Chatterjee & Lal was a part of India Art Fair 2024 which was held in New Delhi from February 1 – 4.

Install Shots | Chatterjee & Lal

(L to R: Artists Gagan Singh, Moumita Das, Nihaal Faizal and the family of DLN Reddy with their works displayed at the C&L Booth at IAF 2024)

The booth included works of artists:

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.

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.

Moumita Das

Moumita Das’s work is an homage to many histories: to a history of art and abstraction, to the practices and techniques of Indian artisans, especially weavers and dyers, and perhaps also, to domestic labor, which is often omitted from the category of art altogether. Despite these large categorical resonances, Das’ work remains intensely personal. History and personal life mingle as memories and experiences assume an artistic form.

Nihaal Faizal

Nihaal Faizal’s works respond to the copy, the replica, the remake, the gadget, and the gimmick. He is based in Bangalore, India, where he founded Reliable Copy, a publishing house for works, projects, and writing by artists. Previous solo exhibitions include (video art) at Bill’s PC (Fremantle, 2023), ‘Special FX’ at Blueprint12 (New Delhi, 2022), and ‘The Real Taste of India’ at Mumbai Art Room (with Chinar Shah, Mumbai, 2017). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Bare Acts’ at Shrine Empire (New Delhi, 2023), ‘Proposals for a Memorial to Partition’ at 12G (Philadelphia, 2023), ‘How to know what’s really happening’ at Betonhalle in silent green Kulturquartier (Berlin, 2023), and ‘How to reappear: Through the quivering leaves of independent publishing III’ at Kochi- Muziris Biennale (Kochi, 2022-23).

Naveen Kishore

Naveen Kishore’s eye is informed by his deep engagement with theatre photography, a genre he has been practicing since beginning to work in theatre production in the early 1970s. He has extensively documented female impersonators from Manipuri, Bengali and Punjabi theatre practices. His interest in street photography comprises the second main thread of his oeuvre.

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. Kausik Mukhopadhyay has been shown at The Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; and Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Pittsburgh 2018.

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.

DLN Reddy

In a career spanning five decades, Reddy’s creative output spans an enormous range of media including paintings, sculpture and installation. A restless artist by nature, his stylistic reference points were in a constant process of flux. At the same time, a commitment to the human figure, especially the female form, is discernible as a thread connecting his entire career. Reddy was selected for numerous national and international exhibitions, and early on in his career he was invited for a large number of graphics and printmaking exhibitions.

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.

Rustom Siodia

Rustom Siodia was a painter, illustrator, and essayist. A product of Sir J.J. School of Art and the Royal Academy in London – where he was the first Parsee and perhaps first Indian to be enrolled – he was most active between 1915 and 1939. Although today best remembered for his portraits, his innovative landscapes and historical paintings reveal a singular artistic vision, quite unlike anyone else working at that time in India. He received major commissions at institutions such as the Royal Opera House in Bombay and the Imperial Secretariat (later to become Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi.

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Nityan Unnikrishnan grew up in Kerala along with its intellectual mileu 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.

Chatterjee & Lal  was a part of the inaugural edition of Art Mumbai 2023, held in Mumbai from November 16 – 19.

Install Shot | Chatterjee & Lal

The booth included works of artists:

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.

Moumita Das

Moumita Das’s work is an homage to many histories: to a history of art and abstraction, to the practices and techniques of Indian artisans, especially weavers and dyers, and perhaps also, to domestic labor, which is often omitted from the category of art altogether. Despite these large categorical resonances, Das’ work remains intensely personal. History and personal life mingle as memories and experiences assume an artistic form.

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.

DLN Reddy

In a career spanning five decades, Reddy’s creative output spans an enormous range of media including paintings, sculpture and installation. A restless artist by nature, his stylistic reference points were in a constant process of flux. At the same time, a commitment to the human figure, especially the female form, is discernible as a thread connecting his entire career. Reddy was selected for numerous national and international exhibitions, and early on in his career he was invited for a large number of graphics and printmaking exhibitions.

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Nityan Unnikrishnan grew up in Kerala along with its intellectual mileu 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.

Chatterjee & Lal was a part of India Art Fair 2023 which was held in New Delhi from February 9 – 12. The booth included works of artists :

Install shot | Chatterjee & Lal

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.

Naveen Kishore

Naveen Kishore’s eye is informed by his deep engagement with theatre photography, a genre he has been practicing since beginning to work in theatre production in the early 1970s. He has extensively documented female impersonators from Manipuri, Bengali and Punjabi theatre practices. His interest in street photography comprises the second main thread of his oeuvre.

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. Kausik Mukhopadhyay has been shown at The Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; and Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Pittsburgh 2018.

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.

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.

Rustom Siodia

Rustom Siodia was a painter, illustrator, and essayist. A product of Sir J.J. School of Art and the Royal Academy in London – where he was the first Parsee and perhaps first Indian to be enrolled – he was most active between 1915 and 1939. Although today best remembered for his portraits, his innovative landscapes and historical paintings reveal a singular artistic vision, quite unlike anyone else working
at that time in India. He received major commissions at institutions such as the Royal Opera House in Bombay and the Imperial Secretariat (later to become Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi.

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.

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.

Chatterjee & Lal  was a part of India Art Fair 2020 which was held in New Delhi from January 31 – February 3. The booth included works of artists :

Install shot | Chatterjee & Lal

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.

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. Kausik Mukhopadhyay has been shown at The Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; and Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Pittsburgh 2018.

