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

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

in September 2001 and in

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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 artists working in the Indian subcontinent today and the essential 20th century artists from India like Estate of Rummana Hussain and Nasreen Mohamedi, the Talwar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that focuses on artists from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. The gallery's vision is the belief that the artist is geographically located, not the art. They claim their search for art goes beyond being based on geography, religion, culture or race. Deepak Talwar, founder of Talwar Gallery, has been working with contemporary artists from India since 1996.

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

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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,

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, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon, Kartik Sood, Sheila Makhijani, and Paramjit Singh.

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

References

External links

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