Talwar Gallery

Arpita Singh, Tyding Down Time, Talwar Gallery, New York, 2017
Established	2001
Type	Art gallery
Owner	Deepak Talwar
Website	https://www.talwargallery.com/

Talwar Gallery is a contemporary Indian art gallery. Founded by Deepak Talwar, it opened in New York City in September 2001 and in New Delhi in 2007. ^[1]

Overview

Talwar Gallery, New York was launched in September 2001 and Talwar New Delhi opened in 2007. Deepak Talwar, founder of Talwar Gallery, has been working with contemporary artists from India since 1996. Representing some of the most exciting artists working in the Indian subcontinent today and the essential 20th century artists from India like Estate of Rummana Hussain and Nasreen Mohamedi, Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on artists from the Indian Subcontinent and its Diaspora. Underlying the gallery vision is the belief that the artist is geographically located not the art. Their search and their work traverse any simplified categorization based on geography, religion, culture or race.

Talwar New York

Since opening in September 2001, Talwar Gallery NY has presented the first solo exhibitions of artists that have since been the focus of major museum exhibitions and collections. Talwar Gallery presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–90) in 2003. It was Mohamedi's first solo exhibition outside India and the first ever of her photographs. The Gallery presented Mohamedi again in 2008 and 2013 in two solo exhibitions. Later in 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York presented Mohamedi’s work as their inaugural solo exhibition at The MET Breuer. ^[2] Talwar NY also presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Ranjani Shettar in 2004. Since then, Shettar has been the subject of solo exhibitions at ICA Boston (2008), ^[3] The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2008), ^[4] The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), ^[5] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018), ^[6] The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019). ^[7] Amongst other artists introduced by Talwar to the western audiences include Alwar Balasubramaniam, Allan deSouza, Rummana Hussain, Alia Syed, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon, Kartik Sood, Sheila Makhijani, and Paramjit Singh.

Exhibitions

New York Exhibitions ^[8]

2023

Kartik Sood, Elusive Spaces

Paramjit Singh

2022

N.N. Rimzon, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Ranjani Shettar, From Three, Two

Allan deSouza, Flotsam (1926-2018)

20th Anniversary Exhibition, as the wind blows

2021

Sheila Makhijani, Take A Listen

2020

Nasreen Mohamedi, Pull with a Direction

Muhanned Cader, I See Sea

2019

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Becoming Nature

Alia Syed, Meta Incognita: Missive II

2018

Arpita Singh, Trying down time II

Ranjani Shettar, On and on it goes on

Shambhavi Singh, Maati.Maa

2017

Arpita Singh, Tying down time

Allan de Souza, Through the Black Country & Alia Syed, On a wing and a prayer

2016

N. N. Rimzon, And I thank you one again

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Rain in the midnight

Rummana Hussain, Breaking skin

2015

Sheila Makhijani, NowNotNow

Anjum Singh, Masquerade

Allan de Souza, Notes from Afar

Muhanned Cader, Jungle Tide

2014

Ranjani Shettar, Night skies and daydreams

Paramjit Singh, Shifting Terrains

Nasreen Mohamedi, Becoming One

2013

FOUND

Alia Syed, Panopticon Letters: Missive I

Alwar Balasubramniam

2012

Rummana Hussain

2011

Shambhavi Singh, Lonely Furrow

Allan de Souza, Trysts Tropicales

Sheila Makhijani, TOSS

2010

Alia Syed, Wallpaper

2010

Risham Syed, and the rest is history

Ranjani Shettar

2009

Emperor’s New Clothes

Excerpts from Diary Pages

Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged

2008

Alia Syed, New Films & Photoworks

Allan de Souza, (I don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos

2007

Alwar Balasubramaniam

Valsan Kolleri, New Clearage: Retrospective as Artwork

Shambavi Singh, a bird and two thousand echoes, Paintings 2001-2006

2006

Anant Joshi, Local, Kiss Me Kill Me – Push Me Pull Me

Ranjani Shettar, Recent Works

2005

Navjot Altaf, Water Weaving

Sheila Makhijani, BLIP!

Allan de Souza, The Lost Pictures

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Into Thin Air

2004

Paramjit Singh, Recent Paintings

Ranjani Shettar, The Indian Spring

Sheila Makhijani, Recent Works

Alia Syed, Eating Grass

2003

Nasreen Mohamedi, Photoworks

Allan de Souza, people in white houses

Navjot Altaf, In Response To…,

Alia Syed, Film Works,

2002

Anjum Singh, New Paintings,

South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, MANGO,

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Recent Works

Subba Ghosh & Sheila Makhijani

Rajendra Dhawan & Paramjit Singh, Inner/Outer,

2001

Allan de Souza, Recent Works

Zarina Bhimji, Cleaning the Garden

New Delhi Exhibitions ^[9]

