RAVI AGARWAL
Lives and works in New Delhi
Ravi Agarwal has pursued a photography practice integrally with his pursuit as an environmentalist. 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 based on explorations of ‘personal ecologies.’ He now works with photography, video and installation.
Solo Shows
2008 An Other Place, Gallery Espace, New Delhi,
2006: Alien Waters, India International Centre, New Delhi,
2000: Down and Out, New Delhi ,India Habitat Centre,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat India,
The Hutheesingh Visual Arts Gallery,
Amsterdam - National Vakbondsmuseum
1995: A Street View, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi
Selected Curated, Group, Residency Exhibitions
2008 Nature of the City, curated Alexander Keefe and Nitin Mukul, Religare Gallery, New Delhi, 2008
2008 Extinct? Installations in public space as part of 48 deg C, curated Pooja Sood, Public Eco Art Festival, New Delhi (forthcoming)
2008 Indian Highway, curated Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar Kvaran, Serpentine Gallery, London (forthcoming)
2008 Zeitgiest, curted Latika Gupta, Palette Gallery, 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
2008 City.Cite.Site, Curated Latika Gupta, Anant Gallery, New Delhi
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.
2007: Impossibility of being feminine, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, New Delhi
2007: Have you seen the flowers on the river, Khoj Residency, New Delhi,2007
2006; Watching Me Watching India curated by Gayatri Sinha and Celina Lunsford, Frankfurt Fotographie International, Frankfurt, Germany
2006: Monsoon, Alliance Fraincaise, curated Himanshu Verma, New Delhi
2005: Self x Social, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jahawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
2004: The Making of India, Shamat, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
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
1995: Shaman, Postcards for Gandhi, New Delhi (Wadhera Art Gallery), Bombay, Bangalore, and Madras
1993 Bombay Natural History Society photo exhibition, Bombay, India.
Photographic Books and Catalogues
In the Shadow of the Vulture, 48 deg C, New Delhi, 2008
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 Visual Column in First City Magazine, since Feb 2005
Selected Publications:
1. 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
2. Standardised, packaged, ready for consumption, Sarai Reader 05, Bare Acts, Sarai – CSDS, Delhi, 2005
3. 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
4. Resisting technology, regaining and a personal ecology, Sarai Reader, 03, Shaping Technologies, 2003
5. Corporate Social responsibility, a critical perspective from India, Cometische humanisering? Ed Tonja van den Ende et al, Humanistic University Press, Amsterdam, 2005
Other
Received Ashoka Fellowship, social entrepreneurship, 1997
IFCS- WHO Special Recognition Award for Chemical Safety, 2008
Web resources:
www.raviagarwal.com, www.toxicslink.org
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/downandout/
http://www.documenta12.de/data/english/index.html
www.haveyouseentheriver.blogspot.com
www,inturbulenttimes.blogspot.com