Archaeologist at the Ancient City – AICON Gallery, New York
A retrospective of the late Mohan Samant (1924-2004)
The exhibition charts his dynamic practice from the early 1960s through 2003 with examples of his heavily textured surfaces from the 1960s and 70s, three-dimensional paper cut-outs starting in 1975, intricately hand-bent wire figures and cut niches that appeared in the 1980s, and finally, the expert melding of these canvas expanding processes in the 1990s and 2000s. Alongside important canvases highlighting Samant’s unique idiom is a collection of watercolor-based works on paper from the 80s and 90s.
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now – MK Gallery
Paintings shown:
In the Beginning there was a Man, a Woman, and a Benevolent Ghost, 1980
Mixed media and sand on canvas with paper cutouts
Untitled, 1980-90
Mixed media on paper
Untitled, 1985
Mixed media with paper cutouts on canvas
An Angel and a Firefly, 2002
Watercolor on paper
404:Calligraphic Abstraction – MoMa, Floor 4, The David Geffen Galleries
Paintings shown:
Green Square, 1963
Oil and resin with sand on canvas
Unsettled Objects curated by Omar Kholeif – Sharjah Art Foundation, The Flying Saucer
Paintings shown:
Courtesy of Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Bird Sanctuary, 1997
Watercolour on paper
Bride, 1991
Watercolour on paper; 46 x 60 cm.
Sad Man Wandering, 1998
Watercolour on paper; 120.7 x 80 cm.
Man with a Child in a Chair, 1982
Mixed media and folded paper on a plastered canvas; 111.8 x 66 cm.
Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context
The Met Breuer
Painting shown:
Abstract Signs and Temple Frieze, 1964
Oil and spackle on canvas
Many Tongues: Art, Language and Revolution in the Middle East and South Asia (1947-2017)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India
Asia Society, New York
South Asian Modernists 1953-63
Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester
India Art Fair
Exhibitor: Jhaveri Contemporary (Mumbai)
NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi
Everything we do is music
Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre D’Art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Frieze New York
Exhibitor: Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Randall’s Island Park, New York City
Everything we do is music
Drawing Room, London
Paintings to be shown:
Pandit Madhusagar Family, 1978
Folded paper, watercolour and ink on paper, 71.1 x 55.9 cm
Musicians, 1999
Watercolour on paper, 55.9 x 76.2cm
Postwar Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945 – 1965
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Painting shown:
Green Square, 1963
Synthetic polymer paint, and oil on canvas
On loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mohan Samant: Paintings
l’Association France-Amérique, Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris
Mohan Samant: Paintings
Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai
Mohan Samant: Paintings
The Nehru Centre, London