RAVI AGARWAL (b. 1958) is a photographer and an environmentalist.  His photography examines work, labor and the street within the domain of public spaces.  As an environmentalist, he is founder and director of Toxics Link, an organization that collects and shares information about the sources and dangers of poisons in the environment.  Agarwal’s solo exhibitions include Alien Waters, India International Centre Gallery, New Delhi, 2006; Down and Out, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Amsterdam, 2000; and A Street View, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, 1995.  He has also participated in Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany 2002; Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2003; Self x Social, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jahawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005; and Watching Me Watching India, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany, 2006.  Agarwal lives and works in New Delhi.

NAVJOT ALTAF (b. 1949) studied Fine and Applied Arts from 1967 to 1972 at Sir J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai and graphics at Garhi studios, Delhi.  Since 1973, Altaf has had a number of solo and joint exhibitions in India, Germany and New York, and has been invited to participate in major national and international exhibitions such as Zones of Contact, 15th Sydney Biennale, 2006; Bombay: Maximum City, Lille, France, 2006; Ground Works, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2005; Passage to India, Geneva 2003-4; Zoom - Art in Contemporary India, Edificia Sede da Caixo Garal de Depositos, Lisbon, 2004; Body.City: New Perspectives from India, House of World Culture, Berlin, 2002; In Response To, Talwar Gallery, New York; Three Halves, various international venues, 2001-3; Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, the Tate Modern, London, 2001, BBK Kunst Forum, the Federal Association of Artists of the Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, 2001; the First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan, 1999; the Women Artists from India, various international venues 1995-7; the Eighth International Triennale, New Delhi, 1991; and the Third Painting Biennale, Bhopal, 1988.  Since 1991, she has been engaged with interactive, cooperative and collaborative projects with Indian and international artists; since 1997 she has been engaged with ongoing site specific, public art projects in collaboration with Adivasi artists and tribal communities from Bastar, in central India.  Altaf lives and works in Mumbai and Bastar, India.

PABLO BARTHOLOMEW (b. 1955) a world-renowned photojournalist, has participated in various solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi; the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; and La Musée de L’Homme, Paris.  He has participated in many major group exhibitions at venues including the Photographer's Gallery, London; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the International Center of Photography, New York; the Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York.  Bartholomew has received many honors including a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, New York, 1987; World Press Photo Award for Picture of the Year 1985; a World Press Photo Award, Holland, 1976; and a Press Institute of India: Best Young Photographer, 1975.  Bartholomew is based in New Delhi.

ATUL BHALLA (b. 1964) earned his B.F.A. from the College of Art, Delhi University and his M.F.A. from the School of Art of Northern Illinois University.  He is a member of Khoj, International Artists Association, a New Delhi collective that has promoted radical new media practice in India.  Bhalla’s exhibitions include the solo exhibitions at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007; Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi, 2005 and Northern Illinois University, 1990.  He has also participated in group shows including Watching Me Watching India, Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt, 2006; Self x Social, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005.  Bhalla lives and works in New Delhi.

SHAHID DATAWALA (b. 1974) worked for India Magazine as a freelance photographer from 1995 to 1998 and has been working for First City, a Delhi-based magazine, as a freelance photographer for the last 4 years.  His solo exhibitions include A Walk with Pillars, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, 2001; and Dress Circle, Foss Gandi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Calcutta, New Delhi, 2006-7.  His honors include a grant from the Ford Foundation and a grant from Sarai, a new media initiative of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.  A multi-talented artist, Datawala is the chief designer for Palatte, a high-end furniture design store in Mumbai.  He also designs jewelry.  Datawala lives and works in Mumbai.

ANITA DUBE (b. 1958) received a B.A. in History from the University of Delhi in 1979, an M.A. in Art Criticism from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1982.  She has participated in solo and group exhibitions including Inside Out, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2007; Lille 3000, 2006; Illegal, Nature Morte, New Delhi and Bose Pacia, New York, 2005; Icon: India Contemporary at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2005; Androgyne, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2004; The Sleep of Reason, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2003; Kalam to Computer/Room For Improvement, Crafts Museum, New Delhi, ARS 01, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, 2001; the Seventh Havana Biennial, 2000; and Telling Times, the British Council, New Delhi and Bath Festivals Trust’s Contemporary Art Programme, Bath, U.K. 1998.

