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Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh, and Pamela Singh’s images are included at The Offbeat Sari, The Design Museum's exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. The show explores the sari as a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.
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The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
London W8 6AG
United Kingdom
Curated by Jonathan Weinberg, Tyler Cann, and Drew Sawyer, "Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989" will be presented in two parts: at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, the exhibition features over 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. Works from Sunil Gupta's “Christopher Street, New York 1976” will be on view.
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Grey Art Gallery
New York University
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
USA
Images from Gupta's "From Here to Eternity” will be featured in a group exhibition on "Activist Art" entitled Life-Blood as part of the Bloombury Festival.
Sunil Gupta on this body of work: "I made these works partly in response to a period of illness brought on by the HIV. I thought that it might be time to think about how the virus affects my life. I ended up with these six diptychs. They were made in the darkroom as straight forward negative positive prints. Printing one's work in the darkroom is still magical as opposed to the digital printing that has largely taken over. The process itself seemed therapeutic."
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The Crypt Gallery
Euston Road (Entrance Dukes's Road), London, NW1 2BA
England
Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's project: Delhi: Communities of Belonging are among the first announced for inclusion to the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Curated by artist Anita Dube, although the vision of the other biennale has not been stated firmly yet, she has expressed: "I want to explore the vexed question of the relationship between art and politics," she says, "as well as the possibilities of a non-alienated life."* Congratulations to the artists, and we look forward to seeing the Biennale take shape.
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Various locations
Kochi, Kerala
India
Betwixt and Between: Photography, Time and Place, curated by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, features photographic works by: Hasan Elahi, Jodie Mim Goodnough, Meggan Gould, Sunil Gupta, Abigail Gumbiner, Yashna Kaul, Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe, Netta Laufer, Olivia B. McCullough, Abelardo Morell, Lorie Novak, Pierre & Gilles, Meghann Riepenhoff, Ian Mohon, Lauren Semivan, Starn Twins, Millee Tibbs, Penelope Umbrico, Clement Valla, and Jay Simple.
"This exhibition highlights artists that explore different processes and possibilities in photography with a strong emphasis on points where the various technologies amplify and augment the artist’s concept. Rather than arguing for a monolithic definition of photography, this exhibition is betwixt and between, with a three-pronged approach.”
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Jamestown Arts Center
18 Valley Street
Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835, USA
Works by sepiaEYE artists Sunil Gupta, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Pamela Singh, and Vivan Sundaram will be on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery exhibition Re Present: Photography from South Asia.
Re Present: Photography from South Asia
Kamloops Art Gallery
Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh's works documenting queer life are shared in Dissent and Desire at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston as a part of the FotoFest 2018 Biennial.
Dissent and Desire
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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A major exhibition of works by Sunil Gupta featuring works from 1984 onwards from the series, “Homelands,” “Exiles,” “The New Pre-Raphelites,” and “Ten Year On.”
Sunil Gupta will be hosting a talk and gallery tour at the Peltz Gallery, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 (Event Brite Link for Tickets)
In Pursuit of Love
Birkbeck, School of Arts
43 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD
A few works by Sunil Gupta from his series, Exiles, will be on view in the exhibition, Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender, and Identity at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
“It had always seemed to me that art history seemed to stop at Greece and never properly dealt with gay issues from another place. Therefore, it became imperative to create some images of gay Indian men; they didn’t seem to exist.” – Sunil Gupta
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool
Sunil Gupta will be leading a walk and discussion of works on display in the exhibition Sixty Years at the Tate Britain that crucially addressed race, gender, homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s.
Tour: Sunil Gupta: Ten Years On and Other Stories
Tate Britain
London
The esteemed photography festival, FOTOFEST, has announced that the lead curator for its 2018 Biennial will be SepiaEYE artist Sunil Gupta. Gupta is an excellent choice given the Biennial’s theme: INDIAContemporary Photography and New Media Art.
As a large, multilingual subcontinent, India has always relied on images to maintain a cohesive whole across myriad subcultures, regions, castes and languages. The introduction of photomechanical imaging in the nineteenth century enabled the rapid reproduction and dissemination of both spiritual and scientific ideals. Photography for most of its history was too expensive and technical and was left in the hands of ‘experts’ — until the birth of digital technologies and the arrival of the mobile phone, which has given more than 800 million people in India the power to make their own photographs and moving images. This exhibition will address the legacy of the last twenty years, a period when photography and moving image media have been consistently included within critical exhibitions of fine art. –Sunil Gupta
We can’t wait to see what he and co-curator Steven Evans select.
10 March – 22 April 2018
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Houston, Texas USA
Tate Britain has rehung their contemporary section, Sixty Years of their “Walk through British Art,” and two works by Sunil Gupta are now on view. Untitled from the series, Reflections of the Black Experience, 1986 and Ian and Julian, from the series Ten Years On, 1986.
On view through February 2018
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Tate Britain, London
Sunil Gupta was interviewed for Dreck Magazine (published January 1, 2017). He talks about his beginnings in photography as well as the current LGBTQ situation in India. The article features a selection of images from his entire and prolific career.
1 January 2017
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Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh are exhibiting together at London’s 8th GFEST Gaywise Festival from November 9th-14th. The exhibition, ASIAN FUTURE, hosted at Menier Gallery, explores gender, sexuality, and religion from the lens of Asian photographers. More info here (Link).
Asian Future
Menier Gallery
London
Sunil Gupta’s body of work, “Pretended” Family Relationships is included in Capricious Magazine Issue No. 16: “EX.” Initiated in 2004 as a photography journal, each edition of the publication focuses on a theme. “EX” refers to the broad concept of exes: former or disguised selves, peoples, and places. Copies of “EX” are available at the gallery for $35 USD. Please contact the gallery for ordering information.
Read moreWorks from Sunil Gupta’s series, Christopher Street, Exiles, and Mr. Malholtra’s Party will be featured in this year’s Fotofest International, “I AM A CAMERA: LGBTQ Communities Seen From Within.”
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I AM A CAMERA: LGBTQ Communities Seen From Within
FOTOFEST INTERNATIONAL
Houston
Presented in collaboration with sepiaEYE, the exhibition Queer Migrations: Family, Identity and Place, features two bodies of photographs by Sunil Gupta: “Homelands” (2001-2003) and “Mr. Malhotra’s Party” (2007-). The exhibition is presented in tandem with a seminar series which uses Yale’s collection of South Asian photography as its starting point. The first session on Contemporary Photographic Practices in South Asia has the artist Sunil Gupta and sepiaEYE’s Esa Epstein as panelists.
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Sunil Gupta: Queer Migrations: Family, Identity and Place
Whitney Humanities Center at Yale
New Haven, CT
In 2006, London’s famous Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books titled “Documents of Contemporary Art.” Radhika Singh’s interview with Sunil Gupta (Exposure magazine, 2008) is featured in the Sexuality issue.
Creative Studio, Whitechapel Gallery
Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Gallery and MIT press)
London
“Metro: The Building of Delhi,” featuring the work of artists Verena Jaekel and Sandip Kuriakose is an exhibition curated by sepiaEYE artist, Sunil Gupta. “Metro” is a part of the 6th European Month of Photography, Berlin.
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Metro: The Building of Delhi
Das Foto Image Factory GmbH
Berlin