Talwar Gallery

Talwar Gallery is a contemporary Indian art gallery. Founded by Deepak Talwar, it opened in New York City in September 2001 and in New Delhi in 2007.

Overview
Talwar Gallery, New York was launched in September 2001 and Talwar New Delhi opened in 2007. Deepak Talwar, founder of Talwar Gallery, has been working with contemporary artists from India since 1996. Representing some of the most exciting artists working in the Indian subcontinent today and the essential 20th century artists from India like Estate of Rummana Hussain and Nasreen Mohamedi, Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on artists from the Indian Subcontinent and its Diaspora. Underlying the gallery vision is the belief that the artist is geographically located not the art. Their search and their work traverse any simplified categorization based on geography, religion, culture or race.

Talwar New York


Since opening in September 2001, Talwar Gallery NY has presented the first solo exhibitions of artists that have since been the focus of major museum exhibitions and collections. Talwar Gallery presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–90) in 2003. It was Mohamedi's first solo exhibition outside India and the first ever of her photographs. The Gallery presented Mohamedi again in 2008 and 2013 in two solo exhibitions. Later in 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York presented Mohamedi’s work as their inaugural solo exhibition at The MET Breuer. Talwar NY also presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Ranjani Shettar in 2004. Since then, Shettar has been the subject of solo exhibitions at ICA Boston (2008), The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2008), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019). Amongst other artists introduced by Talwar to the western audiences include Alwar Balasubramaniam, Allan deSouza, Rummana Hussain, Alia Syed, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon, Kartik Sood, Sheila Makhijani, and Paramjit Singh.

New York Exhibitions

 * 2023 : Kartik Sood, Elusive Spaces
 * Paramjit Singh


 * 2022 : N.N. Rimzon, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Ranjani Shettar, From Three, Two
 * Allan deSouza, Flotsam (1926-2018)
 * 20th Anniversary Exhibition, as the wind blows


 * 2021 : Sheila Makhijani, Take A Listen
 * 2020 : Nasreen Mohamedi, Pull with a Direction
 * Muhanned Cader, I See Sea


 * 2019 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, Becoming Nature
 * Alia Syed, Meta Incognita: Missive II


 * 2018 : Arpita Singh, Trying down time II
 * Ranjani Shettar, On and on it goes on
 * Shambhavi Singh, Maati.Maa


 * 2017 : Arpita Singh, Tying down time
 * Allan de Souza, Through the Black Country & Alia Syed, On a wing and a prayer


 * 2016 : N. N. Rimzon, And I thank you one again
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam, Rain in the midnight
 * Rummana Hussain, Breaking skin


 * 2015 : Sheila Makhijani, NowNotNow
 * Anjum Singh, Masquerade
 * Allan de Souza, Notes from Afar
 * Muhanned Cader, Jungle Tide


 * 2014 : Ranjani Shettar, Night skies and daydreams
 * Paramjit Singh, Shifting Terrains
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, Becoming One


 * 2013 : FOUND
 * Alia Syed, Panopticon Letters: Missive I
 * Alwar Balasubramniam


 * 2012 : Rummana Hussain
 * 2011 : Shambhavi Singh, Lonely Furrow
 * Allan de Souza, Trysts Tropicales
 * Sheila Makhijani, TOSS


 * 2010 : Alia Syed, Wallpaper
 * 2010 : Risham Syed, and the rest is history
 * Ranjani Shettar


 * 2009 : Emperor’s New Clothes
 * Excerpts from Diary Pages
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged


 * 2008 : Alia Syed, New Films & Photoworks
 * Allan de Souza, (I don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos


 * 2007 : Alwar Balasubramaniam
 * Valsan Kolleri, New Clearage: Retrospective as Artwork
 * Shambavi Singh, a bird and two thousand echoes, Paintings 2001-2006


 * 2006 : Anant Joshi, Local, Kiss Me Kill Me – Push Me Pull Me
 * Ranjani Shettar, Recent Works


 * 2005 : Navjot Altaf, Water Weaving
 * Sheila Makhijani, BLIP!
 * Allan de Souza, The Lost Pictures
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam, Into Thin Air


 * 2004 : Paramjit Singh, Recent Paintings
 * Ranjani Shettar, The Indian Spring
 * Sheila Makhijani, Recent Works
 * Alia Syed, Eating Grass


 * 2003 : Nasreen Mohamedi, Photoworks
 * Allan de Souza, people in white houses
 * Navjot Altaf, In Response To…,
 * Alia Syed, Film Works,


 * 2002 : Anjum Singh, New Paintings,
 * South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, MANGO,
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam, Recent Works
 * Subba Ghosh & Sheila Makhijani
 * Rajendra Dhawan & Paramjit Singh, Inner/Outer,


 * 2001 : Allan de Souza, Recent Works
 * Zarina Bhimji, Cleaning the Garden

New Delhi Exhibitions

 * 2023: Alwar Balasubramaniam, Mirror on the Ground
 * Sheila Makhijani, Just like that


 * 2022: Ranjani Shettar, Summer garden and rain clouds
 * Kartik Sood, In Thin Air


 * 2021 : N. N. Rimzon, The Round Ocean and the Living Death
 * 2019 : Anjum Singh, I am still here
 * Sheila Makhijani, This That and The Other


 * 2018 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, Liquid Lake Mountain
 * 2017 : Ranjani Shettar, Bubble trap and a double bow
 * 2016 : Muhanned Cader, ISLAND
 * N.N. Rimzon, Forest of The Living Divine


