Pushpamala N.

*1956 / India

Works

Solo exhibitions

Dressing Up

CHANEL NEXUS, Tokyo (JP)
27 Jun 2025 – 13 Aug 2025
Documenta Indica

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (IN)
3 Nov 2022 – 26 Nov 2022
The Body Politic

Nature Morte, New Dehli (IN)
11 Jan 2019 – 9 Feb 2019
Avega - The Passion (Abduction)

Galerie Zürcher, Paris (FR)
1 Mar 2013 – 20 Apr 2013
Avega-The Passion

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (IN)
6 Nov 2012 – 6 Dec 2012
Avega -The Passion

Nature Morte, New Dehli (IN)
10 Mar 2012 – 28 Apr 2012
Paris Autumn

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (IN)
9 Nov 2009 – 9 Dec 2009
Paris autumn

Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (US)
12 Sep 2008 – 25 Oct 2008
Paris Autumn

Nature Morte, New Dehli (IN)
24 Mar 2008 – 19 Apr 2008
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Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (US)
10 Nov 2006 – 23 Dec 2006
Paris Autumn 2006

Galerie Zürcher, Paris (FR)
16 Sep 2006 – 8 Nov 2006
Portrait of the artist as a young woman: new work

Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (GB)
29 May 2004 – 21 Aug 2004
Indian lady

Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (US)
7 Apr 2004 – 29 May 2004
PUSHPAMALA N. / XUE SONG

Walsh Gallery, Chicago (US)
21 Feb 2003 – 25 Apr 2003

Group

Empowerment

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
10 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Mustafah Abdulaziz, Heba Y. Amin, Yael Bartana, Candice Breitz, Regina Jose Galindo, Sejla Kameric, Mari Katayama, Pixy Liao , Ann Lislegaard, Teresa Margolles, Zanele Muholi, Pipilotti Rist …
Visions of India

from the colonial to the contemporary

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
17 Dec 2021 – 20 Mar 2022

with Indu Antony, Felice Beato, Samuel Bourne, Bourne & Shepherd, Michael Buehler-Rose, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lala Deen Dayal, Francis Frith, Gauri Gill, Karen Knorr, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Steve McCurry …
Moving Still: Performative Photography from India

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
20 Apr 2019 – 2 Sep 2019

with Nikhil Chopra, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Sonia Khurana, Tejal Shah, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Kiran Subbaiah, Vivan Sundaram
Fearless

contemporary South Asian art

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
21 Jul 2018 – 13 Jan 2019

with Huma Bhabha, Shilpa Gupta, Reena Saini Kallat, Nalini Malani, Shahzia Sikander, Dayanita Singh
FotoFest 2018 Biennial

INDIA - Contemporary Photography and New Media Art

FotoFest, Houston (US)
10 Mar 2018 – 22 Apr 2018

with Anita Khemka and Imran B. Kokiloo, Indu Antony, Pablo Bartholomew, Atul Bhalla, Mohini Chandra, Sheba Chhachhi, Serena Chopra, Tenzing Dakpa, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Chandan Gomes …
Tous, des sang-mêlés

MAC/VAL, Paris (FR)
22 Apr 2017 – 3 Sep 2017

with Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Francis Alys, Faycal Baghriche, Sammy Baloji, Taysir Batniji, Sylvie Blocher, Jonathas de Andrade, Maryam Jafri, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Bouchra Khalili, Kimsooja …
Chobi Mela IX

Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka (BD)
3 Feb 2017 – 16 Feb 2017

with Bruno Boudjelal, Debashish Chakrabarty, Supranav Dash, Gohar Dashti, Cristina De Middel, Boris Eldagsen, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Kanu Gandhi, Stanley Greene, Agan Harahap, Katrin Koenning, Nasir Ali Mamun …
Busan Biennale 2016

Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude

Busan Museum of Art, Busan (KR)
3 Sep 2016 – 30 Nov 2016

with Lida Abdul, Makoto Aida, Xu Bing, Keren Cytter, ZHANG Dali, GU Dexin, ZHANG Huan, Geng Jianyi, HU Jieming, Lee Kang-So, Yook Keyun Byung, MA Liuming …
Chennai Photo Biennale 2016

Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai (IN)
26 Feb 2016 – 13 Mar 2016

with Ravi Agarwal, Philip Blenkinsop, Rasel Chowdhury, Olivier Culmann, Alicja Dobrucka, Miguel Angel Garcia, Floriana Gavriel, Aitor Lara, Romi Perbawa, Angki Purbandono, Munem Wasif, Rony Zakaria
Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (US)
5 Feb 2015 – 2 Aug 2015

with Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Jitish Kallat, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Raqs Media Collective, Vivan Sundaram
Postdate: Contemporary Photography from India

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (US)
5 Feb 2015 – 25 Jun 2015

with Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram
City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)
30 Aug 2014 – 15 Feb 2015

with Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Manjunath Kamath, Dhruv Malhotra, Nandini Valli Muthiah, Dayanita Singh, Sooni Taraporevala, Vivek Vilasini
WARE & WISSEN

(or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)

Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
16 Jan 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Lothar Baumgarten, Clegg & Guttmann , Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Armin Linke, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Otobong Nkanga
Finding your place in the world

Asian photomedia

National Gallery, Canberra (AU)
25 Feb 2014 – 10 Aug 2014

with Gonkar Gyatso, FX Harsono, Yee I-Lann, Mella Jaarsma, Dayanita Singh, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Melati Suryodarmo
Move on Asia

Videokunst aus Asien 2002 bis 2012

ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
9 Feb 2013 – 4 Aug 2013

with Resa Afisina, Sekwon Ahn, Poklong Anading, ZHENG Bo, LU Chunsheng, JIN Feng, YANG Fudong, Chitra Ganesh, WANG Gongxin, Shilpa Gupta, WANG Jianwei, Yeondoo JUNG …
Poses and Views

Nature Morte, Berlin (DE)
2 Mar 2013 – 20 Apr 2013

with Zarina Bhimji, Michael Buehler-Rose, Gauri Gill, Raqs Media Collective, Bharat Sikka, Dayanita Singh, Maurizio Vetrugno
Asia Serendipity

The new challenges of photography in Asia - PHOTOESPAÑA 2012

Fernán Gómez, Madrid (ES)
6 Jun 2012 – 22 Jul 2012

with Kana Honda, Miwako Iga, Yao Lu, Sohei Nishino, Hiroshi Nomura, Sherman Ong, Koji Sekimoto
The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
15 Oct 2011 – 29 Jan 2012

with Ayisha Abraham, Nikhil Chopra, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Dhruv Malhotra, Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Bharat Sikka, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar), Anup Mathew Thomas
Concurrent India

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
4 Mar 2011 – 29 May 2011

with Sheba Chhachhi, Chitra Ganesh, Shilpa Gupta, Anita Khemka, Nalini Malani, Anay Mann, Gigi Scaria, Bharat Sikka, Vivan Sundaram
Where three dreams cross

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
12 Jun 2010 – 22 Aug 2010

with Mohammad Arif Ali, Lala Deen Dayal, Raghu Rai, Rashid Rana, Ketaki Sheth, Bharat Sikka, Dayanita Singh, Raghubir Singh, Nony Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Enam Talukdar, Ayesha Vellani …
Where Three Dreams Cross

150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
21 Jan 2010 – 11 Apr 2010

with Rashid Rana, Raghubir Singh, Dayanita Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Rashid Talukder, Ayesha Vellani, Munem Wasif
The Self and the Other. Portraitures in Contemporary Indian Photography

ARTIUM. Centro-Museo, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)
24 Oct 2009 – 1 Jan 2010

with Achinto Bhadra, Nikhil Chopra, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Prashant Panjiar, Dileep Prakash, Ketaki Sheth, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Mahendra Sinh …
Chalo! India

A new era of Indian art

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (AT)
2 Sep 2009 – 1 Nov 2009

with Nikhil Chopra, Shilpa Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Bharti Kher, Justin Ponmany, Gigi Scaria, Gulammohammed Sheikh
The self and the other - Portraitures in contemporary indian photography

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (ES)
10 Jul 2009 – 27 Sep 2009

with Achinto Bhadra, Nikhil Chopra, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Prashant Panjiar, Dileep Prakash, Ketaki Sheth, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Mahendra Sinh …
After Color

