Tushar Joag

Tushar Joag was born in Mumbai in 1966. He graduated in Sculpture from Sir J. J. School of Arts in 1988, which was followed by a Masters in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. U Baroda(1988-1990), a Fellowship at the
Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, and an artist-residency at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (1998-2000). Joag was one of the co-founders of the Bombay-based artist- collective, Open Circle that sought to engage with contemporary socio-political issues via an integration of theory and practice. He has convened/curated international events, screenings and exhibitions
individually and in collaboration. He has also participated in many prominent national as well as international shows. Currently he is founding
faculty and Associate Professor, Department of Art Design and Performing Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University.
He currently lives and works in Delhi.

Tushar Joag describes himself as a public intervention artist. He founded PWC (Public Work Cells), an organization that aims "to create works of art that seek to make interventions in the urban space, by designing and producing objects that while being functional and aesthetic bring into focus the various concerns of the immediate situation."

A conscientious artist deeply aware the problems and tensions of contemporary urban life, Joag spends his time doing things like developing a special vending cart for hawkers that folds up into a ‘Shanghai Couch’, on the approach of prowling BMC officials. All his works carry a strong social message and address issues prevalent in our society including the corruption of the judiciary, political hierarchy and disparity of wealth. Joag’s drawings are meticulous, but do not appear to be confined; some images appear in momentum, others seem to entirely break away from the limitations of the canvas.

1988 B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, India.

1989 M.F.A (Master of Fine Arts) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, India.

2010
• ‘SEZ Who’ initiated by Tushar Joag Khoj,New Delhi
• 'Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', The Hunt Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri, USA.
• 'ID/entity', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
• Lost in an Urban Maze, The Pallette Art Gallery, New Delhi,
• Creating Common Wealth, curated by Anoop Kamath, Gallery Ragini, New Delhi
• Go see India-an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, the Vasa Konsthall and Galleri Scandinavia art, Sweden
• The 11th Hour – An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from India / and its Diaspora, curated by Shaheen Merali, Tang, Contemporary Art – Beijing.
• Indian Highway - HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning
• The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today - The Saatchi Gallery, London
• ‘Place Time Play’, Curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, for the west Heravens Project of the Hanart TZ Gallery.


2011
• ‘Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
• ‘The Pill’ curated by Avni Doshi, Lattitude 28, New Delhi.
• ‘Fluid City’ Public Art Project initiated by Mohile Parekh Centre and Art O2, Bombay. Curated by Amrita Gupta, Leandre Disouza, Claaudio Maffioletti
• FLOW / CUT : The Fluid City, Public Art Project, Exhibition/ discussion,Studio X, Bombay, curated Amrita Gupta Singh, Claudio Maffioletti, Leandre D’souza
• Right to Dissent, Exhibition, Film Screenings, Panel Discussion, Performance, Clark House, Mohile Parikh Center, Committee for the Release of Dr. Binayak Sen,
• Generation in Transition, New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw Poland, curated Magda Kardasz
• ‘Art of Drawing’ Sudarshan Art Gallery, Pune, curated by Sudhir Patwardhan
• ‘Art of Drawing’ Guild Art Gallery, Bombay, curated by Sudhir Patwardhan
• 21st Oct, 2011, Riding Rocinante, Bombay to Shanghai,via Sardar Sarovar and Three Gorges, Solo show at The Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi.
• Generation in Transition, New Art from India, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania, curated Magda Kardasz
• Artists For Irom Sharmila, NGMA Bombay, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign and Clark House
• The 5th Ayodhya Film Festival, Ayodhya and Faizabad, Curated by Sumesh Sharma


2012
• 'Experiments with the Magyar: Associations of Identities Across Geographies'
Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi, Curated by Sumesh Sharma and Zasha Colah
• ‘Loss For Words’, Art Musings, Bombay, Curated By Avni Doshi
• ‘Land (of) Mine’ Public Art Project initiated by Mohile Parekh Centre and Art O2, Bombay. Curated by Amrita Gupta, Leandre D’souza, Claudio Maffioletti
• ‘To Let the World in: Narrative and Beyond in the Contemporary Indian Art’, Lalit Kala Chennai, Curated by Chaitanya Sambrani
• ‘On Kindness’, Visual Art Gallery, Habitat Centre, Delhi, Under the Australia -India Cultural exchange program, presented by the Visual Arts Gallery and the Australia India Council
• ‘Social Fabric’, (Film programme) Rivington Place, London, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden curated by Grant Watson in collaboration with Christine Checinska, Nida Ghouse, Shanay Jhaveri, Nada Raza and Karen Roswell.
• ‘Of Places and Journeys’, The Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi


• ‘Art For Humanity’, Organised by Citizens for Justice and Peace, Coomaraswamy Hall, Bombay
• ‘Arranging Chairs for Ai Wei Wei’ Curated by Sumesh Sharma
• ‘Trespassers Only’ Studio X, culmination of project ‘Land (of) Mine’ by Mohile Parekh Centre and Art O2, Bombay. Curated by Amrita Gupta, Leandre D’souza, Claudio Maffioletti.
• ‘A Floating Object’, The Guild Collection Series -1, The Guild, Bombay
• Whose Histories? Which Stories, curated by Oindrila Maiti Surai Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi.


