b. 1972

Education:
2007   Ph.D., Cultural & Social Anthropology, Stanford University, USA
2002   M.A., Cultural & Social Anthropology, Stanford University, USA
1996   M.A., Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate &Research Institute, Pune, IN
1994   B.A., Social Work, Bombay University, IN

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2017   Aapothkalin Trikalika, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai,IN
2017   Kalkimanthankatha ,Range Gallery, Kolkata,IN
2015   Kalkimanthankatha,Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai,IN
2015   Deathlessness, Apeejay Arts Galley, New Delhi, IN
2014   Rati Chakravyuh, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2014   Rati Chakravyuh, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2012   Katho Upanishad, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2012   Vakratunda Swaha & Kalighat Fetish, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2010   Vakratunda Swaha, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2009   Archetype,  Aicon Gallery, London, UK
2005   Foot Fetish, Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Calcutta, IN
2004   Calcutta Street Portraits, Goethe Institut, Max Muller Bhavan, Calcutta, IN
1999   Still Life and Bridge, Piramal Galley, Center for Photography as an Art Form, National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay, IN

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024   Vidhvasta (Devastated), International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Germany
2018   A Utopian Stage, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2017   Unruly Shadows, Nanyang Technological University, Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2017   Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, England
2017   You Will Not See Me, Chicago Architecture Biennial
2015   The Foveal Experiment, New Delhi & Paris
2014   Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale
2014   Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, IN
2013   Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913-2013): A Retrospective of Indian cinema and video, Mumbai, IN
2012   Modern Monsters/Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Biennial 2012
2012   Filament, Experimenter Gallery, Calcutta, IN
2012   fiVe, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2011   You Don’t Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou &Kunming, China
2011   Generation in Transition. New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2011   Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2010   Royale with Cheese, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
2009   Re-Frame, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2009   Re-Frame, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2009   Indian Experimental Films, La casa Encindida, Madrid, Spain
2008   Cinema of Prayoga, National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay, IN
2006   Lightcone, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2006   Cinema of Prayoga, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005   Indian Experimental Films, Cinema-Nova, Brussels, Belgium

Published DVD:
2012   Vakratunda Swaha published in the DVD “Human Frames-Impermanence”, Lowave, Paris, France
2009   Endnote published in the DVD “Re: Frame” – A collection of experimental films from India by Lowave, Paris, France

Filmography:
2011   Katho Upanishad, 35mm / DCP, Color, 82 minutes
2010   Vakratunda Swaha, 35mm, Color and B&W, 22 minutes
2007   Shadows Formless (Nirakar Chhaya), 35mm, Color and B&W, 82 minutes
2005   End Note (Antraal), 16mm, Color and B&W, 18 minutes
2002   Performing Death, DV, Color, 16 minutes
2001   Dancing Othello (Brihnnlala Ki Khelkali), 16mm, Color and B&W, 17 minutes
2001   Rummaging for Pasts: Excavating Sicily, Digging Bombay, DV, Color, 27 minutes
1999   Kalighat Fetish (Kalighat Athikatha), 16mm, Color and B&W, 22 minutes
1998   Et Cetera, 16mm, Color, 32 minutes

Awards & Honors:

2015   Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, University of Rhode Island
2014   Future Greats 2014, Art Review
2011   Open Doors Co-Production Lab, Locarno Film Festival, Swtitzerland
2011   Long List, The Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art, IN
2008  Best Director, Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
2001   Best Documentary, Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland

Retrospectives:

2015    Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College, New York, USA
2015    Deathlessnes, Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi, IN
2014    Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014    Rice University Chao Fil Festival, Houston, USA
2013    Signs Festival, Trivandrum, IN
2012    Film Division, Mumbai, IN
2012    Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
2008   National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai, IN
2008   Whitney Humanities Centre, Yale University, USA
2006   Les Inattendus, Lyon, France
2004   Goethe Institute, Max Muller Bhavan, Calcutta, India

Film Festivals, Gallery & Museums Screenings:

Aapothkalin Trikalika, 2017
2018 A Utopian Stage, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2017 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunales Kino, Freiburg
2017 Tufts University
2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
2017 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
2017 Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2017 Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival

Kalkimanthankatha, 2015
2018 Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans
2018 Visvabharati University, Shantiniketan
2017 Cable Car, Providence
2017 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2017 Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata
2017 The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
2017 Range Gallery, Kolkata
2016 London School of Economics, London
2016 University of Kent
2016 Yale University
2016 New York University
2015 Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2015 University of Rhode Island

Rati Chakravyuh, 2013
2017 19th Madurai Film Festival
2017 The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
2017 School of Oriental & African Studies, London
2017 MM Centar, Zagreb
2016 French Institute of Pondicherry
2015 Cornell University
2015 University of Pennsylvania
2015 Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2015 Festival du film d’Asie du Sud Transgressif, Paris
2015 Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2015 John Hopkins University
2015 Rutgers’s University
2014 Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale
2014 Parramasala, the South Asian Arts Festival, Sydney Australia
2014 University of Rhode Island
2014 Aicon Gallery, New York
2014 Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
2014 Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2014 Experimenter Gallery, Calcutta
2014 Film & Television Institute of India, Pune
2014 Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute of India, Pune
2014 Film Studies Program, Yale University
2014 Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston

