Bio-data Baiju Parthan - 2009

Name BAIJU PARTHAN
Place of Birth-Kerala, INDIA
Currently lives andworks in Mumbai (Bombay)

EDUCATION

Bachelors Degree in Painting -B.F.A

Postgraduate Diploma -Comparative Mythology

Bachelors Degree Botany -B.Sc.

Master of Arts Philosophy-MA

NEWMEDIA PROJECTS & INSTALLATIONS

2008-RORSCHACH BREATH -Dual Channel Video-( Mechanisms of Motion) Anant Gallery,
New Delhi,( Third life) Bombay Art Gallery Mumbai

2007-LIQUID MEMORY new media Installation-Christian Hosp Galleries, Nassereith,
Austria

2005-NRLA – Live Art Festival , Midland, Perth , Australia

2004 -FLOW-Instant Karma Algorithm-Interactive video data projection, New moves
International Live Art Festival, Glasgow-UK

2004-Zoom ! Art in Contemporary India, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal2004 -Along the X axis: video art from India and Pakistan -Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi

2003-FEED-What You See Is What You Get-Interactive video data projection-Khoj
International artists camp, Bangalore, India

2002-Diary of the Inner Cyborg, Interactive
projection, 'CODE' Interactive Digital installation-Under Construction-exhibition of Asian Contemporaray art, Organised by Japan Foundation,Tokyo, Japan

2002-NecessaryIllusionswith 24 cups of coffee -Interactive projection, New moves International Live Art Festival, Glasgow-UK

2002-Diary of the Inner Cyborg, Interactive projection, Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Greenwich, London

2002-'CODE' Interactive Digital installation 'Kapital and Karma', Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

2001 -Video Installation-' Leap Into and Across'-Collaborative workwith a Particle physicist. Venue Tata Theatre, Mumbai

2001-Interactive Digital Installation 'Asystole'-A Diary of the Inner Cyborg Version-0.1 The Fine Art Company Gallery, Mumbai

2000-Interactive Digital Installation 'Necessary Illusions With 24Cups of Coffee'at Lakeeren Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai.

2000 -Interactive Digital Installation 'CODE' at National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai.

2000 -Site specific installation 'THE CROSSING' at Army-Navy Building foyer, Kalaghoda Art District, Mumbai.

1999 -Interactive Digital Installation 'BRAHMA'S HOMEPAGE' at Lakeeren Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai.

SELECT SHOWS

2009- Indian Contemporaray- Benedictine Museum, Fecamp, France

2008-Ghost of Souza-Aicon Gallery, New York

2008- Everywhere is war, Bodhi Gallery,Mumbai

2008- 101 Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

2007-Rant+Liquid Memory-Vadehra Art gallery, N. Delhi

2007-Aparanta-Contemporary Art In Goa, Panjim

2006-Altered Realities(Shibu Nateshan, Baiju Parthan, Chiotrovanu Majumdar– Arts India New York

2005-‘ KAAM‘ Gallery Artsindia New York

2005 – ‘Alchemy’ ( Baiju Parthan, Jitish Kallat, Shibu Nateshan, Chitrovanu Majumdar)

2005-Paths of Progression-Bodhi, Singapore2005-Arad biennale , Romania

2003-Art on Paper-Royal College of Art London

2002-Alchemy-Contemporay Indian and British art-Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

2001-Indian Contemporary Art -California , USA, organised by saffronart.com and Apparao Galleries

2000-Sotheby'sArtistoftheYearAwardshow-National GalleryofModernArt,Mumbai

2000-ExileandLonging,Artistsfrom Kerala,Lakeeren Contemporary art Gallery,Mumbai

2000 -Art and Technology 'The magazine show' National gallery of Modern Art Mumbai

2000-Icons of the Millennium –Nehrucentre Mumbai organized by Lakeeren Contemporary Art Gallery, Mumbai

Gallery Mumbai 1999 -9th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh

1999-'ImagesandIdeas'National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai 1997-50YearsofIndian
Contemporary Art Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

1998 -Exhibition of Indian contemporary art 'Gegenwartskunst ausIndien' (The Harsh Goenka collection), Leverkusen, Germany

1996-'WithintheFrame',IndianContemporaryArt,Visual ArtsCentre,HongKong

1996 -'Chamatkara', Indian Contemporary Art, Whiteley'sGallery, London

1996 -Four Visions, The Gallery, Hong Kong

1995 -Duo show -Sarina Tang Gallery, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007- Liquid memory + Rant - Inter-media show Vadehra Gallery New Delhi
2006- Source Code- Large Format paintings- Museum Gallery, Art Musings Gallery, Mumbai
2005- New media prints- The Guild Gallery - Mumbai
2002- Espace Gallery – New Delhi
2002- Fine Art Company- Mumbai
2000- Lakeeren Contemporary Art gallery
1999 - Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore.
1997- Apparao Galleries, Madras.
1996 - Chaze Gallery, Goa.
1995 - Sophia Duchesne Gallery, Mumbai.
1993 - Sophia Duchesne Gallery, Mumbai
1992 - Masterpiece Gallery, N.Delhi.
1992 - Sophia Duchesne Gallery, Mumbai.