Arthur Bunder Press

A printmaking workshop at Chatterjee & Lal. For ten days in 2019, Chatterjee & Lal was transformed into THE ARTHUR BUNDER PRESS, COLABA, the site of a workshop facilitated by Prati, The Atelier. Positioned at the intersection of an erstwhile press, an artist’s studio and a gallery, the workshop encouraged participating artists to explore different printmaking processes. Visitors to the gallery during the workshop were able to watch as artists worked, collaborated and ideated together over different approaches to mark-making.
Participating artists: Minam Apang, Amshu Chukki, Madhu Das, Ratna Gupta, Madhao Imartey, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Areez Katki, Gieve Patel, Rupali Patil, Mark Prime, Gagan Singh, Nityan Unnikrishnan.

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 was a painter, illustrator, and essayist. A product of Sir J.J. School of Art and the Royal Academy in London – where he was the first Parsee and perhaps first Indian to be enrolled – he was most active between 1915 and 1939. Although today best remembered for his portraits, his innovative landscapes and historical paintings reveal a singular artistic vision, quite unlike anyone else working
at that time in India. He received major commissions at institutions such as the Royal Opera House in Bombay and the Imperial Secretariat (later to become Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi.

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.

Chatterjee & Lal was a part of India Art Fair 2019 which was held in New Delhi from January 31 – February 3. The booth included works of artists :

Install shot | Chatterjee & Lal

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, 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Prime

Mark Prime’s interest in light and its attributes have combined with an affinity for minimalism and geometric abstraction. Resulting works have been realised in a wide range of media including laser installations, sculpture, photography, and, more recently, painting. The artist is an accomplished musician: rhythm, repetition and synchronised patterns are concepts that continually inform his practice.

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.

K.G. Subramanyan

K.G. Subramanyan was one of India’s iconic artists and educators. He belonged to the founding generation of post-independent India; a generation that was looking for a collective national identity though art and indigenous design. In his practice, Subramanyan infused local stories, folklore and art techniques. In a career spanning nearly seven decades, K.G. Subramanyan’s work has been exhibited all over the world. He was a recipient of all three Padma awards.

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.

Chatterjee & Lal participated in the Architectural Digest Design Show held at Dome@NSCI between 26 – 28 October 2018 in Mumbai. The booth included works of artists Minam Apang, Prabhakar Barwe, Nikhil Chopra, V. S Gaitonde, Nasreen Mohamedi, Mark Prime, Sahej Rahal and K. G. Subramanyan.

Chatterjee & Lal participated in D/CODE, India’s first curated art + design fair, curated by architect Ashiesh Shah. The fair was held at the Four Seasons Mumbai on March 17 and March 18.

Chatterjee & Lal  was a part of India Art Fair 2018 which was held in New Delhi from February 9 – 12. The booth included works of artists :

Minam Apang |Untitled | 2014 |Moon Mirrors Mountains Series | Charcoal on paper | 25 x 78 in.

Amshu Chukki

Amshu Chukki explores the theme of fiction through multimedia artwork, integrating film, sculpture, drawings and photographic prints 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.

Kausik Mukhopadhyay

Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s kinetic installations are made by repurposing old electronic items gifted to the artist. The artworks are intended to be at once both whimsical and disturbing. With the artist having devoted much of the last twenty years to teaching, his work is rarely seen publicly. His works are resurrected from the ashes of dismantled electronics, and the reincarnated works take on new identities.

Mark Prime

Mark Prime  is a contemporary artist. Based in India for the last decade, his interest in light, and its attributes, have combined with an affinity for minimalism and geometric abstraction. Resulting works have been realised in a wide range of media including laser installations, sculpture, photography, and, more recently, painting. The artist is an accomplished musician, and rhythm, repetition and synchronised patterns are concepts that continually inform his practice.

Minam Apang

Goa-based Minam Apang’s has become well known both in India and internationally for her drawings on different media. In 2012, the artist was selected for ‘The Ungovernables’, a major triennial curated by Eungie Joo, at the New Museum, New York.

Nikhil Chopra

Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice ranges between live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture, reflects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration of performance. Taking autobiographical elements as his starting point, Chopra combines everyday life and collective history; daily acts acquire the value of ritual, becoming an essential part of the show.

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Nityan Unnikrishnan grew up in Kerala along with its intellectual mileu 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.

Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal’s body of work is a growing narrative that draws upon mythical beings from different cultures, and brings them into a dialogue with the present. Within this narrative, these beings perform absurd acts in derelict corners of the city, transforming them into liminal sites of ritual. The temporal act and its residue become primary motifs in his practice.

BREAD CIRCUSES & YOU

The history of civilisation can be told through the story of grain. Bread, and its many variants, speak a universal language. The history of politics is also deeply entwined with this foodstuff and, in particular, its distribution. Indeed, contemporary societies around the world are fed, literally and metaphorically, by state-run policies.

The project title comes from, ‘panem et circuses’, making an explicit reference to the two Roman practices of exerting politics power: providing free wheat and hosting spectacular games. In 2017, the site of entertainment may not be the circus, but there remain higher authorities curating bloated orgies of entertainment at regular intervals.

Thukral & Tagra

Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, and design.Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between Fine Art and Popular Culture, product and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions on the globalisation of consumer culture and the repercussions of this as it is being experienced in South Asia today. The artists live and work in Gurgaon, Haryana (a suburb of New Delhi).