a gift for khojedition III

18 artists have contributed 5 original signed artworks as

a gift for khoj

5 unique portfolios with 18 original artworks are available*.

DetaIls of DonatIon

the drawing/painting portfolio can be booked on a 50% advance donation. It will be shipped against full payment. shipping costs will be extra.

all donations are exempt from Income tax under 80G (5) (VI) of the Income tax act, 1961.

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acquring & refurbishing the Khoj buildings in Khirkhee. Developing a corpus fund for KHoJ which will allow KHoJ to function independently in the long term.

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*The portfolio of original artworks may not be sold until December 31, 2013

adip Dutta

aditya pande

archana Hande

ashim purkayastha

Debnath Basu

Gargi raina

Hema Upadhyay

Imran Qureshi

Jagannath panda

Madhvi parekh

Manisha parekh

Manu parekh

prajakta potnis

paula sengupta

reena saini Kallat

rohini Devasher

sarnath Banerjee

Vasudha thozhur

contributing artists

Drawings from Khasta Katha, adapted from plebian, salacious literature

adip Dutta

Adip Dutta was born in 1970. He received a Bachelor’s and Master degree from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He is currently a member of Faculty of Visual Arts at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He also received the Rabindra Bharati Annual Exhibition Award for Sculpture (1998, 2000) and the Charles Wallace Scholarship (2002). His public installation Celestial Angels was installed in New Delhi at IGI Airport Metro Link (2010). His works have been exhibited in shows, group and individual in London, USA and India. The artist lives and works in Kolkata.

brush & ink on paper, silk screen | 12” x 9” | 2011

Untitled

aditya pande

Aditya Pande was born in 1976. He graduated from the National Institute of Design in 2005. His solo exhibitions include a show at Alexia Goethe Gallery, London in collaboration with Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi (2009) and at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai (2008). He has also exhibited in group shows around the world in New York, Berlin, Spain, Switzerland & Shanghai among others. Aditya lives and works in New Delhi, India.

ball pen on paper | 13” x 13” | 2011

“Bambaiya”

archana Hande

Archana Hande, born 1979, lives and works out of Bangalore and Mumbai. She has a B.F.A from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and an M.F.A from M. S. University, Baroda. She is recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Award in 2000. Hande has had solo exhibitions at Z2O/Sara Zanin Gallery in Rome, Gallery Chemould and Lakeeren in Mumbai and Nature Morte & JNU in Delhi amongst others. Her works have also been in important group shows like Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea; Guangzhou Triennial, China; NIFCA, Helsinki. Her project www.arrangeurownmarriage.com, a web and installation project that investigates the Institution of arranged marriages within traditional societal structures is particularly noteworhty. She has been part of the World Social Forum as an organizer.

painted woodcut on cloth 100% cotton | 12”x 12” | 2011

Untitled

ashim purkaystha

Ashim Purkaystha was born in Digboi, Assam. He received a Masters from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 1987-92 Bachelors from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. He has been awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 2004, New York, USA and 2001 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada. He has exhibited solo shows across the country. He has had several group shows in India as well as Italy, Melbourne, Dubai, Bangladesh. Ashim Lives and works in New Delhi.

watercolour on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

Untitled

Debnath Basu

Debnath Basu was born 1961, in West Bengal. He obtained his bachelor and masters both from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Select Solo Exhibitions include 2007 Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto 1995 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. He has also shown in several group shows across the country. Debnath lives and works in Howrah, West Bengal.

industrial graphite powder on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

Instruments of precision & persuasion

Gargi raina

Gargi Raina was born 1961 in New Delhi. She has received her Master’s from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat and Bachelors from The College of Arts, New Delhi. Her most recent solo show was held in 2007 at Bodhi Art, New Delhi, she has also held several solo shows in Mumbai and Vadodara. She has exhibited widely in group shows in India and abroad. She was at a residency at Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan in 2002. Gargi lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat.

gouache on paper | 7” x 10” | 2011

Untitled

Hema Upadhyay

Hema Upadhyay was born in 1972, Baroda, India. She did her B. F. A. (Painting) and her M. F. A. (Print Making) both from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. Her most recent solo exhibition was in 2010 at the Studio la Città, in Verona, she has also held solos in India as well as Rome and Singapore among others. She has exhibited across the globe in Paris, Helsinki, Stockholm, Nagoya, Oslo, London,New York and others. Hema Lives and works in Mumbai.

