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Minoru Hirata, Hi Red Center's Dropping Event (Performance at the rooftop of Ikenobo Flower School's Headquarters in Tokyo), 1964
Asia Week Tea Time
In conjunction with Asia Week, sepiaEYE will be hosting a daily Tea Time from 2-5 pm, Monday, March 19 through Friday, March 23, 2012.
By appointment only.
March 19 – 23, 2012
Asia Week Tea Time
sepiaEYE, 41 West 57th Street, 6th Floor, New York City
Sunil Gupta, Sun City, Paris, 2010
Sunil Gupta: Sun City and Other Stories at Alliance Française
Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Sunil Gupta’s Sun City series, loosely based on the 1962 film, “La Jetée” by Chris Marker, travels to the Alliance Française de Delhi. The exhibition will be on view for a few weeks from the end of March.
Reception: March 23 from 7:30 pm.
March 24 – April 15, 2012
Sun City and Other Stories
Alliance Française de Delhi
Vivan Sundaram, Lovers, from the series Re-Take of Amrita, 2001
Vivan Sundaram in Utopia/Dystopia
Images from Vivan Sundaram’s “Re-Take of Amrita,” are featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s latest exploration within the history of photography, “Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage.”
March 11 – June 10, 2012
Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Koichiro Kurita, Conceal, Southhold, 2011
Koichiro Kurita: Beyond Spheres / Meditations on Thoreau
A selection of works from the series “Beyond Spheres,” and the current ongoing series, “Meditations on Thoreau” will be on view at Bennington College in Vermont through March.
March 6 – April 2, 2012
Beyond Spheres / Meditations on Thoreau
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington
Atul Bhalla's Yamuna Walk
sepiaEYE in conjunction with University of Washington Press is proud to announce the release of photographer and multimedia artist, Atul Bhalla’s first monograph, Yamuna Walk. The publication is an important addition to sepiaEYE’s growing series of books on contemporary Asian photography.
In Yamuna Walk the artist documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Dehli. Climbing over fences, crossing concert overpasses, navigating between blooming marigold fields and piles of waste, and flowing wandering through the landscape like the river itself, Bhalla’s journey shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river.
Visit www.khojworkshop.org for information on Bhalla’s New Delhi book launch on January 27th.
Vivan Sundaram, Gagawaka: Making Strange, 2010
Vivan Sundaram Solo Exhibition: GAGAWAKA: Making Strange
Vivan Sundaram’s latest works— provocative “sculpture garments” and photographs are on view at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in the exhibition, “GAGAWAKA: Making Strange.”
December 21 – 27, 2011
GAGAWAKA: Making Strange
Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Osamu James Nakagawa in Studio
Osamu James Nakagawa in “SUPERNATUREAL”
Nakagawa’s “Banta” series will be featured in a group exhibition at Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects along with other artists who are tackling the conventions of landscape photography “through… expeditions and an interest in extreme image-making processes.”
December 15, 2011 – January 28, 2012
Supernatureal
Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects
New York, NY
Koichiro Kurita, Tangent III, 2011
Koichiro Kurita Interview and Exhibitions in Maine
“Meditations on Thoreau,” an exhibition of works by Koichiro Kurita was on view at Belfast, Maine’s Waterfall Arts. In conjunction with the exhibition, Kurita was interviewed in October about his process and his likes and dislikes in the Maine Art Scene.
October 7-November 23, 2011
Koichiro Kurita: Meditations on Thoreau
Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine
Master Photographer Koichiro Kurita Interview
Maine Art Scene
Edward Grazda, Faizabad, Badakshan, Afghanistan, 2000
Edward Grazda: Portraits from Afghanistan: Khalid Hadi
Curated by Edward Grazda, a selection of 60 portraits taken by Khalid Hadi from over 5,000 images of wounded fighters, orphans, and children using a primitive, locally made box camera.
September 9 – December 16, 2011
Portraits from Afghanistan: Khalid Hadi
The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College
Daytona Beach, FL
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, from Memories of India, 2004-2006
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in EN FOCO/IN FOCUS & Holga Inspire
Matthew’s work is featured in the first comprehensive showing of some of the 700 works in the En Foco collection, and “Holga Inspire,” featuring a selection from her “Memories of India,” has now traveled to The Center for Fine Art Photography.
