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EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1999-00 Master in Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, London
1986-91 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1984-1985 Diploma in Art, Kerala Kala Peetham, Kochi

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Maximo Bose, Gallery 7, Mumbai
2010 No, 1 x 1 Contemporary, Dubai
2009-10 LAVA, Laboratory of Visual Arts, a traveling installation project at BMB Gallery, Mumbai
2008-09 Leave - White Ghost, Kashi Art Cafe, Kochi
2008 Phantom, Aicon Gallery, London and Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2007 LaVA, Laboratory of Visual Arts, a traveling installation project in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi, Baroda, and New Delhi.
2006 Ghost Transmemoir, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York, Lille, France
2005 Exists, Jehangir Art Gallery, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Curated by contemporary Indian artists, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Durbar Hall, Cochin, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
1999 Field Sakshi, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Museum Memoirs, National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA, Mumbai
1997 Museum documents. Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Dandy, Y. B Chavan Center Gallery and Lakeeren, Mumbai
1995 Academy of Fine Arts and Literature Objects of Attention, inaugural exhibition at Arpana Kaur Gallery, New Delhi.
1993 Museum organized by Prema Srinivasan and Suchi Ebrahim, Chennai
1992 Museum, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1991 Music of the Cubes British Council Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Sir. J.J, School of Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Kerala Kala Peetom, Cochin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 2 + 2 = 5, The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 Mappers The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 The Contemporary Sultanate, presented by Exhibit 320 at One Style Mile, Olive, New Delhi
2011-12 Reprise 2011, Aicon Gallery, New York
Meaning Census 2011, Schedule 320, New Delhi
2011 Love is a 4-letter word, Latitude 28, New Delhi
2011 Sumukha Gallery, Chennai
2011 Against All Odds A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Collecting and Museums in India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2010 Looking Glass The Existence of Difference, Twenty Indian Contemporary Artists presented by Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi in collaboration with American Center, British Council, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2010 A. SYCO, The Observation Room, Mumbai
2010 Beyond Object Hood, presented by Gandhara Art Gallery at Nandalal Bose Hall, Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR, Kolkata
2010 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2009 Vistaar II, presented by Seven Arts Limited at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2009 In the mood for the role, F2 Gallery, Beijing
2009 Godown, The Guild, Mumbai
2009 Zip Files, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 Threshold Forging Narratives in Contemporary South Asian Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
2008-09 Hot Shots, The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2008-09 Signs Taken for Wonders Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London
2008-09 Mutant Beauty, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 November, 1x1 Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai
2008 Everywhere there is war and rumors of war, Bodhi Art, Mumbai
2008 Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 Pastiche Paintings Exhibition, Chaithanya Art Gallery, Kochi
2007-08 India Oggi - Milan, Spazio Oberdan, Italy
2007-08 Indian art at Swarovski Crystal World Show, first exhibition, Tyrol - Osterreich, Austria
2007 Bombay Gateway, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2007 Young Guns, ICIA Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai
2007 India! The best of contemporary Indian art, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris
2007 Strangeness, Anant Art Gallery, Kolkata
2007 India 20, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2006 Drawing Exhibition: An Act of Art II, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 The Shape That Is, organized by Bodhi Art, Jendela and Concourse, Esplanade, Singapore
2005-06 Kaam, Gallery Arts India, New York, Palo Alto
2005 Double-Enders, Jehangir Art Gallery, Museum Gallery, Mumbai, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, Durbar Hall, Kochi
2005 Paths of Progression, organized by Bodhi Art and Saffronart, Mumbai in Mumbai, New York, Singapore, New Delhi
2005 We are only like this, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
2005 Confluence 2005, ArtsIndia Gallery, New York
2003-05 Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA, Mumbai
2004 Anticipations, Jehangir Art Gallery, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Bombay x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
2004 Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Vanitas Vanitatum, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay
2002 Rumor City Mutations, TN probe, Tokyo
2002 Tribute to Picasso, Kala Ghoda Fair, organized by Fine Art Resource.
2002 Homage to Picasso, Gremio, Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 CAN, Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 Human Factor, Guild Art Gallery 4th Anniversary Exhibition, Mumbai
2001 Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts IGNCA, organized by Sharon Apparao, New Delhi.
2001 Indian Contemporary Art, organized by Saffron Art and Apparao Galleries in Los Angeles
2001 Sudarshan Shetty, Sunil Gawde and Bose Krishnamachari, Apparao Gallery, New Delhi
2001 Memoranda for the New Millennium by Artists of Changing Worlds, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Mumbai
2000 Kerala Artists, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2000 Brainstorming, Goldsmiths College, London
2000 Sakshi Gallery Crafts,
1998 50 Years of Indian Art, National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA, Mumbai
1998 Presence of the Past, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, National Center for the Performing Arts NCPA Mumbai
1997 Persistence of Memory, Linda Benglis, Charles and Lindal Brown and Bose Krishnamachai, Nature Morte, New Delhi.
1996 West Wing Story, an open studio installation at Head Lands Center for Visual Art, Sausalito, California
1995 Contemporary miniature, Center for International Modern Art CIMA Gallery, Calcutta
1995 Recent Trends in Indian Art, Vandhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
1995 Bombay An Artists Impression, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1994 Window, Leela Gallery, Mumbai
1993 An Exhibition for Sparrows, Artists Centre, Mumbai
1993 Circling the Square, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Footprints in Our Time, Jehangir Art Gallery. Bombay
1992 Artists Against Communalism, Sir J.J School of Art, and Shivaji Park, Mumbai traveled to 15 other cities in India.
1990 Drawings, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai.

