Solo Exhibitions
2006
Sutapa Biswas, Recent Works by Sutapa Biswas, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
Magnesium Dreams, TBA: 2006, Portland Oregon, USA
2004
Sutapa Biswas, Recent Works, by Sutapa Biswas, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Sutapa Biswas, Recent works by Sutapa Biswas, and drawings by Joseph Turneand Edward Lear, Harewood House, Yorkshire, UK
2000
Sutapa Biswas, Untitled (woman in blue, weeping), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1994
Murmur, Atlas Studio Space, London, UK
Synapse / To Kill Two Birds With One Stone, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. Co-commissioned, new installation / performance with Locus +, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Murmur, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1993
Synapse, Gallerie OBORO, Montreal, Canada
1992
Synapse, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, and City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Synaptic, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2009
Magical Realism, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi, India
British Subjects: Identity and Self-fashioning 1967-2009, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA
From TrAIN to Bad Ems, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2008
Gallery Espace, Delhi, India
Sutapa Biswas and Anna Linneman, Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
Melborne International Arts Festival 2006, Australia
Aqua Miami, Miami Basel, USA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Migratory Aesthetics, The University of Leeds, Parkinson Gallery, Leeds, UK
2005
Magnesium Bird, 3rd Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival, London, UK
Birdsong, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Launch of Contemporary Patrons Group, UK
2002-3
Untitled (The Trials and Tribulations of Mickey Baker) in From Tarzan to Rambo, Tate Modern, London, UK
2001
To Kill Two Birds with One Stone in Art Through the Eye of A Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
1999
Frieze, Scarred Surface and Synapse I in Crown Jewels, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
1998
Scarred Surface, Frieze and Untitled in The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
1997
Sheffield Museums and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1997
6th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Franklin H. Williams Cultural Centre, New York, USA
University of Ethnography, Oslo, Norway
Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Untitled (woman in blue weeping) in The Visible and the Invisible: representing the body in contemporary art and society, 5 sites in the London including St. Pancras Church, Euston Station, Wellcome Trust, University College, London, and Marylebone Road, London, UK
Strange view in Diver’s Memories, Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
Through Rose Coloured Windows, National Gallery, Botswana
1994
Murmur in Beyond Destination, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
1993
Murmur, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1992
The European Photography Award, Kunstlerwrkstatt, Berlin, West Germany
Synapse in The Body Politic, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, USA
Who do You Take Me For?, Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Sacred Space in Memory and Desire, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1991
Fabled Territories , Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
To Touch Stone in The Circular Dance, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1990
Disputed Identities, Camerawork, San Francisco, UK
1989
Housewives with Steak-knives in Images of Woman, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Infestations of the Aorta-Shrine to A Distant Relative in Intimate Distance,
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Housewives with Steak-knives in The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Art Gallery, London, UK
Pied Piper of Hamlyn - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is in British Artists Abroad, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
1988
Pied Piper of Hamlyn and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is in Critical Realism, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
1986-7
The Only Good Indian…, in State of The Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London, UK
1986
Blind man’s Bluff, in Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room, London, UK
Five large works shown in The Issue of Painting, Air Gallery, London, UK
1985-6
Housewives with Steak-knives, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London, UK
Awards
1999
Artista em Residência künsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1993
Fapemig, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1992
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Brasília, Brazil
1991
Prêmio XVI Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
1989
Prêmio IV Salão Nello Nuno, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Prêmio X Salão de Arte de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1986
Prêmio San Francisco Arts Comission Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006
Sutapa Biswas, Recent Works by Sutapa Biswas, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
Magnesium Dreams, TBA: 2006, Portland Oregon, USA
2004
Sutapa Biswas, Recent Works, by Sutapa Biswas, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Sutapa Biswas, Recent works by Sutapa Biswas, and drawings by Joseph Turneand Edward Lear, Harewood House, Yorkshire, UK
2000
Sutapa Biswas, Untitled (woman in blue, weeping), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1994
Murmur, Atlas Studio Space, London, UK
Synapse / To Kill Two Birds With One Stone, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. Co-commissioned, new installation / performance with Locus +, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Murmur, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1993
Synapse, Gallerie OBORO, Montreal, Canada
1992
Synapse, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, and City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Synaptic, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2009
Magical Realism, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi, India
British Subjects: Identity and Self-fashioning 1967-2009, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA
From TrAIN to Bad Ems, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2008
Gallery Espace, Delhi, India
Sutapa Biswas and Anna Linneman, Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2006
Melborne International Arts Festival 2006, Australia
Aqua Miami, Miami Basel, USA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Migratory Aesthetics, The University of Leeds, Parkinson Gallery, Leeds, UK
2005
Magnesium Bird, 3rd Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival, London, UK
Birdsong, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Launch of Contemporary Patrons Group, UK
2002-3
Untitled (The Trials and Tribulations of Mickey Baker) in From Tarzan to Rambo, Tate Modern, London, UK
2001
To Kill Two Birds with One Stone in Art Through the Eye of A Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
1999
Frieze, Scarred Surface and Synapse I in Crown Jewels, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
1998
Scarred Surface, Frieze and Untitled in The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
1997
Sheffield Museums and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1997
6th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Franklin H. Williams Cultural Centre, New York, USA
University of Ethnography, Oslo, Norway
Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Untitled (woman in blue weeping) in The Visible and the Invisible: representing the body in contemporary art and society, 5 sites in the London including St. Pancras Church, Euston Station, Wellcome Trust, University College, London, and Marylebone Road, London, UK
Strange view in Diver’s Memories, Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
Through Rose Coloured Windows, National Gallery, Botswana
1994
Murmur in Beyond Destination, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
1993
Murmur, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1992
The European Photography Award, Kunstlerwrkstatt, Berlin, West Germany
Synapse in The Body Politic, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, USA
Who do You Take Me For?, Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Sacred Space in Memory and Desire, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1991
Fabled Territories , Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
To Touch Stone in The Circular Dance, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1990
Disputed Identities, Camerawork, San Francisco, UK
1989
Housewives with Steak-knives in Images of Woman, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Infestations of the Aorta-Shrine to A Distant Relative in Intimate Distance,
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Housewives with Steak-knives in The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Art Gallery, London, UK
Pied Piper of Hamlyn - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is in British Artists Abroad, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
1988
Pied Piper of Hamlyn and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is in Critical Realism, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
1986-7
The Only Good Indian…, in State of The Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London, UK
1986
Blind man’s Bluff, in Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room, London, UK
Five large works shown in The Issue of Painting, Air Gallery, London, UK
1985-6
Housewives with Steak-knives, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London, UK
Awards
1999
Artista em Residência künsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1993
Fapemig, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1992
Prêmio Brasília de Artes Plásticas, Brasília, Brazil
1991
Prêmio XVI Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
1989
Prêmio IV Salão Nello Nuno, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Prêmio X Salão de Arte de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1986
Prêmio San Francisco Arts Comission Gallery, San Francisco, USA
