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Tushar Joag
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Tushar Joag describes himself as a public intervention artist. He founded PWC (Public Work Cells), an organization that aims "to create works of art that seek to make interventions in the urban space, by designing and producing objects that while being functional and aesthetic bring into focus the various concerns of the immediate situation."
A conscientious artist deeply aware the problems and tensions of contemporary urban...
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Tushar Joag describes himself as a public intervention artist. He founded PWC (Public Work Cells), an organization that aims "to create works of art that seek to make interventions in the urban space, by designing and producing objects that while being functional and aesthetic bring into focus the various concerns of the immediate situation."
A conscientious artist deeply aware the problems and tensions of contemporary urban life, Joag spends his time doing things like developing a special vending cart for hawkers that folds up into a ‘Shanghai Couch’, on the approach of prowling BMC officials. All his works carry a strong social message and address issues prevalent in our society including the corruption of the judiciary, political hierarchy and disparity of wealth. Joag’s drawings are meticulous, but do not appear to be confined; some images appear in momentum, others seem to entirely break away from the limitations of the canvas.
Tushar Joag was born in Bombay in 1966. In 1988, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, and in 1989, he completed his Master’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. The artist’s solo shows include ‘Reconciliation and Truth’ at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, in 2008 and ‘Willing Suspension’ at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, in 2005. Joag has also participated in numerous group shows including ‘India Art Now: Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation’ at Provincia di Milano, Italy, in 2007; ‘Here, There, Now: New and Recent Work by Artists from India’ at Soulflower Gallery, Bangkok, in 2007; ‘Pink’ at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, in 2007; ‘Subcontingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art’ at Fondazione Sandretto re Rabaudengo, Torino, Italy, in 2006; ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporaries’ at Arario Beijing, in 2006; and ‘We Are Like This Only’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2005.
Tushar Joag passed away on 18th December 2018.
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Born
January 1, 1966
Mumbai
Died
January 1, 2018
Education
1989 Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Riding Rocinante from Bombay...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Riding Rocinante from Bombay to Shanghai via Sardar Sarovar and Three Gorges', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Reconciliation and Truth’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2005 ‘Willing Suspension’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Sacred / Scared', Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 'The SKODA Prize Show', National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India in collaboration with The Skoda Prize at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
2012 'Whose History ? Which Stories ?', Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Loss for Words', Art Musings, Mumbai
2011 'The Art of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Excrescence', The Guild, Mumbai
2011 'Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 'The Story of the Multiples', Emami Chisel Art Gallery, Kolkata
2010 'ID/entity', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Love to Live', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri
2009 'Lost In An Urban Maze', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2009 'Recycled', Bose Pacia, Kolkata
2009 'Pixel Power', The Loft, Mumbai
2009 'Under the Surface', as part of 'India 2: Mumbai', at Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2009 'Re-Claim/ Re-Cite/ Re-Cycle', presented by Latitude 28 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi; Bose Pacia, Kolkata
2009 'The Other (Indian) Story: Retrospecting Lakeeren-The Contemporary Art Gallery (1995-2009)', presented by Lakeeren at The Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
2008-09 'Popular Reality', The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi; Jam Jar, Dubai; Clark House, Mumbai
2008 'Still Moving Image', Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, Harayana
2008 'Drawing Sculpture', Gallerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2007 ‘India Art Now: Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation’, Provincia di Milano, Italy
2007 ‘Here, There, Now: New and Recent Work by Artists from India’, Soulflower Gallery, Bangkok
2007 ‘Mumbai Metronomes’, presented by Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai at Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Pink’, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2007 ‘New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India’, Exhibit Hall and Sidney R. Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, USA
2007 Classe de Danse, Bern
2007 ‘Destination Asia’, Almaty, Kazhakstan,
2007 ‘Making un Making Objects’, Vadehra Art Gallery , New Delhi
2007 ‘Anniversary Show’, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai
