Sunil Gupta

*1953 / IND/CDN

Works

Solo exhibitions

Come Out: A Special Project

Vadehra Art, New Dehli (IN)
30 Jan 2024 – 16 Mar 2024
Sunil Gupta

Hales, New York (US)
19 Oct 2023 – 18 Nov 2023
Songs of Deliverance, Part I and Part II

STUDIO VOLTAIRE, London (GB)
25 Mar 2022 – 24 Apr 2022
Emerge into Light

MATÈRIA, Roma (IT)
30 Oct 2021 – 20 Jan 2022
Black Experience

Hales Gallery, London (GB)
17 Sep 2021 – 16 Oct 2021
From Here to Eternity

A Retrospective

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
9 Oct 2020 – 31 May 2021
Christopher Street

Hales, New York (US)
30 Apr 2019 – 1 Jun 2019
Friends and Lovers

Coming Out in Montreal in the 70s

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
21 Apr 2018 – 26 May 2018
Mr Malhotra's party

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
6 Jun 2009 – 18 Jul 2009
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Canadian Mus. of Cont. Photogr., Ottawa (CA)
25 Nov 2005 – 23 Apr 2006
Tales of a City – Delhi / Homelands

Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast (GB)
16 Feb 2006 – 16 Mar 2006
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UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
2 Oct 2004 – 2 Jan 2005
Homelands

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
10 Apr 2004 – 22 May 2004
Pictures From Here

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (GB)
27 May 2003 – 26 Jul 2003

Group

Looking the World in the Face

Indigenous and racialized artists to the visual culture of Canada

Canada House Gallery, London (GB)
14 Oct 2026 – 1 May 2027

with Cécilia Bracmort, Pedro Isztin, Sanaz Mazinani, Meryl McMaster, Shelley Niro, Louise Noguchi, Arthur Renwick, Jeff Thomas
Staging Resistance

in 1980s London

Hales Gallery, London (GB)
10 Sep 2026 – 23 Oct 2026

with Tessa Boffin, Rotimi Fani-Kayode
I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies

Autograph ABP, London (GB)
10 Oct 2025 – 21 Mar 2026

with Brook Andrew, SIM Chi Yin, Reena Saini Kallat, Henna Nadeem, Sheida Soleimani, Sabrina Tirvengadum, Thato Toeba
In Plain Sight

Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain

MATÈRIA, Roma (IT)
5 Dec 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Anna Fox, Jermaine Francis, Karen Knorr, MacDonaldStrand, Sarah Pickering, John Stezaker, Bettina von Zwehl
It's A Love Thing

30 Years of LGBTQIA+ Health Advocacy

STUDIO VOLTAIRE, London (GB)
4 Jun 2025 – 17 Aug 2025

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The 80s: Photographing Britain

Tate Britain, London (GB)
21 Nov 2024 – 5 May 2025

with Subrata Biswas, Tessa Boffin, Victor Burgin, Vanley Burke, John Davies, Al-An deSouza, Willie Doherty, Jason Evans, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Anna Fox, Simon Foxton, Paul Graham …
The Lovers

New Art Exchange, Nottingham (GB)
22 Feb 2025 – 3 May 2025

with Charan Singh
The ’70s Lens

Reimagining Documentary Photography

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
6 Oct 2024 – 6 Apr 2025

with Lewis Baltz, Anthony Barboza, Thomas Barrow, Lynne Cohen, Joe Deal, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Mikki Ferrill, Larry Fink, Nan Goldin, Anthony Hernandez, Susan Hiller …
This Is Britain

Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
29 Jan 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Vanley Burke, Pogus Caesar, John Davies, Anna Fox, Paul Graham, Chris Killip, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Chris Steele-Perkins
Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
3 Mar 2022 – 26 Jun 2022

with Widline Cadet, Jessica Chou, Citlali Fabian, Kelvin Haizel, Johny Pitts, Farah Salem, Ngadi Smart, Tintin Wulia
Masculinities

Liberation through Photography

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
22 Oct 2021 – 13 Mar 2022

with Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rineke Dijkstra, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Hal Fischer, Peter Hujar, Isaac Julien, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Catherine Opie, Wolfgang Tillmans
May You of a Better Future

