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Ranbir Kaleka
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Ranbir Singh Kaleka was born in Patiala, Punjab, in 1953. He studied painting at the College of Art, Punjab University in Chandigarh, and subsequently took on a teaching assignment at the Punjabi University and College of Art in New Delhi. He later obtained his Master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in London.
Kaleka’s paintings, both on paper and canvas, in oils as well as mixed media, are almost surrealist...
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Ranbir Singh Kaleka was born in Patiala, Punjab, in 1953. He studied painting at the College of Art, Punjab University in Chandigarh, and subsequently took on a teaching assignment at the Punjabi University and College of Art in New Delhi. He later obtained his Master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in London.
Kaleka’s paintings, both on paper and canvas, in oils as well as mixed media, are almost surrealist in their treatment of scenes from everyday life. The lines are suggested, rather than sharply traced, and the colours almost deliberately restrained. Kaleka’s interest in cinema also lead to the advent of his video art, where he explores the effects of combining the physicality of the painted image with an image made out of light. The result is a ‘sort of hyperimage’, which achieves an intensity and subtlety of colour, and imbues the static with a sense of movement through the superimposition of sound and movement. The artist’s movement into video art has been an essential endeavor for his further exploration of the ‘psychological event’, an event that can only take place outside the physical confines of the frame of the painting, through the usage of light to create the image and the subsequent aura of the image. Kaleka has also created and exhibited photographs and installations.
The artist’s work has been widely exhibited in India and abroad. His most recent solo and group shows include the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, 2011; MediaArtLab in Moscow, in 2011; Prague Biennale 5, in 2011, Lalit Kala Akademi’s ‘Tolstoy Farm- Archive of Utopia’, in 2011; ‘Contemporary Masterpieces from Private Collections’ at Singapore Art Museum, in 2011; ‘Finding India, Art for the New Century’ at MOCA Taipei, in 2010; Hong Kong Art Fair, in 2010; ‘Sweet Unease’ at Volte Gallery, Mumbai, in 2010; ‘Reading Man’, in 2009, and ‘Fables from the House of Ibaan: Stage I’ in 2008, at Bose Pacia Gallery, New York; Chalo India at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2008; a multi-media installation commissioned to the permanent collection of the Spertus Museum, Chicago, in 2007; the Sydney Biennale, 2008; Urban Manners at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, in 2007; New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2007; Horn Please: The Narrative in Contemporary Indian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, in 2007; Art Video Lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, in 2006; Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art at Busan Museum of Modern Art, South Korea in 2006; iCon: India Contemporary at the Venice Biennale, 2005; Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India at the Asia Society, New York, in 2005; Culturgest-Lisbon in 2004; Zoom! Art in Contemporary India, Lisbon, in 2004; and subTerrain: Indian Contemporary Art at the House of World Culture, Berlin, in 2003. ?
Ranbir Kaleka lives and works in New Delhi.
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Born
1953
Patiala Punjab
Education
1985-87 Master of Arts (Painting), Royal College of Art, London on Charles Wallace Scholarship
1970-75 Diploma in Painting, College of Art, Punjab University, Chandigarh
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011-12 'Fables', presented by Volte...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011-12 'Fables', presented by Volte Gallery at Saffronart, New Delhi
2010-11 'Sweet Unease', Volte, Mumbai
2009 'Reading Man', Nature Morte, New Delhi; Bose Pacia, New York
2008 ‘Fables From The House Of Ibaan: Stage –I’, Bose Pacia, New York
2008 ‘Mechanisms of Motion’, New Delhi
2007 Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2007 ‘Consider’, Multi-media installation commissioned for permanent display at Spertus Museum, Chicago
2005 ‘Crossing’, Bose Pacia, New York
1996 Art Today Gallery, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 'ZONES OF CONTACT: Propositions on the Museum', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2011-12 'Your Name is Different There', Volte, Mumbai
2011 'In You is the Illusion of Each Day', Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'The Lost Sparrow', presented by Gallery Threshold at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2011 'Window in the Wall: India and China – Imaginary Conversations', Pearl Lam Fine Arts, Shanghai
2011 ‘In the Illusion of Each Day’, Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Tolstoy Farm: Archive of Utopia', presented by Seven Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2011 'Of Humour, Wit & Satire', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'The Drawing Lab', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010-11 'In Transition: New Art from India', Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2008 'Still Moving Image', Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi
2008 'The Ethics of Encounter', Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok
2007 ‘Multi-Media Installation’, commissioned by Spertus Museum for Permanent Display in Chicago
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Chicago Cultural Institute, Chicago
2007 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art’, Busan Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA)
2007 ‘Public Places, Private Spaces’, Newark Museum, New Jersey
2006 ‘Art Video Lounge’, Art Basel, Maimi Beach
2006 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art’, Busan Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA), Korea
2006 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art’, Arario Beijing
2006 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, NGMA (National Museum of Modern Art), New Delhi; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2005 ‘Herwitz 100’ Gallery ArtsIndia, New York
2005 ’Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Asia Society Museum, New York; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, (Museum of Contemporary Art), MARCO, Monterrey Mexico; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2005 ‘ Resonance’, Golden Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2005 ‘Revisualising India’, Osian’s, New Delhi
2004 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2004 ‘Zoom! Art in Contemporary India’, Culturgest-Lisbon, Portugal
2004 ‘Visual Performance', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2004 ‘After Dark’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003 ‘diVERGE’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2003 ‘Liminal Zones’, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Body. City’, Sitting Contemporary Culture in India’ , House of World Culture, Berlin
2003 'An Apparent Calm', Grantpirrie, Sydney
2003 ‘Video Roadshow’, Mumbai
2003 ‘Root En Route’, British Council, New Delhi and Chennai; Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore and Mumbai
2002 ‘KHOJ 2002’, International Workshop in Mysore, India
2002 ‘Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art’, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2002 ‘Private Mythologies: Sound and Video Works of the Personal and the Political’, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
2002 ‘Contemporary Photography’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001 ‘Rare and Unusual Paintings’, Art Today, New Delhi
2000 ‘Silent TV video Lounge’, in collaboration with Michel Mallard, Oliver Reneau & Denis Chevalier Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
2000 ‘Images for a Hundred Lamp Posts’, Public Art Projects Ealing, London
2000 ‘Embarkations: The Millennium Show’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Boxwallah’, The DeEgo-Cube, Indo- Austrian Art Projects in Public Space
1999 ‘Art and Technology’, Max Mueller, Mumbai
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, British Council, New Delhi
1998 ‘Public Mural for Thames Trains at Southall Station’, London, commissioned by Ealing and the European Union Fund
1997 ‘Open Drawing Competition Exhibition’, Cheltenham & North England
1995 ‘Indian Winter’, Mixed Show, Smith Jariwala Gallery, London
1995 ‘First Sight’, West London Artists, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London
1994 ‘Summer Exhibitions’, invited Artist Royal Academy, London
1994 ‘Drawing 94’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India
1994 ‘Connaught Brown Gallery’, the Affordable Art Company Exhibition, London
1988 ‘Seventeen Indian Painter’s’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1987 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
1987 ‘Coup De Coeur’, Festival of India, Geneva
1986 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1985 Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York.
1984 Painting Camp, Sahitya Kala Akademi, Sohna
1983 World Punjabi Writers Conference, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, New Delhi
1982 ‘Contemporary Indian Art’, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India London
Participations
2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012-13 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi
2012 'The Calendar Project: Iconography in the 20th Century', part of Project CINEMA CITY: Research Art & Documentary Practices presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) and Ministry of Culture, Government of India at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2012 'Deconstructing India’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isreal
2012 ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Crossroads : India Escalate', India Pavilion at Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 ‘Back to Basics”, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdon Museum, Guangzhou
2011 Expanded Cinema, MediaArtLab, Moscow
2011 ‘Manifestations VI', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'Collectors Stage: Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections', Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'Art Hong Kong 2010', Hong Kong presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Urban Manners 2', SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2009 'Failed Plot', part of KIAF 09 at COEX, Seoul
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008-09 ‘Expanding Horizons: Contemporary Indian Art’, Traveling Exhibition presented by Bodhi Art at Ravinder Natya Mandir, P.L.Despande Kala Academy Art Gallery, Mumbai; Sant Dyaneshwar Natya Sankul Art Gallery, Amravati; Platinum Jubilee Hall, Nagpur; Tapadia Natya Mandir Sports Hall, Aurangabad; Hirachand Nemchand Vachanalay’s, Solapur; Acharya Vidyanand Sanskrutik Bhavan, Kolhapur; PGSR Sabhagriha, SNDT, Pune; Sarvajanik Vachanalaya Hall, Nasik
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 'India: Public Places, Private Spaces', Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2008 Sydney Biennale
2005 ‘iCon: India Contemporary’, Venice Biennale
2004 ‘How can You Resist?’, LA FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angles
2003 ‘10th Biennial of Moving Images’, Center of Contemporary Images, Saint- Gervais, Geneve, Switzerland
2003 ‘Interactive A03 Biennale for New Media Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
1982 ‘India: Myth and Reality’, Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1982 Fifth Triennale India, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
2004-05 Residency at Villa Montalvo, California
2000-1999 Artistic consultant, Basic Needs Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
1985-87 Charles Wallace Scholarship for M.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London
1986 Sanskrit Award, New Delhi
1979 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2004-05 Residency at Villa Montalvo, California
2000-1999 Artistic consultant, Basic Needs Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
1985-87 Charles Wallace Scholarship for M.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London
1986 Sanskrit Award, New Delhi
1979 National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
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