Ravi Agarwal -- Profile

RAVI AGARWAL Lives and works in New Delhi Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental activist, writer and curator. His earlier work, in the documentary oeuvre, encompasses ‘nature’, ‘work,’ ‘labour,’ and the ‘street,’ while more recent work has been traversing questions of the self and ecological sustainability based on explorations of ‘personal ecologies.’ He now works with photography, video and installation. He has been invited to important international shows including Documenta 11, Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery and others. He art practice is integral to his other pursuits. He is the founder of the well known Indian NGO Toxics Link. He is currently co-curating a twin city public art project to be held simultaneously in Hamburg and Delhi, in October/ November , 2011 Solo Shows 2010-11 Flux: dystopia, utopia, heterotopia. Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2008 An Other Place, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2006: Alien Waters, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2000: Down and Out, Labouring Under Global Capitalism, New Delhi ,India Habitat Centre, Ahmadabad, Gujarat India, The Hutheesingh Visual Arts Gallery, Amsterdam - National Vakbondsmuseum 1995: A Street View, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Generation in Transition, New Art from India, curated Madga Kardasz, Zacheta, National Gallery for Art, Warsaw, Poland (traveling) 2011 The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, Images of Humankind, curated Katerina Gregos, Solvej Helweg Ovesen. FotoFestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Germany 2011 Staging Selves - Power, Performativity & Portraiture, curated Maya Koskovaya, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2011 After the Crash, curated Camilla Boehimo, Orto Botanico – Museum, Rome 2011 Tolstoy Farm, curated Gayatri Sinha, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 2011 India Art Summit, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2010 CWG, Sports and the City, curated Rupika Chawala, LKA, New Delhi 2010 Where Three Dreams Cross, curated Sunil Gupta et al, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland 2009 Detour, curated Ranjit Hoskote, Gallery Chemould, New Delhi 2009 Astonishment of Being, curated Deeksha Nath, Birla Academy for Arts and Culture, Kolkotta 2009 The Purple Wall, curated Gayatri Sinha, India Art Summit, 2009 2009 Recycle, curated Bhavna Vij, Travencore House, New Delhi, Nature Morte, Kolkota 2008/ 11 Indian Highway, curated Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar Kvaran, traveling exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Astrep Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2009), Denmark (2010), Lyon-France (2011), MAXX, Rome, Italy (2011) 2008 Extinct, curated Pooja Sood, 48deg C, Public Eco-Art International festival, New Delhi 2008 Still/Moving Image, curated Deeksha Nath, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi 2008 Click! Contemporary Photography in India, curated Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, Vadhera Gallery, New Delhi 2007 Frieze Art Fair, Khoj Artists Workshop Stall, London 2007 Horn Please, The Narrative in Contemporary Indian Art ,curated Bernhard Fibicher, Suman Gopinath, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland. 2007: Public Places, Private Spaces, curated Gayatri Sinha, Zetta Emmons, Newark Museum, Newark and Minneapolis (2008) USA. 2006; Watching Me Watching India curated by Gayatri Sinha and Celina Lunsford, Frankfurt Fotographie International, Frankfurt, Germany 2003: Crossing Generations: DiVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, curated by Geeta Kapoor and Chaitanya 2002: Documenta 11, curated Okwui, Enzwor, Kassel, Germany 1996: 2nd Biennial of Creative Photography, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 1995: First National Exhibition of Photography, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 1993 Bombay Natural History Society photo exhibition, Bombay, India. Books and Catalogues Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (forthcoming, 2011) co authored, Taylor and Francis Flux: Dystopia, Utopia, Heterotopia, Gallery Espace, 2011 In the Shadow of the Vulture, 48 deg C, Public Eco Art, Goethe Institute, New Delhi, 2009 