2013
• Skoda Short-list Show National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi.
• Remembering the Present, curated by V. Divakar, Site Art Space, Vadodara.
• Ideas of the Sublime, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi.
• Cultural Hijack, curated by Benjamin Parry and Peter McCaughey, Architecture Association, London.
• Wavy Banners, Curated by Klavs Weiss. Travelling show through villages of Stadil, Norre Snede, Humlum, Sonder Nissum and Vorgod Barde, Denmark.
• Citizen Artist- Forms of Address, Curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Art Gallery, Bombay
• Phantomata, Curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Art Gallery, Bombay
• 'Irreverence to your Speech'', curated by Sumesh Sharma , Zasha Colah, (Clark House Initiative), Platform, Munich

2014
• Translucent Video Art Festival, curated by Kanchi Mehta (Chameleon Art Projects), Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim.
• "JJ 80s –A Juncture of Relevance & Reverence", Arka Art Trust, Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay
• Upavan Art Festival, Thana
• 'Homing' curated by Deeksha Nath, Gallery Art Positive, Delhi
• 'Sacred/Scared' curated by Nancy Adajania, Latitude 28, Delhi,
• Solo Project India Art Fair, Delhi.
• Retrospective of Experimental Indian Cinema by Films division, curated by Ashish Avikunthak, Experimental Theatre Bombay.
• 'Forms of Activism', Sahmat, curated by Vivan Sundaram, Sasha Altaf, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, Delhi
• ‘Waiting for the Wind’ Gallery Experimenter, Kolkata
• ‘The Mirror and Monitor of Democracy in Asia', Gwangju museum of Art in Gwangju, Korea, part of 2014 Asian Art Space Network" project hosted by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Office for Hub City of Asian Culture) - Organized by Alternative Space Loop.
• ‘Seven Decades of Drawing 2014’, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Curated by Prayag Shukla, Annapurna Garimella for 25 years of Gallery Espace
• Jaipur Art Summit ‘Installations‘ Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur 2014
• Urban Utopias curated by Lyla Rao, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
• 'Off the Wall', Sir JJ School of Art auditorium, Times Of India, Good Homes Magazine, curated by Art Oxygen, Bombay
• 'Critical Juncture' December 2014, Collateral event of Kochi Muziris Biennale curated by Magda Fabianczyk with Neelima Jeychandran

2015
• The Eye and The mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China,
• 'Encounters 2015' 'Lost and Found (?) values of democracy' project on the suburban trains of Bombay and the Victoria Terminus Station, curated by Art Oxygen, Bombay.
• ‘After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997’, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Queens Museum, New York City,
• ‘Lament’ curated by Amit Mukhopadhyaya Aakriti Art Gallery, New Delhi.
• ‘Constructions’ curated by Roobina Karode, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
• The Eye and The mind: New Interventions in Indian Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China,
• SiGNS Film Festival
Curated by Mortimer Chatterjee &Tara Lal with Ashish Avikunthak.
Organised by Federation of Film Societies of India - Keralam (FFSI) in association with Kochi Biennale Foundation
• 2015 Asian Arts Space Network, curated by Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea Asia Culture Center,
• Sensorium Curated by Leandre D'Souza, Sunaparanta, Goa (presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi)
• Artist Talk at Kiran Nadar Museum of Modern Art
2016
• Publica, Curated by Surbhi Modi, co curated by Leandre D'Souza
Project at the Nizamuddin Basti, Delhi Organised by Floodlight Foundation in collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation (TBC) and Art Oxygen
• Land, Curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Art Konsult, Delhi
• Ideas travel faster than light, Curated by Jasone Miranda Bilbao, NIV foundation, and Delhi and Habitat Center, Delhi. (as part of Publica)
• Deck of Cards: Curated by Laura Williams, an associated event for the India Art Fair 2016
31st January 2016 - April 2016, The Gallery, British Council, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

1984- 1988
Merit scholarship for Sculpture Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, India

1990- 1992
Fellowship award Kanoria Centre for Art.

1995
Inlaks Scholarship for Sculpture.

1998-2000
Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

2005
Majlis Fellowship for the Arts