GAURI GILL (b. 1970) completed a B.F.A. in Applied Art in 1992 from the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi.  In 1994, she earned a B.F.A. in photography at Parsons the New School for Design, New York where she interned with Mary Ellen Mark.  She finished her M.F.A. in photography at Stanford University where she was awarded one of five artists' fellowships.  From 1995 to 2000 she was a photographer with Outlook magazine, New Delhi.  Gill has pursued many editorial and curatorial projects and has been teaching photography in the American School, New Delhi since 2003.  From 1995 to 2000 she was a photographer with Outlook magazine, New Delhi.  Gill has participated in exhibitions including Women Photographers from SAARC Countries, Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi 2005; Award Winners Show, Fifty Crows Foundation, San Francisco 2002; and In Black and White: What Has Independence Meant for Women, Admit One Gallery, New York 1998.  Her honors include a Fifty Crows Award, a Senior Arts Fellowship at the American Institute of Indian Studies, University of Chicago, 2002; and an award from the Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography, Stanford University, 2001.  Gill lives and works in New Delhi.

SHILPA GUPTA (b. 1976) studied at the Jamshetji Jeejeebhoy School of Art, Mumbai.  Gaining international visibility, Gupta has come to critique the representation of Third World issues.  Her solo exhibitions include shows at Apeejay New Media Gallery, Delhi; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2006; Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2005; Your Kidney Supermarket, Oxford Bookstore, Mumbai, 2004; Blessed Bandwidth.net  a commission from the Tate Modern, London Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2003; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney; Avatars of the Object, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai; the Ninth Havana Biennial, Havana; Subcontingente, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino,  2006;  Art Meets Media - Adventures in Perception, Tokyo; the Third Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, 2005; Media City Seoul Biennale, Seoul; Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, various international venues, 2004-6; Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, the Tate Modern, London, 2001.  Gupta lives and works in Mumbai.

SUBODH GUPTA (b. 1964) completed a B.F.A. in painting from the College of Arts and Crafts, Patna in 1988.  Gupta is internationally recognized for his sculptural installations and works consistently in new media.  His solo exhibitions include Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, 2005; I Go Home Every Single Day, the Showroom Gallery, London, 2004; and This Side is the Other Side, Art and Public, Geneva, 2003.  His work has been featured in many recent major group exhibitions including Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2007; Venice-Istanbul, Istanbul Modern, 2006; Lille 3000, 2006; Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2005; the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005; Dialectics of Hope, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2005; Indian Summer: La Scène Artistique Indienne, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2005; Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, various international venues, 2004-6; and the Eighth Havana Biennale, 2003.  Gupta has participated in several national and international workshops and residencies, and his awards and scholarships include a French government residency in Paris, a visiting professorship at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2004; an award from UNESCO-Ashberg Bursaries for Artists at Gasworks Studio, London, and an Emerging Artist Award from Bose Pacia, New York, 1997.  Gupta lives and works in New Delhi.

SUNIL GUPTA (b. 1953) earned an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983.  As photographer, curator and activist, he has worked extensively to represent Indian photography at the local level as well as at international exhibitions.  Gupta has been exhibited widely, and in recent years he has participated in exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig, Köln; the Hayward Gallery, London; Metro Pictures, New York; and the Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai.  His books include An Economy of Signs: Contemporary Indian Photography, 1990; Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology, 1990; Disrupted Borders: Interventions in Definitions of Boundaries, 1993; and Pictures From Here, 2003.  He has curated and organized exhibitions since 1989 and co-researched Click! Indian Photography Now for the Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi.  He is the co-founder of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers, and contributed to the formation of the Institute of International Visual Arts in London.  In his role as an activist, he teaches photography at Bluebells School, is a member of the Nigah Media Collective, a queer activist group, and he is part of Camerawork, Delhi.  Gupta lives and works in Delhi.

SAMAR JODHA (b. 1968) has worked on numerous social communication projects for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the BBC World Service Trust, Population Services International and several grassroots level organizations.  His editorial work has appeared in publications as varied as Elle, Time Out, Elle Décor, Conde Nast Traveler and USA Today.  His books include the award-winning Jaipur: The Last Destination, 1993.  His work can also be seen in Costumes and Textiles of Royal India and in Dubai: 24 Hours.  His collaborations with Vijay S. Jodha resulted in the critically acclaimed book Ageless Mind and Spirit, 2002.  The project was presented as a traveling exhibition by the United Nations in 1999, and was the only work of contemporary art selected from the whole of South Asia to be showcased at the New Zealand International Arts Festival, 2004.  Jodha lives and works in Delhi.

VIJAY JODHA (b. 1966) completed his Masters in 1996 from the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, and he studied filmmaking at the Tisch School of Arts and School of Visual Arts in New York.  He has worked at MTV Networks New York and CBS Weekend News.  Jodha has also completed film and television projects for a variety of clients in India and overseas, including the Smithsonian, the Discovery Channel, Doordarshan and PBS.  His writings and images have appeared in a variety of publications in India and overseas.  Jodha collaborated with Samar Jodha in 2005 to produce the photography book Tiranga, featuring the work of seventy of India’s leading photographers.  Jodha was honored with the U.K. Environment Film Fellowship in 2005.  Jodha lives and works in Delhi.

RANBIR KALEKA (b. 1953) received a diploma in painting from the College of Art of Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1975 and his M.A. in painting from the Royal College of Art, London.  He taught at the Fine Arts Department of College for Women, Punjabi University, Patiala from 1976 to 1977 and at the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi from1980 to 1985.  His exhibitions include Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery, Beijing and the Busan Museum, Korea, 2006; Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, various international venues, 2004-6; Icon: India Contemporary, Venice Biennale, 2005; After Dark, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2004; Body.City: New Perspectives from India, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2002; Kapital and Karma, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2002; Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London; India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982.  Kaleka received the National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi in 1979, and the Sanskriti Award in 1986.  Kaleka lives and works in New Delhi.

JITISH KALLAT (b. 1974) earned a B.F.A. in painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1996.  Since then he has has many solo shows including, Rickshawpolis-3, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2007; Rickshawpolis-2, Spazio Piazzasempione, Milan, 2006; Rickshawpolis-1 Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2005; Panic Acid, Bodhi Art, Singapore, 2005; The Lie of the Land, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, 2004; First Information Report, Bose Pacia, New York, 2002.  He has participated in group shows such as the Fifth Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2006-7; Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery, Beijing and the Busan Museum, Korea, 2006; Indian Summer: La Scène Artistique Indienne, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2005; Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2003; Under Construction, the Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, 2002; Century City, the Tate Modern, London 2001; the First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 1999.  Kallat lives and works in Mumbai.

SONIA KHURANA (b. 1968) completed an M.A. in 1999 at the Royal College of Art.  Earlier, she studied for a B.A. and M.F.A. at the Delhi College of Art and did a short course at the Film and Television Institute in Pune, India.  In 2002, she was invited for a two year research residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.  Under her recently formed initiative called Vidya-Video, Khurana uses video as a tool for collaborative and community based projects in and around Delhi.  In 2004, she traveled to Cameroon to do a video-based workshop near Douala.  She later initiated similar workshops in South Africa, Thailand and, most recently, in Mexico City for the artists’ initiative El Despacho.  Her recent screenings and exhibitions include venues such as Arario Beijing, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris; Apeejay Media Gallery, Delhi; Tamayo Museum, Mexico; the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam; Walsh Gallery, Chicago; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York;  Center D‘Ethnographie, Geneva; Pusan Biennale, Korea; Fukuoka Museum of Asian Art, Japan; House of World Cultures, Berlin; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; Asia Society New York; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane; De Balie, Amsterdam; Cornell University;  Nehru Centre, London; Henie Onstad Kunssenter, Oslo; and Kusthalle Wien, Vienna.  Khurana currently lives and works in New Delhi.

