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Gautam Kansara

Bio CV Exhibitions

(Untitled) Jaisalmer
Health, Wealth, Name, Fame (Maheshwari Udyaan)
Health, Wealth, Name, Fame (Rangpur)
Grandma, Gautam And Ghalib
I’m Leaving
Dont Hurry, Dont Worry

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Education

2002-2004 Master of Arts, Art in New Media, New York University

1997-2001 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

Solo Exhibitions

2016 – Of Record, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (two-person exhibition with Takashi Horzaki)

2014 – Save As…, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India

2012 – This Is Familiar But I Can’t Remember Now…, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2010 – Don’t Hurry, Don’t Worry, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India

2008 – us between us, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

2004 – After Night, Tribeca Film Festival 2004, Tribeca Cinemas Gallery, New York City

Selected Collections

The Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China and Schlieren, Switzerland
Collection of the Center for Book Arts, New York City
Shreya and Swapan Seth Collection, New Delhi, India

Residencies/Awards

2016 – 2017 Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City

2008 – 2009 Artist in Residence, Center for Book Arts, New York City

2007 – GO! Fellowship, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

2006-2007 – Studio Artist Fellowship, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York

2006 – AIM, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings *indicates screening **indicates collaboration

2018 – Art Alumni Show, Commons Gallery, New York University, New York City
Curated by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art

Museum of Broken Windows, 9 West 8th Street, Pop-Up Exhibition organized by NYCLU, New York City

*YES: Lili Chin / Gautam Kansara, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 – Lapses II, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India

2017 – Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions, Asia Society Museum, New York City
Lapses, Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, India

2016 – Wear(e), Urban Garden Room, Chashama, New York City
*Desktop Cinema: Reconfiguring the Screen, Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Speak Out, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY

2015 – The Time is NOW, Scope Lounge, Scope New York, New York City
Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2014 – Poison Dartz, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Studio, Manhattan Project(s), Manhattan College, NYC

2013 – *A Nite with the Poison Dartz, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York City

2012 – Near by Night 5, Zinema, Lausanne, Switzerland
Interpreting Rituals: The Butterfly Effect, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
**Collapsing Giant, Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Joyce Soho, New York

2011 – Picturing Parallax, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California
Multiple, Unique, Limited: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The
Center for Book Arts, New York City

2010 – *Art Kino Presents: Frictive Familiarities, Biografteatern Rio, Stockholm,
Sweeden
A Place of Their Own, BMB Gallery, Mumbai, India
**Other Spaces, CENTER 548, New York City (Collaboration with David Shull,
Sarah Kuhn, Lane Lacolla)

2009 – *Programme 3, British Film Institute, BFI Southbank Studio Theater,
London, UK Curated by Peter Campus, and in conjunction with Opticks at BFI
Southbank Gallery

*Left Coast/Gautam Kansara/Andrew Hurst, No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative,
NYC
*Social Soup, EFA Project Space, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC

2008 – Wir sind immer für euch da(We will always be there for you), Kunsthaus
Dresden, Dresden, Germany
*Thicker Than Water, Video_Dumbo, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York
*Rencontres Internationales Madrid 2008, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte
Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2007 – Drift 2007, Rush Arts Gallery, New York City
Transitio MX 2, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

2007 – TV Dinners, LMAK Projects, New York City

2006- Beyond Images 2, , 4th Seoul Media Art Biennial, Dukwon Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
Multiplex: Legal Aliens, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
*Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Beyoglu,
Istanbul, Turkey

2005- SIART Bolivia 2005, Bienal Internacional, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz,
Bolivia
*22nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Art Festival, Kassel, Germany
*Now and Future, Cantor Film Center, New York City

Teaching

2015-2018 Coordinator of Digital Media, Visual and Performing Arts Department,
Manhattan College

2005-2014 Adjunct Professor, Digital Media, Visual and Performing Arts
Department, Manhattan College

2005-2018 Adjunct Professor, Photography/Video, Department of Art and Art
Professions, New York University

Selected Bibliography

The Parallax View by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, South Asian Diaspora Journal, December 2017

The Place of the Self: Auto-Ethnographic filmic writings and space by Miriam De Rosa, Publication of Universita Catholia del Sacro Cuore, Mlan, Italy, May 2013

Picturing Parallax by Falu Bakrania, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Kasturi Ray, and Paul Sherwin, Catalog, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, October 2011

Frictive Familiarities by Diana Kaur, Catalog, Art Kino and Bastard Gallery, Stockholm, November 2010

Homeward Bound by Zeenat Nagree, TimeOut Mumbai, October 2010

A Curious Inheritance by Gopika Nath, Take On Art Magazine, July 2010

A Place of Their Own by Sharmistha Ray, ArtPulse Magazine, November 2009

Way in the World by Sharmistha Ray, Art India Magazine, July 2009

Snapshots, the Airport, and Lunch by Stephen Maine, Real Art Ways, August 2008

TV Dinners by Louky Keijsers, NY ARTS Magazine, July 2007

Aliens in Our Midst by Wayne Hodge, The Reeler, December, 2006

Genocchio, Ben, Art in Review: For Hopeful Artists, the Search to be Just Themselves New York Times, April, 2006

Gautam Kansara is an artist and educator formerly based in Brooklyn, New York, and recently relocated to Zürich, Switzerland. Crossing mediums between video, photography, and installation, Kansara’s work is part of prestigious private collections including The Burger Collection, Hong Kong, and The Shreya and Swapan Seth Collection, New Delhi. Since 2002 his works have been featured internationally at the Asia Society Museum (New York), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), British Film Institute (London), Shrine Empire Gallery (New Delhi), LMAK Projects (New York), and Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn). Gautam has been an artist-in-residence at Smack Mellon, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace (2017) and Swing Space (2006), and the Center for Book Arts, all in New York City. Kansara has taught Photography and Digital Video classes at major universities and fine art schools since 2005, including New York University’s Department of Art and Professions, Manhattan College’s Visual and Performing Arts Department, and the National Academy Museum and School in New York City.