Abhishek Hazra
Born in Kolkata, India, 1977
Lives and works in Bangalore, India
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Inheritance of Alphanumeric Characters, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2006 Some Fables on the Unstable Oscillation of Uniformity, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
Group Exhibitions
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
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
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
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