Artists Thukral & Tagra’s works are executed in a wide variety of media including graphics, videos, music, interiors, product design, paintings, sculpture and installations. Their quirky, kitsch, pop art-like works focus on the influence of popular western ideologies on India’s deep-rooted cultural heritage, and blur the lines between fine art and popular culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype....
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Artists Thukral & Tagra’s works are executed in a wide variety of media including graphics, videos, music, interiors, product design, paintings, sculpture and installations. Their quirky, kitsch, pop art-like works focus on the influence of popular western ideologies on India’s deep-rooted cultural heritage, and blur the lines between fine art and popular culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. However, the duo’s approach to the subject is refreshingly stylish. Although vibrant and energetic, their compositions raise serious questions about the globalisation of consumer culture, the loss of identity experienced by Indians in their own sub-continent, and their repercussions worldwide.
Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra, branded as Thukral & Tagra, have worked as a team since the turn of the millennium. Born in 1976 in Jalandar, Thukral completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at Chandigarh College of Arts, and his Master’s degree in the same at the Delhi College of Art. Tagra was born in New Delhi in 1979. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the Delhi College of Art and then went on to postgraduate studies in Communication Design at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad.
Amongst their solo shows are ‘Somnium Genero’ at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, in 2008; ‘Thukral & Tagra’ at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, in 2008; ‘Put It On’ at Bose Pacia, New York, in 2007; ‘Everyday Bosedk’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2007; ‘Bosedkdesigns.com’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2005; and ‘Its About the Art Which Is Behind and Around the Art’ at Nature Morte, New Delhi, also in 2005. Some of their most recent group shows include, ‘Passage to India’ at Initial Access – the Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, in 2008; ‘Imaginary Realities: Constructed Worlds in Abstract and Figurative Painting’ at Max Wigram Gallery, London, also in 2008; ‘Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity’ at MOCA Shanghai; ‘Pink’ at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai; and ‘Does Size Matter?’ at Art Konsult, New Delhi, all in 2007.
Thukral & Tagra have also received numerous awards and were recently singled out by Wallpaper Magazine as one of the 101 best emerging international designers. Both the artists live and work in Gurgaon, Haryana.
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Born
1976 and b.1979
Thukral and Tagra (b. 1976 and b. 1979)
Education
Jiten Thukral
2000 Master of Fine Arts, Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Chandigarh Art College
Sumir Tagra
2006 Post Graduate from National School of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
1999 Shankar’s Academy of Arts, New Delhi
Born
Jiten Thukral
1976 Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Sumir Tagra
1979 New Delhi, India
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'Play, Pray, Play', Bikaner...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 'Play, Pray, Play', Bikaner House, New Delhi
2015 'Q: The Light House', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2015 'Games People Play', Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
2015 'Thukral & Tagra Foundation', #letsdyetogether - Indian Design, New Delhi
2013 'Q', presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi at Famous Studio, Mumbai
2013 'Mirabilia Collection', Etro, London
2013 'Meissen Dominus Aeris', Residence of the German Ambassador of India, New Delhi
2013 'Windows of Opportunity', Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2012 'Nosturistic', Galerie Ernst Hilgar, Vienna
2012 'Longing for Tomorrow', Nature Morte, Berlin
2011-12 'German Returned', Nature Morte, Gurgaon
2011 'Put It On, Again !', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2011 'Science, Mystery and Magic', BTAP and Tokyo Gallery for Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo
2011 'The Beautiful Game – Foundation Thukral & Tagra', Project Booth, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi
2010 'Match Fixed', Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2010 'Middle Class Dreams', Arario, Seoul
2010 Max Wigram Gallery, London
2010 'Low-Tech Family Vacations', Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
2009 'Nouveau Riche', Nature Morte, Berlin
2008 ‘Somnium Genero’, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, NSW
2008 ‘Thukral and Tagra’, Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
2007 ‘Put It On’, Installation and Paintings at Bose Pacia, New York
2007 ‘Everyday Bosedk’, Installation and Paintings at Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Bosedkdesigns.com’, Installation at Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Its About the Art Which Is Behind and Around the Art’, Paintings at Nature Morte, New Delhi
2006 ‘Vector Classics’, Paintings and Video at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi and Jehangir Nicholsan Gallery, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014-15 'All Well & Good!', Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumunster, Germany
2014 'Sparsha -Touching the Senses. Ritual and Contemporary Indian Art', Kunstmuseum Bochum
2014 'Ethereal', Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2014 'Art Guild House', T&T sports, Phoenix Market city, Kurla, Mumbai