Trafalgar Avenue, London (GB)
17 Feb 2022 – 12 Mar 2022

with Holly Buckle, Emil Lombardo, Joseph Wilson
WANDERLUST

Around the World in 80 Photographs

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
29 Jan 2022 – 26 Feb 2022

with Dick Arentz, Bruno Barbey, Scott Conarroe, Lutz Dille, Elliott Erwitt, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Gilbert Garcin, Richard Harrington, Josef Hoflehner, Clive Holden, Geoffrey James …
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
16 Oct 2020 – 17 Mar 2021

with Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Knut Asdam, Richard Avedon, Adam Bartos, Richard Billingham, Cassils, Sam Contis, John Coplans, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra …
Masculinities

Liberation through Photography

Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
20 Feb 2020 – 17 May 2020

with Laurie Anderson, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien, Catherine Opie
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home

Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (US)
6 Sep 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

with Lili Almog, Serena Chopra, Willie Doherty, Jim Goldberg, Candida Hoefer, Graciela Iturbide, Richard Misrach, Gilles Peress, Dylan Vitone
Moving Still: Performative Photography from India

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

with Nikhil Chopra, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Ranbir Kaleka, Sonia Khurana, Pushpamala N., Tejal Shah, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Kiran Subbaiah, Vivan Sundaram
Dissent and Desire

FotoFest 2018 Biennial, INDIA: Contemporary Photography and New Media Art

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
20 Jan 2018 – 29 Apr 2018

with Charan Singh
Delhi: Communities of Belonging

LGBTQ life in Delhi, India

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
31 Mar 2017 – 6 May 2017

with Charan Singh
The Place Is Here

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (GB)
4 Feb 2017 – 30 Apr 2017

with John Akomfrah, Zarina Bhimji, Sonia Boyce, Vanley Burke, Chila Kumari Burman, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Joy Gregory, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard, Maud Sulter
PHOTO BIENNALE

CITIES AND MEMORY

BRANDTS, Odense (DK)
26 Aug 2016 – 31 Jan 2017

with Andrey Ivanov, Mariya Kozhanova, Dhruv Malhotra, Nikitia Pirogov, Mauro Restiffe, Rishi Singhal, Lau Wai
Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2016

As Entertaining As Possible

Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou (CN)
19 Nov 2016 – 9 Dec 2016

with Jean-Christian Bourcart, Juno Calypso, Sergey Chilikov, Debi Cornwall, Denis Darzacq, Marina Gadonneix, AN Ge, Christian Lutz, Sandro Miller, Christian Milovanoff, WANG Ningde, Hiroshi Okamoto …
Picture This: Contemporary Photography and India

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
6 Dec 2015 – 3 Apr 2016

with Gauri Gill, Max Pinckers, Pamela Singh
Celebrating 20 Years

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
24 Mar 2015 – 25 Apr 2015

with Benoit Aquin, Phil Bergerson, Robert Bourdeau, Bruce Davidson, Gerry Deiter, Lutz Dille, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), William Eakin, Elliott Erwitt, Fausta Facciponte, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander …
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2

nGbK Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
18 Jan 2014 – 3 Mar 2014

with Bewegung Nurr, General Idea, Doug Ischar, Dominik Lejman, Ono Ludwig, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Irina Popova, Hunter Reynolds, Pola Sieverding, Wolfgang Tillmans
Keywords

Autograph ABP, London (GB)
27 Mar 2013 – 18 May 2013

with Sonia Boyce, Willie Doherty, Rita Donagh, Derek Jarman, Gustav Metzger, Guy Tillim, Stephen Willats, David Wojnarowicz, Carey Young
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, Dhruv Malhotra, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Bharat Sikka, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar), Anup Mathew Thomas
Fuck ups, Fables and Fiascos

Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin (DE)
8 Jun 2010 – 19 Sep 2010

with Khaled Hafez, Lukas Maximilian Hüller, Yana Payusova, Nadine Rennert, Mitra Tabrizian, LI Wei
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, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Pushpamala N., Prashant Panjiar, Dileep Prakash, Ketaki Sheth, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Mahendra Sinh …
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, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Pushpamala N., Prashant Panjiar, Dileep Prakash, Ketaki Sheth, Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Mahendra Sinh …
Summer 09

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
16 Jul 2009 – 1 Sep 2009

with Elinor Carucci, Edward Grazda, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Masao Yamamoto
The Intimate Line

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
6 Mar 2009 – 2 May 2009

with Elinor Carucci, Amy Jenkins, Angelika Sher
what wears me

FOSS-GANDI at C&L Gallery, Mumbai (IN)
22 Sep 2007 – 4 Oct 2007

with Shilpa Chavan, Prabuddha Das Gupta, Shahid Datawala, Shilpa Gupta, Fawzan Husain, Pat, Zubin Shroff
Rencontres d'Arles 2007

