Arpana Caur

Reviews of her work have constantly appeared in Indian newspapers, magazines, Art books & also in the International Herald Tribune, Arts Review London, Citizen Ottawa, Die Welt, Berlin, Morning post and Dagens Nhyter Stockholm. Films on her life and work have been directed by BBC London, Sidharth Tagore, Chandermani, Doordarshan and Raqs Media.

Participating in group shows of paintings, graphics and drawings since 1974. Participated in first Indo-Greek Cultural Symposium and group shows in Athens and Delfi, 1984; Participated in group shows of Indian painters sent by National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi to Fukuoka Museum, Japan, 1984 and ’85; Participated in First Baghdad Biennale, 1986, Cuba Biennale, 1986 Algiers Biennale; Bharat Bhavan Print Biennale 1986.

Asked to put together exhibition of Women Artists for Festival of India USSR, 1987, and visited Moscow. Invited to China to visit museums and art institutions, 1991. Invited by USIS to tour 7 cities in the United States, 1992. Participated (and invited by Max Mueller Bhavan) to ‘Encounter’, parallel to Kassel Documenta, 1992. Selected for Osaka Print Triennele, 1994. Participated in Asian Art Show, Hiroshima Museum Japan, 1994; Group show in Saytama Museum Japan and Glenbarra Museum Japan. Participated in exhibition ‘Imagined City’ at Museums of Modern Art in Brasilia, Sao

Paolo and Rio de Jenairo, 1994-95; Noma Book Exhibition, Tokyo, 1995; Indian Women Artists, U.K., 1995; Indian Women Artists, National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi (Cocurated by Gayatri Sinha & Gallery Escape), 1997; curated exhibitions ‘Still Life’, ‘Landscape’ and ‘Image of Women’ by Sakshi Gallery Bombay; Bradford Museum Exhibition, 1997; CIMA Gallery Calcutta, 1997-98; ‘Tryst with Destiny’ at Singapore Museum of Modern Art, 1997. ‘Gift for India’, Sahmat Delhi; Executed large installation in Kassel for Project Gruppe Stoffweschel, 1997; Rotunda Gallery Hongkong, 1998; Indo-Austrian group shows in Austria and National Gallery of Modern Art Delhi and Bombay 1998; Art Forum Gallery Singapore and Australia 2000; Indian contemporary art shows in Los Angeles, Singapore and San Francisco 2001; Smithsonian Washington 2001; Asian Art Museum, San Franscisco, 2007; Museum of Modern Art in Singapore, 2007, and Seoul 2008; Ueno Royal Museum Tokyo (through Tao Gallery); Beijing Biennale, 2010; Louvre Carrousel Gallery Paris, 2010 and New York Public Library, 2010; Venice Architectural Biennale 2014; Beijing Biennale 2015.

Executed two large murals for India International Trade Fair, New Delhi, 1981.

Executed first Indian Mural on ‘Environment’ with German artist Sonke Nissen in Delhi 2000, (non commercial) and on ‘Time’ in Hamburg, Germany, 2000. 5 non-commercial murals on Environment in public spaces in Bangalore (non-commercial). Mural on tiles on the outer wall of SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, 2009.