
Fracture/Fiction: Selection from the ILHAM Collection, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Modus Operandi II, Chemould Prescott Gallery, Mumbai, India
2018 Modus Operandi, Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, Mumbai, India
2017 Here be dragons and other coded landscapes, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Persevering Traditions: The weft and the warp, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Visions from India, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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2016 Given Time: The Gift & Its Offerings, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, India
No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Bhupen's Contemporaries, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK
Contemplations: A Tableau of the Real and Imagined, Science Centre, Surat, Gujarat
The Journey is the Destination: The Artist's Journey between Then and Now, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders and the Community’ and ‘No Parsi is an Island, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2015 The Ecstasy of Art – 1, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Continuing Traditions, Musee de la Toile de Jouy, France
Off the Record: Meditations on the Photographic Image, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
The New Space, 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai
Sensorium 2015-2016, Art Oxygen at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts, Panaji, Goa
2014 Noir / Blanc, Sixth Anniversary show, The LOFT, Mumbai. India
Drawing 2014: 7 Decades of Indian Drawing, The Exhibition Hall, IGNCA, New Delhi, India
The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; China Art Museum, Shanghai and Minsheng Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2013 Aesthetic Bind/Subject of Death, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
Ideas of the Sublime, Lalit Kala Akademi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Terrestrial Bodies, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai
Mapmakers II: The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, India
Zoom: A Collection (A Contemporary Group Show), Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India
2012 Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Narratives of the Self, Gallery Espace, Delhi, India
Terrestrial Bodies, 1x1 Gallery, Dubai
To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Chennai, India
Inscribing the Female Body, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, India
Art for Humanity, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, India
Voicing a Presence: Women Artists in the Jehangir Nicholson Collection, The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India
A Further Global Encounter, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK
2011 Indian Contemporary Art: The Intuitive – Logic Revisited, from the Osian’s collection, The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
SIX DECADES Celebrating the Mumbai Artists from the Jehangir Nicholson Art Collection, Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai. India
Roots in the Air, Branches Below, Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, USA
2010 Looking Glass –The Existence of Difference, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Changing Skin, Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India
Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Modern Art of India: The Ethos of Modernity, Sichuan Museum, Shenzen Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, China
2009 India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art, Diana Freundl, MoCA Shanghai, China
SPECTRUM - Indian Art in Abu Dhabi 2009, Indian Embassy in UAE and Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage, Abu Dhabi
Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice. Italy

2008
Everywhere is War and Rumors of War, Bhodi Art, Mumbai, India
Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Expanding Horizons; Bodhi Art; Mumbai, Amravati, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Sholapur, Kolhapur, Pune and Nasik, India

2007
53rd Biennial, Venice, Italy
Here and Now: Young Voices from India, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK
New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA
Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture – Women’s Studies, Research Center, Brandies University, Massachusetts. Mabel Douglas Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

2006
Harmony Show, Reliance Industries, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
A Work of Art – A Work on Paper – 35th Anniversary show, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

2005
Angkor - the silent centuries, Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Singapore
Endless Terrain, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
The Artist Lives and Works in Baroda/Mumbai/Calcutta/Mysore/Rotterdam/Trivandrum, organised by Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke; House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Bhupen among Friends, A tribute to Bhupen Khakhar by friends, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India

2004
Interlude in Sri Lanka, the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai Red, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
The Search, Paintings from National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
Omni Society for Fine Arts, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Emirates, Dubai
After Dark, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
A Tribute to Bhupen Khakhar, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Stree, Bodhi Art, Singapore, Singapore
Face-to-Face, 19th century to contemporary portraiture, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India

2003
Inside the Whale, Gasser & Grunert Inc., New York, USA
Portraits of a Decade, 10th anniversary show, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India
Crossing generations: DIVERGE, an exhibition spanning four generations of Indian artists, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India

2002
Transfiguration, Art Inc. India Habitat Gallery, New Delhi, India
Brahma to Bapu - icons and symbols in Indian art, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Real in Realism, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Leela, Artists' response to Haridwar, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India

2001
Bodied Self, a show, Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai, India
In Conversation, sketchbooks and works on paper, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
ARS 01, Unfolding Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

2000
Family Resemblance, Birla Century Gallery, Mumbai, India
Embarkations, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Transpositions, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
Celebration of the Human Image, Gallery 42, New Delhi, India
Once Upon a Time, Story/Image, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
A Global View – Indian Artists at Home in the World, The Fine Art Resource, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Harmony Show, Reliance Industries, Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
Mumbai Magazine Show, Artist's Choice section Akbar Padamsee, NGMA, Mumbai, India
Art in the World 2000, show organized by Beaux Art magazine, Paris, Prance

1999
Legatee – Sir J.J. School of Art, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, India
Icons of the Millennium, organized by Lakeeren Gallery at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
Watermark, watercolor, show organized by the Fine Art Resource, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Two for Two, Thousand Art Today, New Delhi, India

1998
The Looking Glass Self, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
'Artists for a sustainable World', Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
A Collector's Eye, Jehangir Nicholson Collection, NGMA, Mumbai, New Delhi, India
Indian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Contemporary Indian Art, The Sotheby's Show, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai, India

1997
Years of Art in Mumbai, 1947-1997, NGMA, Mumbai, India
50 Years of Freedom of Expression – sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
50 Years of Freedom of Expression sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Gift for India, show organized by SAHMAT, LKA Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India

1996
Cinemascape, An artists' Tribute to 100 years of cinema, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
Indian Contemporary Art, Post Independence, NGMA, organised by Vadehra Art Gallery; New Delhi, India.

1995
Recent Trends in Contemporary Indian Art, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
'Portraits', Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore, India

1994
Art for Cry, Mumbai, New Delhi, India

1993
In Small Format, Works on Paper, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India


1990
Works on Paper, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India

1986
Monsoon Show, Sponsored by Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

AWARDS AND HONORS

2015 FIND Residency Programme, India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, Zagarolo, Rome, Italy
2008 Great Women Achiever’s Award 2008, presented by the women’s wing of FICCI.
2007 Zee Astitya Award present by Qrchqnq Trust & Zee TV
2001 Indo-American society's "Young Achiever Award"
1998, 2000 Nominated for the 'Sotheby's Prize' for contemporary art
1999 'Harmony Award' presented by Reliance Industries

COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, India

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Procter and Gamble India Ltd, India
RPG Enterprises, Mumbai, India
TAPI Collection of Shilpa and Praful Shah, India
Tate Modern, London, UK
The Drawing Center, New York City, USA
The Marguerite Steed Hoffman Collection, Dallas, USA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Press Release

Art Visions - juin 2021

Anju Dodiya, Bruxelles, Galerie Templon

Asian Art - mai 2021

Tower of Slowness

L'internaute - avril 2021

"Matelathématiques" d'Anjou Dodiya

Jean-Paul Gavard Perret


The Indian Express - mars 2020

'The crative process is a violent one'

Benita Fernando

Télérama Sortir.fr - décembre 2016

Anju Dodiya - How to be brave (in pictures)


Télérama - novembre 2016

Arts - La chronique d'Olivier Cena

Olivier Cena


News

Anju Dodiya
Jitish Kallat
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018

KOCHI, INDIAFrom 12/12/2018 to 29/03/2019

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, and the public. Curated by Anita Dube