acrylic, gouache and photographs on printed acid free paper 12” x 12.5” | 2011

Untitled

Imran Qureshi

Muhammad Imran Qureshi was born in 1972 in Pakistan. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan. He was a artists in residence at the Liverpool School of Arts, John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2001) and at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2001). He has exhibited widely across the world in London, USA, France, Germany, Australia, India & Pakistan amongst many more. He was recently the prize winning artists at the Sharjah Biennale in 2010.

ink on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

Metropolis of Mirage

Jagannath panda

Jagannath Panda was born in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in sculpture at the B. K. College of Arts and Crafts (1991), and his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda (1994). He served as a visiting researcher at the Fukuoka University of Education, Fukuoka, Japan, 1997 and also completed another master’s degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, 2002. Panda has had solo shows at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, 2007; Berkeley Square Gallery and Saffronart Online, London, 2006; Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2005 and Zamoca Foundation Gallery, Tokyo, 1998 among many others. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

mixed media collage | 12” x 8.5” | 2011

Drawing 1,2,3,4,5

Madhvi parekh

Madhvi Parekh was born in Sanjaya, a village in Gujarat (1942). Madhvi Parekh reflects her rural influences in her stylized folk art. A self- taught artist, Madhvi’s work has its inspiration in rural India, while her style is contemporary. Influenced by artists such as Paul Klee and Clemente, her subjects have a freshness and spontaneity to them which lend it a surreal, dreamlike quality. She has been exhibiting her work since 1972, all over the world and has more close to a hundred solo and group shows to her credit.

pen & ink on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

through the Key-Hole 1,2,3,4,5

Manisha parekh

Manisha Parekh was born in 1964. She received a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Painting from M.S. University, Baroda and a Master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. Having exhibited widely across the world, she is also a recipient of the Erasmus Award - Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany in 1993; the Lalit Kala Akademi Award in Printmaking in 1991; and an INLAKS Foundation Scholarship. Her work is represented in several public and private collections including the Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad; INLAKS Foundation, London; Royal College of Art, London; Peabody-Essex Museum, Boston; and the Jehangir Nicolson Collection, Mumbai. Manisha lives and works in New Delhi.

graphite on fabriano paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

Image 1,2,3,4,5

Manu parekh

Manu Parekh was born in 1939 in Gujarat. He completed a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1962. Manu Parekh’s early work explored the relationships between man and nature, his colors and forms exude a volatile energy that can barely be contained within the confines of his canvas, and become an extension of the artist’s personality. He has exhibited widely in India and across the globe. Parekh was awarded the President of India’s Silver Plaque in 1972; and the Padma Shree from the Government of India in 1992. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

acrylic on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

cobwebs 1,2,3,4,5

prajakta potnis

Prajakta Potnis was born in 1980 in Thane and completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Art from the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai. She has participated in several group shows, the more recent ones being at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi,2007; Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2007; Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, 2007; Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2007 among others. In 2003-04, Potnis received the Inlaks Fine Arts Award, and in 2001-03, she was awarded a Young Artist Scholarship by the Department of Culture of the Government of India. Prajakta Potnis lives and works in Mumbai.

acrylic on paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

for one month only…1,2,3,4,5

paula sengupta

Dr. Paula Sengupta was born in 1967 and is an artist, academician, and writer. Educated in painting and printmaking at the College of Art, New Delhi and at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, Dr. Sengupta has a doctorate in the history of Indian printmaking from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. She currently teaches printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and has also been associated with the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata in the past. She is Secretary of the Khoj International Artist’s Association, Kolkata. She exhibits, writes, lectures, and travels extensively in India and abroad. Dr. Sengupta lives and works in Kolkata, India.

watercolour & archival ink on canson paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

siltscape

reena saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat was born 1973, Delhi, India and graduated from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, 1996 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has exhibited in a number of important venues such as the Kennedy Centre, Washington; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Essl Museum, Vienna; Helsinki City Art Museum; Kulturhuset, Stockholm and Goteborg Konsthalle, Sweden; Saatchi Gallery, London; SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; MOCA Shanghai; IVAM Museum, Spain; Cultural Centre, Chicago ; ZKM in Karlsruhe amongst many others. The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.

mixed media on korean paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

‘Untitled’ from the Genus series

rohini Devasher

Rohini Devasher obtained a M.A. from Winchester School of Art, U.K. and B.F.A. College of Art, New Delhi. She has been part of residencies at Khoj and Sarai in India and Kenya, London, Glasgow, Cambridge abroad. She has exhibited widely across the country and in Poland, Lyon, London, Taipei, Basel, Berlin, Kenya and Edinburgh among others. She was awarded the Inlaks Fine Art award in 2007 and 2008. Rohini lives and works in New Delhi.

acrylic, colour pencil, archival pigment print on hahnemuhle museum etching paper | 13” x 13” | 2011

Harappa file series 1,2,3,4,5

sarnath Banerjee

Sarnath Banerjee studied Biochemistry and later received an MA in Image and communication from Goldsmiths College. He wrote graphic novels, ‘Corridor’ and ‘Barn Owl’s wondrous Capers’, on the scandals of 18th century Calcutta, both published by Penguin India, and Denoel, France. His recent book The Harappa files is published by Harper Collins. He has received several awards such as the MacArthur fellowship, Indian foundation for Arts, Egide bursary in Paris. He has been a fellow of the Institute of Advanced studies, Budapest and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Sarnath Banerjee’s works has been exhibited at The Sao Paolo Bienal, Arco in Madrid and Frieze in London, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Centre Pompidou and FIAC, Paris.

pen, ink, coloured pencil and watercolour | 12” x 12” | 2011

the anatomy of celebration/ the Monsoon in Kerela

Vasudha thozhur

Vasudha Thozhur is a painter based in Baroda. She was born in Mysore in 1956 and studied at the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, and the School of Art and Design, Croydon, UK. Besides participating in exhibitions in the country and abroad, she is visiting faculty at MS University Baroda, NID Ahmedabad and IICD Jaipur. She has received grants from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, supporting a research project, ‘The Himmat Workshops’in collaboration with Himmat, an activist organization based in Ahmedabad. Among other things, the project looked at ways of rooting art practice in ground and other realities as experienced in India. She is currently working towards a comprehensive exhibition of the output. Other interests include writing and music; text, both written and spoken, is incorporated in various ways into her practice.

acrylic on saunders/waterford paper | 12” x 12” | 2011

KHoJ. (to) search, hunt, explore, discover, discern, seek, inquire, trace, track, quest, research, investigate.

KHoJ began as a proposition: a space for artists, run by artists.

from its modest beginnings 13 years ago as an annual workshop, it has grown into a unique independent space for the incubation of ideas. a space where vibrant imaginations are nurtured. Khoj has created unconventional synapses between art and disciplines such as science, technology, architecture and fashion. It is constantly expanding the understanding and development of cutting edge contemporary art practice in India. an organization that works with, and for, creative practitioners across disciplines.

through a variety of projects including workshops, residencies, exhibitions, talks and public and socially engaged practices, KHoJ studios has catalysed a community of artists into networks across India, and actively developed the south asia network for the arts.

KHoJ has supported the experimentation of many leading artists well before they went on to receive international acclaim.

over 200 Indian and 400 international artists from countries such as afghanistan, Brazil, cuba, Uganda, Kenya, turkey, Japan, china, Indonesia, sri lanka, south africa, Zimbabwe, thailand, Korea, the UK, Germany, france, Mexico and america have been through KHoJ.

KHoJ facilitates change by engaging artists and audiences in vital concerns such as ecology, sustainability and public engagement. a vanguard of the vital optimism that is shaping contemporary India, KHoJ is creating a legacy for the future.

KHoJ International artists’ association was established in 1997 and is a registered society under the Indian societies registration act, 1860

KHoJ International artists associations-17, Khirkee extension, new Delhi – 110017www.khojworkshop.org | interact@khojworkshop.org

our governing board

amar Kanwar

anita Dube, founding member

arun Kumar

Bharti Kher, founding member, chairperson

Manisha parekh, founding member

pooja sood, founding member, director

rahul srivastava

subodh Gupta, founding member

Urvashi Butalia