# Talwar Gallery

Talwar Gallery, founded by Deepak Talwar, is a contemporary art gallery that 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.

## Exhibitions
### 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

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