Abhishek Hazra - Curriculum Vitae

Abhishek Hazra
Born in Kolkata, India, 1977 Lives and works in Bangalore, India
Solo Exhibitions
2011		To Know it Like Back of Your Small Intenstine, Art Statements, Art 42 Basel, Basel (with GALLERYSKE)
2009		Inheritance of Alphanumeric Characters, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2006		Some Fables on the Unstable Oscillation of Uniformity, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
Group Exhibitions
2011		Indian Highway, MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome Step Across This Line, curated by Deeksha Nath, Asia House, London Louder Whisper, an online sound exhibition curated for CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice) by Meena Vari as part of an ongoing collaboration between the University of London and the Centre for Experimental Media Arts, Srishti, Bangalore Connect: in India and Far Beyond, IFA Gallery, Berlin Indian Highway, The Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon Connect: In India and far beyond, IFA Gallery, Stuttgart VISCERAL The Living Art Experiment curated by Oron Catts and Dr lonat Zurr at the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin Notes on the (Dis) Appearance of Real, curated by Meena Vari and Arvind Lodaya, presented by Shrine Empire Gallery at Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2010		Indian Highway, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark Spiral Jetty, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi Beam Me up, a net-art project curated by Reinhard Storz and Gitanjali Dang Videoart India, curated by Luisa Ortinez at Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona Ballard Estate, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Religare Arts, New Delhi
2009		Indian Highway, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton Jones and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Ballard Estate, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Religare Arts, New Delhi Living Off The Grid, curated by Meera Menezes, Anant Art Centre, Noida Tell-Tale: Fiction, Falsehood and Fact, curated by Paula Sengupta, Gallery Experimenter Kolkata On Certainty, curated by Rit Premnath, Bose Pacia, New York Analytical Engine, curated by Heidi Fichtner, Bose Pacia
2008		Version Beta, Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour 1 image contemporaine, Geneva Third Life, curated by Geetanjali Dang, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai Video as Video: Rewind to Form curated by Alicia Eler and Peregrine Honig, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago Six Degrees of Separation curated by Pooja Sood, KHOJ International Artists Association and Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi Urgent: 10ml of Contemporary Needed, Travancore House Art Gallery, New Delhi Mechanisms of Motion curated by Marta Jakimowicz at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi "To Kill at Dusk With Foam", online show of video art curated by Zeenath Hasan, www.Netfilmmakers.dk
2007		First Left, Second Right, a 3 person show at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York with Yamini Nayar and Kiran Subbaiah Horn Please. Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art (Curated by Bernhard Fibicher and Suman Gopinath), Kunstmuseum Bern
2006		Ghosts in the Machine and other Fables, an exhibition of video, sound and interactive works, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi www.ebayday.com, an online exhibition hosted within www.ebay.com, by a curatorial team from University of Michigan's School of Art and Design
Workshops and Residencies
2010		Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities, 7th Asia-Europe Art Camp - Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009/2010, Part 2 held at DDM Warehouse, Shanghai in association with Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg and Asia Europe Foundation 3 month Residency at SymbioticA - Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth
2009		Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities, 7th Asia-Europe Art Camp - Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009/2010, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2008		New Media workshop, Uttarayan Arts Centre, Baroda Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York Experiment Marathon Reykjavik (organised by Reykjavik Art Museum and the Serpentine Gallery, London) Artist in Residence, Gasworks, London
2007		Artist in Residence at PROGR - Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion, Bern (funded by Pro Helvetia, New Delhi) Khoj International Residency in Arts and Science, New Delhi
2006		Khoj International Artists Workshop, Kolkata
2006-2007		The Harmony Foundation Art Workshop, Mumbai
Grants and Awards
2007		Charles Wallace India Trust Award for Gasworks Residency in London Two-year grant from IFA (India Foundation for the Arts) for practice based research into the social history of science in colonial Bengal
2006		Runner up, - Promising Artist Award instituted by ART India Magazine and Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Publications
2008		Art Connect, India Foundation for Arts, Bangalore, Causality Dentures
2007		Monica Narula and Smriti Vohra (editors). Frontiers. Sarai Reader, 7. Delhi: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Up for Auction: A Devoted Communists Labour of Love
Writings
2010		Celebrating with anti-coagulants Ten Years of SHIBEN, published in The Indian Habitat Centre's Art Journal - 2009, Editors: Dr. Alka Pandey, Prof. Dr. Nils Roller
2009		presented a paper The Cube Root of Electrolysis as a lecture performance at the conference, Archiving the Art Histories: Exigencies and Challenges in Pedagogy and Research, organised by ACUA, Varodara
2008		Art Connect, India Foundation for Arts, Bangalore, "Causality Dentures" (a section from an ongoing artist's book project)
2007		Monica Narula and Smriti Vohra (editors). Frontiers. Sarai Reader, 7. Delhi: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 'Up for Auction: A Devoted Communist's Labour of Love
Education
4 year Professional Diploma in Graphic Design from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore