Nataraj Sharma

Born in 1958 - Mysore

Education

1982 Graduate in Applied Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Selected Solo Shows

2008-09 'Airshow', Bodhi Art, Singapore
2008 'Work In Progress', Bodhi Space, Mumbai
2007 ‘Stretch’, Traveling Exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore and Bodhi Art at Singapore, Mumbai and New York
2007 ‘Flight’, Art and Public, Geneva and Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2005 Bose Pacia, New York
2005 'Nataraj Sharma: Vapi Horse and Other Stories', Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000 ‘Recent Works’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2000 Nature Morte, New Delhi

Selected Group Shows

2012 'Works on Paper- 2012', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference', Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre; British Council; Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 'Indian (Sub)Way', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2009 'Living of the Grid', Anant Art Centre, New Delhi
2009 'Zip Files', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Relative Visa', Bodhi Space, Mumbai
2008 'Frame Figure Field: 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Indian Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Frontline: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban’, Bodhiberlin, Berlin
2008 ‘India Crossing’, Studio La Citta, Verona
2007 ‘Edge of Desire’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2006 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Berkeley Art Museum
2006 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga
2006 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, MARCO Monterrey
2006 ‘Indian Summer’, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
2006 ‘Hungry God: Contemporary Art from India’, Aario, Beijing and Museum of Modern Art, Busan
2006 ‘El Filo del Deseo - Arte Reciente en India’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico
2005 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
2005 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Asia Society and Museum, New York
2005 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Queens Museum of Art
2005 ‘Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2005 ‘The Artist Lives and Works’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2003 ‘Ways of Resistance’, Sahmat, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi and Mumbai
2001 ‘Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai’, presented by Gallery Espace at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Participations

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 'Homespun', Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2009 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver
2009 'Contemporary Exoticism', Studio La Citta, Verona
2009 'Indian Highway', Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2009 'Contemporary Indian Art: Open Your Third Eye', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by curator Bose Krishnamachari for 'Panoroma: India'
2008 'Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art', 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Japan
2008 Represented by BodhiBerlin at Art Berlin Contemporary (ABC), Berlin
2005 ‘iCon: India Contemporary’, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy

Awards

2006 Residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
1993 Sotheby’s Award for Best Emerging Artist