2013 'Island', Dairy Art Centre, London
2013 'Panoplism', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2012 Solo Project at Villa Meissen, Milan
2011 'Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art', Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011 'Asianart: Sustain', Nature Morte, Berlin in partnership with Asia Pacific Weeks 2011
2011 'Indian Rainbow', Luce Gallery, Torino
2010 'STPI Review Show', Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
2010 'Inside India', Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin
2010 'Dialogues: A Selection of International Contemporary Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore
2010 'Eye of India: A Selection of Contemporary Indian Artists', Bartha & Senarclens Partners, Singapore, in collaboration with Nature Morte, New Delhi
2010-11 'In Transition: New Art from India', Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2009 'A Work of Persol', Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan
2009 'Passage to India, Part II: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection', at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
2009 'Vistaar II', presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Some Iceberg Easy to Avoid', Bose Pacia, New York
2008 ‘Passage to India’, Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolver Hampton, UK
2008 ‘Imaginary Realities: Constructed Worlds in Abstract and Figurative Painting’, Max Wigram Gallery, London
2007 'Face East: Contemporary Indian Portraiture', Wedel Fine Art, London
2007 ‘Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity’, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
2007 ‘Pink’, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2007 ‘Does Size Matters ?’, Art Konsult, New Delhi
2006 ‘New Paintings’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2005 ‘Iconography’, Installation Project, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004 ‘Visual Dialogue’, Hype Gallery, London and Mumbai
Participations
2012 'Indian Highway VI', organized in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011-12 'Indian Highway', in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
2011 'The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art Of India', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 'Maximum India', The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
2011 'Concurrent India', Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland
2011 'Indian Highway', Traveling Exhibition at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 '21st Century: Art in the First Decade', Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2010 'Art Singapore 2010', Singapore represented by Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
2010 'Roundabout', City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
2010 'Emerging Asian Artists', as part of Art Gwangju 2010, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju
2010 'The 11th Hour: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from India / Diaspora', Tang Contemporary, Beijing
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2010 ‘Urban Manners 2’, Contemporary Artists from India, at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009-10 'Not Alone', Travelling Exhibition at Iziko Good Hope Castle, Cape Town; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Museum Africa, Joburg; Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
2009-10 Animamix Biennial, Taipei
2009 'Flower Power', Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale (CRAA), Verbania
2009 Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver
2009 'Viewpoints and Viewing Points- 2009', Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2009 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6), Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Australia
2009 'India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
2009 Artissima Art Fair, Turin, presented by Max Wigram
2009 Art Summit, New Delhi, presented by Nature Morte
2009 Frieze Art Fair, London, presented by Max Wigram
2009 ‘Art Basel’, Switzerland presented by Nature Morte / Bose Pacia
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by Bose Pacia/ Nature Morte
2009 Asian Art Bienniel, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2008-09 'The Audience and the Eavesdropper: New Art from India and Pakistan', Phillips de Pury & Company, London and New York
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Presented by Nature Morte/ Bose Pacia at Art Basel Miami Beach, Basel
2008 ‘Make Art/Stop AIDS’, Traveling Exhibition, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York at FIAC, Pompidou Centre, Paris
2007 ‘Adolescere - Domus’, Installation and Paintings, Presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York at Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Switzerland
2007 ‘The Armory Show’, New York, Presented by Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York
2006 ‘Taipei Art Show 06’, Taipei
2006 ‘Global Edit 06’, Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan
Honours and Awards
2006 ‘101 Emerging Designers’, from Wallpaper Magazine for Global Edit ‘06
2006 National Award on Commissioned Project
2005 D&AD
2005 One Show Interactive
2004 Limca Book of Records
2004,03 One Show, New York
2004,03 One Show Design, New York
2003 Red Hot Ogilvy
2003 Graphis International Awards
2003 London International Awards
2002 OBIE Award
2006 ‘101 Emerging Designers’, from Wallpaper Magazine for Global Edit ‘06
2006 National Award on Commissioned Project
2005 D&AD
2005 One Show Interactive
2004 Limca Book of Records
2004,03 One Show, New York
2004,03 One Show Design, New York
2003 Red Hot Ogilvy
2003 Graphis International Awards
2003 London International Awards
2002 OBIE Award
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