Walsh Gallery

Ranbir Kaleka

Born 1953, Patiala, Punjab, India

Lives and works in Delhi, India.

Selected Biography

1986
  • Sanskriti Award, New Delhi
1985-87
  • M.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London Charles Wallace Scholarship
1980-85
  • Taught at the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
1979
  • National Award, Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi
1976-77
  • Taught at the Fine Arts Department, College for Women, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
1970-75
  • Diploma in Painting, College of Art, Punjab University, Chandigarh

Selected Exhibitions

2008
  • Machanisms of Motion, New Delhi

2007
  • New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Institute
  • Chicago
Hungry God - Indian Contemporary Art, Busan MOMA
  • Public Places, Private Spaces, Newark Museum, New Jersey
2006
  • Art Video Lounge, Art Basel, Miami Beach
  • Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Korea

  • Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Beijing
  • Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, NGMA (National Museum of Modern Art), New Delhi;
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2005
  • iCon: India Contemporary, (collateral event), Venice Biennale

  • Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Asia Society Museum, New York; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, MARCO (Museum of
Contemporary Art), Monterrey, Mexico; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 
Golden California
 LA

  • FREEWAVES 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media: Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; cheLA (Corriente Hipermediatica
Experimental Latinoamericana) Buenos Aires, Argentina; Huffmans House, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes; Valparaiso, Chile

2004
  • Bose Pacia, New York
  • Culturgest-Lisbon, Portugal
  • Edge of Desire, Recent Art in India, Art Gallery of Western, Perth, Australia and at Asia Society, New York
  • Zoom! Art in Contemporary India
2003
  • Diverge, NGMA, Mumbai
  • Liminal Zones Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi
  • SubTerrain: Artworks in the Cityfold, House of World Culture, Berlin
  • InteractivA 03 Biennale for New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Merida, Yucatan/Mexico
  • An Apparent Calm, curated by Peter Nagy, Grantpirrie, Sidney, Video Roadshow, Mumbai
  • Root En Route, British Council, New Delhi and Chennai; Sakshi Gallery Bangalor and Mumbai
2002
  • KHOJ 2002, International Workshop in Mysore, India
  • Kapital & Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna
  • Private Mythologies: Sound and Video Works of the Personal and the Political, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
  • Contemporary Photography, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001
  • Rare and Unusual Paintings, Art Today, New Delhi
2000
  • Silent TV, video lounge, in collaboration with Michel Mallard, Olivier
  • Reneau & Denis Chevalier Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
  • Public Art Project, Images for a Hundred Lamp Posts, Ealing, London
1999/2000
  • Artistic consultant on the Basic Needs Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
  • Boxwallahs, The DeEgo-Cube, Indo-Austrian Art Projects in Public Space Embarkations - The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai
1999
  • Art and Technology, Max Mueller, Mumbai
  • Edge of the Century, British Council, New Delhi
1998
  • Public mural for Thames Trains at Southall Station, London, commissioned by Ealing and the European Union Fund
1997
  • Open Drawing Competition Exhibition, Cheltenham & North England
1996
  • Solo Exhibition, Art Today, New Delhi
1995
  • Indian Winter Mixed Show Smith Jariwala Gallery, London
  • First Sight, West London Artists, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London
1994
  • Summer Exhibition, invited Artist Royal Academy, London
  • Drawing 94, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
  • Connaught Brown Gallery, The Affordable Art Company Exhibition, London
1988
  • Seventeen Indian Painters, Gallery Chemould, Bombay
1987
  • Contemporary Indian Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
  • Coup De Coeur, Festival of Indian, Geneva
1986
  • Contemporary Indian Art, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania