Baiju Parthan

Born in 1956

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.