 * 2015 : Rummana Hussain, Breaking Skin
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam, layers of wind, lines of time
 * Shambhavi Singh, Reaper’s Melody


 * 2014 : Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth
 * Navjot Altaf, Horn in the Head


 * 2013 : Sheila Makhijani, nothing really to know
 * Allan deSouza, Painting Redux


 * 2012 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, Nothing From My Hands
 * 2011 : Ranjani Shettar, Present Continuous
 * 2010 : Rummana Hussain, Fortitude From Fragments
 * Navjot Altaf, Touch IV


 * 2009 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, (IN)BETWEEN
 * Alia Syed, Elision


 * 2008 : Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks
 * Shambhavi Singh, Lullaby


 * 2007 : Ranjani Shettar, Epiphanies:Alwar Balasubramaniam, (in)visible

Other exhibitions

 * 2023: Alwar Balasubramaniam in Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
 * Rummana Hussain in The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Institute of Arab & Islamic Art, New York, NY
 * Nasreen Mohamedi in Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
 * Ranjani Shettar in Confluence: Sangam, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, Mumbai, India


 * 2022: Allan deSouza in Elegies of Futures Past, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
 * Nasreen Mohamedi and Arpita Singh in Elles font l'abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain


 * 2021: Ranjani Shettar in 150th Anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
 * 2019: Allan deSouza in New Cartographies, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
 * Rummana Hussain in Our time for a future sharing, 58th Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Italy
 * Ranjani Shettar, Earth Songs for a Night Sky, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
 * Arpita Singh, Arpita Singh: A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
 * Alia Syed in Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam in Alchemy: Explorations in Indigo, Arvind Indigo Museum, Ahmedabad, India


 * 2018 : Allan deSouza, Through the Black County, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam in You Remind Me of Someone, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
 * Ranjani Shettar, Seven ponds a few raindrops, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY


 * 2017 : Allan deSouza in Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York, NY, 2017.
 * N.N. Rimzon in Pond Near the Field, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India


 * 2016 : Alia Syed & Allan deSouza in Contents Under Pressure, Van Every/Smith Museum Galleries, Davidson, NC
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, MET Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY


 * 2015 : Nasreen Mohamedi, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
 * Shelia Makhijani in Working Spaces, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam & Allan deSouza in Intersections @5, Works from the permanent collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
 * Allan deSouza in Time / Image, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX


 * 2014 : Allan deSouza in Earth Matters, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
 * Rummana Hussain in The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
 * Nasreen Mohamedi in Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
 * Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, Tate Liverpool, UK
 * Rummana Hussain in Is it what you think? Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India


 * 2013 : Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, A Retrospective, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
 * Ranjani Shettar, High tide for a blue moon, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
 * Ranjani Shettar in Now Here is also Nowhere: Part 1, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * Alia Syed, Eating Grass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA


 * 2012 : Sheila Makhijani in 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
 * 2012 Alwar Balasubramaniam, all our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney Australia
 * Nasreen Mohamedi in Lines of Thought, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
 * Ranjani Shettar, Dewdrops and Sunshine, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia


 * 2011 : Alwar Balasubramaniam, Sk(in), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 * Alwar Balasubramaniam in Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
 * Allan deSouza, The World Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
 * Ranjani Shettar in Flame of The Forest, Hermes Foundation, Singapore
 * Nasreen Mohamedi, A. Balasubramaniam, Sheila Makhijani, Alia Syed & Ranjani Shettar in On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY

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Press Coverage

 * 1) The Barbican Center (2023). "Press room Ranjani Shettar: Cloud songs on the horizon."
 * 2) Powers, Sophia (2023). "Kartik Sood," ARTFORUM.
 * 3) Jenkins, Mark (2023)."Alwar Balasubramaniam in the Phillips Collection," The Washington Post.
 * 4) Menezes, Meera (2023). "Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM.
 * 5) Civin, Marcus(2023). "Al-An deSouza: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art," ARTFORUM.
 * 6) Sharma, Kamayani (2022). "Kartik Sood - In Thin Air," Art Asia Pacific.
 * 7) Menezes, Meera (2020). "N.N. RIMZON, TALWAR GALLERY | NEW DELHI," ARTFORUM.
 * 8) Smith, Roberta (2020). "NASREEN MOHAMEDI, TALWAR GALLERY, NEW YORK," The New York Times.
 * 9) Heffner, Ariana (2020). "Obituary: Anjum Singh (1967–2020)," Art Asia Pacific.
 * 10) Sharma, Kamayani (2019). "Critic’s Pick: Sheila Makhijani," ARTFORUM.

Publications
2021: Alwar Balasubramaniam, BALA, text by Vesela Sretenović, Alwar Balasubramaniam, and Deepak Talwar

2019: Arpita Singh, Tying down time, text by Ella Datta and Deepak Talwar 2017: Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth, text by Catherine deZegher, Ranjani Shettar, Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery

2009: Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged, text by Geeta Kapur, Deepak Talwar, Anders Kreuger, John Yau, Talwar Gallery

2009: Alwar Balasubramaniam, (In)between, text by Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery

2008: Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks, texts by Allan deSouza, Eve Oishi, Moi Tsien, Luis Francia, Steven Nelson, Talwar Gallery

2005: Nasreen Mohamedi, Lines Among Lines, Drawing Papers 52, texts by Geeta Kapur, Susette Min, Drawing Center

2005: (Desi)re, Talwar Gallery, 2005