September 1, 2011 – January 31, 2012
EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
September 30, 2011 – January 14, 2012
Holga Inspire
The Center For Fine Art Photography
Fort Collins, CO
Atul Bhalla, Piau at Fatehpuri II (detail), 2008
Atul Bhalla Water Works Solo Exhibition
“Water Works,” is a solo exhibition of Bhalla’s photographs, video, and watercolors from 2003 through 2010. The exhibition also featured “Immersions,” a large scale sculpture installation from 2005.
August 30 – October 15, 2011
Water Works
The Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College
Easton, PA
Vivan Sundaram, Lovers, from the series Re-Take of Amrita, 2001
Atul Bhalla and Vivan Sundaram in Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia
“Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia,” features Bhalla’s photographic documentations of his performances, like “Submerged Again” from 2005 and a selection of works from Sundaram’s “Re-Take of Amrita.”
August 13 – November 6, 2011
Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia
National Portrait Gallery
Canberra, Australia
Minoru Hirata, A Happening on the Street (Street Performance by Collective Kumo), 1970
Minoru Hirata at Les Rencontres d’Arles
Recently on view at the sepiaEYE booth at this year’s AIPAD, Minoru Hirata has been nominated by Tate Modern curator Simon Baker for the Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles. Hirata’s work is on view as part of the 2011 edition of the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival and is organized with the collaboration of the Taka Ishii Gallery and Reiko Tomii.
July 4th – September 18, 2011
Discovery Award 2011: Artists presented by Simon Baker: Minoru Hirata
Les Rencontres d’Arles
Sunil Gupta, Sun City, Paris, 2010 Archival Pigment Print
PARIS – DELHI – BOMBAY. . . Sun City by Sunil Gupta at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sunil Gupta’s commissioned project, Sun City premieres at the Centre Pompidou exhibition. Sun City is a fictional narrative loosely based on the 1962 film, “La Jetée” by Chris Marker. We can view it as several “stills” from a film that are “missing.” The original elliptical form has been retained so the ‘hero’ sees his own death in the ‘beginning’ and we return to that scene as reality in the ‘end.’
Centre Pompidou (French)English Translation
Vivan Sundaram, Barricade (with two drains) from the Trash series, 2008 39.5 x 86.5"
PARIS – DELHI – BOMBAY. . . Opening at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
We are happy to announce the inclusion of works by sepia EYE artists Sunil Gupta, Vivan Sundaram and Atul Bhalla in a major exhibition that explores Indian society through the eyes of leading Indian and French artists opening at the Centre Pompidou on May 25 – September 19, 2011.
Press Release
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Kirti, The Virtual Immigrant (detail), 2006
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s The Virtual Immigrant at Georgia State University
A selection of images from Matthew’s large-scale lenticular photograph series, The Virtual Immigrant, which focused on call center employees in India, will be on view as part of a group exhibition, “Transcultural Identities” at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries, Georgia State University.
February 17 – March 18, 2011
Transcultural Identities
Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University
Atul Bhalla, I Was Not Waving But Drowning II (detail), 2005
Atul Bhalla’s I Was Not Waving but Drowning at Harvard Art Museum
Atul Bhalla’s sequence of 14 photographs capturing his “act of submergence in the Yamuna River,” was acquired by the museum’s Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art in 2008. It is currently on view to the beginning of April, with two artist events in March.
December 3, 2010–April 2, 2011
I Was Not Waving but Drowning
Harvard Art Museums
Related Article: “New Delhi artist Atul Bhalla takes Yamuna Pollution to the world’s art galleries,” Vrindavan Today
Edward Grazda, Logan, Afghanistan, 1982
Edward Grazda's Afghanistan works at NYU's Skirball Center
Edward Grazda: Afghanistan
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York
Jungjin Lee, Wind 07-106, 2007
Jungjin Lee's Wind at PNCA+MoCC
The Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, presents a selection of works from her series, Wind (Nov 4, 2010 – Jan 10, 2011.)
Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft
Portland, OR, 97209
Teri Mangal, Pakistan, 1984 Vintage Gelatin Silver Print 16 x 20"
Edward Grazda's Afghanistan works in Washington D.C.
Edward Grazda’s Afghanistan work will be opening in Washington D.C. this fall.
Edward Grazda: Afghanistan.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Shakespeare Company’s “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” Harman Center for the Arts
Angelika Sher, Untitled #5, from the series Twilight, 2009/2010
Angelika Sher in The Complete Photographer
The Complete Photographer by Tom Ang, follows 20 international photographers as they go through their image making process in this book of tutorials on 10 different genres of photography.
August 2010
Dorling Kindersley, London
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Viji (Still), 2010, Video. 3 minutes, 6 seconds.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in The Rome Festival of Photography
Matthew’s new video work, Re-Generation, will be on view in the exhibition Transience, part of The Rome Festival of Photography.
September 16 – October 30, 2010
Z20 Galleria Sara Zanin
Via Dei Querceti 6 00184, Rome
Osamu James Nakagawa, Saipan 2, from the series Banta, 2008
Osamu James Nakagawa in Noorderlicht Photofestival
Osamu James Nakagawa’s Banta series has been selected to be in this year’s Noorderlicht Photofestival, Land: Country Life in the Urban Age.
September 5 – October 31, 2010
Fries Museum
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2010
Groningen, The Netherlands
Atul Bhalla, Immersions (Detail), 2005 Photo credit: Manuel Schmettau.
Atul Bhalla in Water
Atul Bhalla’s “Piaus II” and installation, “Immersions,” will be included in this monumental group exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Vija Celmins, Honoré Daumier, Paul Gauguin, Hiroshige, Edward Steichen, Lynn Davis, Hans Haacke, Geoffrey Hendricks, Maya Lin, Wangechi Mutu, and Bill Viola are among the many artists represented.
September 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Atul Bhalla, Listener From Western Heavens
Atul Bhalla in Place-Time-Play
The artist will participate in the upcoming exhibition, Place-Time-Play: contemporary art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom opening in Shanghai, October 20th in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale. Curated by noted scholars, Chaitanya Sambrani, Chang Tsong-zung, and Gao Shiming, this project combines a visual art agenda with a series of intellectual forums. Fifteen artists from both China and India will travel and work in both countries within a framework of research and practice.
The project is also a curatorial experiment. Apart from the practice of exchange residency, the curators expressly urge Indian artists to create work that engages with China as a subject of the imagination, targeted at the Chinese audience, without the intention of ultimately submitting to the scrutiny of Western platforms.
Marting Brading, Hanuman Shrine Under Peepal Tree, Varanasi, 2001
No Ordinary Monkey by Martin Brading
The artist is currently working on his first book, featuring images from his ongoing exploration of the depiction of the Hindu god, Hanuman. The title, No Ordinary Monkey incorporates photographs by Brading taken in India over the last 15 years and text by Professor Philip Lutgendorf of the University of Iowa.
Edward Grazda, New Shopping Mall, Ibri, Oman, 2005
OMAN Religion and Society Through American Eyes by Edward Grazda
The artist’s recent work on Oman has been compiled into a new book featuring over 100 photographs. OMAN Religion and Society Through American Eyes, is published by the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Muscat Sultanate of Oman, and Institute for American Values.
Sunil Gupta, Untitled #8, Imagining Childhood, 2005/2006
Love's Body 2 with Sunil Gupta
Love’s Body – Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from November 1998 to January 1999. The exhibition demonstrated that in addition to acting as symbols of Eros or sex, nude photography can be used as a tool to reassess the visual dynamics of relationship or subjectivity to present new possibilities and meanings of the body. As a sequel to the 1st exhibition, Love’s Body 2, sexuality in the age of AIDS, will aim to present more clearly the problems created by contemporary representations of the body. This exhibition will present works that are powerful enough to have influenced aspects of art and photography while reappraising and redefining their meaning.
October 2 – December 5, 2010
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Pamela Singh, Self Portrait, 1997
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Artist Sunil Gupta and curator of Where Three Dreams Cross, will be presenting at the 2-day symposium being held at the opening of the exhibition at its new venue, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. Other lectures include Dayanita Singh, Sabeena Gadihoke, and Aveek Sen.
