Praneet Soi

Praneet Soi (b. 1971) in Kolkata, India, lives and works in Amsterdam. Education: 2001 University of California at San Diego, United States; 1996 Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India; 1994 Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India. Residencies: 2017 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; 2015 Pompgemaal Atelier, Den Helder, The Netherlands; 2014 Stifftung Laurenz-Haus, Basel, Switzerland; 2002 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, United States. Commissions & Grants: 2014 Mural HCl Headquarters, Chennai, India; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Freer/Sackler Museum, Washington DC. Solo Exhibitions: 2022 A Bergen Diary, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen; 2020 Centurion in Body Works: Positions 6, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 2019 Anamorphosis – Notes on the West Bank, The Mosaic Rooms, London; 2018 Third Factory, Conversations, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Hold Still, Experimenter, Kolkata, India; 2017 Patterns – The Falling Figure and other Stories, CCA Derry Londonderry, UK; Notes on Labour, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India; 2016 For and Against Narrative, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India; Srinagar, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 2015 Srinagar, Experimenter, Kolkata, India; 2012 Okhla Mandi, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2011 Notes on Astaticism, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India; Critical Estrangement, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico; Writing in the Wall, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia; Srinagar, Centro Cultural Motehermoso Kulturunea, Vittoria Gazteiz, Spain; Art Cologne: Open Space, Cologne, Germany; 2009 The Eye, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Still Life, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India; 2008 Juggernaut 2, Project 88, Mumbai, India; 2007 Juggernaut, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2005 Face to Face, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India; 2005 Northern Wind, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2004 Spinning Stories #3, De Kromme, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; A Short Walk, De Inkijk, & W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Group Exhibitions: 2021 Run in the Alley - Marres, Huis voor Cultuur, Maastricht; 2018 A Beast, a God and a Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Para Site & Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; 2018 Dhaka Art Summit ’18, Dhaka, Bangladesh, India; 2017 Universes in Universes, 6th Asian Biennale, Taichung, Taiwan; 2016 Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj. Act II at Sursock Museum, Beirut; Forming in the pupil of an eye, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; BRIC-á-brac, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale, Singapore; 2015 Asia Time, 5th Guangzhou Triennial, China; Bonne chance pour vos tentatives naturelles, combinées, attractives et, CRAC Altkirch, France; 2014 The Part in the Story, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; EVA International, curated by Bassam Al Baroni, Limerick, Ireland; 2013 13th Istanbul Biennial, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey; Longlist, Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; 2012 Material Information, curated by Juan Gaitan, Norske kunsthåndverkeres Temautstilling, Norway; Cynical Love: Life in the Everyday, curated by G. Sinha, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, India; It doesn’t always have to be beautiful unless it’s beautiful, The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo; Manifesta 9, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Dawn Ades and Katerina Gregos, Genk, Belgium; 2011 Out of Here, curated by Christiane Berndes and Charles Esche, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands; Generation in Transition. New Art from India, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Genius without Talent, curated by Ann Demeester, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ILLUMInations, India Pavilion, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, 54e Venetië Biennial, Venice; 2010 ID/entity, curated by Vidya Shivdas, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India; Ural Industrial Biennial, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Ekaterina Degot and David Riff, Ekatarinburg, Russia; Notes on Methododology, 14th Painting Triennial, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Apart we are Together, Adelaide International CACSA, curated by Victoria Lyn, Adelaide, Australia; 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Ranjit Hoskote, and Hyunjun Kim, South Korea; 2006 Pixels of Reality, Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2005 Are we changing the world with Narcisse Tordoir, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium; 2004 Singular Identities, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India; A Short Walk, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Collaboration SKOR with W139; Violence of Tone, curated by Anders Kreuger and Ann Demeester, W139, Amsterdam; Projectruimte, Ruimte voor Actuele Kunst, Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2003 Prophetic Corners: Dealing With the Future, Periferic 6, curated by Anders Kreuger, Romania; Title, International Centre for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; 2002 Thomas en Praneet, De Badcuyp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.