Vanita Gupta

Vanita Gupta’s practice deals with the minimal, most relevant and perennially compelling forms. She confounds us by enlarging the definition of art, conflating genres and pictorial language.

If one were to focus on the look of Vanita Gupta’s oeuvre, it would encompass characteristics of sculpture, installation and drawings, interspersed with quotidian and provocative videos that loop in melancholic shifts – testing the plasticity and strength of natural materials – metal, wood or rubber.

Vanita was awarded the J D Rockefeller 3rd Fellowship Grant (2014-15) by the Asian Cultural Council, New York, and participated in a residency at ‘Residency Unlimited,’ New York, in 2015. Her notable works include Balloon Trilogy: Liberation, featured at the 16th International Media Art WRO Biennale in Poland (2015). She also received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2014), attended Vermont Studio Centre (2014), and was recognized with the Raza Award (2008), India.

Her solo projects include a special showcase at India Art Fair, Delhi (2017) by Art Heritage Gallery and a collaborative architectural intervention with Naveen Mahantesh titled An Act in Three Scenes (2019) at Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. In 2020, her sculpture and video work were exhibited at Waterman’s Gallery, London. Vanita currently lives and works between Mumbai and Bangalore.