Symposium: June 12-13, Exhibition: June 12–August 22, 2010
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Miyako Ishiuchi, Mother's #3, 2001
New Book by Miyako Ishiuchi
Ishiuchi has released her new book entitled, Sweet Home Yokosuka, 1976-1989 (2010, PPP Editions) in conjunction with an exhibition of her work at Andrew Roth Gallery. The title combines three early bodies of work that form a trilogy; Apartment (1978), Yokosuka Story (1979) and Endless Nights (1981), all classic photography books of the post Provoke period. Together the photographs manifest a personal document primarily of her hometown Yokosuka, a place of compromised identity, accommodating two large American Naval bases since the late 1940s.
Koichiro Kurita, Chesapeake, VA, CHI-SUI-KI, 1991
Beyond Spheres by Koichiro Kurita
In his latest series, entitled Beyond Spheres, Kurita will follow his greatest influence, Henry David Thoreau, his inspiration and guide. He will set out to visit Thoreau’s physical spaces in North America to capture the truest reverence for the natural world that Thoreau wrote so eloquently about. This monumental project, expedition, and subsequent body of work will involve countless partners to complete. Over a three-year period Kurita will travel across 14 states in the North East teaming up with photography programs, scholars and practitioners alike who share his commitment to the practice as well as philosophy shared by Kurita.
Jungjin Lee, Thing 04-20, 2004
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography Jungjin Lee and Sookang Kim
Both sepia EYE artists will be featured in the group exhibition: Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from July 3–September 19, 2010. The most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Korean photography to ever be shown in the United States, Chaotic Harmony features large scale photographs by 40 Korean artists. The exhibition is organized by Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the MFAH, and Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Lee’s work can also be seen currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection from September 15- June 13, 2010 in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Baskets, Memories of India, 1996
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew in The Digital Eye & Auto Focus
Matthew’s work appears in the two upcoming titles, The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age by Sylvia Wolf (Prestel, 2010) and Auto Focus; The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography by Susan Bright (Monacelli, 2010).
May 7 – June 6, 2010
Holga Inspire
The Gallery at Hallmark
Osamu James Nakagawa, Okinawa 4, from the series Banta, 2008
Osamu James Nakagawa's A Look at Life Through Photography
Congratulations to James on his recent honors as a recipient of the 26th Higashikawa, New Photographer of the Year award (2010) and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award (2009).
A solo exhibition of both Banta and Gama took place at the Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan in Summer 2009 as well as the Higashikawa Cultural Center, Hokaido, Japan, in Conjunction with 2010 Higashikawa Photofesta (July 28-August 1, 2010). Nakagawa’s Remains series was shown at Gallery Tosei, Tokyo, Japan.
More works from Banta, were recently on view (May 27-June 2, 2010) in his solo exhibition, Banta: Stained Memory, at the Nikon Salon in Osaka after being on view at the Shinjuku location earlier in 2010. Read a review of Banta on Image World.
Osamu James Nakagawa’s work can be seen in The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, which originated at the New Orleans Museum of Art. This exhibition “explores how key life events are celebrated and honored, and how pivotal life decisions are made by different world cultures,” and features work from 175 artists, including a piece from Osamu James Nakagawa’s Kai series.
July 9 – September 19, 2009
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography
Cincinnati Museum Center
Angelika Sher, Untitled #8, from the series Twilight, 2009/2010
Angelika Sher in Variatio
Sher’s work from the series Twilight is prominently featured on the cover of 2nd issue of Variatio, a lush, limited-edition magazine on photography.
Raghubir Singh, Boy at Bus Stop, New Delhi, 1982, © Succession Raghubir Singh
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
We are pleased to announce the inclusion of many sepia EYE artists in a monumental, historical survey exhibition opening at the Whitechapel Gallery. Sunil Gupta, curator of the exhibition has selected works by Raghubir Singh, Ketaki Sheth, Pamela Singh and Vivan Sundaram amongst over 400 photographs from major private and public collections.
January 21 – April 11, 2010
Whitechapel Gallery, Londonguardian.co.uk