2023

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Mirror on the Ground

Sheila Makhijani, Just like that

2022

Ranjani Shettar, Summer garden and rain clouds

Kartik Sood, In Thin Air

2021

N. N. Rimzon, The Round Ocean and the Living Death

2019

Anjum Singh, I am still here

Sheila Makhijani, This That and The Other

2018

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Liquid Lake Mountain

2017

Ranjani Shettar, Bubble trap and a double bow

2016

Muhanned Cader, ISLAND

N.N. Rimzon, Forest of The Living Divine

2015

Rummana Hussain, Breaking Skin

Alwar Balasubramaniam, layers of wind, lines of time

Shambhavi Singh, Reaper’s Melody

2014

Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth

Navjot Altaf, Horn in the Head

2013

Sheila Makhijani, nothing really to know

Allan deSouza, Painting Redux

2012

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Nothing From My Hands

2011

Ranjani Shettar, Present Continuous

2010

Rummana Hussain, Fortitude From Fragments

Navjot Altaf, Touch IV

2009

Alwar Balasubramaniam, (IN)BETWEEN

Alia Syed, Elision

2008

Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks

Shambhavi Singh, Lullaby

2007

Ranjani Shettar, Epiphanies:Alwar Balasubramaniam, (in)visible

Other exhibitions ^[10]

2023

Alwar Balasubramaniam in Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Rummana Hussain in The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Institute of Arab & Islamic Art, New York, NY

Nasreen Mohamedi in Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France

Ranjani Shettar in Confluence: Sangam, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, Mumbai, India

2022

Allan deSouza in Elegies of Futures Past, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

Nasreen Mohamedi and Arpita Singh in Elles font l'abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

2021

Ranjani Shettar in 150th Anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2019

Allan deSouza in New Cartographies, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX

Rummana Hussain in Our time for a future sharing, 58th Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Italy ^[11]

Ranjani Shettar, Earth Songs for a Night Sky, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Arpita Singh, Arpita Singh: A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

Alia Syed in Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Alwar Balasubramaniam in Alchemy: Explorations in Indigo, Arvind Indigo Museum, Ahmedabad, India

2018

Allan deSouza, Through the Black County, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

Alwar Balasubramaniam in You Remind Me of Someone, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France

Ranjani Shettar, Seven ponds a few raindrops, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2017

Allan deSouza in Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York, NY, 2017.

N.N. Rimzon in Pond Near the Field, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

2016

Alia Syed & Allan deSouza in Contents Under Pressure, Van Every/Smith Museum Galleries, Davidson, NC

Nasreen Mohamedi, MET Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2015

Nasreen Mohamedi, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Shelia Makhijani in Working Spaces, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

Alwar Balasubramaniam & Allan deSouza in Intersections @5, Works from the permanent collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Allan deSouza in Time / Image, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX

2014

Allan deSouza in Earth Matters, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Rummana Hussain in The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

Nasreen Mohamedi in Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK

Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Nasreen Mohamedi, Tate Liverpool, UK

Rummana Hussain in Is it what you think? Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

2013

Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Nasreen Mohamedi, A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

Ranjani Shettar, High tide for a blue moon, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India

Ranjani Shettar in Now Here is also Nowhere: Part 1, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

Alia Syed, Eating Grass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA ^[12]

2012

Sheila Makhijani in 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2012 Alwar Balasubramaniam, all our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney Australia

Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines of Thought, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK

Ranjani Shettar, Dewdrops and Sunshine, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2011

Alwar Balasubramaniam, Sk(in), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC ^[13]

Alwar Balasubramaniam in Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Allan deSouza, The World Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Ranjani Shettar in Flame of The Forest, Hermes Foundation, Singapore

Nasreen Mohamedi, A. Balasubramaniam, Sheila Makhijani, Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY

Source: ^[14]

Press Coverage

1. The Barbican Center (2023). "Press room Ranjani Shettar: Cloud songs on the horizon." ^[15]
2. Powers, Sophia (2023). "Kartik Sood," ARTFORUM. ^[16]
3. Jenkins, Mark (2023)."Alwar Balasubramaniam in the Phillips Collection," The Washington Post. ^[17]
4. Menezes, Meera (2023). "Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM. ^[18]
5. Civin, Marcus(2023). "Al-An deSouza: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art," ARTFORUM. ^[19]
6. Sharma, Kamayani (2022). "Kartik Sood - In Thin Air," Art Asia Pacific. ^[20]
7. Menezes, Meera (2020). "N.N. RIMZON, TALWAR GALLERY | NEW DELHI," ARTFORUM. ^[21]
8. Smith, Roberta (2020). "NASREEN MOHAMEDI, TALWAR GALLERY, NEW YORK," The New York Times. ^[22]
9. Heffner, Ariana (2020). "Obituary: Anjum Singh (1967–2020)," Art Asia Pacific. ^[23]
10. Sharma, Kamayani (2019). "Critic’s Pick: Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM. ^[24]

Publications

2021: Alwar Balasubramaniam, BALA, text by Vesela Sretenović, Alwar Balasubramaniam, and Deepak Talwar

2019: Arpita Singh, Tying down time, text by Ella Datta and Deepak Talwar

2017: Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth, text by Catherine deZegher, Ranjani Shettar, Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery

2009: Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged, text by Geeta Kapur, Deepak Talwar, Anders Kreuger, John Yau, Talwar Gallery

2009: Alwar Balasubramaniam, (In)between, text by Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery

2008: Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks, texts by Allan deSouza, Eve Oishi, Moi Tsien, Luis Francia, Steven Nelson, Talwar Gallery

2005: Nasreen Mohamedi, Lines Among Lines, Drawing Papers 52, texts by Geeta Kapur, Susette Min, Drawing Center

2005: (Desi)re, Talwar Gallery, 2005

References

External links

• Official website
• Talwar Gallery, New Delhi on India Express
• Talwar Gallery on Artinfo
• Talwar Gallery, New Delhi on ArtSlant
• Talwar Gallery, New York on ArtSlant

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