Longlist 2010

Exhibition: Mind The Gap

Born in Sirsi, Karnataka in 1972, Shanbhag completed a diploma course in Electrical Engineering before pursuing a diploma in painting from Bangalore in 1996. He then went on to study creative painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda in 1998.

Exhibition: Sperm Weaver

Shine Shivan’s works are semi-autobiographical excavations of the nature of masculinity. Through constructions that are both innovative and inventive, Shivan probes and re-defines the psychological tropes, experiences and roles attached to masculinity.

Exhibition: Sleepwalker Daydream

Sleepwalker Daydream is Kiran Subbaiah’s first solo exhibition in a private gallery and, as such, marks an important moment in the career of one of India’s most talked about and, yet, little seen artists.

Exhibition: View From Conolly’s Plot

Anup Mathew Thomas’s recent work draws on the cultural history of Kerala. View from Conolly’s Plot constitutes a series of disparate images that track various contemporary social phenomena.

Exhibition: Sacred and Profane

T.Venkanna comes across as an artist who is preoccupied with the idea of exploring newer possibilities in the representation of sexuality. He is discreet in this process and refuses adamantly to take recourse to the conventional imageries and motifs or to conceive loaded metaphors.