SHANTANU LODH (b. 1967) earned a B.F.A. in Art History in 1993 and an M.F.A. in painting in 1995 from Santiniketan, West Bengal.  His exhibitions/performances include Kapital and Karma, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2002; Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2003; Reserve Der Form, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 2004; Wild Life Garden, Import Export, Vienna, 2005; and We Are All Naked in a Turkish Bath, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi, 2005.  Lodh lives and works in New Delhi.

ANNU PALAKUNATHU MATTHEW (b. 1964) received her B.Sc. in mathematics from the Women's Christian College, Chennai in 1986 and her M.F.A. in photography from the University of Delaware, Newark in 1997.  She has had her work included in many recent exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Sepia International Inc., New York City; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, the Netherlands, 2006; and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal Biennale, 2005.  Matthew has been the recipient of many recent grants including the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship; a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship; and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts Fellowship.  She was recently an artist in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, NY, and at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.  Matthew’s work can be found in the collections of George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; and the RISD Museum, among others.  In addition, Matthew’s photography is included in BLINK, from Phaidon Press.  The book celebrates today's 100 most exciting international contemporary photographers.  Matthew is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.

PUSHPAMALA N. (b. 1956) attended Bangalore University from 1976 to 1977 and studied under Balan Nambiar.  She later joined its faculty of Fine Arts, then studied sculpture at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, on a Karnataka Government scholarship.  She graduated in 1982 and completed her post-graduate training there in 1985.  Pushpamala has received many honors, including the National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1984; the gold medal at the Sixth New Delhi Triennale, 1986; the Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship for residency at St. Martin's School of Art, London, 1992-93; and the Senior Fellowship, Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development, 1995-97.  Her first solo exhibition was at the Venkatappa Art Gallery in Bangalore, in 1983.  Recent solo exhibitions include Pushpamala N. Photo and Video Performance Work, Espace Croise, Roubaix, France, 2006; Native Women of South India, Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2005; Native Women of South India- Manners and Customs, Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Seagull Arts and Media Center, Kolkata, 2005; and Phantom Lady or Kismet, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 1998.  She also has participated in numerous recent group exhibitions, including Photo and Media Art from India: A Journey of Discovery, Fotofluss, Austria, 2007; Cinema Prayoga: Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006, the Tate Modern, London, 2006; India Express, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland, 2006; Indian Summer: La Scène Artistique Indienne, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2005; and Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, various international venues, 2004-6.  Pushpamala N. lives and works in Bangalore.

RAM RAHMAN (b. 1955) is a photographer and designer who has contributed extensively to SAHMAT, a Delhi-based collective of scholars and artists dedicated to cultural pluralism and secularism.  Rahman began his photographic education under Jonathan Green at MIT while a physics student in the mid 1970’s.  He graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from the Yale University School of Art in 1979.  His first major solo exhibition was at the Shridharani Gallery in Delhi in 1988.  Since then, he has had solo exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam and at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  His group shows include exhibitions at the Japan Foundation in Tokyo and the Photographer’s Gallery in London.  Rahman has also curated many exhibitions, including a major retrospective of Sunil Janah in New York in 1998 and HEAT, a group show of mainly photographic and video work at Bose Pacia in New York.  He has participated in symposia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and at the Baroda School of Art.  His work has broadly been in black and white, in a personalized documentary style.  He is represented in major collections in India and around the world.  Rahman lives and works in Delhi.

RAGHU RAI (b. 1942) started making photographs in 1965.  In his subsequent career, he has emerged as one of India’s most influential photographers.  From 1966 to 1976 he served as chief photographer for The Statesman newspaper and from 1977 to 1980 was picture editor for Sunday, a weekly news magazine published in Calcutta.  In 1971, legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to Magnum Photos, the world’s most prestigious photographers’ cooperative in Paris.  Rai worked as picture editor for from India Today from 1982 to 1991.  He was awarded the Padamshree in 1971, one of India’s highest civilian awards ever given to a photographer.  In 1992, he was awarded Photographer of the Year in the United States for the story Human Management of Wildlife in India published in National Geographic.  He has been on the jury of the World Press Photo Contest three times and twice on UNESCO’s International Photo Contest.  He has worked extensively on the photo documentation of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and its continuing effects on the lives of gas victims, under special assignment from Greenpeace International.  In the last eighteen years, he has specialized in extensive coverage of India.  He has produced more than 18 books including India, 1985; Taj Mahal, 1986; Calcutta, 1989; Khajuraho, 1991; Tibet in Exile, 1991; Raghu Rai’s Delhi, 1992; The Sikhs, 1984, 2002; and Mother Teresa 1971, 1996, 2004.  Rai lives and works in New Delhi.