Immersion. Emergence, Youthreach, New Delhi, 2007 Down and Out: Labouring under Global Capitalism New Delhi: Oxford University Press and Amsterdam, University Press, 2000 Making a Difference, A collection of essays, ed. Rukmani Shekhar, Spic Mackay, New Delhi, 1998 Portfolios in The India Magazine, 1995 and 1997 Portfolio in The First City Magazine, 2003 Monthly Photo Column in First City Magazine, since Feb 2005 Selected Publications: 1. Contemporary Flows, Fluid Times, Art Fair Magazine, February 2011 2. Fight for a Forest, Nature without Borders, Seminar 613, ed. Mahesh Ranagarajan and M.D.Madhusudan, September 2010 3. Hi Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives (co-authored), Challenging the Chip, Labour Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, ed Ted Smith et al, Temple University Press, USA, 2007 4. Standardised, packaged, ready for consumption, Sarai Reader 05, Bare Acts, Sarai – CSDS, Delhi, 2005 5. Beyond environmental standards, from techno centric to people centric environmental governance. Troubles Times, Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extrems.” SDPI, Islamabad, 2006 6. Resisting technology, regaining and a personal ecology, Sarai Reader, 03, Shaping Technologies, 2003 7. Corporate Social responsibility, a critical perspective from India, Cometische humanisering? Ed Tonja van den Ende et al, Humanistic University Press, Amsterdam, 2005 8. Walk on the Wild Side, (co-authored) Green Book, ed Ruskin Bond, Roli Books, 2003 Reviews / Articles: 1. Flash Art, March April, 2011, Rajashree Biswal 2. Art India, Volume XV, 2010-11, Roles People Play, Meera Menezes 3. Art India, Volume XV, 2010-11, The Nature of the Beast, Janice Pariat 4. Art India, Volume XIV, 2009-10, Images with Conscience, Meera Menezes Other Conceived and organized: Yamuna – Elbe, Art and ecology seminar, December 2010, Goethe Institute, New Delhi (ww.yamuna-elbe.org) Invited to: Arts Residency, Basel, Pro Helvetia, 2009 Khoj Peers Arts Residency, 2007 Awarded: IFCS- UN Special Recognition Award for Chemical Safety, 2008 Ashoka Fellowship, social entrepreneurship, 1997 Web resources: www.raviagarwal.com, www.toxicslink.org, www. galleryespace.com

	Profile RAVI AGARWAL Lives and works in New Delhi Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental activist, writer and curator. His earlier work, in the documentary oeuvre, encompasses ‘nature’, ‘work,’ ‘labour,’ and the ‘street,’ while more recent work has been traversing questions of the self and ecological sustainability based on explorations of ‘personal ecologies.’ He now works with photography, video and installation. He has been invited to important international shows including Documenta 11, Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery and others. He art practice is integral to his other pursuits. He is the founder of the well known Indian NGO Toxics Link. He is currently co-curating a twin city public art project to be held simultaneously in Hamburg and Delhi, in October/ November , 2011 Solo Shows 2010-11 Flux: dystopia, utopia, heterotopia. Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2008 An Other Place, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2006: Alien Waters, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2000: Down and Out, Labouring Under Global Capitalism, New Delhi ,India Habitat Centre, Ahmadabad, Gujarat India, The Hutheesingh Visual Arts Gallery, Amsterdam - National Vakbondsmuseum 1995: A Street View, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Generation in Transition, New Art from India, curated Madga Kardasz, Zacheta, National Gallery for Art, Warsaw, Poland (traveling) 2011 The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, Images of Humankind, curated Katerina Gregos, Solvej Helweg Ovesen. FotoFestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Germany 2011 Staging Selves - Power, Performativity & Portraiture, curated Maya Koskovaya, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2011 After the Crash, curated Camilla Boehimo, Orto Botanico – Museum, Rome 2011 Tolstoy Farm, curated Gayatri Sinha, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 2011 India Art Summit, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2010 CWG, Sports and the City, curated Rupika Chawala, LKA, New Delhi 2010 Where Three Dreams Cross, curated Sunil Gupta et al, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland 2009 Detour, curated Ranjit Hoskote, Gallery Chemould, New Delhi 2009 Astonishment of Being, curated Deeksha Nath, Birla Academy for Arts and Culture, Kolkotta 2009 The Purple Wall, curated Gayatri Sinha, India Art Summit, 2009 2009 Recycle, curated Bhavna Vij, Travencore House, New Delhi, Nature Morte, Kolkota 2008/ 11 Indian Highway, curated Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar Kvaran, traveling exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Astrep Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2009), Denmark (2010), Lyon-France (2011), MAXX, Rome, Italy (2011) 2008 Extinct, curated Pooja Sood, 48deg C, Public Eco-Art International festival, New Delhi 2008 Still/Moving Image, curated Deeksha Nath, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi 2008 Click! Contemporary Photography in India, curated Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, Vadhera Gallery, New Delhi 2007 Frieze Art Fair, Khoj Artists Workshop Stall, London 2007 Horn Please, The Narrative in Contemporary Indian Art ,curated Bernhard Fibicher, Suman Gopinath, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland. 2007: Public Places, Private Spaces, curated Gayatri Sinha, Zetta Emmons, Newark Museum, Newark and Minneapolis (2008) USA. 2006; Watching Me Watching India curated by Gayatri Sinha and Celina Lunsford, Frankfurt Fotographie International, Frankfurt, Germany 2003: Crossing Generations: DiVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, curated by Geeta Kapoor and Chaitanya 2002: Documenta 11, curated Okwui, Enzwor, Kassel, Germany 1996: 2nd Biennial of Creative Photography, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 1995: First National Exhibition of Photography, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi 1993 Bombay Natural History Society photo exhibition, Bombay, India. Books and Catalogues Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (forthcoming, 2011) co authored, Taylor and Francis Flux: Dystopia, Utopia, Heterotopia, Gallery Espace, 2011 In the Shadow of the Vulture, 48 deg C, Public Eco Art, Goethe Institute, New Delhi, 2009 Immersion. Emergence, Youthreach, New Delhi, 2007 Down and Out: Labouring under Global Capitalism New Delhi: Oxford University Press and Amsterdam, University Press, 2000 Making a Difference, A collection of essays, ed. Rukmani Shekhar, Spic Mackay, New Delhi, 1998 Portfolios in The India Magazine, 1995 and 1997 Portfolio in The First City Magazine, 2003 Monthly Photo Column in First City Magazine, since Feb 2005 Selected Publications: 1. Contemporary Flows, Fluid Times, Art Fair Magazine, February 2011 2. Fight for a Forest, Nature without Borders, Seminar 613, ed. Mahesh Ranagarajan and M.D.Madhusudan, September 2010 3. Hi Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives (co-authored), Challenging the Chip, Labour Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, ed Ted Smith et al, Temple University Press, USA, 2007 4. Standardised, packaged, ready for consumption, Sarai Reader 05, Bare Acts, Sarai – CSDS, Delhi, 2005 5. Beyond environmental standards, from techno centric to people centric environmental governance. Troubles Times, Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extrems.” SDPI, Islamabad, 2006 6. Resisting technology, regaining and a personal ecology, Sarai Reader, 03, Shaping Technologies, 2003 7. Corporate Social responsibility, a critical perspective from India, Cometische humanisering? Ed Tonja van den Ende et al, Humanistic University Press, Amsterdam, 2005 8. Walk on the Wild Side, (co-authored) Green Book, ed Ruskin Bond, Roli Books, 2003 Reviews / Articles: 1. Flash Art, March April, 2011, Rajashree Biswal 2. Art India, Volume XV, 2010-11, Roles People Play, Meera Menezes 3. Art India, Volume XV, 2010-11, The Nature of the Beast, Janice Pariat 4. Art India, Volume XIV, 2009-10, Images with Conscience, Meera Menezes Other Conceived and organized: Yamuna – Elbe, Art and ecology seminar, December 2010, Goethe Institute, New Delhi (ww.yamuna-elbe.org) Invited to: Arts Residency, Basel, Pro Helvetia, 2009 Khoj Peers Arts Residency, 2007 Awarded: IFCS- UN Special Recognition Award for Chemical Safety, 2008 Ashoka Fellowship, social entrepreneurship, 1997 Web resources: www.raviagarwal.com, www.toxicslink.org, www. galleryespace.com