Talwar Gallery

{{Short description|Contemporary art gallery}}

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{{Infobox museum

| name = Talwar Gallery

| image = Arpita_Singh_-_Tying_down_time_-_Installation.jpg

| caption = Arpita Singh, Tyding Down Time, Talwar Gallery, New York, 2017

| type = Art gallery

| established = 2001

| owner = Deepak Talwar

| website = {{URL|talwargallery.com}}

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Talwar Gallery, founded by Deepak Talwar, is a contemporary art gallery that opened in New York City in September 2001 and in New Delhi in 2007.{{Cite web|title=Home - Talwar Gallery|url=https://www.talwargallery.com/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=www.talwargallery.com}} The institution primarily represent artists from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora, including Rummana Hussain, Nasreen Mohamedi, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Allan deSouza, Alia Syed, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Muhanned Cader, N. N. Rimzon, Kartik Sood, Sheila Makhijani, and Paramjit Singh.{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}}File:Nasreen Mohamedi, Becoming One (Exhibition View).jpg

Talwar New York

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Since opening in September 2001, Talwar Gallery NY has presented the first solo exhibitions of artists that have since been the focus of major museum exhibitions and collections.

Talwar Gallery presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–90) in 2003. It was Mohamedi's first solo exhibition outside India and the first ever of her photographs. The Gallery presented Mohamedi again in 2008 and 2013 in two solo exhibitions. Later in 2016, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York presented Mohamedi’s work as their inaugural solo exhibition at The MET Breuer.{{cite web |title=Nasreen Mohamedi |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/nasreen-mohamedi |website=www.metmuseum.org |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=16 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204215631/https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/nasreen-mohamedi |archive-date=February 4, 2016 |language=en |date=18 March {{ndash}} 5 June 2016 |url-status=live}}

Talwar NY also presented the first solo exhibition in the US of Ranjani Shettar in 2004. Since then, Shettar has been the subject of solo exhibitions at ICA Boston (2008),{{cite web|url=https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/momentum-10-rajani-shettar |accessdate=2019-11-20|title=Momentum 10: Rajani Shettar }} The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2008),{{cite web|url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/past/focus-ranjani-shettar/1105 | title=FOCUS: Ranjani Shettar |accessdate=2019-11-20}} The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009),{{cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/new-work-ranjani-shettar/|accessdate=2019-11-20|title=New Work Ranjani Shettar}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018),{{cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/ranjani-shettar\accessdate=2019-11-20|title=Ranjani Shettar: Seven ponds and a few raindrops}} The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019).{{cite web|url=https://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2019-05-16-intersections-ranjani-shettar|date=2019-05-16|accessdate=2019-11-20|title=Intersections: Ranjani Shettar}}

Publications

  • 2021: Alwar Balasubramaniam, BALA, text by Vesela Sretenović, Alwar Balasubramaniam, and Deepak Talwar
  • 2019: Arpita Singh, Tying down time, text by Ella Datta and Deepak Talwar
  • 2017: Ranjani Shettar, Between the sky and earth, text by Catherine deZegher, Ranjani Shettar, Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery
  • 2009: Nasreen Mohamedi, the grid, unplugged, text by Geeta Kapur, Deepak Talwar, Anders Kreuger, John Yau, Talwar Gallery
  • 2009: Alwar Balasubramaniam, (In)between, text by Deepak Talwar, Talwar Gallery
  • 2008: Allan deSouza, A Decade of Photoworks, texts by Allan deSouza, Eve Oishi, Moi Tsien, Luis Francia, Steven Nelson, Talwar Gallery
  • 2005: Nasreen Mohamedi, Lines Among Lines, Drawing Papers 52, texts by Geeta Kapur, Susette Min, Drawing Center
  • 2005: (Desi)re, Talwar Gallery, 2005

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