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITION
1995 With Andrea Anastasio, organized by the Italian Council, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

HE CONCEPTUALIZED & ORGANIZED FOUR MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
Kaam, Double Ending, Bombay Boys, Bombay x 17

CURATOR
2009 Guest Curator of Indian Highway, at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2009 Panorama India, ARCOmadrd, Spain
2009 Relative Space, Bodhi Art, Bodhi Space, Mumbai
2008 All 12 Artists from India, Willem Baars Project, Amsterdam
2008 Af-fair, 1X1 Contemporary and 1X1 Gallery, Dubai
2007 Everybody's a Camera, Talvin Singh, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 Spy, organized by The Guild at Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 Soft Spoken, presented by Bombay Art Gallery at Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA National Center for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
2006 Maarkers, Bodhi Art, Bombay

PARTICIPATIONS
2012 Art for Humanity, Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2012 Art Stage Singapore 2012, Singapore presented by Exhibit 320, New Delhi
2011-12 Indian Highway, in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
2011 Artzuid 2011, Berlages Avenues Plan-Zuid, Amsterdam
2011 Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket India's New Cultural Icons, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Singapore presents a door 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai
2010 Masters Corner, organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India International Art Fair, New Delhi
2010 Roots, 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2009 Expressions at Tihar, Indira Gandhi National Arts Centre, New Delhi
2009 ARCOmadrid, Spain as curator of Panorama India
2008-09,10,11 Indian Highway, a traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art HEART, Herning, Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon
Annual Exhibition 2008, Triva Contemporary, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
2008 Presented by 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai at Art Paris, Abu Dhabi
2008 Harvest 2008, organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2007 Presented by Willem Baars Projects at Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2006 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2002 Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2001 Harmony Show, Nehru Center. Bombay
1991 Monsoon Show Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

HONORS AND AWARD
2000 Charles Wallace India Prize to pursue an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London
1996 Mid America Arts Alliance Award MMA International Scholarship for extensive travel and residencies in the United States of America.
1993 Winner of the British Council UK Travel Award
1991 and 92 Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1991 Bombay University Special Award for obtaining highest marks in BFA Examination, Mumbai
1991 Face. from the 90s. in Indian art published by Debonair magazine, selected by Shireen and Khorshid Gandhi of Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1991 Gold Medal, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay
1986-91 Mr. JJ. School of Art Merit Scholarship
1985 Kerala Lalit Kala Academy Award

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anupa Mehta responds to Bose Krishnamachari's new works

French artist Christian Boltanski once commented: The task is to create a formal work that at the same time is recognized by the viewer as an object charged with feeling. Each one brings their own story.

Possibly Bose Krishnamachari's current project as an artist is to present the viewer with an activation point of images and icons that can, along with the formal construction of a pictorial installation, function as symbolic devices with which to speak about an entire culture, its changing mentalities. and, its eclectic loans.

Born in Kerala in 1963, Bose recently completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work, thus reinforced by an understanding and awareness of the "here and now" of contemporary culture, borrows effortlessly from various disciplines, including literature and design, and time periods.

This current body of work highlights figures and, through association, cultures as varied as those of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, and Rabindranath Tagore. Spirituality, epic style, and, in Kahlo's case, a focus on the self as a means to explore broader concerns, are some of the characteristics that attract the viewer. However, it would be a mistake to read these works as tributes to icons, since Bose uses the resource in this case, figures from art history, more to draw attention to his own project.

Interestingly, Bose pays as much attention to form as it does to conceptual and contextual concerns. Striking shots of flat color juxtaposed with skillful, almost photographic depictions of an identifiable person imbue the work with an "international" sensibility. Bose admits to having combined Western image-making techniques, such as installation, with the vernacular, in an attempt to arrive at a language that is completely contemporary and energetic.

In a previous interview, he said that he refines my color to shine. I have learned this use of the alternately subdued and luxurious color codes of Indian ceremonies and ritual performances, costumes, and representational gestures... The current body, however, carries with it a whiff of minimalism. There is little room for excess. But minimalism is effective.