Baiju Parthan, born in 1956, has completed his under-graduation in Painting from Goa, along with BSc in Botany and Masters in Philosophy and Post graduate Diploma in Comparative Mythology, Mumbai University.
Baiju is an inter-media art practitioner and his work range from paintings to digital based video installation, Lenticular prints and he also lectures, writes & publishes on art, philosophy & mythology.
He has widely exhibited in India and abroad, some of his selected solo exhibitions includes, *Ray Trace*, Lenticular prints at Art Musing, Mumbai, 2018; *Necessary Illusions: paintings, video installations & Lenticular prints*, organized by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2016; *ReCursor (3)*, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, 2015; *ReCursor*, Video installations & Lenticular prints at Gallery Veda, Chennai & Gallery OED, Kochi, 2013 & 2012; *Displacement-Mill Junction Part 2*, paintings & photo works, AICON Gallery, London, 2011; *Mill Junction*, paintings & photo works, AICON Gallery, New York, 2010; *Liquid Memory + Rant*, Inter-media show, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007; *New Media prints*, The Guild Gallery, Mumbai, 2005; Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2002, *Looking Back*, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, 1999.
His new-media projects and installations has been showcased at Arpeggio for Abbe Faria, Photo installation, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2017; *Variable Operatives:* Duo show with Prayas Abhinav, video installation & Lenticular prints, The Guild, Mumbai, 2012; *Syncytium/Cosmopolis Installation – Living off the Grid*, curated by Meera Menezes, Anant Art, New Delhi, 2009; *Third Life*, Bombay Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2008; *Liquid Memory: New Media Installation*, Christian Hosp Galleries, Nassereith, Austria; *Flow: Instant Karma Algorithm*, interactive video data projection, *New Moves International Live Art Festival*, Glasgow, UK, 2004; *CODE – Interactive digital Installation – Zoom, Art in Contemporary India* Culturegest, Portugal, 2004; *Feed- what you see is what you get*, Interactive video data projection, Khoj International Artist’s camp, Bangalore, 2003; *Necessary Illusions with 24 cups of coffee*, Interactive projection, New moves International Live Art Festival, Glasgow, 2002; *Leap into & Across*, Video installation, collaborative work with a particle physicist, Tata Theatre, Mumbai, 2001; *The Crossing*, site specific installation, Army & Navy Building Foyer, Mumbai, 2000; *Brahma’s Homepage*, Interactive Digital Installation, Lakeeren Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1999.
Selected group exhibitions are *Sculpsit: Between Thought & Action*, Guild Gallery, Mumbai & Sunaparanta, Goa, 2019; *The Material Eye*, curated by Meena Vari, Gallery Sumukha, Mumbai, 2018; *The Journey is the Destination*, Jehangir Nicholson Foundation Gallery, CSMVS, Mumbai, 2016; *The Eye & the Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art*, China Art Museum Shanghai & Gaungdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, organized by NGMA, Delhi,2014-2015; *50 years of Indian Contemporary*, curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Prescott, Mumbai, 2013; *India!*, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, 2011; *Go See India*, Vasa Konsthall, Sweden, 2010; *Indian Contemporary*, Benedictine Museum, France, 2009; *Beyond Globalization, Pan Asian Contemporary Show*, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, 2009; *Ghost of Souza*, Aicon Gallery, New York, 2008; *101 Contemporary*, Tokyo, Japan, 2008; *Aparanta*, Contemporary Art in Goa, Panjim, 2007; *Altered Realities*, with Shibu Natesan & Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Arts India, New York, 2006; *Kaam*, Gallery Artsindia, New York, 2005; *Paths of Progression*, Bodhi Art, Singapore, 2005; *Art on Paper*, Royal College of Art, London, 2003; *Alchemy: Contemporary Indian and British Art*, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, 2002; *Indian Contemporary Art*, by Saffronart.com & Apparao Galleries, USA, 2001; *Art & Technology – The Magazine Show*, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2000; *Icons of the Millennium* at Nehru Centre, Lakeeren Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2000; *Images & Ideas*, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 1999; *50 Years of Indian Contemporary Art*, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1997; *Four Visions*, The Gallery, Hong Kong, 1996; *Within the Frame, Indian Contemporary Art*, Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1996; *Duo Show*, Sarina Tang Gallery, New York, 1995.
Baiju lives and works in Mumbai.
