Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) lives and works in Mumbai, India where she has studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts from 1992 to 1997.
She had solo shows at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Arnolfini in Bristol, OK in Linz, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Voorlinden Museum and Gardens in Wassenaar, Kiosk in Ghent, Barbican in London, Dallas Contemporary and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Bielefelder Kunstverein, La synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Center and Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi. In 2021 she had a survey show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp curated by Nav Haq. She presented a solo project at ‘My East is Your West’, a two-person joint India-Pakistan exhibition, by the Gujral Foundation in Venice in 2015.
Gupta’s work has been shown in leading international institutions and museums such as Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana Museum, Centre Pompidou, Serpentine Gallery, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Mori Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ZKM, Ishara Art Foundation, Kiran Nadar Museum and Devi Art Foundation.
Shilpa Gupta has participated in 58th Venice Biennale (2019) curated by Ralph Rugoff, Kochi Muziris Biennale (2018) curated by Anita Dube, Gothenburg Biennial (2017) curated by Nav Haq, Berlin Biennale (2014) curated by Juan Gatian, New Museum Triennale (2009), Sharjah Biennial curated by Yuko Hasegawa (2013), Lyon Biennale curated by Hou Hanru (2009), Gwangju Biennale directed by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Ranjit Hoskote (2008), Yokohama Triennale curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (2008) and Liverpool Biennial curated by Gerardo Mosquera (2006). She has shown in biennales at Auckland, Melbourne, Seoul, Havana, Sydney, Yogyakarta, Echigo-Tsumari, Shanghai, Houston and others.
Her work is in the collection of Tate, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Mori Museum, M+ Museum, Louisiana Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Deutsche Bank, Daimler Chrysler, Bristol Art Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Asia Society, ZKM, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain – France, KOC Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Canada, FRAC (France Regional Art Collection), Voorlinden Museum, Art Now, Cincinnati Art Museum, Kiran Nadar Museum, Jameel Arts Center and Devi Art Foundation amongst others.
In 2022, ‘For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit’, an anthology which speaks truth to power, co-edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi was released. In 2021, she has also self-published Artivities, a compilation of art activities for the young. Gupta has co-facilitated ‘Crossovers & Rewrites: Borders over Asia’ at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre in 2005 and ‘Aar Paar’, a public art exchange project between India and Pakistan from 2002-2006.
In 2023, she had a duo solo with Marisa Merz at the MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century – L’Aquila curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Fanny Borel and a solo at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. In 2024, she opened a major solo at Centro Botín in Santander, Spain curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz and her solo curated by Ruth Estévez travels from Amant Art Center to the Madison Museum in US.