Public Lectures / Presentations/Participations

2008- Indian Contemporaray art- new directions-Panel discussion at The Core Club New York
2006- Artist on Art – Talk at Rubin Museum New York, Organized by Art Asia Pacific
2005- New Media Lecture- Fontinhas Culture festival, Goa
2004- Seminar on the status of visual art in Kerala - Kashi art gallery, Cochin, Kerala.
2003- Lecture on new directions in New Media Art- On Invitation from British Council at Sakshi Gallery
Bombay
2003- Lecture on Editorial Art- J.J School of Art Bombay
2003- Panellist- Seminar on Artists and their world views – National Centre for Performing Arts
2003- Presentation Lecture on developments Indian Contemporary Art - IDC - IIT Bombay
2003- Presentation Lecture on Technology and Art - DAIICT- Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat
March 2001 Panellist- Discussion on figuration in Indian Art.--National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay

AWARDS

Goa Lalit Kala Academy award 1981
Goa Lalit kala Academy merit award -1978, 1979, 1980, 1981.

NOMINATIONS

One among the five nomineesforartist of the year2000 award by Sotheby'sof London

RESIDENCY

Residency at Seven degreesgallery Laguna, California.
USA-August-September 2001, Arranged by saffronart and Apparao galleries

PUBLIC LECTURE/PRESENTTION

2004-Seminar on the status of visual art in Kerala-Kashi artgallery,Cochin,Kerala.

2003-Lecture o new directions in NewMediaArt-On Invitation from British Council at Sakshi Gallery Bombay

2003-Lecture on Editorial Art-J.J School of Art Bombay

2003-Panellist-Seminar on Artists and their worldviews–National Centre for Performing Arts

2003-Presentation Lecture on developments Indian Contemporary Art-IDC-IIT Bombay

2003-Presentation Lecture on Technology and Art -DAIICT-Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat

March 2001 Panelist-Discussion on figuration in Indian Art.--National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay

Nov. 2000 Panelist-Discussion on Modernity and despair -National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay

JURY

2003,2004,2005,2006,2008-External examiner/jury for Masters degree in Industrial Design IDC,IIT, Powai .

2005 -2009 Jury member-Promising Artists award instituted by Art India magazine and Habitat Centre Delhi

2009-National Jury -Lalit Kala National exhibition-2009

PUBLICATION

BaijuParthan–A Users Manual by Ranjit Hoskote-Published in 2006 by Afterimage
Publications, Mumbai.

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

1992, November, "Art isthe Transmuted Experience", The Independent, Mumbai ed.
Wednesday November 11, p11

1994, September, "Meetings with the Dead". Metropolison Saturday, Bombay, September3-4, p.20

1995, July, "Seeing the Life Light", Metropolis on Saturday, Bombay,July 29 p.20

1995, November, 'AsTime GoesBy", Metropolison Sunday, Bombay,November.

1995, December, "Flying in Your Sleep", The Metropolis on Saturday, Bombay, December 9, p.20

1996,January,"Sophie in Wonderland",a book review of Jostein Gaarder's Novel on The History of Philosophy, "Sophie'sWorld", The Sunday Review, January28th

1996, May, "Tomorrow'sworld"-a bookreview of NicholasNegroponte's"Being Digital", The Sunday Review, May 12th p.3

1996, May, "The Eureka Experience" The Sunday Review, May, 25th, p.9

1996,June,"SisyphusUrbanus" The Metropolis on Saturday,Mumbai,June22-23,p.22

1996, July, "A Cosmology for the Information Age", The Timesof India, Mumbai, July 10th, p.11

1997, January, "The Riddle of the True Self", The Timesof India, Mumbai, Jan.25th, Mumbai, p.13

1997,September,"From OrdertoChaos",TheTimesofIndia,Mumbai,September,3rd,p.17

1997, December, "The Power of Graphics", Biznet, Mumbai, pp. 30-33

1997, December, 'Tracing the Protean cyber-self', The Timesof India, Mumbai, Dec.22nd, p.11

1998, February, "Internet, the Emerging Noosphere-will Teilhard's Prophesy come True?", Biznet, pp15-18

1998, June, "Sacred landscapes", Humanscape,Vol.V, Issue VI, Mumbai, pp.32-33

1998, June, "Transhumanism-Self Identity in the Cuberage", Biznet, Mumbai, pp.13-17

1998, July, "Getting a Grip on Ourselves", The Timesof India, Mumbai, July 20, p.11

1998, October, "Samadhi and Superconsciousness", Humanscape,Vol.V, Issue X, Mumbai, pp.30-33

1999, February, "Selfhood in the time of Cyborg", The Timesof India, Mumbai, Feb, 13th, pp. 13

1999, February, "Asceticism in the Age of Consumption", Humanscape, Mumbai, pp.14-17

1999, April, "Zen and Art of Resting", Gentleman, pp. 60 -62 1999, April, "Only Connect", The Times of India, Mumbai, April, 14th, p.17

1999, July, "The Lure of Catastrophe", Humanscape,pp.25 2000, October, " Re-telling history" ,

2000 December, "The Artist as He is", Gentleman, pp.73-75 2001, March, "The Act of Seduction", Gentleman, pp.80-82

2001, March, “The Act of Seduction”, Gentleman, pp.80-82

2002,December,“Layersofsignificance”,International Gallerie,pp.21-29

2005-KAAM interviews–Interviews with Ten Indian contemporary artists

2007-Nostrum-catlogue essay, Anant Joshi Exhibition catalogue

2008-Untold stories-Interview of TV Santhosh-Indian Contemporaray artist.