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NIHAAL FAIZAL
based in Bangalore, India
EDUCATION
2017 - 18 Home Workspace Programme, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2012 - 16 BCA, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 (video art), Bill’s PC, Fremantle, Australia (forthcoming)
2023 red curtains opening, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India (forthcoming)
2022 Special FX, Blueprint12, New Delhi, India
2017 The Real Taste of India, Mumbai Art Room, Bombay, India (with Chinar Shah)
2011 More Automobiles Than Are Parkable, David Hall, Fort Kochi, India
2010 Freedom Road, Vernissage Art Gallery, Cochin, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bare Acts, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (curated by Arushi Vats) (forthcoming)
2023 Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12G, Philadelphia, USA (curated by Murtaza Vali) (forthcoming)
2023 The Gathering, The Corner Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Anne Couillaud)
2023 How to know what’s really happening, Betonhalle in silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany (curated by Kayfa-ta)
2022 How to Reappear: Through the Quivering Leaves of Independent Publishing, TKM Warehouse, Kochi, India (curated by Kayfa-ta)
2022 Lot 49, The Luminary, St. Louis, USA
2022 DCAW - Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2022 BangaloResidency Expanded Showcase, Goethe-Institut/MMB, Bangalore, India
2022 Parsec, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India (curated by Nupur Dalmia)
2022 Copy Right, India International Centre, New Delhi, India (curated by Oorja Garg)
2021 at the kitchen table, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India (curated by Reliable Copy)
2021 First Look - New Museum and Rhizome, online
2021 DCAW - Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2021 Platform, Blueprint12, online
2020 Escaleras Futuras, Galería Santa fé, Bogota, Colombia (curated by MSD)
2019 Sickle & Code, Museum of History and Cultural Heritage, Lakatamia, Cyprus (curated by Peter Eramian, Elena Parpa, Evi Tselika)
2019 View: India, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden (curated by Niclas Östlind & Niyatee Shinde)
2019 Between Dog and Wolf, Home Sweet Home, New Delhi, India (curated by Meenakshi Thirukode)
2017 Double Road, whiteBOX, Munich, Germany
2017 Common Ground #3, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany (curated by Rebecca John)
2017 ARCADE, Klara Kiss Zip Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 Material Light, Mill Hall, Mattanchery, Kerala, India (curated by Allan Parker)
2017 #exstrange, e-Bay, online (curated by Marialaura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak)
2016 3BHK, Home Sweet Home, Heritage Apartments, Fort Cochin, India
2016 Document V, The Luminary, St.Louis, USA (curated by Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally)
2016 Edit 4, CEMA Gallery, Srishti Old Campus, Yelahanka New Town, India
2016 A Bit to Eat, Taste of India Restaurant, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Common Ground #2, Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India (curated by Rebecca John)
2015 Templates for Everyone, We’ll Figure It Out, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Where the Heart Is, Home Sweet Home, Bangalore, India
2014 The C(h)roma Show, Croma Store, Bangalore, India (curated by Tara Kelton and Marialaura Ghidini)
2014 Now Showing, Rex Theatre, Bangalore, India (curated by Matt Lee and Smriti Mehra)
2013 Lost Thoughts and Found Ideas, G.159, Yelahanka New Town, India
2012 GenNext VI, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
SCREENINGS
2023 Record Store Day, The Courtyard, Bangalore, India (curated by Boo! Ya Watching)
2022 We are the Aliens we are Looking for, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India (curated by Tasneem Lohani)
2021 from cinema, online (curated by Artists in (R)evolution Collective)
2020 Cinemagora, UNI, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 06/02/20, Kinoclub Fallow, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2016 Self as Document, Srishti Grad Show, Bangalore, India
RESIDENCIES
2024 Amant Foundation – Studio and Research Residency Program, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2021 Homebound Residency: Digital Communities, Warehouse421, online
2019 ZK/U, Berlin, Germany(supported by Goethe-Institut)
2015 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
GRANTS
2022 New York University Abu Dhabi - Research Kitchen Grant
2021 Sharjah Art Foundation - FOCAL POINT (for Reliable Copy)
2021 India Foundation for the Arts - Explorations
2020 Rhizome - Info-Wars Microgrant
2020 Experimenter - GENERATOR Cooperative Art Production Fund (with Chinar Shah)
2020 India Foundation for the Arts - Research Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2020 Akar Prakar Contemporary - ArtVarta Publishing Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2017 Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation - Mumbai Art Room Exhibition Grant (with Chinar Shah)
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND WORKSHOPS
2022 What Future Hides at Bikaner House, Take on Art, New Delhi, India (panel)
2022 On G159, LOVER, Pune, India (lecture)
2022 The Age of the Photograph at BTH, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kochi, India (symposium)
2022 Staging the Contemporary, Ishara Art Foundation, online (panel)
2021 FHOT Photobook Lab F21, Paris College of Art, online (lecture)
2021 SECOND(light), Booked: Art Book Pop-Ups, Tai Kwun, online (lecture)
2020 Perspectives on Photobooks, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, online (panel)
2020 Reliable Copy, Guftgu Talk Series, Offset Projects, online (lecture)
2020 Publishing Maneuvers Symposium, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (seminar)
2019 Publishing in an Expanded Field, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India (lecture)
2019 How to Make Flubber, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, Cyprus (lecture and workshop)
2019 Haleema Hashim's Photographs, Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (lecture)
CURATORIAL
2018 - Reliable Copy (publishing house)
2016 3BHK (exhibition)
2014 Ummijaan: Making Visible a World Within (exhibition)
2013 - 16 G.159 (project space)
WRITING
2023 Interview with Suman Gopinath and Edgar DeMello - Home Sweet Home (forthcoming)
2023 Interview with Sreshta Rit Premnath - Home Sweet Home
2023 Two Poems - ASAP Art
2022 Extensions and Expansions - IDEAS Journal (with Samira Bose and Sarasija Subramanian)
2022 Nostalgia as Special Effects - BOMB (with Anisha Baid)
2021 TP:S3 - HOAX
2021 at the kitchen table (adjust as per taste) - MARCH (with Arushi Vats and Sarasija Subramanian)
2021 Lightning Fast Body Temp. - Tariff Mag
2021 M.K. Stickers - Rhizome
2021 Luminous Enhancement - Photo South Asia
2021 Reliable Display Copy Distribute: Elastic Maneuverings - MARCH (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020 Reliable Display Copy Distribute - BKKABF (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020 Interview with Mario Santanilla - BOMB
2019 Interview with Niclas Östlind and Niyatee Shinde - View: India catalogue, Buchhandlung Walther König
2017 Interviewed by Charu Maithani - PROPRIOCEPTION
2017 Lines from Sci-Fi - Poetry Wales Magazine
2016 On the Figuring Out of Things - Temporary Art Review
2015 Exhibition Review: Drive by Video - Temporary Art Review
2015 Interview with Suresh Jayaram - Temporary Art Review
2015 Untitled Portrait Piece - HOAX
NIHAAL FAIZAL
based in Bangalore, India
EDUCATION
2017 - 18 Home Workspace Programme, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2012 - 16 BCA, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 (video art), Bill’s PC, Fremantle, Australia (forthcoming)
2023 red curtains opening, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India (forthcoming)
2022 Special FX, Blueprint12, New Delhi, India
2017 The Real Taste of India, Mumbai Art Room, Bombay, India (with Chinar Shah)
2011 More Automobiles Than Are Parkable, David Hall, Fort Kochi, India
2010 Freedom Road, Vernissage Art Gallery, Cochin, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bare Acts, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (curated by Arushi Vats) (forthcoming)
2023 Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12G, Philadelphia, USA (curated by Murtaza Vali) (forthcoming)
2023 The Gathering, The Corner Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Anne Couillaud)
2023 How to know what’s really happening, Betonhalle in silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany (curated by Kayfa-ta)
2022 How to Reappear: Through the Quivering Leaves of Independent Publishing, TKM Warehouse, Kochi, India (curated by Kayfa-ta)
2022 Lot 49, The Luminary, St. Louis, USA
2022 DCAW - Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2022 BangaloResidency Expanded Showcase, Goethe-Institut/MMB, Bangalore, India
2022 Parsec, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India (curated by Nupur Dalmia)
2022 Copy Right, India International Centre, New Delhi, India (curated by Oorja Garg)
2021 at the kitchen table, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India (curated by Reliable Copy)
2021 First Look - New Museum and Rhizome, online
2021 DCAW - Blueprint12, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2021 Platform, Blueprint12, online
2020 Escaleras Futuras, Galería Santa fé, Bogota, Colombia (curated by MSD)
2019 Sickle & Code, Museum of History and Cultural Heritage, Lakatamia, Cyprus (curated by Peter Eramian, Elena Parpa, Evi Tselika)
2019 View: India, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden (curated by Niclas Östlind & Niyatee Shinde)
2019 Between Dog and Wolf, Home Sweet Home, New Delhi, India (curated by Meenakshi Thirukode)
2017 Double Road, whiteBOX, Munich, Germany
2017 Common Ground #3, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany (curated by Rebecca John)
2017 ARCADE, Klara Kiss Zip Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 Material Light, Mill Hall, Mattanchery, Kerala, India (curated by Allan Parker)
2017 #exstrange, e-Bay, online (curated by Marialaura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak)
2016 3BHK, Home Sweet Home, Heritage Apartments, Fort Cochin, India
2016 Document V, The Luminary, St.Louis, USA (curated by Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally)
2016 Edit 4, CEMA Gallery, Srishti Old Campus, Yelahanka New Town, India
2016 A Bit to Eat, Taste of India Restaurant, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Common Ground #2, Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India (curated by Rebecca John)
2015 Templates for Everyone, We’ll Figure It Out, Yelahanka New Town, India
2015 Where the Heart Is, Home Sweet Home, Bangalore, India
2014 The C(h)roma Show, Croma Store, Bangalore, India (curated by Tara Kelton and Marialaura Ghidini)
2014 Now Showing, Rex Theatre, Bangalore, India (curated by Matt Lee and Smriti Mehra)
2013 Lost Thoughts and Found Ideas, G.159, Yelahanka New Town, India
2012 GenNext VI, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
SCREENINGS
2023 Record Store Day, The Courtyard, Bangalore, India (curated by Boo! Ya Watching)
2022 We are the Aliens we are Looking for, 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India (curated by Tasneem Lohani)
2021 from cinema, online (curated by Artists in (R)evolution Collective)
2020 Cinemagora, UNI, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 06/02/20, Kinoclub Fallow, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2016 Self as Document, Srishti Grad Show, Bangalore, India
RESIDENCIES
2024 Amant Foundation – Studio and Research Residency Program, New York, USA (forthcoming)
2021 Homebound Residency: Digital Communities, Warehouse421, online
2019 ZK/U, Berlin, Germany(supported by Goethe-Institut)
2015 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India
GRANTS
2022 New York University Abu Dhabi - Research Kitchen Grant
2021 Sharjah Art Foundation - FOCAL POINT (for Reliable Copy)
2021 India Foundation for the Arts - Explorations
2020 Rhizome - Info-Wars Microgrant
2020 Experimenter - GENERATOR Cooperative Art Production Fund (with Chinar Shah)
2020 India Foundation for the Arts - Research Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2020 Akar Prakar Contemporary - ArtVarta Publishing Grant (for Reliable Copy)
2017 Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation - Mumbai Art Room Exhibition Grant (with Chinar Shah)
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND WORKSHOPS
2022 What Future Hides at Bikaner House, Take on Art, New Delhi, India (panel)
2022 On G159, LOVER, Pune, India (lecture)
2022 The Age of the Photograph at BTH, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kochi, India (symposium)
2022 Staging the Contemporary, Ishara Art Foundation, online (panel)
2021 FHOT Photobook Lab F21, Paris College of Art, online (lecture)
2021 SECOND(light), Booked: Art Book Pop-Ups, Tai Kwun, online (lecture)
2020 Perspectives on Photobooks, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, online (panel)
2020 Reliable Copy, Guftgu Talk Series, Offset Projects, online (lecture)
2020 Publishing Maneuvers Symposium, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE (seminar)
2019 Publishing in an Expanded Field, Gallery Ark, Baroda, India (lecture)
2019 How to Make Flubber, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, Cyprus (lecture and workshop)
2019 Haleema Hashim's Photographs, Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (lecture)
CURATORIAL
2018 - Reliable Copy (publishing house)
2016 3BHK (exhibition)
2014 Ummijaan: Making Visible a World Within (exhibition)
2013 - 16 G.159 (project space)
WRITING
2023 Interview with Suman Gopinath and Edgar DeMello - Home Sweet Home (forthcoming)
2023 Interview with Sreshta Rit Premnath - Home Sweet Home
2023 Two Poems - ASAP Art
2022 Extensions and Expansions - IDEAS Journal (with Samira Bose and Sarasija Subramanian)
2022 Nostalgia as Special Effects - BOMB (with Anisha Baid)
2021 TP:S3 - HOAX
2021 at the kitchen table (adjust as per taste) - MARCH (with Arushi Vats and Sarasija Subramanian)
2021 Lightning Fast Body Temp. - Tariff Mag
2021 M.K. Stickers - Rhizome
2021 Luminous Enhancement - Photo South Asia
2021 Reliable Display Copy Distribute: Elastic Maneuverings - MARCH (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020 Reliable Display Copy Distribute - BKKABF (with Elaine W. Ho)
2020 Interview with Mario Santanilla - BOMB
2019 Interview with Niclas Östlind and Niyatee Shinde - View: India catalogue, Buchhandlung Walther König
2017 Interviewed by Charu Maithani - PROPRIOCEPTION
2017 Lines from Sci-Fi - Poetry Wales Magazine
2016 On the Figuring Out of Things - Temporary Art Review
2015 Exhibition Review: Drive by Video - Temporary Art Review
2015 Interview with Suresh Jayaram - Temporary Art Review
2015 Untitled Portrait Piece - HOAX
