Anita Dube b. 1958
Biography
Born in 1958, Anita Dube completed her BA (History) from Delhi University (1979) and her MVA (Art Criticism) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda (1982). She was the curator of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018) and has shown extensively in India and abroad. Select solo exhibitions include Yours Disparately (2014), Eye, etc. (Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, 2013), Babel (Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, 2011), Kal (Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, 2010), Labyrinth (Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, 2011).
She has been exhibited in biennales and exhibitions including the first Kochi Muziris Biennale (India, 2012), Biennale Jogja XI (Jogja National Museum, Indonesia, 2011), Against Exclusion 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia, 2009) to name a few. Her recent exhibitions include The Archaeology of the Self: Archives, Anarchives and the Artist, Art Heritage, New Delhi, 2023, Of Mimicry, Mimesis and Masquerade, 2023, Ufuq : Zarina a Tribute, 2022 at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Gallery, Mumbai, Phantasmagoria: Specters of Disenchantment, 1 x 1 Art Gallery, Dubai in 2021, Given Time : The Gift and its Offerings, Aicon Gallery, New York , 2021, and Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai 2016 ( curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala), Red and Dwelling (curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Galerie Mirchandani & Stenruecke, Mumbai in 2021 and 2016), Part Narratives (curated by Gayatri Sinha, Delhi, 2017), After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/ 1997 (curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2015), Difficult Loves-7 Contemporaries (curated by Roobina Karode, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, 2013).
The artist lives and works in New Delhi, India.
Exhibitions
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Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024
Bikaner House, New Delhi 31 August - 4 September 2024Gathered for a democratic and diverse audience, our curation includes works across mediums,with a focus on painting and photography,ushering in reflection and discourse on topical narratives growing out of contemporary...Read more -
People, Places, Things
D-40 & D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 May - 15 June 2024Belonging to someone, somewhere or something is an experiential arrangement. These social relations form the crux of the human behavioral sciences, which seek to study why human beings engage in...Read more -
Anita Dube: The Devil in the Detail
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 September - 27 October 2023Delhi-based artist Anita Dube ’s oeuvre follows the corporeality of our individual and collective bodies, encapsulated in language, memory, history and mythology, by exploring the body as material and consequence,...Read more
Art Fairs
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Frieze London 2024
And The Strokes Come Like Speech 9 - 13 October 2024Our curation titled And the Strokes Come Like Speech presents the artwork as an archaeological site, as similarly load-bearing to an edifice – a material...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
A Sense Across the Field 26 - 30 March 2024We are pleased to announce our returning participation in the 2024 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, with a group presentation titled 'A Sense Across...Read more -
INDIA ART FAIR
NSIC Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi 1 - 4 February 2024With a diverse roster of artists across conditioning, intention, practice and cultural attitudes – including A. Ramachandran, Anita Dube, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi,...Read more