Atul Dodiya / Curator: Ranjit Hoskote, Nancy Adajania
About the Book
The Dialogues Series explores the converns, careers and contexts of some of India’s most acclaimed artists. Each book in the series takes the form of an extended conversation between an individual artist and the authors, Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania, two of India’s best known and most authoritative critics. The Dialogues Series provies sharply etched portraits of the artists and critically engaged accounts of their work. It sees each artist’s journey in review, with its distinctive transitions, breakthroughs and evolutionary rhythms. The Dialogues Series also situates the imagination and lifeworld of the artists within larger art-historical genealogies, cultural narratives and political discussions, both Indian and global. The Series aims to create a discursive space in which both enthusuasts and scholars can reflect on the arguments that art and criticism conduct with history. The series is founded on the belief that the history of art does not simply revolve around the personalities of individual artists or the trends of the day; it also records the vital historical and pholosophical questions that are posed and played out on the contested terrain of art.
About the Author
ATUL DODIYA (born 1959) has shown extensively in India with Gallery Chemould (in 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001) and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2007), the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (1999, 2000 and 2010) and the CIMA Gallery, Kolkata (1997). Overseas, he has shown with Bodhi Art, Singapore and New York (2006 and 2008), Bose Pacia, New York (2003 and 2005) and Nature Morte, Berlin (2010). Solo exhibitions of Dodiya’s work have also been held, overseas, at the Japan Foundation. Tokyo, curated by Ranjit Hoskote (‘Mumbai: Labyrinth/ Laboratory’, 2001), The Fine Art Resource, Berlin (2001), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Enrique Juncosa (‘E.T. and Others’, 2002), the Walsh Gallery, Chicago (2002) and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2006). Dodiya has participated in the Yokohama Triennale (2001) and ‘iCon: India Contemporary’, a collateral event of the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), as well as in ‘Century City: Mumbai/Mumbai’, curated by Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Tate Modern, London, 2001), ‘Capital & Karma’, curated by Angelika Fitz and Michael Wörgötter (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2002), ‘ZOOM!’, curated by Nancy Adajania and Luis Serpa (Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, 2004), ‘New Narratives’, curated by Betty Seid (Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, 2007), ‘Horn Please’, curated by Bernhard Fibischer and Suman Gopinath (Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 2007), Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2008), ‘Chalo! India’, curated by Akiko Miki (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2008; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, and Essl Museum, Vienna, 2009), the 3rd Moscow Biennale Moscow, 2009), and ‘Urban Manners 1 & 2’, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg (Milan, 2007, & São Paulo, 2010). Dodiya has long been a participant in the world of contemporary Gujarati literature, and is a trustee of the Kshitij Sanshodhan Prakashan Trust, which brings out the prestigious literary journal, Etad.
