Jagannath Pandais an eminent artist, artist-curator based in New Delhi, India. He is the founder member and Chairperson of Utsha Foundation. His artistic practice is predominantly rooted in painting and sculpture.
His works explore the relationship between mythology, nature, and the rapidly changing urban landscape. Figures from Hindu mythology and trees with undulating branches often intrude into the ordered grid of the city, reflecting themes of mass migration, the clash between rural and urban societies, and the chain of production and consumption that exists in conflict with the environment.

These dichotomies are central to Jagannath Panda's artistic vision and are expressed through both his imagery and his innovative use of materials.

Solo Exhibitions

Jagannath Panda has exhibited extensively in India and internationally, including solo exhibitions in:

• Tokyo – 1998
• London – 2006, 2009
• Berlin – 2011
• San Francisco – 2012
• Regular solo exhibitions in New Delhi and Mumbai

Selected Museum & Institutional Exhibitions

• Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (1997)
• Royal College of Art, London (2001, 2002)
• Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2008)
• Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2008)
• Essl Museum, Vienna (2009)
• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (2009)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2009)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2010)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2010)
• Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France (2011)
• MAXXI Museum, Rome (2011)
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2012)
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2012)
• National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2013)
• Avatar, Halcyon Gallery, London (2014)
• Crystal Cities, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum (2018)
• Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

Awards & Honours

• National Academy Award – Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (1995)
• All-India Award – South Cultural Centre, Nagpur (1990, 1994)
• Alice Boner Memorial Award (1991)
• C.I.I.C. Centre Prize, London (2002)

Current Practice

Jagannath Panda lives and works in Gurgaon, India, with his family, where he continues to develop a multidisciplinary practice that engages with mythology, ecology, urbanization, and contemporary culture.

Pranati Panda is an Artist based in Delhi. Her art practice predominantly constitutes the connection of her time and love for nature, personal moments, profound feelings and their memories. Provoking grief and menace, Pranati Panda’s paintings are symbolic in their showing of inner feelings and mental disturbances. Her paintings offer meticulous detail, with easy flowing lines and interesting textures and motifs. She often works with mediums like Fabric and thread, as she believes that these materials hold a strong femininity that has been in practice since ages. Through these expressions she celebrates womanhood. The artist has exhibited in various galleries, foundations like Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2020); Vadehra Art Gallery, Gallery Art Positive (2019); Ragini Art Gallery (2018), Concern India Foundation (2016), Religare Art. New Delhi (2012), Red Earth, New Delhi (2011), Art Makers Circa 2010, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, Tangerine Art Space. Bangalore (2010). Pranati Panda’s solo exhibition ‘Speaking Threads’ concluded recently in Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (2020). Pranati Panda lives and works in Gurgaon, with her family.

G Ravinder Reddy is one of the first contemporary Indian artists to draw critical attention in America, followed by his show at Deitch Projects in 2001. Ravinder Reddy's monumental female heads and nudes are among the most visible and recognisable examples of contemporary South Asian Art. He appears in collections such as that of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Frank Cohen Collection, UK; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA; and the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; in addition to attracting attention at various international contemporary art auctions. His solo exhibitions include Grosvenor Vadehra, London; the Deitch Projects Gallery, New York; Le Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; and the Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. His works have also been exhibited in various group shows, including Aicon Gallery, New York (2014, 2012 and 2010); Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2014, 2012 and 2011); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2012); the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA (2011); Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA (2011); among others. He lives and works in Visakhapatnam.

Dr. Ramakanta Samantray is an Artist, Writer, Director based in Bhubaneswar. His academic achievements started with a brief training in painting, in 1994; he further pursued M.A. and Ph.D. in 1996 and 2004 respectively. His Solo and group exhibitions include PRABASI(2000); Rashtriya Lalitkala Kendra, Bhubaneswar(2007); Art Konsult, NewDelhi, India Fine Arts,Mumbai (2009), Sanskrit Gallery,Kolkata (2010),Gallery Nature Morte,Gurgaon (2013), Dakshinachitra,Chennai (2018), naming a few. The artist has been awarded with State Youth Award, Govt. of Orissa (2007), Award by Youth Integrated Organization, Orissa(1996), Ankur Bansidhar Samman(1996), Navaprativa Katha Award, for Best Short Story Writer from Eastern Media Ltd., and BBSR(1995), naming a few. Junior Research Fellow, UGC, New Delhi (1997-2003); Senior Fellowship,Ministry of Culture;Travel Grant, Central Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi(2004), are amongst one of his many achievements. He lives and works in Orissa.

Ramahari Jena is one of the first Artists from Orissa to have received a National Award by Lalit Kala Akademi. He had as well been awarded with First Eastern Print Biennial Award. His work has been displayed at numerous National and International exhibitions including Bharat Bhavan Triennale of Graphic Art (1992-95), First Egyptian International Print Triennale, Cairo (1993) and 'A.R.K.S.' Gallery London (1998), naming a few. He has numerous publications to his credit and is passionately interested in literary journalism and book designing among his many interests. He had bagged precious fellowships/scholarships like Research Grant Award in Printmaking by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Charles Wallace (India) Trust Award in Printmaking and Study at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.; Senior Fellowship in painting by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He lives and works in Orissa.

Pradosh Kumar Mishra is an Art Historian, Writer, Curator and the Head of Art History department in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. After Graduation and Post Graduation in Art History, he has been teaching in BHU for more than 20 years, with specialization in Modern and Contemporary art in India. He received the prestigious Fulbright Nehru Fellowship to teach at University of Connecticut, US in 2012. During his stay in the US, he also did a part research on the ‘Academic outreach by the American Museums’ and lectured in various American universities in Chicago, Boston, and New York. He has co-curated several exhibitions in various places including Bharat Kala Bhawan, BHU; ‘Barbil Art Project’, ‘Moving into the Margin’, Odisha; Ministry of Culture, New Delhi; Art and Ecology: Search for sustainability, Bhubaneswar and very recently curated International Art Performance Lab 2019 : Pedagogy and Practice in collaboration with Zameen Collective, New Delhi in the Department of History of Art, BHU to name a few. He had as well organised International Symposium, conducted National and International workshops like ‘Voice of Change’ and ‘Impressions’ in the Department of History of Art, BHU; facilitated (re)reading Sankho Chaudhuri, Varanasi. He has published a book titled, “From Stone to God: workshop tradition of Odishan sculpture”, besides several research papers on the subject. He has completed a UGC Major Project on, “Sculpture workshops in Bhubaneswar: Re-defining Traditional Sculpture carving in the changing socio-economic conditions”. His writings have also appeared in numerous art journals and magazines on the contemporary trends in India post 1990s.

Raghunath Panda is currently a Financial Adviser to Utsha Foundation. He earned his B.Com and MBA (Finance) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is an art enthusiast; the traditional and contemporary art of Orissa is one of his keen interests.He has been working with numerous social organisations for health awareness, environment,and plantation programmes. He has been an inspiration and a motivation for many people to work together for various social activities. He initiated the ‘Suryanamaskar’ Group in 2015 with an intention to spread awareness of the importance of physical and mental health. Raghunath Panda has been one of the organisers of blood donation camps, health camps, and plantation programmes at multiple places.

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He is a social theorist and poet, an educator and a commentator on society, governance, policy and culture. A well-known poet, he writes poetry in Odia, while he does his social science in English. He has authored four volumes of poetry and has translated two volumes of Pablo Neruda’s poetry into Odia. Bishnu has also published widely in the areas of identity politics, democracy, minority rights, urban politics, civil society and social capital. Currently he is Professor (founding faculty) and Dean at KREA University, India. For more than twenty-five years, he taught politics at the University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Azim Premji University in India. He has held visiting appointments at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; National University of Singapore, Singapore, University of Kyoto, Kyoto. He was also Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Chair Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (2016). From 2002 to 2010, he headed the governance portfolio of the Ford Foundation’s South Asia office in Delhi. Bishnu Mohapatra holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from University of Delhi, an M. Phil in Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a D. Phil. in Politics from University of Oxford.

A curator, and director of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in Delhi. FICA is a not-for-profit organization that supports creative practitioners, researchers, curators and educators working in the field of contemporary art alongside developing education and outreach programmes. Since 2005, Shivadas has curated exhibitions at Vadehra Art Gallery, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Devi Art Foundation, Edinburgh Arts Festival and Serendipity Arts Festival. Shivadas has been a visiting faculty at School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi, since 2013.

She is the current Chairperson for The Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII)Task Force for Art & Culture and a member of the CII National Council since 2018. She is a trustee on the board of the Chennai Photo Biennale, and a board member of the NGO Khushii and the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA). Tarana is also a Member of the Tate International Council, the South Asian Acquisitions Committee of the Tate Modern Museum, London and Strategic Advisor, South Asia for Art Tactic. During her term as Chairperson, CII has co-organised the India Pavilion along with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India at the Venice Biennale in 2019. This is a historic first for a public-private partnership of this scale internationally in this sector. She was also selected for the international Collector’s Focus Programme by David Zwirner Gallery in 2019 from India and has co-authored an India-focused report on Art & Philanthropy with Art Tactic, U.K in 2019 and 2020. A lawyer with 3 undergraduate degrees in History, Music and Law and a Postgraduate degree in Law from Upenn, she now devotes full time to the patronage of arts. Tarana lives and works in New Delhi.

Graduated with an Art History degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. Returning to India he set-up India’s first art infrastructure firm called The Art Vault. Through this business he has played an active role in growing the Indian Modern and Contemporary Art landscape in India and abroad. Eight years ago he further expanded his practice and started Jai Danani Interior Design one of India’s leading design studios concentrating on high-end residential projects with an art focus. Though projects have been executed all around the world his signature style of having Indian Art is clearly visible. Recently being included in the Architectural Design India’s 100 most influential designers. Danani continues to support and promote Indian art by being on the Tate Museum South Asian Acquisition Committee among other institutions. He is also an active member for FICA - the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.