New Delhi Art Exhibitions
The Cultural Epicenter of India
Home to the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), India Habitat Centre, and premier contemporary galleries in Lado Sarai, Defence Colony, and Neeti Bagh, New Delhi represents a dynamic intersection of monumental heritage and bold modern voices.
Current & Upcoming Presentations
Direct from leading New Delhi galleries and museum spaces
Ongoing
8th PM Mementos & e-Upahaar Exhibition
Artists: Various Indian Traditional Craftsmen & Contemporary Artists
A curated exhibition showcasing a high-profile selection of ceremonial gifts, traditional artifacts, sculptures, and paintings presented to the Prime Minister and President of India. The physical preview at NGMA accompanies an online auction platform supporting national cultural and conservation initiatives.
Ongoing
Bilanda
Artists: Ghazali Moinuddin
A solo presentation featuring paintings and mixed-media works exploring regional heritage, rustic landscapes, and personal memory. The works capture evocative textures and local atmospheres through expressive tonal palettes.
Upcoming
Wide Angle
Artists: Various Photographers
A group photography exhibition capturing expansive perspectives across urban landscapes, human conditions, and street photography across India. The exhibition emphasizes panoramic framing and narrative documentary photography.
Ongoing
In Another Mode: Sudhir Patwardhan's Drawings 1970–2000
Artists: Sudhir Patwardhan
This solo retrospective focuses specifically on three decades of graphic works and intimate drawings by master modernist Sudhir Patwardhan. The exhibition traces his empathetic observation of working-class urban existence, Mumbai commuters, and human bodily resilience in transitional urban landscapes.
Ongoing
Nocturnes | Woodcut Engravings and Etchings
Artists: P.D. Dhumal
A powerful presentation of stark black-and-white wood engravings and etchings exploring nocturnal bestiaries, specifically bulls and countryside creatures. Born out of the artist's residency experiences at the Uttarayan Art Complex, the works display profound mastery over relief cutting and printmaking.
Ongoing
The Evolution of the Soothsayer - Part 1
Artists: Curated Group Show of Contemporary Artists
A conceptual group exhibition that frames the contemporary artist as a clairvoyant and metaphysical cartographer navigating fractured modern realities. Works span speculative painting, sculpture, and new media, interrogating divination, scientific rationalism, and spiritual inquiry.
Upcoming
The Evolution of the Soothsayer - Part 2
Artists: Curated Group Show of Contemporary Artists
The culminating second chapter of Nature Morte's ambitious group survey expanding on divination, prophecy, and ecological foresight. The show gathers immersive sculptural installations and avant-garde mixed-media explorations.
Upcoming
Emerald Leaf & Golden Fibre
Artists: Sonia Mehra Chawla
A multidisciplinary solo exhibition exploring the bio-cultural and ecological entanglements of jute in Eastern India. Featuring mixed-media canvases, living biological samples, photo-installations, and moving-image work, the exhibition traces agrarian labour and ecological remediation.
Ongoing
Freedom to Form: Baroda Modern
Artists: Baroda School Masters (K.G. Subramanyan, Jeram Patel, Jyoti Bhatt, Bhupen Khakhar, Gulammohammed Sheikh)
A historic survey tracing the groundbreaking pedagogy and creative ferment of the Faculty of Fine Arts at MSU Baroda since its founding in 1950. The showcase features seminal paintings, terracottas, sculptures, and archive documents that redefined modernism in post-Independence India.
Upcoming
Iconic: Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, Edition 06
Artists: Modern Indian Masters (Raja Ravi Varma, F.N. Souza, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Jamini Roy)
The sixth iteration of DAG's flagship exhibition showcasing museum-quality masterworks across pre-modern, modern, and high modernist movements. The presentation highlights critical institutional loans and key private collections.
Upcoming
Long Short Stories
Artists: Waswo X. Waswo, Dalpat Jingar, Banti Jingar, Shankar Kumawat, Chirag Kumawat
A solo exhibition presented by Bhavna Kakar unveiling Waswo X. Waswo's elaborate hand-painted digital prints, miniature borders, and gilded compositions. The body of work interrogates untold, intimate, and often satirical vignettes of identity, Orientalist trope subversion, and communal mythologies.
Ongoing
Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies
Artists: Nilima Sheikh
A landmark institutional survey organized in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, co-curated by Roobina Karode and Cara Manes. The exhibition spans five decades of Sheikh's delicate tempera scrolls and painted installations addressing displacement, mourning, poetry, and Kashmiri historical memory.
Ongoing
In-Rhythm: Bice Lazzari and Nasreen Mohamedi
Artists: Bice Lazzari, Nasreen Mohamedi
Curated by Andrea Anastasio and Roobina Karode in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, this bilateral dialogue pairs Italian abstractionist Bice Lazzari with Indian minimalist Nasreen Mohamedi. The exhibition traces their ascetic devotion to line, geometry, and rhythmic spatial silence.
Ongoing
Chronicles of [un] Seen Labour [er]
Artists: Avijit Dutta
A solo showcase featuring introspective, layered figurative paintings documenting unsung workers, street vendors, students, and actors. Dutta constructs melancholic, empathetic vignettes using monochromatic tempera surfaces that foreground silent socio-economic struggles.
Ongoing
Ravi Jain Memorial Foundation 35th Anniversary Exhibition
Artists: Over 30 Contemporary and Emerging Indian Artists (Foundation Fellows & Alumni)
Celebrating 35 years of philanthropic commitment to emerging artistic talent in India, this major milestone exhibition showcases awardees and alumni nurtured by the Ravi Jain Memorial Foundation since 1991. The show spans painting, sculpture, and graphic arts highlighting new directions in Indian contemporary practice.