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Vivek Vilasini

Born 1964, Trishur, Kerala

All India Marine College, Kochi (1984)

Lives and works in Kochi, Kerala and Abu Dhabi, UAE

Select Solo Exhibitions

2023

  • Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi

2021

  • VHC Gallery, Pune

2018

  • Gallery Sakshi at the Art Basel, Hong Kong

  • Between One shore and Several Others, Gallery 1x1, Dubai

2014

  • ".... and for those sing their national anthem in somebody else's mother tongue", Sakhshi Gallery, Mumbai

2011

  • Between One shore and Several Others, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

  • Gallery Sumukha at the Delhi Art Summit 2011

2010-2001

  • Between One Shore and Several Others (series shown at multiple venues):

    • Pundole Gallery, Mumbai (2010)
    • Birds Gallery, Trivandrum (2009)
    • Arushi Gallery, New Delhi (2008
    • Sumukha Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi; curated by Dr. Alka Pande (2007)
    • Lalit Kala Academy, Kochi (2001)

Select Group Exhibitions

2025

  • Dialogues Across Time, Indian Museum Kolkata
  • Expanding Horizons, Bikaner House, Delhi
  • Body Transformed, Smithsonian Museum, USA

2024

  • All is Flux, Nothing Stays Still, Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi

  • Presence of Absence in Man, Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, Durbar Hall

  • Soil Assembly, World Biodiversity Forum, Zurich

2023

  • In the Dusky Path of a Dream, Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi

  • Keraleeyam, Trivandrum

  • Soil Assembly, Kochi

2022

  • Laughing in the Vernacular, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore

  • Only Constant, NYU Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi

2021

  • Lokame Tharavadu, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Alappuzha & Ernakulam

  • Clarinda Carnegie Museum, Iowa, USA

2019–2005

  • Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2019)
  • Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore (2019)
  • But You Cannot See Them, NYU Abu Dhabi (2017)
  • Sub-Plots: Laughing in the Vernacular, NGMA Mumbai, curated by Meena Vari (2017)
  • Homage Without a Homage, Dubai Art Fair (2017)
  • Indian Highway, MAXXI Rome; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; HEART Herning, Denmark (2009–2013)
  • City Dwellers, Seattle Art Museum (2014)
  • Mystique, CGAC Spain (2013)
  • Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi – Time Unfolded (2013)
  • Prague Biennale 5, Czech Republic (2013)
  • Side by Side, CCBB Brazil (2013)
  • Against All Odds, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (2013)
  • Material Texts, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi (2009)

Earlier Exhibitions (2004–1996)

  • Sharjah Biennale (1997, 1999)
  • Alliance Française and Sharjah Art Museum group shows, UAE (1996–1998)
  • Public Places, Private Spaces, Newark Museum (2007)
  • Saptarishi: Encounter with Steel, The Stainless Gallery, Delhi (2007)
  • Arts for Peace, Hera Gallery, Rhode Island (2007)

Residencies & Camps

2019 – RMZ Sculpture Camp, Bangalore

2018 – RMZ National Printmaking Camp, Bangalore

2017 – Residency, Maraya Art Foundation, Sharjah

2010 – Indo-ASEAN Artists’ Residency

2006 – JINDAL Sculpture Camp (Saptarishi)

Talks & Presentations

2019 – Art After The Collapse, Dartington Trust, UK

2018 –
  • Art Basel Conversations, Hong Kong
  • Printmaking in Changing Times, NGMA, India
  • Hassan Sharif Symposium, Sharjah Art Foundation

2017 – ArtPort: Good Food India, TBA21–Academy, Kerala

2009 – Guest Speaker, Chicago Art Fair

Education Outreach & Academic Engagement

  • Faculty (Visiting): NIFT Bangalore, Srishti Manipal Institute

  • Guest Speaker: NID Ahmedabad, Kaladi Sri Shankaracharya University, RLV College Tripunithara

  • Jury Member: Various institutions and foundations across India

Awards

  • 2024 – Artist Award, The Guild, Abu Dhabi

  • 1999 – Jury Award, Sharjah Biennale

Collections & Recognition

Vilasini’s works are held in major institutional and private collections, including:

  • Smithsonian Museum
  • Kadist Foundation
  • 21c Museum Hotel
  • Royal Ontario Museum
  • RMZ Foundation
  • Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
  • Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore
  • Singapore Art Museum
  • Hermes Collection
  • Arco Foundation, Spain
    • His works have also appeared in auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips de Pury.

Books & Publications

Image Studies: Theory and Practice, By Sunil Manghani

But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988–2008

A survey of the UAE's avant-garde artistic movement of the 1980s

ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (vol. 24, no. 1), 2013

Journal – January 1, 2013

Le Christ au miroir de la photographie contemporaine

Alphil, 2016

Atopia: Art i ciutat al segle XXI / Arte y ciudad en el siglo XXI

Published by: CCCB

Contact

Vivek Vilasini, #7A, Chakolas Lakeside Apartment, Edakochi, Kochi – Kerala, India