Curated by amani olu

Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (US)
8 Jul 2009 – 21 Aug 2009

with Talia Chetrit, Stephen Gill, Adrien Missika, Michael Vahrenwald
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
22 Nov 2008 – 15 Mar 2009

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Justin Ponmany, Raqs Media Collective, Kiran Subbaiah, Vivan Sundaram
Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)

Singapore Int. Photo Festival, Singapore (SG)
8 Oct 2008 – 31 Oct 2008

with G.M.B. Akash, Kim Boske, Annabel Elgar, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Anthony Haughey, Palani Mohan, Max Pam, Nicolas Pascarel, Frank Rothe, Michael Shaowanasai, Vee Speers
Indian Photography - Four voices

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
3 Jun 2007 – 29 Jul 2007

with Sheba Chhachhi, Prabuddha Das Gupta, Anita Dube
The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2006- Another Asia

Photography from South and South East Asia

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
10 Sep 2006 – 29 Oct 2006

with Shahidul Alam, Jan Banning, Pablo Bartholomew, Achinto Bhadra, Philip Blenkinsop, Henk Braam, Phuoc Bui Huu, Bui The Trung Nam, Edward Fitzgerald Charlesworth, Howard Henry Chen, Binh Danh, James Whitlow Delano …
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

Museo Tamayo Arte, México (MX)
18 Aug 2005 – 20 Nov 2005

with Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram
Edge of Desire - Recent Art in India

Asia Society, New York (US)
1 Mar 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Dayanita Singh, Gayatri Subramanian, Vivan Sundaram
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
27 Feb 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram
Edge of Desire - Recent Art in India

Art Gallery of Western AUS, Perth (AU)
25 Sep 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Dayanita Singh, Gayatri Subramanian, Vivan Sundaram

Events

Frieze London 2026

Frieze Masters 2026

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
14 Oct 2026 – 18 Oct 2026

with Marina Abramovic, Eileen Agar, Francis Alys, Mohammed Alfaraj, Atong Atem, Tina Barney, Poulomi Basu, Ruth Bernhard, Inaki Bonillas, Stefan Brüggemann, Dirk Braeckman, Claude Cahun …
Kyotographie 2025

Kyotographie , Kyoto (JP)
12 Apr 2025 – 11 May 2025

with Omar Victor Diop, Eamonn Doyle, Liu Hsing-Yu, Mao Ishikawa, Graciela Iturbide, JR, Kai Keijiro, Laetitia Ky, Momo Nakagawa, Martin Parr, Eric Poitevin, Adam Rouhana …
Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival 2019

THREE SHADOWS BEIJING, Xiamen (CN)
22 Nov 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

with Indu Antony, Josefin Arnell, Mate Bartha, Brassai, Michael Buehler-Rose, Philippe Chancel, Feng Chen, Lucien Clergue, Wu Ding, Kate Durbin, Sukanya Ghosh, Mario Giacomelli …
Capture Photography Festival 2019

Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver (CA)
3 Apr 2019 – 30 Apr 2019

with Amalie Atkins, Nikhil Chopra, Lynne Cohen, Christos Dikeakos, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Greg Girard, Torrie Groening, Shilpa Gupta, Adad Hannah, Mona Kuhn, Man Ray …
FotoFest 2018 Biennial

INDIA - Contemporary Photography and New Media Art

FotoFest, Houston (US)
10 Mar 2018 – 22 Apr 2018

with Pablo Bartholomew, Atul Bhalla, Mohini Chandra, Sheba Chhachhi, Serena Chopra, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Shilpa Gupta, Vinit Gupta, Shivani Gupta, Apoorva Guptay, Abhishek Hazra …
SALON ZÜRCHER PHOTO

ZÜRCHER NY, New York (US)
28 Mar 2017 – 2 Apr 2017

with Loredana Nemes, Jeffrey Silverthorne
Chobi Mela IX

Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka (BD)
3 Feb 2017 – 16 Feb 2017

with Bruno Boudjelal, Gohar Dashti, Cristina De Middel, Stanley Greene, Robert Zhao Renhui
Chennai Photo Biennale 2016

Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai (IN)
26 Feb 2016 – 13 Mar 2016

with Ravi Agarwal, Philip Blenkinsop, Olivier Culmann, Munem Wasif, Rony Zakaria