Katho Upanishad,2011
2018   International Spiritual Film Festival India, Bhopal
2015   Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College
2015   Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2014   University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
2012   Film & Television Institute of India, Pune
2012   Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2011   Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai, IN

Vakratunda Swaha, 2010
2018   A Utopian Stage, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2017   Unruly Shadows, Nanyang Technological University, Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2016   Les Inattendus, Lyon 2015 Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College
2015   Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2014   Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014   Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2014   Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait
2012   You Don’t Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema, Hong Kong
2012   Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Biennial 2012
2011   Human Frames, Kunst-im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011   Kolektiva, Ljubljana, Slovania
2011   You Don’t Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou & Kunming, China
2011   Generation in Transition. New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery for Art, Warsaw, Poland
2011   Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2011   Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010  Jordan International Film Festival, Jordan
2010  Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2010  Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN

Shadows Formless, 2007
*Best Director, Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
*Best Actress, Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
2015     Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College
2014      Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2009     Asian Hot Shots, Berlin, Germany
2008     International Forum of New Cinema, Calcutta, IN
2008     India Visions, Washington D.C., USA
2007     Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
2008     International Film Festival Innsbruck, Austria
2008     Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
2007     Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland

Endnote, 2005
2018   Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Chennai
2017   Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2017   Tabakalera, San Sebastián
2016   Les Inattendus, Lyon
2015   Endlessness of Ending: Samuel Beckett and the Mind, University of Western Sydney
2015   Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2014   Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014   Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2010   Human Frames, The Substation, Singapore
2010   Human Frames, Asian Hot Shots, Berlin, Germany
2010   Tramway Café Bar, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2009   Aicon Gallery, London, UK
2009   Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2009   Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2008   Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusaleum, Israel
2008   Expanded Forum, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2007   River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival, Italy
2007   Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
2007   International Bunker Film Festival, Italy
2007   Tongues on Fire – Asian Woman Film Festival, London, UK
2007   Let It BE! A Festival of Independent Films, Mumbai, IN
2007   San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
2007   International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006   European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
2006   Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2006   Bangkok International Film Festival, Bangkok

Performing Death, 2002
2002    Annual Conference, European Association of Archaeology, Thessaloniki, Greece

Dancing Othello, 2001
2017      Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2014     Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014     Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2010     Royale with Cheese, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
2009    Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2006    “Desire under Banyan: Beyond Bollywood”, Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, USA
2005     Retrospective of Indian Documentaries, Cinema-Nova Brussels, Belgium
2004     “Shakespeare in Asia”,Conference on Theatre, Stanford University, USA
2002     “Dance in South Asia”, Conference on Performance, Swarthmore  College, USA

Rummaging for Pasts: Excavating Sicily, Digging Bombay, 2001
2017   Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, England
2015   The Foveal Experiment, Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris
2015   The Foveal Experiment, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi
2004   Vikalp- Films for Freedom, Mumbai, IN
2003   World Archaeology Congress, Washington, USA
2001   “Narrative Pasts | Past Narratives”, Conference on Archaeology, Stanford  University, USA

Kalighat Fetish, 1999
*Best Documentary,Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2018   A Utopian Stage, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2016   Raw Territories Gatherings, Lisbon
2016   Les Inattendus, Lyon 2015 Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College
2015   The Foveal Experiment, Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris
2015   The Foveal Experiment, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi
2014   Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014   Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2014   Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi
2011   Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2011   Generation in Transition. New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery for Art, Warsaw, Poland
2010   Artprojx, London, UK
2007   Sommerszene, Salzburg, Austria
2007   Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham,UK
2007   Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2006   The Hat Factory, Luton, London,UK
2006   The Peepul Centre, Leicester, UK
2006   Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK
2006   Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2006   Watermans, Brentford, UK
2006   Bite The Mango! Festival, Bradford, UK
2006   MAC Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
2006   Tate Modern, London, UK
2006   Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2006   Espace Croise, Roubaix, France
2005   South Asian Film Festival, Seattle,Washington, USA
2005   Scratch Projects, Paris, France
2004   Experimenta, Mumbai & New Delhi, IN
2003   Queer Filmistan, San Francisco, USA
2002   New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, New York,USA
2001    Los Angles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2001    Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2000   Chingari Video Fest, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2000   London Film Festival, London, UK

Et Cetera, 1998
2018   Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans
2017   MM Centar, Zagreb 7
2015   Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2014   Plan9, Gallery Fotografic, Prague
2014   Rice University Chao Film Festival, Houston
2011   Generation in Transition. New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery for Art, Warsaw, Poland
2010   Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, IN
2005   Retrospective of Indian Experimental Films, Cinema-Nova, Brussels, Belgium
1999   Dhaka Short Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Appointment:
2010           Asst. Prof. Film Media, University of Rhode Island, USA
2007-10     Lecturer in Anthropology, Films Studies and South Asian Studies, Yale University, USA