Gautam Kansara is an artist and educator formerly based in Brooklyn, New York, and recently relocated to Zürich, Switzerland. Crossing mediums between video, photography, and installation, Kansara’s work is part of prestigious private collections including The Burger Collection, Hong Kong, and The Shreya and Swapan Seth Collection, New Delhi. Since 2002 his works have been featured internationally at the Asia Society Museum (New York), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), British Film Institute (London), Shrine Empire Gallery (New Delhi), LMAK Gallery (New York), and Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn). Gautam has been an artist-in-residence at Smack Mellon, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace (2017) and Swing Space (2006), and the Center for Book Arts, all in New York City. Gautam has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Studio Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a Master of Arts degree from New York University’s Department of Arts and Arts Professions. Recently Gautam was included in the inaugural alumni exhibition for New York University’s Department of Art and Art Professions, which was curated by Chrissie Iles, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Contact: kansara_gautam@yahoo.com
Press
Homeward Bound by Zeenat Nagree, TimeOut Mumbai, October 2010
A Curious Inheritance by Gopika Nath, Take On Art Magazine, July 2010
Gautam is Leaving Tomorrow by Natasha Baruah, Art Slant India, April 2010
A Place of Their Own by Sharmistha Ray, ArtPulse Magazine, November 2009
Way in the World by Sharmistha Ray, Art India Magazine, July 2009
Snapshots, the Airport, and Lunch by Stephen Maine, Real Art Ways Publication, 2008
TV Dinners By Louky Keijsers, NY Arts Magazine, September 2007
Immigration’s faces at SPACES, Cleveland Jewish News, February 2007
Aliens In Our Midst by Wayne Hodge, The Reeler, December 2006
Artists in the Marketplace by Jyotirmoy Datta, News India Times, April 2006
MAO does art in the Bronx!, Modern Art Obsession, March 2006
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