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
3 Jul 2007 – 16 Sep 2007

with Pablo Bartholomew, Gay Block, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Trinidad Carrillo, Julia Fullerton-Batten, GAO Brothers (Zhen & Qiang), Alberto Garcia-Alix, Laura Henno, Arja Hyytiaeinen, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Erik Kessels, Martin Kollar …
Márgenes (Borders)

Photoespaña 2007. X Festival Internacional de Fotografía y Artes Visuales

Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid (ES)
1 Jun 2007 – 22 Jul 2007

with Ricardo Gonzales, Guillaume Herbaut, Paul Seawright
watching me, watching India

new photography from India

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
30 Sep 2006 – 26 Nov 2006

with Ravi Agarwal, Atul Bhalla, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Samar S. Jodha & Vijay S. Jodha, Anup Mathew Thomas , Avinash Veeraraghavan
Watching me, Watching India

new photography from India

Die Kommunale Galerie im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
30 Sep 2006 – 26 Nov 2006

with Ravi Agarwal, Atul Bhalla, Anita Khemka, Anay Mann, Samar S. Jodha & Vijay S. Jodha, Anup Mathew Thomas , Avinash Veeraraghavan
Looking for Langston

Metro Pictures, New York (US)
15 Apr 2006 – 20 May 2006

with Isaac Julien
Stranger Than Fiction

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth (GB)
22 Sep 2004 – 7 Nov 2004

with Faisal Abdu'allah, Jananne Al-Ani, Zarina Bhimji, Richard Billingham, Ian Breakwell, Lisa Cheung, Alan Currall, A K Dolven, Tracey Emin, Graham Gussin, Jaki Irvine, Sarah Jones …
A Place Called Home

SANG Iziko Museum - South African Nation, Cape Town (ZA)
22 Sep 2004 – 7 Nov 2004

with Bani Abidi, Omar Badsha
Summer Review

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
17 Jul 2004 – 28 Aug 2004

with Ian MacEachern, Alison Rossiter, Volker Seding
Contact . 8th Annual Toronto Photography Festival

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2004 – 31 May 2004

with Susan Dobson, Stan Douglas, Elliott Erwitt, Rodney Graham, Toni Hafkenscheid, Lisa Klapstock, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Christian von Steffelin
Identity

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
31 Jan 2004 – 20 Mar 2004

with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Tomoko Sawada

Events

PhotoMonth 2026

PhotoMonth, London (GB)
1 Oct 2026 – 30 Oct 2026

with Laura Aguilar, Eve Arnold, David Bailey, Luo Bonian, Baron Adolphe De Meyer, Daragh Drake, William Eggleston, David George, Nan Goldin, Fan Ho, Tom Hunter, Koyoltzintli …
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 …
Biennale Images Vevey 2026

The Swiss Visual Arts Biennial

Images Vevey, Vevey (CH)
5 Sep 2026 – 27 Sep 2026

with Annelies Strba, Anoush Abrar, Carlos Amorales, Martina Bacigalupo, Lisa Bertoldi, Richard Billingham, Matthias Brunner, Luisa Doerr, Barbara Davatz, Sian Davey, Cristina De Middel, Rineke Dijkstra …
INDIA ART FAIR 2026

INDIA ART FAIR, New Dehli (IN)
5 Feb 2026 – 8 Feb 2026

with Marcel Dzama, Simryn Gill, Thandiwe Muriu, Ashfika Rahman, Thomas Ruff
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
5 Dec 2025 – 7 Dec 2025

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Valerie Belin, Wallace Berman, Karen Paulina Biswell, Sebastiaan Bremer, Maurizio Cattelan, Julien Creuzet, Gregory Crewdson, Awol Erizku, Sissi Farassat …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

MATÈRIA, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Mario Cresci
Paris Photo 2025 - Booksignings

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Edouard Elias, Laia Abril, Michael Ackerman, Rhiannon Adam, Hoda Afshar, Juliette Agnel, Albarran Cabrera, David Alekhuogie, Jean-Michel André, Ljubodrag Andric, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, Jane Evelyn Atwood …
Chennai Photo Biennale 2024

Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai (IN)
20 Dec 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

with Delphine Diallo, Nandini Valli Muthiah, Prashant Panjiar, Amar Ramesh
Art Basel 2024

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
13 Jun 2024 – 16 Jun 2024

with Marina Abramovic, Robert Adams, Francis Alys, Claudia Andujar, Diane Arbus, Eric Baudelaire, Valerie Belin, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Cabello & Carceller, Harry Callahan …
PHOTO 2024

international festival of photography

PHOTO Melbourne, Melbourne (AU)
1 Mar 2024 – 24 Mar 2024

with Tony Albert, Fiona Amundsen, Ying Ang, Chloé Azzopardi, Marta Bogdańska, Edward Burtynsky, Anna Carey, Peta Clancy, Michael Cook, Zoe Croggon, Bieke Depoorter, Cesar Dezfuli …
ArteFiera 2024

curated section: photography and video (Photography and moving images)

Bologna Fiere, Bologna (IT)
2 Feb 2024 – 4 Feb 2024

with Maria Vittoria Corradi Backhaus, Federica Belli, Carolle Benitah, Ruth Beraha, Guia Besana, Andrea Branzi, Alessandra Calo, Casper Faassen, Francesca Galliani, Milli Gandini, Luigi Ghirri, Simona Ghizzoni …
Frieze London 2023

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
11 Oct 2023 – 15 Oct 2023

with Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Inaki Bonillas, Lisetta Carmi, Hannah Collins, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Thomas Demand, CAO Fei, Annette Frick, Nan Goldin, Noemie Goudal …
Paris Photo 2022 - Booksignings

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
10 Nov 2022 – 13 Nov 2022

with Laia Abril, Albarran Cabrera, Miles Aldridge, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Roger Ballen, Olaf Otto Becker, Peter Bialobrzeski, Martin Bogren, Anais Boudot, Nick Brandt, Sophie Calle, Chien Chi Chang …
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2022

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2022 – 31 May 2022

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Farah Al Qasimi, Lara Almarcegui, Stephen Andrews, Claudia Andujar, Atong Atem, Raymond Boisjoly, Sandra Brewster, Sophie Calle, Jorian Charlton, Jorian Charlton …
Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography

Turning Point

Cardiff Festival Photography, Cardiff (GB)
1 Oct 2021 – 31 Oct 2021

with Nana Kofi Acquah, Yassine Alaoui Ismaili (Yoriyas), Fatoumata Diabate, Tim Georgeson, Maheder Haileselassie, Richard Jones, Lydia Panas, Mike Perry, Gareth Phillips, Wafaa Samir, Maryam Wahid
Rencontres d'Arles 2021

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
4 Jul 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

with Campbell Addy, Bas Jan Ader, Farah Al Qasimi, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel André, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Kenneth Anger, Maria José Arjona, Knut Asdam, Ananké Asseff, Richard Avedon …
The Armory Show 2020

The Armory Show, Inc., New York (US)
5 Mar 2020 – 8 Mar 2020

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Olivo Barbieri, Tina Barney, Mary Ellen Bartley, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Dawoud Bey, Slater Bradley …
Frieze Art Fair 2019

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
3 Oct 2019 – 6 Oct 2019

with Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Carlos Amorales, Harold Ancart, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Vanessa Beecroft, Neil Beloufa, Mark Bradford, Dirk Braeckman, Clegg & Guttmann , Natalie Czech, Shezad Dawood …
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018

Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN)
12 Dec 2018 – 29 Mar 2019

with Brook Andrew, Tania Bruguera, Nathan Coley, SONG Dong, Valie Export, Chitra Ganesh, Chandan Gomes, Guerrilla Girls, Shilpa Gupta, Rula Halawani, Sunil Janah, Jitish Kallat …
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2018

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2018 – 31 May 2018

with Matilda Aslizadeh, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Christina Battle, Erwin Blumenfeld, Dana Claxton, Barbara Cole, Max Dean, John Edmonds, Awol Erizku, Rainer Ganahl, Angela Grauerholz, Felicity Hammond …
Photography now 3.04 Juli, August, September

Photography now, Berlin (DE)
1 Jul 2004 – 30 Sep 2004

with Paul Graham, Ola Kolehmainen, Eve Sussman (+ Rufus Corporation)
les éditions Stanley Barker et la Librairie du Jeu de Paume

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)

with Christopher Anderson, Daffyd Jones, Mona Kuhn, Mark Steinmetz
Identity

sepiaEYE, New York (US)

with Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Tomoko Sawada
The New Pre-Raphaelites

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