Vanita Gupta

1971

6 Artworks

Vanita Gupta was born in 1971, She studied Fine Arts in Painting at the L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai. She began as a painter, her concerns with coordination of movement and balance, juxtaposing existence and non-existence, empty vacuums and solid spaces have led to her current explorations in sculptural work and video installations. Simply put, her art cannot be confined within categories. Vanita was awarded J D 3rd Rockefeller Fellowship Grant, 2014-15 by the Asian Cultural Council, New York, to observe the contemporary art practice in New York, visit museums and galleries and meet curators. She was invited for a residency at "Residency Unlimited' New York, 2015 (Interview with Arts & Deal here). Vanita's video work, the "Balloon Trilogy: Liberation", was featured at the 16th International Media Art WRO Biennale 2015, Wroclaw, Poland. In 2014, she was awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York. The same year she was at an artist residency in Vermont Studio Centre, USA. In 2012 her video works were selected by Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria. Vanita was also a recipient of the Raza Award, India for excellence in art in 2007. Vanita has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. She has had four solo shows with Pundole Art Gallery (Mumbai), the latest being in 2013 exhibiting her new body of sculptures. In 2015, a selection of her works were shown by Art Heritage, New Delhi. She had a solo exhibition in the UK in 2008 that was presented by Pundole Art Gallery in collaboration with Rob Dean Art, London. In 2006 she had a solo show at the Singapore Art Fair. Vanita lives and works in Mumbai.