Shrine Empire Gallery

Bio CV Exhibitions

Fountain
न&ा (Map)
सामान (Luggage)
Field
परछाइया1 (Shadows)
ग3ा (Pit)
सतह (Surface)
Finn, the Human
समतल (Level)
Found Object-2
Platform
खेत (Farm)

EDUCATION

2006 Master in History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India
2004 Bachelor in Fine Art, (Printing Making) Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Odisha, India

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 rescued speed altogether, Shrine Empire, New Delhi
2024 Solo Project at the Rencontres de la photographie d'arles,
Laureat du Serendipity Arles Grant 2023-2024
2018 Trees are Stranger Than Alien in the Movies, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India 2012 Kino is the Name of a Forest, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FILM FESTIVALS

2026

िप्रक्रया / Process’, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

India Art Fair, New Delhi

2025

Eye/ View,Curated by Videocity BS (Basel/ Switzerland),Motel Campo, Geneva

India Art Fair, New Delhi

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, New Delhi

2024

EXPERIMENTA 2024, 12th International Festival of Moving Image, Goethe-Institut Bangalore

Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel

Ars Electronica Festival 2024, Linz

ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2024 - Garden of Earthly Delights, Jakarta, Indonesia

Festival Film Bahari-Sea and Coastal Film Festival, Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia 2004 ‘Interwoven Ecosystems’ at American Center, New Delhi, organized by the American Center New Delhi, Anant Art, and The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University

2024 CARBON Film Festival, International Centre, Science Gallery Bangalore

Our Conspiring Hosts of Rivers, Vines, and Microbes, curated by Adwait Singh, Bikaner House, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi

THIS IS SHORT / European Short Film Network, Independent Cinema
– Verein zur Förderung unabhängigen Filmschaffens, Museumsplatz, Vienna 2024 Changing Climate, Changing Lives (CCCL) Film Festival, Thailand

2023

Time as a Mother curated by Ravi Agrawal and Damian Christinger, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa

Serendipity Arles Grant Exhibition, Goa

SAVAC's Monitor 15 program, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Toronto

2022

Communities of Choice by Chennai Photo Biennale at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022

Naya Anjor (New Sun), curated by Arushi, Bikaner House, New Dehi, Anant Art Gallery

Screening at Anthology Film Archives, New York, as part of Millennium Film Journal no.76 2022 3rd Edition, Palestinian Refugee Film Festival (PRFF), Shoruq Organization, Bethlehem

Museum MACAN, Jakarta
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz screening at Deep Space 8K

Synthesis of Difference: Contemporary Art Practices from India & South Korea, curated by B. Ajay Sharma & Jeong Heon Ki, Korean Cultural Centre, India

Online/virtual exhibition, Elektra, Montreal

New Museum, New York, screening event at New Museum's Sky Room

35th European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück

Other Spaces, online exhibition curated by Amy Evans at Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne

“New Natures – A terrible beauty is born” curated by Ravi Agarwal, Goethe Institute, part of the CSMVS, Mumbai.

2021

2021- 2022 MAPS OF DISQUIET, Chennai Photo Biennale 3 curated by Arko Datto, Bhooma Padmanabhan, Boaz Levin, Kerstin Meincke, Chennai, India

Online Exhibition at spatialweb.net, 4th VH Award and EYEBEAM

Walk on the Grid – A guided tour on in Kungsbacka, Art Inside Out, Sweden 2021 South Asia Foreground curated by Özge Calafato and Surabhi Sharma Labocine June Issue 2020 Virtual DUMBO Open Studios!

Triangle Arts Association, New York

2020

Eyeoob, Exhibition of Games, part of Open Elective 2020, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

2019

Five Million Incidents is a year-long series of events, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi

VAICA Video art festival, curated by Bharati Kapadia, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai

ARTISTS UNITE! RESIST HATE CELEBRATE LOVE! CHALO LAL QILA! New Delhi 2018 Labocine October Issue (#27) in "LIFE & OTHER CATACLYSMS", 11th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival

2018

Paperweight Biennale curated by Zebulon Zang at Llorar, CDMX, Mexico

वह पहुंचनेक* दशा, an Exhibition in response to Kahe Gaile Bidesia Gallery, GB Pant Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad

March Meeting: Active Forms 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE 2017 Workshop on Games, Exhibition Botin foundation, Santander, Spain

2017

Trace, Curated by Sarojini Lewis, School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, JNU, New Delhi.

Hangar for the passerby, Curated by Akansha Rastogi, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Noida.