2006 ‘Subcontingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rabaudengo, Torino, Italy
2006 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporaries’, Arario Beijing, China
2006 ‘Hungry God: Indian Contemporaries’, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
2006 ‘Bite The Mango’, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
2006 ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’ , Traveling Exhibition at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, Mumbai and UC Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and Centre for South Asia Studies, California
2006 ‘El Filo del Deseo - Arte Reciente en India’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico
2004-05 ‘Edge Of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Traveling Exhibition, Asia Society and Queens Museum, New York; Tomayo Museum, Mexico; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2005 ‘Are We like This Only’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Screening of ‘Jataka Trilogy' Single Channel Video at the Cultural Program, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris
2004 ‘Home With No Walls’, for the World Social Forum
2003 ‘Video Show’, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai,
2003 ‘Sites of Recurrence II’, Elisabet Haglund (India Sabka video compilation), Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden
2003 ‘Outside Wall’, Public Screening at Lund Art Hall, Lund, Sweden. (India Sabka video compilation)
2003 ‘Ideas and Images’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2003 ‘I Love My India', Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003 ‘Crossing Generations: diVERGE’, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2002 ‘Alchemy’, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London,
1999 ‘Icons of the Millennium’, Lakereen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai
1998 ‘Edge of the Century’, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
1996 ‘100 Years of Cinema’, Lakereen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai
1995 ‘Young Contemporaries’, Lakeeren Gallery for Contemporary Art, Mumbai
1995 Gallerie 88, Kolkata
1993 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
1997 ‘Collaborative Space’, a Collaborative Installation with Kausik Mukhopadhayay presented by Pundole Art Gallery at Y.B. Chavan Centre, Mumbai
Participations
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 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
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
2011 'Generation in Transition: New Art from India', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Place.Time.Play: India-China Contemporary Art', West Heavens Exhibition Project, presented by Shanghai International Culture Association, Institute of Visual Culture (China Academy of Art) at Shanghai Art Museum Lecture Hall, Shanghai
2010 'FIAC 2010', Paris represented by Chemould Prescott Road
2010 'Go See India', part of India-Sweden Cultural Exchange Program presented by Emami Chisel, Kolkata at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata; Vasa Konsthal and Gallery-Scandinavia, Gothenburg
2010 'The 11th Hour: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from India / Diaspora', Tang Contemporary, Beijing
2010 'Transformations', part of the Exhibition 'Indian Highway', at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART), Herning; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 'The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today', The Saatchi Gallery, London
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'The Miniature Format Show', Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 'Destination Asia: Flying Over Stereotypes', Conversations 1, a Traveling Exhibition, Central Asia, Pakistan and India at Elementa Gallery, Dubai
2007 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai , China , presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2007 Focus India Contemporary Art from India, Rome Film Fest, Rome
2007 Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2006 Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History, Cinema of Prayoga, Indian Experimental Film and Video, TATE Modern, London
2005 Video Art from India, SESC, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
2005 Monument for Kala Ghoda, Kala Ghoda Art Festival presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
2003 Video Presentations, Pabellon de Cuba,Vedado, Havana Biennale , Cuba
2002 ‘Short and Sweet’, German and Indian Short Film Festival, Prince of Wales Museum, Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai
2002 ‘Aar Paar’, a Public Art Project and Cross Border Exchange and Exhibition of Posters, Karachi, Pakistan
2002 Video Festival, India Sabka Youth Festival
Honours and Awards
2007 Short Term Residency at PULSE, Durban, South Africa
2005 Majlis Fellowship for the Arts
1998-2000 Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
1995 Inlaks Scholarship for Sculpture
1990-92 Fellowship Award, Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad
1984-88 Merit scholarship for Sculpture, Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai
2007 Short Term Residency at PULSE, Durban, South Africa
2005 Majlis Fellowship for the Arts
1998-2000 Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
1995 Inlaks Scholarship for Sculpture
1990-92 Fellowship Award, Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad
1984-88 Merit scholarship for Sculpture, Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai
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