Birth | Born in 1974 in Mumbai, India |
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Residency | Lives and works in Mumbai, India |
Education | 1990 - 1996 B.F.A. (painting), Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India K.K. Hebbar Art Foundation Award Govt. First Prize, Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India 1996 - 1997 Fellow at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India Awarded Fellowship at Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India |
2024 | Encounters, Art Basel, Hong Kong Public Notice 3, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
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2023 | Whorled (Here and After Here After Here), installation at The Somerset House, London, UK |
2022 | Jitish Kallat: Echo Verse, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Order of Magnitude, Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai, UAE Covering Letter, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK Otherwhile, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India |
2021 | Tmesis, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, USA Epicycles, Noortälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden |
2020 | Return to Sender, Frist Museum of Art, Nashville, USA Terranum Nuncius, Famous Studios, Mumbai, India Terranum Nuncius, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India |
2019 | Phase Transition, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
2018 | Decimal Point, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA |
2024 | Au bout de mes rêves, La Tripostal, Lille, France Home and the World, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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2023 | Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy |
2021 | Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland Lokame Tharavadu (The world is one family) Alappuzha, Kerala, India Spring, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium Confabulations : Jitish Kallat & Subodh Gupta, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
2020 | South East North West: New Works From The Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA Visions from India, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, USA Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada Distorted Portrait, Space K, Seoul, South Korea The Future is Not Fixed, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Chromatopia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
2019 | Our Time for a Future Caring, Indian Pavilion, Biennale de Venice, curated by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, Venice, Italy Circadian Rhythms: Contemporary art and biological time, The Glucksman, Cork, UK Weather Report, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA Modus Operandi II: In-Situ: Artist Studio – Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India |
2018 | Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018 Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future, ifa Galleries, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany Asymmetrical Objects, Lad Museum Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India The Sculpture Park, Madhavendra Palace, Jaipur, India Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018, Kochi, Kerala, India New Presentation of Contemporary Collections, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Vision Exchange: Perspective from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
2017 | Age of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation, Gallery Odyssey, Lower Parel, Mumbai, India A World in the City: Zoological and Botanic Gardens, IFA Stuttgart, Germany |
Arario Gallery, South Korea | |
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | |
Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide | |
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
Bihar Museum, Patna, India | |
Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, UK | |
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA |
Jitish Kallat about his expansive work at Somerset House and Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Shristi Sainani
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Templon Paris unveils Kallat
Jitish Kallat à la Galerie Templon
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Kochi Biennale Foundation, Alappuzha, Kerala, Inde
From April 5 to June 30, 2021
Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family) is a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists, organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Over 260 artists will be exhibiting a collection of their works, to foreground each of their practices. Jitish Kallat presents in this exhibition “Epilogue” (2011) in which the artist memorialises the life-time of his late father by picturing the approximately 22 000 moons that he saw during his lifetime. Strructured in monthly slots for each year, the moons are represented by “rotis breads”, the edges of which grow or crumble away as the moon waxes and wanes. The “roti moons”, a recurring pattern in the artist’s work, distill lived time into its essential components—the daily bread, the recurring routine—even as they connect it to a shared, eternally recurring celestial phenomenon. At the end of the path, the viewer is invited to walk with Kallat as he retraces his father’s life, a poignant frame with a lone moon, representing the night before 2nd December 1998, when the artist’s father died.
Fondation Thalie, 15 rue Buchholtz 1050 Brussels, Belgium
From April 1st to May 9, 2021
The Fondation Thalie presents “Spring”, a new display of her collection in Brussels with new acquisitions from Jitish Kallat, as well as Davide Balula, Le Corbusier, Francis Picabia, Jean Dubuffet, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Risaku Suzuki, Tatiana Trouvé, and Pieter Vermeersch, among others.
“Rebirth, buds and flowers, with this new display there is a desire to share the poetry and beauty of artwork that is usually shown in our homes.
This collection was started in 2008 and evokes “le sensible” around the question of know-how and gesture with regard to textile creations, which is a tribute to the legacy of Anni Albers, the worthy successor of the Bauhaus, who spent her entire career experimenting with weaving techniques as graphic paintings. (…).” – Nathalie Guiot, President of the Fondation Thalie.
From March 13 to October 12, 2020
Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
The Frist Art Museum presents Return to Sender, an exhibition of immersive installations created by the celebrated Indian artist Jitish Kallat. The dramatic works, which engage both mind and body, are inspired by historic messages that reveal the best and worst of humanity.
The show brings together two different types of correspondence that collectively provoke a reflection on our world. Continuing his interest in the epistolary mode, Kallat will exhibit a new project titled Covering Letter (terranum nuncius) (2019) alongside his widely exhibited Covering Letter (2012).
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
From October 6, 2019 to August 23, 2020
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA
The Weather Report will reveal the sky as a site where the aesthetic, the romantic, the political, the social, and the scientific co-exist and inform one another. The depiction of weather in the visual arts is traditionally linked with either landscape painting or photography, but in the last several decades artists have increasingly turned to other media to explore weather and, by extension, the larger subject of the Earth’s atmosphere. Weather Report presents a group of diverse international artists who reference weather in provocative ways through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and video.
THE LEWIS GLUCKSMAN GALLERY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELANDFrom 01/08/2019 to 03/11/2019
All life on earth – humans, other animals, plants and even bacteria – carry out biological processes to a 24-hour pattern of activity that mirrors the length of the earth day. Such processes are said to be subject to certain rhythms as they oscillate at different points during the 24-hour cycle, always following the same pattern of activity. Circadian Rhythms presents the work of Irish and international artists who explore these invisible forces through reflections on time, the cadence of working life, sleeping patterns, as well as through the impact of modern technologies that disrupt the natural world.
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIA PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
We are honoured to announce that Jitish Kallat is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
Museum Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
In the framework of the Gastronomic Year in Provence–MPG 2019, the Regards de Provence Museum is showcasing « L’Art Mange l’Art” et “De la table au tableau”, two exhibitions that bring together works of artists from the XIX to XXIst century on the theme of food, its pleasures and the art of the table.