Parul Gupta is interested in architectural spaces as a generator of perceptual experiences, through the way our bodies perform/ move in there and also in an exploration of the geometry in those spaces. Her artworks are in response to these interests primarily through the language of drawing, both site specific and other works on paper, sculptures, installations and photography.

Site Specific work branches out through “Drawing in Space” and “Site Conditioned Installations”, where the site and its structural elements become active participants in the work. The viewer too leads the participatory role to decipher the experiential nature of the work.

Drawing in Space is an ongoing site specific drawing project based on the spatial narrative of the site, focusing on the question of perception through lines and forms in the built environment. It poses itself as drawing as a spatial exploration revolving around the question of “what happens when a line leaves paper and enters space”. The work creates the experience of illusion of lines, forms and geometry. It moves from the dynamics of “looking at” to “moving in”. Every time a new site with its unique spatial narratives and conditions, guides the work both conceptually and body dynamics, resulting in drawing in space as spatial exploration – site specific, temporary, ephemeral installation based on the language of line.

The process of drawing in space revolves around line as the subject, but after entering and working on site, psychology of the space makes in situ a phenomenological act. Working on site raises the question of how a particular place / space informs the way we see. This leads to site conditioned installations which engages with examining the relationship between architectural spaces and structural elements in those spaces, further locating perceptual questions on what happens when a subtle shift is made in the very space which we have been experiencing in a certain way. Does that subtle shift make us question our knowledge and how?

Her other works on paper, sculptures, installations and photography takes on a similar enquiry about the perception of the inhabited world, integrating geometrical forms, light and movement.

 

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Born in New Delhi, India
Lives and works in Delhi NCR, India

MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, England, 2011
B.Com, Delhi University, India, 2000

Solo / Three-Person Exhibitions

2021

Still, on the verge, Nature Morte Gallery, Delhi, India

2020

Space ; Underscore, Red Studio, Mumbai, India

2016

Let’s Proceed in Parts, Institute Cervantes, New Delhi, India

2015

Phenomenology of Perception, Exhibit320 Gallery, Delhi, India

2014

Space Phrases, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India

2012

Drawing the Line, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India

Group Exhibitions

2022

Lines (By) Lines, Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi, India
Curated by Manmeet K Walia

Ufuq: Tribute to Zarina, Kamalnayan Bajaj Gallery, Mumbai, India
Curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala

2021

Vaica, Online Video Festival, www.vaica.org
Curated by Bharti Kapadia, Anuj Daga and Chandita Mukherjee

Hub India, Artissima Fair, Turin, Italy
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery

Viewing Room, Frieze LA, Online
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Bikaner House, Delhi, India
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery

Spatial Dialogues, Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi, India
Collaborative Project with Ar. Madhav Raman

2020

All Is Not Lost – 20:20:20, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India 
Curated by Saloni Doshi

In Touch, Digital Collaboration, www.artintouch.in
Presented by Shrine Empire Gallery

2019

Making Space, Space118 + Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Curated by Saloni Doshi

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi, India
Presented by Shrine Empire Gallery

Shadow Lines, Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi, India
Curated by Meera Menezes

Distilled Blueprints, Spacestudio, Baroda, India
Curated by Veerangana Solanki

2018

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Visual Arts Gallery, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery

India art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery

When is Space?, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
Curated by Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte

2017

Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery

Project with Hemant SK, India Art Fair 2017, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery

2016

Abstract chronicles, Gallery OED, Kochi, India
Curated by Girish Shahane

Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Presented by Lakeeren Gallery

India art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Exhibit320 Gallery

2015

India Art Fair, Delhi, India
Presented by Lakeeren Gallery

Grounded, Garden of Five Senses, Delhi, India
Curated by Kanika Anand

2014

Deep (Skin) Skin Deep, Art Chennai, Chennai, India
Curated by Mayank Mansingh Kaul

2013

Peers Share, Khoj International Artist Association, Delhi, India

August Exhibition, Project Jan-Path, New Delhi, India
Curated by Reha Sodhi

2012

Lateral, Kona Alternative Space, Delhi, India
Curated by Heidi Fitchner

Sarai Reader 09, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Curated by Raqs Media Collective

2011

Viewer Gallery, London, England

MA Degree Show, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England

Residencies / Projects

2017

Artist Residency, Lulea, Sweden
Gallery SysterFunded by IASPIS

Artist Residency, Goa, India
Invited by Khoj International Artist Association

2016

Project Artist Process, 1after320 space, New Delhi, India
Invited by Exhibit320 gallery and Meenakshi Thirukode

2013

Studio Residency, Space 118, Mumbai, India

Awards / Commissions

2019

Shergil Sundaram Installation Art Award, Delhi, India
Shortlisted

Drawing Installation, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
Commission

2018

Site Specific, Number8, Noida, India
Commission

Presentations / Talks

2022

Forest of Imagination, School of Environment & Architecture (SEA), Mumbai, India
Online Conference 

2020

Light & Architecture, Jindal School of Art & Architecture
Online talk with Manav Bhargava moderated by Sarover Zaidi

2018

Inhabitations, When is Space?, Jawahar Kala Kendra , Jaipur, India
Conference

2017

Gallery Syster, Lulea, Sweden
Presentation

2015

Braunschweig University, Germany, Invited by Ivana Franke & Tomas Saraceno
Presentation

Publications

2020

Unseen Art, Stir World, www.stirworld.com
With Dilpreet Bhullar

2019

Dancers on a Shaking Bridge, FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, System Issue #18
In Conversation with Shveta Sarda

2017

The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art: A Case for Revisiting Theories and Histories of Abstraction, Field Review: South Asia, Asia Contemporary Art Week http://www.acaw.info/?page_id=28482
By Somak Ghoshal

2016

In Focus: Abstraction, Edited by Geeta Kapur and Jyotindra Jain, Marg Publication Volume 68
Written by Meenakshi Thirukode

2014

Drawing Proposal – Drawing with Community, Common Grounds – Insert 2014
Project Proposal with Gagandeep Singh

Press

2021

Pare, Blur and Vibrate, Art India Publication: Volume 25 Issue 1
Review by Meera Menezes

In Parul Gupta’s Square, The Hindu
Review by Georgina Maddox

Artists, architects and artisans come together for a show on ideas and scale, Architecture and Design
Review by Shaikh Ayaz

2020

Artist Parul Gupta’s exhibit at the reD studio uses lines to break boundaries in art, Vogue India
By Mihika Aggarwal

Delhi-based Parul Gupta’s second solo show in the city is inspired by architectural spaces, Mumbai Mirror
By Reema Gehi

Saloni Doshi shares the top 10 artists, Elle Decor
By Anamika Butalia

2019

Shrine Empire’s new group show experiments with light, line and liminality, Architecture And Design
By Georgina Maddox

2018

40 artists under the age of 40, Vogue
By Shahnaz Siganporia

Art and architecture at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Live Mint
By Avantika Bhuyan

2017

Making Space, Platform Publication Volume 4 Issue 5
By Soumya Mukerji

Time And Time Again, Art Illustration Publication volume 4 Issue 3
Curated by Tushar Joag

Kuriren
By Eva Åström

The Absent Figure and The Intimate Present, Art India Publication I Volume 21 Issue 2
By Shruti Ramlingaiah

5 Indian Artists Under 35, Global Private Museum Network
By Gayatri Sinha

Top 10 young artists, Mid-Day
By Benita Fernando

The new Indian Express,The Inheritors
By Georgina Maddox

2016

6 Edgy Young Female Artists, She The People
By Tara Khandelwal

23 Young Artists, Livemint
By Elizabeth Kuruvilla, Preeti Zachariah, Dhamini Ratnam

Art chronicles: Young age artists and their renaissance works, The new Indian Express
By Georgina Maddox

2015

Phenomenology of Perception, Art Forum Review November Issue
By Meera Menezes

Phenomenology of Perception, Art Asia Pacific Web Review
By Somak Ghoshal

2014

Art and much more…, DNA
By Ashiesh Shah

Parul Gupta masters space and time, Sunday Guardian
By Kanika Anand