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Featured in Publications
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Education:

  • B. A. Columbia College, Columbia University, 1980
  • Columbia University, New York, Department of Art, 1975 – 1980
  • Parson School of Art, New York, 1985 – 1987
  • School of Visual Arts, New York, 1989 – 1991
  • Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Berlin, 1991 – 1993


    Awards / Grants:
  • Weir Farm Trust Grant: Painting, 2006
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Painting 2005-06
  • Vermont Studio Center: Full Fellowship, 2005
  • Vermont Studio Center Residency: Full Fellowship, 2002
    (The Institute for Civil Society Award)



Exhibitions / Installations:

    2024:

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, Group Show "Alright Alright Alright", August 2 - September 22, 2024

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, Group Show "Summer Games", June 28 - July 28, 2024

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, Group Show, May 24 - June 23, 2024

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, Soho (New York City), Group Show: "Godzilla. Echos from the 1990s. Asian American Artists", January 2024 - March 2024


    2023:

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, Soho (New York City), Group Show, September 2023 - October 2023

  • Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, Group Show, August 2023 - September 2023


    • 2020-2022:
    I have been very busy working on two large hotel design projects in Sri Lanka these past 1-2 years, since I am also an architect. Once these projects are finalized, I will come back to my art, full-time.

    2019:

  • St. Lukes Hospital, New York City, Solo Show, New OutPatient Clinic Lobby, February 2019 - Permanent Lobby Exhibition

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    • 2018:

  • Group Show at the Viridian Artists Contemporary Art Gallery | New York City, NY: "29th Annual Juried Exhibition", June 19 - July 14, 2018.

  • Group Show at the 6 Bridges Gallery in Maynard, MA: "The Power of Art", July 10 – August 11, 2018.

  • Group Show at the Charles H. Wright African American Museum in Detroit, MI: "i found god in myself: 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls...", January 15, 2018-April 27, 2018.

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    2017:

  • Solo Show at the Windows on Amsterdam Gallery | City College of New York in New York, NY: "Splitting Image", November 5, 2017 - April 2018.

  • Group Show at the City Without Walls Gallery in Newark, NJ: "i found god in myself: 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls...", October 2017.

  • Group Show at the Museum of African Amercan Culture in Houston, TX: "i found god in myself: 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls...", March 10-April 15, 2017.

  • Group Show at the Jewish Community Center, Harlem, Jan. 2017


    • 2016:

  • Solo Show "I AM A GOD" ("Mythomania"), November 16 – January 2017; OPENING RECEPTION: November 16 from 5:00-9:30PM at the Art In FLUX storefront gallery, 163 Malcolm X Blvd. between 118 and 119th Streets, NYC.

  • Group Show at the Museum Of African American Art in Philadelphia, PA: "i found god in myself: 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls...", November 2016.

  • Solo Show at the Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion, Columbia University, NYC, November 5, 2016 - February 10, 2017.\

  • "Home is where", Group Show at the West Windsor Arts Center, NJ (952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction). Jul 11 - Sep 10, 2016.

  • IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art (Group Show) at The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminister, NJ. , March 17 - April 15, 2016.

  • Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Residence Exhibition Preview + Art Connects NY's Spring Benefit: June 09, 2015, 6pm to 9pm: Gallery Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (529 W. 20th Street, Suite 6W, Chelsea) – Group Show (Commissioned Works) Engaging Artists, at the Queens Museum, NY, organized by MoreArts. Feb 07 - Feb 27, 2016.

    • 2015:

  • Flux Fair Harlem: May 14-17, 2015: fluxfair.nyc

  • Harlem EatUp, NYC, May 14-17, 2015: harlemeatup.com

  • (RE)VISIONS (Curated by the School of Visual Arts Masters in Curatorial Practice; show at 1199 First Avenue, NYC). April 9 - April 27, 2015 (Group show).

  • Direct Current: PointB Worklodge Group Show, Opening: April 26, show from April 22 - May 27, 2015. 71 North 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Consistent Change (Aloft Hotel Lobby & Lounge, 2296 Frederick Douglass Blvd., at 124th St., NYC). March 18 - May 1, 2015 (Group show).

  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, NY (515 Malcolm X Boulevard), October 3, 2014 - January 2015: "Celebrating the 40th Anniverseary of NTOZAKE SHANGE’S "For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf" (Group show).



    • 2014:

  • The Sol Studio (2073 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Bldv.; between 123rd and 124th St.): September 10, 2014 - December 2014: I found god in myself (Group show)
  • OPTIONAL ALLUSIONS (Aloft Hotel Lobby & Lounge, 2296 Frederick Douglass Blvd., at 124th St., NYC). September - December 2014 (Group show).
  • Whittier Center, Roxbury, MA from April 5 to April 30, 2014. Group Show "Transcending Spiritual Boundings".



    • 2013:

  • General Electric Company Gallery at GE's Fairfield, CT corporate headquarters from June 24, 2013 - August 23, 2013. Group Show "Pride and Progress".
  • Strivers Gardens Gallery (300 West 135th Street), NY, NY - Group Show "Motown to Def Jam". See Uday's artwork here. Watch his interview during a preview, by harleminterviews.com. June/July 2013.
  • LeRoy Nieman Art Center (New York, NY): Group Show "Lasting Legacy"; February 27-April 10, 2013
  • 2012/2013: Gallery Art&Soul (Mumbai, India): December 17, 2012 until Jan. 17, 2013 (click to see the images)


    2012:

  • 2012: Pen Club Gallery (Budapest, Hungary): August 24- September 16, 2012, Group Show (3 works on paper);
  • 2012: art6 (Richmond, Virginia): August 2012, Group Show ("Erasing Borders": IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2012);
  • 2012: Crossing Art Gallery (Queens, New York): March 17 - April 20, 2012, Group Show ("Erasing Borders": IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2012 - Painting; 62" x 48" );
  • 2012: CUNY (City University of New York; Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall): March 22, 2012; Video installations accompanying violonist Karen Rostron (in cooperation with Aika "aica" Kumatani and Hiroshi Kumatani);
  • 2012: Visual Arts Gallery (New Delhi, India): Jan. 24 - Feb. 02, 2012, Group Exhibition: "Adbhutam – rasa in Indian Art".
  • 2012: Figment (Governor's Island, NY), 9-10 June, 2012: "Trees R US" (Installation)

    • 2011:

  • CIMA Gallery (Kolkata, Calcutta, India): Dec. 2 - Dec. 31, 2011, Group Exhibition: "Adbhutam – rasa in Indian Art".
  • Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut: Sept. 19 - Dec. 09, 2011, Group Exhibition (IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011);
  • Aicon Gallery, Manhattan, NoHo: August 16 - Sept. 03, 2011, Group Exhibition (IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011);
  • CIMA Gallery (Kolkata/Calcutta, India): Summer Show (June/July 15, 2011), Group Exhibition;
  • Queens Museum of Art: March 19 - April 10, 2011, Group Exhibition (IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011);
  • Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University: April 23 - May 27, 2011, Group Exhibition (IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011);


    Before 2011:
  • Solo exhibition: Visual Arts Gallery (India Habitat Centre), New Delhi, India, December 2010  (Presented by Galleria, New Delhi)
  • Figment, Art Installation, Governor's Island, NY, June 2009
  • Group Exhibition: Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India, February 2007
  • Group Exhibition: Unesco Conference Exhibition, Bali, Indonesia, January 2007
  • Group Exhibition: Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary, Summer 2005
  • Group Exhibition: Arpad Gallery, Balatonfüred, Hungary, Summer 2004
  • Group Exhibition: "Prism", Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, Summer 2003
  • Group Exhibition: "ArtWallah 2002", ArtShare, Los Angeles, Spring 2002
  • Group Exhibition: "alienNation", Harbourside Gallery, Toronto, Summer 2001
  • Group Exhibition: "ArtWallah 2001", ArtShare, Los Angeles, Spring 2001
  • Group Exhibition: "Diasporadics", Riverside Church, New York, Summer 2000
  • Solo exhibition: "Jungli Beauties", Burgh House Gallery, London, U.K, Spring 2000
  • Solo exhibition: "Divide Paintings", Galerie Ost-Art, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1997
  • Solo exhibition: New paintings, Galerie 7 Raben, Berlin, Germany, 1993
  • Group Exhibition: "Artists of Color fight AIDS", Art in General Gallery, New YorkCity, 1991
  • Group Exhibition: "Artists against AIDS", Clinton Street Gallery, New York City, 1989

Art Works Featured in Publications:

Residencies:

  • The Corporation at Yaddo, Fall 2006
  • Weir Farm Trust, Fall 2006
  • Macdowell Residency, Spring 2006
  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Spring 2005
  • Triangle Arts Association Workshop, Dumbo, Brooklyn, October 2004
  • Hungarian Multicultural Center, Balatonfüred, Hungary, June 2004
  • Caldera, Sisters, Oregon, April 2004
  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Spring 2002
  • Sumei Multicultural Art Center, Newark, NJ ,Spring 2002


    Other:
  • Drawing Center, New York, NY, Selection for the Slide Registry, 2005 – 2011

 

 

 

 

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