GIGI SCARIA (b. 1973) finished his B.F.A. in painting at the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram in 1995, and his M.F.A. in painting at Jamia Millia Univerisity, New Delhi in 1998.  Working in both paint and video, Scaria is deeply engaged with issues of urbanism in present day India.  His many honors include the Sanskriti Award in 2005, an Inlaks Foundation scholarship in 2002 and a Ministry of Human Resources and Development Scholarship for Visual Arts from 1995-7.  Scaria has participated in exhibitions and workshops including Where are the Amerindians?, InterAmerica Space, Trinidad, 2005; Dilli Dur Ast, Delhi, 2006; Self x Social, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jahawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005; Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Forty years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2003.  Scaria lives and works in Delhi.

TEJAL SHAH (b. 1979) earned a B.A. in photography from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology of Melbourne in 2000 and she was subsequently exchange scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Shah’s work in video and performative photography is concerned with the politics and representation of gender and sexuality.  Her solo shows include What Are You?, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai and the Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2006; The Tomb Of Democracy, Gallery Pruss & Ochs, Berlin, 2003; In-Transit, Viscom9 Gallery, Melbourne, 2000.  Her group exhibitions include Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2007; Sexwork – Art, Reality, Myths, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2006; Bombay: Maximum City, Lille, France, 2006, Saturday Live, the Tate Modern, London, 2006; Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandrettoe Re Rebaudengo, Turino, 2006; Indian Summer: La Scène Artistique Indienne, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2005; Zoom! The Near And the Far In Contemporary Indian Art, Culturgest Museum, Lisbon, 2004; 14th International Electronic Art Festival-Videobrasil, Southern Competitive Show, Sao Paulo, 2003; Cross-Fertilization: Contemporary Indian Video Art, Multi Media Art Asia Pacific, 2002.  Shah was co-founder, organizer and curator for Larzish, International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality, India, 2003, and she contributed to Women Video Letters; A Second Text On War- An International Initiative of Women Filmmakers.  Shah lives and works in Mumbai.

RAGHUBIR SINGH (1942-1999) was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York.  In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form.  In his early work, Singh focused on the geographic and social anatomy of cities and regions of India.  His work on Mumbai in the early 1990s marks a turning point in his stylistic development.  While photographing the metropolis, his visual language acquired a new complexity.  In addition to his photographic work, Singh taught in New York at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University and the Cooper Union.  In 1998, the Art Institute of Chicago organized a retrospective exhibition of his work, and the book River of Colour was published to accompany the show.  Singh is represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, among the most recent at Lille 3000, 2006; the National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, 2005; Sepia International, New York, 2004; and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2003.  His work is in the collections of the Tate Modern; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art, Prato; the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; the National Media Museum; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

VIVAN SUNDARAM (b. 1943) received a B.A. in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and did post-diploma studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.  In 1966, Sundaram held his first solo exhibition in New Delhi.  He has since had numerous solo exhibitions in New Delhi, Baroda, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Madras, London, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and New York.  A selection of his numerous group shows includes Amrita Sher-Gil, the Tate Modern, London, 2007; Why Pictures Now: Photography, Film, Video, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, 2006; the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, 2006; The Edge of Desire: Recent Art In India, various international venues, 2004-6; Indian Video Art: History in Motion, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, 2004; the Shanghai Biennale, 2004; CC: Crossing Currents: Video Art and Cultural Identity, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, New Delhi, 2004; Science Fictions, Singapore, 2003; Kapital and Karma: Contemporary Indian Artists, Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2002; Amrita Sher-Gil and Vivan Sundaram, Ernst Museum, Budapest, 2001; Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, the Tate Modern, London, 2001; Icons of the Millenium, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1999; Private Mythology: Contemporary Art from India, Japan Foundation, Tokyo,1998; Second Johannesburg Biennale, 1997; the Second Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1996; the Second and Fourth Biennale, Havana, 1987 and 1991; Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, London, 1982; and Six Who Declined to Show in the Triennale, New Delhi, 1978.  Sundaram lives and works in New Delhi.

