Chatterjee & Lal was a part of India Art Fair 2022 which was held in New Delhi from April 28 – May 1. The booth included works of artists :

(L to R: Artists Gagan Singh, Nikhil Chopra, Hetain Patel, Hetain Patel and Nikhil Chopra with their works displayed at the C&L Booth at IAF 2022)

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai is a Weimar-based artist of Indian origin. Arshi was born in Najibabad and has lived in India and Afghanistan before moving to Germany, where she is currently based. Ranging in scale and medium, Arshi has worked to cover a variety of themes. Critiquing the position, agency and lack of it, of the Muslim woman, Arshi produces work that incorporates words and visuals in a manner that might be reminiscent at times of fragments of ancient texts, and of very personal journals at others. Motifs like the pomegranate, chair, takhti, gardens and heart appear repeatedly in Arshi’s visuals pointing at her interest in the tense threads that connect womanhood, identity, culture, history and power.

Minam Apang

Over the last fifteen years Minam Apang’s practice has primarily focussed on painting – increasingly utilising charcoals – and has often engaged with myths and stories that originate from North East India. She has had multiple solo exhibitions at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai. In 2012, the artist was selected for ‘The Ungovernables’, a major triennial curated by Eungie Joo, at the New Museum, New York and was a part of the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Nikhil Chopra

Drawing resides at the heart of Nikhil Chopra’s performance-based practice. Over the last decade he has used diverse unconventional surfaces to bring alive his mark making, including paper, walls, pavements, ceilings, as well as large swathes of cloth and canvas. Landscapes constitute the majority of these works. Often these landscapes are the very same ones into which the artist is about to journey. Amongst many major institutional exhibitions, Nikhil Chopra was included in Documenta 14, 2017; Yinchuan Biennale, China, 2018; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2019.

Amshu Chukki

Amshu Chukki explores the themes of reality and fiction through multimedia artwork in a manner that contemplates the outlandish nature of constructed landscapes and surreal spaces. Incorporating the narrative structure of filmmaking, he delves into the dystopian world of man-made sites and artefacts, questioning the very notions of nature and reality. His debut exhibition, The Tour, was held at Chatterjee & Lal in 2017.

Nasreen Mohamedi

Nasreen Mohamedi was an artist and educator, active from the early 1960s until her early death in 1990. Having trained in London and Paris, she pursued her career mainly in India. Recognised as a leading abstractionist of her generation, her legacy has only grown since her death. Mohamedi’s works have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Tate Liverpool; and The Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Riten Mozumdar

Mozumdar graduated from Santiniketan in 1950, with a diploma in art. In addition to his gallery practice, he worked as a textile designer for brands such as Printex-Marimekko and Fabindia; he was also a consultant to the famous Delhi-based furniture company, TAARU. Throughout his lifetime, his designs and artworks were exhibited widely both in India and outside the country including: Museum of Modern Art, New York 1953 – 1954; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York 1971; Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen 1971; American Museum of Crafts, New York 1985.

Kausik Mukhopadhyay

Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s kinetic and static installations are made by repurposing old electronic items. The artworks are at once whimsical and disturbing. With the artist having devoted much of the last twenty years to teaching, his work has rarely been seen publicly.

Hetain Patel

Hetain Patel’s practice spans a number of different media and is often performative in nature. Identity formation has been central to his concerns since the beginning of his career, more recently this idea has been viewed through the lenses of imitation, language and physical movement. Increasingly Hetain’s work is populated by characters, both fictional and real, in relation to which the artist juxtaposes himself in moments of elision and dissonance.

Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal’s body of work is a growing narrative that draws upon mythical beings, and brings them into a dialogue with the present. Within this narrative, these beings perform absurd acts in derelict corners of the city, transforming the spaces into liminal sites of ritual. The temporal act and its residue become primary motifs in his practice. Sahej Rahal’s participation includes Vancouver Biennale 2014; Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014; Liverpool Biennale 2016; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2019; and Gwangju Biennale, South Korea 2020.

Rustom Siodia

Rustom Siodia (1881 – 1946) was a painter, illustrator, and essayist. He was the first Parsi, and either the first or second Indian, ever to study at the Royal Academy, London. After his return to India, he went on to forge an art career that spanned the traditions of portraiture, landscape painting and history painting.

Gagan Singh

Born in 1975, Singh studied fine art in the UK and has exhibited in various group shows including the Sarai Reader 09 at the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, 2012 – 2013. The content of the work falls into two broad categories, the autobiographical and the erotic. In both cases, humour acts as a point of access through which other issues, often more serious, are explored by the artist.

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Nityan Unnikrishnan grew up in Kerala along with the intellectual milieu of a world populated by left leaning filmmakers, painters and academics. He creates paintings from a myriad of sources, both real and imaginary, including elements from his childhood and his working life. He creates a dynamic relationship between the individual self and landscape. These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and, by default, to the world of the artist himself.