Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta recently received international attention in the iconic Younger Than Jesus New Museum show this year. This is the artist’s first solo museum show. Melding new work with signature pieces from her young career, the exhibition features work that respond directly to the architecture of Zaha Hadid and the Cincinnati community. Utilizing technology, Gupta blurs the line between art gallery and arcade, but using elegant visual poetry to pose difficult questions, she creates work that communicates with our deepest sensibilities. Her work is meant to be activated, and viewers are meant to be participants in many pieces. In the ‘Shadow’ series Gupta forms a world through video projection in which the shadows of visitors can interact directly with her imagery; windows can be opened, birds fly by, and debris falls from the sky. Much of the artist’s work exists within what she calls the “non-space of information,” a genre somewhere between reality TV, computer games and virtual Internet sites.
Born in 1972, Gupta lives and works in Mumbai. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery in London, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary in Berlin, Mori Museum in Tokyo, Queens Museum in New York, Tamayo Museum in Mexico City and Chicago Cultural Center. She is currently included in The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at New Museum in New York.