Download PDF (107 K)JUSTIN PONMANY
Born 1974, Kerala
In Justin Ponmany’s new photographs the artist digitally combines three views of his subjects, each taken from a different angle in order to create a disturbing panoramic view. The subjects range from men’s heads through to inanimate objects such as a tennis ball, each of which are expanded beyond the dimensions they are normally framed within. Ponmany has been inspired by the way internet mapping devices break down personal and geographical borders but these works suggest that the more we try to know or map something, the more elusive their form can become. Once more, the subject is split across different subject positions, none of which seem to cohere.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai
1996 B.A. Fine Arts (Painting), Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
Select Solo Exhibitions
2008 Gallery Loop, Hongdae, Seoul
2007 Who's keeping score?, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2006 Procreation, Nature Morte, Milan, Italy
2005 Salt (plastic memory-part ii), Nature Morte, New Delhi
2004 Non-biodegradable memory, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Select Group Exhibitions
2009-10 All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Indian Contemporary Art in Global Times, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009 Living of the Grid, Anant Art Centre, New Delhi
Dear Jabir, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Indian Summer, Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
Multitudes, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore in collaboration with Zen Studio Gallery and Artflute.com
Re-Claim/ Re-Cite/ Re-Cycle, presented by Latitude 28 at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi; Bose Pacia, Kolkata
Shapeshifter, Aicon Gallery, London
The Other (Indian) Story: Retrospecting Lakeeren-The Contemporary Art Gallery (1995-2009), presented by Lakeeren at The Gallery of Modern Art, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai
Threshold: Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art, Aicon Gallery, New York
Material Texts, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi
Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London
2008 Chalo India!, Mori Museum, Japan
The Audience and the Eavesdropper, Phillips, London
November, 1x1 Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai
Indi Genius, presented by Sakshi Gallery and Soka Contemporary Space, Taipei at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Ghost of Souza, Aicon Gallery, New York
Swarovski Museum, Innsbruck, Austria
Amazing, Jehangir Art Gallery, RPG, Mumbai
2007 New Wave, Aicon Gallery, London
Thermocline of Art; New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Horn Please, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Private/Corporate IV, dialogue of the collections of Lekha and Anupam Poddar, New Delhi,
India; Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart; Berlin, Germany
2006 Hungry God, Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 Outside Europe, from the Daimler Chrysler collection, Galerie Der Stadt, Sindelfingen (Stuttgart), Germany
The artist lives and works in Baroda/ Bombay/ Calcutta/ Mysore/ Rotterdam/ Trivandrum, House
of World Culture, Berlin
Present Future, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
Identity Alienation Amity, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 Bombay x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin, India
Ideas and Images, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
2003 Art for Art, an Indo- Swedish project on Bench Art, Kalaghoda, Mumbai Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 Words and Images, Guild Art Gallery, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Sakshi Gallery, The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
The New Paradigms, The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Awards
2005 Artist of the future award, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
2003 1st runners up, 4th Biennial BosePacia Prize for Contemporary Art
2000 Western Railway Centenary Prize, N.G.M.A., Mumbai
1997-98 Fellowship at Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai