Parul Gupta works at the intersection of art and architecture, in an expanded notion of drawing from site conditioned interventions, drawings in space, sculptures, kinetics, photographs to works on paper. Her work is based on her interest in movement in architecture where our bodies and our movements are in endless dialogues with our buildings.

Movement in architecture is an organised system of various types of movements stimulated by specific architectural elements, such as the twist and turn of the body, vertical and oblique movement, long and short perspectives, open and close & dark and light spaces and overlapping geometries. This movement is experienced through moving observer and stationary object through parallax, rhythm and sense of space, and in a few instances through moving objects and stationary observer as in the case of daylight. These movements, within and around the buildings, are also significantly affected by the tactile quality of surfaces and edges encountered, along with auditory and kinaesthetic sense. Memory and anticipation too enhance our experience of moving through spaces.

Based on these observations, gupta makes works which alter our perception of structural reality within architectural spaces and provides an alternate experience of the same space.

In her site specific works – drawing in Space and site conditioned interventions, the site and its structural elements become active participants in the work. Drawing in space creates the movement of lines, forms and geometry as the viewer moves around between different positions by recreating the experience of parallax. It shifts 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 moving body dynamics, resulting in drawing in space as spatial exploration – temporary and ephemeral installation based on the language of line.

Site conditioned interventions engage 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 one has been experiencing in a certain way? And how to make the same space anew.

Working on site informs her perceptual enquiries further, resulting in works on paper, sculptures, kinetic drawings and photographs, which engages with the similar questions and gestures in the form of distortion, parallax, layering and repetition. Her work often applies the tools of arithmetics following a self constructed set of instructions, codes and complex processes. It approaches time, space and movement by integrating geometry, line and light.

Through her work gupta is bringing the viewers attention to subtle shifts and movements which are constantly at play in architecture through perceptual, cognitive and scientific enquiries. Since our perception of the world around us is the construct of the mind, engaging with her work shifts our perception and enriches our social, cultural and lived experience of architecture.

 

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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

2023

India art Fair I Delhi
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery

In Defence of Intuition I Dhi Art Space I Hyderabad
Curated By Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi

The Armory Show I NY
Presented by Nature Morte Gallery

Prussian Blue I Kiran Nadar Museum of Art I Noida
Curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala

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

Infinite Reminders I Nature Morte I Delhi
Curated By Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi

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

2023

Sovereign Asian Art Award I Hong Kong
Grand Prize Winner

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 / Jury

2023

Sovereign Asian Art Award 2024 I Hong Kong
Jury Member

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

2022

Record Cover of “Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett and Michael Harrison”
Published by Seance Centre I Ontario
https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/christina-vantzou-michael-harrison-and-john-also-bennett

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

2023

Lines Will Guide You Home I The New Sunday Express I By Trisha Mukherjee

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