SUREKHA (b. 1965) studied art at Ken School of Arts, Bangalore and at Santiniketan, West Bengal.  Her works revolve around issues of gender identity and established notions of gender politics.  Surekha has held many international residencies and her works have been shown extensively in galleries and museums in India and abroad.  Her major exhibitions include participation in Diva-2006, New York/Paris; Ghosts in the Machine and Other Fables, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, 2006; Indian Summer: La Scène Artistique Indienne, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2005;  Self-Contemporary Video Art from India, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2002; On this Side of the Sky, UNESCO, Paris, 2003; Sites of Recurrence; Dakshina Chitra, Chennai and the Boras Museum, Sweden, 2003; Crossing Generations: diVERGE, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai, 2003; Rights/Rites/Rewrites, Cornell University, 2005; Another Passage to India, Ethnographic Museum, Geneva, 2004; and Complexities of Life, Aboa Arsanova Museum, Turku, 2004.  She is also engaged with a city project Communing with Urban Heroines.  Surekha lives and works in Bangalore.

MANISH SWARUP (b. 1968) is an accredited photo-journalist, working with the Associated Press, New Delhi.  He has covered war-torn Iraq and traveled to post-war Kosovo in Yugoslavia and Kabul, Afghanistan.  Swarup has extensively covered conflict zones in South Asia, and he covered the 2004 tsunami devastation from Port Blair, India.  Some of his other work within India includes coverage of militancy in Kashmir, the earthquake in Gujarat, floods in Orissa, the Kumbh Mela and Indian politics.  He also has built a photo document of masters of classical Indian music.  Swarup won the Best Photograph Award on the Kargil war from the Government of India, a second prize from the International Committee of Red Cross for best picture depicting Human Dignity In War, and several prizes and awards for his 1997 photographs on 50 years of Indian Independence.  In May 2004, he held a solo exhibition of his photographs at the Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi, and has since contributed to several photography volumes on India.  Swarup lives and works in New Delhi.

VIVEK VILASINI (b. 1964) graduated as a Marine radio officer from the All India Marine College, Kochi in 1984.  He studied political science at Kerala University and later trained in sculptural practices from traditional Indian craftsmen.  Vilasini has participated as a sculptor and a photographer in several group shows including Arts for Peace, New York, 2007; Rock, Art Resource Trust, Mumbai, 2006; Waging Peace, Hera Art Gallery, Wakefiled, Rhode Island, 2006; Double Enders, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kochi, 2005; and the Photographic Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum, Dubai, 1997.  Vilasini lives and works in Bangalore.

RAJESH VORA (b. 1954) studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and started his career as a graphic designer.  Since 1990, he has worked as an independent editorial and documentary photographer, focusing on issues related to rapid cultural change and subsequent cultural loses.  His concern with urban issues and the environment has led him to work in collaborative projects with architects, filmmakers and environmentalists.  For over a decade, Vora has contributed to Colors magazine as photographer, idea contributor and writer.  He has also participated in projects of Fabrica, a visual arts organization in Brighton, U.K.  He has contributed to photography books on urban issues and architecture and his group exhibitions include Another Asia, Noorderlict Photo Festival, the Netherlands, 2006; Bombay, Maximum City, France, 2006; Middle Age Spread: Imaging India 1947-2004, National Museum, New Delhi, 2004; International Photography Biennale, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2005; and Woman/Goddess, New York and India, 1998-2001.  Vora lives and works in Mumbai.

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Banner: Navjot Altaf, Lacuna in Testimony, 2003, Video, triple projection, sound, 72 mirrors on floor