Enactments and each passing day, curated by Roobina Karode & Akansha Rastogi, KNMA-Noida

Transart Triennale 2016: The Imperceptible Self and MANILA Pollination: Synchronisations-Syncopations, London Biennale 2016.

Great Eternal Return: A Social Media Film, a lecture performance and exhibition at South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Boston.

Regained, 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Never More! – Hiroshima-Fukushima, CTF Collective Trauma Film Collecions, CologneOFF 2016 Video Library Collection LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES, nouveau cinéma et art contemporain, Paris, France

BLAST! ASIA NOW, Stand SP1, Espace Pierre Cardin, 1 Avenue Gabriel, 75008 Paris. 2015 59th BFI London Film Festival, curated by William Fowler London, United Kingdom.

Rendez-vous Singapore Exposition, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore. 2015 Undivided Mind Part- ii, Art + Science Exhibition, Curated by Lieah Smith, KHOJ international Artist Association, New Delhi, India

Forever Now, Curated by Willoh S. Weiland, Brian Ritche, Thea Baumann and Jeff Khan, Aphids Epic Contemporary Project, Mofo, Hobart

Tokyo Story Part- ii, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Field Trip Project, Curated by Daisuke Takeya, Tokyo, Japan

Insert- Common Ground Curated by Raqs Media Collective, IGNCA, New Delhi India 2013 Rendez-vous 13, Institute of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France

2013

Ideas of the Sublime curated by Gayatri Sinha, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, India

2012

Sarai Reader 09: Exhibition, Curated by Raqs Media Collective, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon

Video Wednesday II, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, New Delhi

Broadening the Canvas: Contemporary Visual Culture of Alternate Sexuality, curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Part of Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival, Kolkata 2012 In Other Words, Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi

2011

Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore

Collective Metamorphosis, Curated by Kapil Chopra, Nature Morte, New Delhi

To be continued… The FICA Group Show, Curated by Bhooma Padmanabhan, Volte Gallery, Mumbai

Hong Kong Art Fair, works presented by Nature Morte

Outset Inaugural Exhibition, co-ordinated by Peter Nagy and organized by Feroze Gujral, Delhi

2010

Drifiting Still, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi

ARTIST + NATURE = ART The Sandarbh Workshop and residency, The Lahori Forest, Dadra Nagar, Gujarat

Present is Now, Curated by Peter Nagy, Bestcollegeart.com

City as Studio: EXB 10.04, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi.

City as Studio: EXB 10.01, curated by Iram Ghufran and Amitabh Kumar as part of ‘Ten Years of Sarai’, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi (Feb 15 – March 10)

Renewed Intensity, Curated by Jagannath Panda, B K College of Art, Bhubaneswar

Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai (Part of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, February)

2009

Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi (18 Dec – 10th Jan) 2009 Fantasy, Curated by Sunil Gupta and Gautam Bhan, Nigah Queer Festival, Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi.

RESIDENCIES, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND WORKSHOPS

2024

Award for Best Film, ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival

Garden of Earthly Delights, Jakarta, Indonesia

Honorary Mention at State of the ART(ist) Initiative, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz 2023 Awarded, Serendipity Arles Grantees 2023-24, Serendipity Arts Foundation, New Delhi

2023

Two Months residency at Triangle Arts Association, New York

Warehouse421 - Curatorial Development Exhibition 2022/2023 | Screening Screaming: (Human) Nature in Crisis with BICAR
2022-23 Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change 2022 Awards of Excellence, Experimental film festival 2022, Kolkata Center for Creativity Emami Art, Kolkata

2022

Sharjah Art Foundation Production Grant 2022, Sharjah

2021

Nagari short film competition grant, Charles Correa foundation, Goa, India

BeFantastic Together Fellowship, explores AI and ML technology

One of the shortlists for 4th VH Award and two months EYEBEAM online exhibition

3Months Residency and site-specific work for Art Inside Out’s residency “Other choreographies, new spaces”, based on the concept of critical tourism, in Kungsbacka/Halmstad

2020

Ten-days intensive workshop, part of Open Elective 2020, NID, Gandhinagar 2019 Five Million Incidents, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi

2019

Onassis Artist in Residency, Onassis Foundation, Athens

LowRes Jerusalem - Art Cube Artists' Studio, International Residency Program, Jerusalem 2018 Soma Summer Program 2018, Mexico City.

2018

March Meeting: Active Forms 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE 2018 ROOP-AROOP, a collective of young writers’ workshop, Raza Foundation, New Delhi. 2017 Workshop on Games, conducted by Carsten Holler, Botin foundation, Santander Spain

2017

Residency Scholarship for artistic research//arts-based-philosophy at the research center BASE art philosophy ecology, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India.

Supported by Vienna based cultural factory GRENZ_film wiener kulturweksatte

2016

Skowhegan Artist Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, New York. USA

South Asia Institute ‘Visiting Artist Program’, Harvard University, Boston.

2015

Kochi Biennale Foundation Young Curatorial Award Fellowship 2016/2017 Student’s Biennale.

T.A.J. RESIDENCY & SKE PROJECTS, Bangalore, India

Undivided Mind- Part II, Art + Science One Month Residency at KHOJ,KHOJ International Artist Association, New Delhi, India.

2014

Writing Intensive, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, New Delhi

2013

International Creator Residency Program 2013, Tokyo Wander Site, Tokyo, Japan

An Anatomy and Politics of Video Art, A workshop by Marcel Odenbach, Kolkata, India

2011

Three-months residency hosted by Stadt galerie, Bern (Switzerland) in collaboration with Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) and FICA

2010

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi

Awarded ‘City as Studio’ – Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Media Practices and Residency.

Sandarbh Artists Residency, Dadra Nagar and Havelli

CURATION, ORGANISATION, SYMPOSIUMS, AND SEMINARS

2022 ଜଳ $ଳ ବନ ଗିରିଆକାଶ (Water Land Forest Mountain Sky), a two-day symposium on climate change, Odisha State Museum, Bhubaneswar
2019 8/4 Exhibition, co-curated with Jasone Miranda and Akansha Rastogi, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2018 8/4 Exhibition, co-curated with Jasone Miranda and Akansha Rastogi, OED Gallery, Fort Kochi 2018 InC, a two-day performance event in Delhi with artist friends in Delhi.
2018 De-Text, performance philosophy in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound, JNU, New Delhi 2018 When does curatorial work end? School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi 2017 The Future of Art Education in India, Tracing institutional Histories, Kochi, Kerala 2016 Student’s Biennale, Part of Kochi Muzuris Biennale 2016, Kochi, India.
2016 Chance Dice, Questions around students’ work, Buddha Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Academy, Bhubaneswar 2014 36HRS (Event), Sarai CSDS, New Delhi, India

PUBLICATIONS

2025 Hekh: Call #2, Speaker and contributor,Edited by Rahul Juneja, Designed by Spiti Uday

Paribartana Mohanty is a multimedia artist, primarily working with video, performance lectures and painting. His recent work explores and speculates on the new environment-disaster-landscapes emerging near the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha and studies the deep impacts of recurring cyclones, tsunamis and land erosion on marginal coastal communities, and nature and culture at large. Paribartana’s interest and research are in examining the role of new technologies of algorithmic networks, digitalization, data mining, access and surveillance in shaping public perception of the environment.

His work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions and film festivals, including Rencontres de la photographie d'arles (2024), MACAN Museum, Indonesia; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2022); New Museum, New York (2022); Chennai Photo Biennale 3 (2022); 35th European Media Art Festival at Osnabrück (2022); 4th VH Award and EYEBEAM (2021); Goethe Institute, Mumbai (2022); Transart Triennale, London (2016); 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016); 59th BFI London Film Festival (2015), Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore (2015); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2013), among others.

Paribartana has presented two solo exhibitions at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2012 and 2018. And has received many prestigious internation residency, grants and fellowships including Best Film 2004 at ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival; Honorary Mention at State of the ART(ist) Initiative, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2024; Awarded, Serendipity Arles Grantees 2023-24; Two Months residency at Triangle Arts Association, New York, 2023; Prince Claus Mentorship Award for Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change, 2022-23; Awards of Excellence, Experimental film festival 2022 Emami Art, Kolkata; Sharjah Art Foundation Production Grant 2022, Sharjah.

Mohanty has presented and performed at Sharjah March Meeting; Goethe Institute New Delhi; South Asia Institute at Harvard University, Boston; School of Arts and Aesthetics (JNU); InC gathering of artists, Dhalao and Sarai Reader CSDS, New Delhi; Kochi Muziris Biennale Symposia; T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects (2015), Bengaluru, among others.

He earned a BFA from Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar (2004) and an MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi (2006). Mohanty was born in 1982 in Odisha (India). He currently lives and works in Delhi and Odisha.

Paribartana is currently working as Visiting Faculty, Department of Art, Media and Performance, Shiv Nadar University.

(photo credit: Prin Rodriguez)

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India Art Fair | Booth - B09 – | Group Show

I rescued speed altogether – | Paribartana Mohanty

Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2025 – | Group Show

India Art Fair | 2026 – | Group Show

‘प्रक्रिया / Process’ – | Group Show