RIYAS KOMU
Born 1971, Kerala, India
Bachelors in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
Masters in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai (1999)
Lives and works in Mumbai and Kerala, India.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2009 Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 Related List, Bodhi Art, Berlin
MARK HIM (Second half), Gallery 88, Kolkata
2007 MARK HIM (First half), The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006 Systematic Citizen, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Faith Accompli, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2005 The Third Day, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi presented by Sakshi
Gallery, Mumbai
GRASS, photography show, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003 Sarasu, photography show on Raja Ravi Verma Press , The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2002 UNCONDITIONAL, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2002 – 2003 AMBULANCE, Renaissance Art Gallery, Bangalore
Select Group Exhibitions
2009 Bapu, presented by Saffronart in association with Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2008-09 Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London
2008 The Ghost of Souza, inaugural show in Bowery space, Aicon Gallery, New York
Uncovered, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai
November, 1x1 Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai
Everything 2008: 12 Artists from India, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam
Six Degree of Separation Chaos, Congruence and Collaboration in South Asia, presented by
KHOJ
International Artists' Association and the Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi at Anant Art Gallery, New
Delhi
Urgent Conversations, Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre and Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
Everywhere Is War (and Rumors of War), Bodhi Art, Mumbai
Link, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban, Bodhi Art, Berlin
Shifting Terrains: Altered Realities, The Shrine Gallery, New Delhi
India Crossing, Studio La Citta, Verona
Affair, 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International
Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
INDIA NOW:Contemporary Indian Art Between Continuity and Transformation,,
Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy (through February 2008)
Kashi ten light years, Kashi Art Gallery, Mattancherry, Kochi
Frame/Grid/Room/Cell/, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
INDIA TIME,Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milan, Italy
Swarovski Museum, Innsbruck, Austria
New Wave: Contemporary Indian Art, Aicon Gallery,London , UK
Grid, Bodhi Art Gallery, New Dehli
Photographs, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Other, inaugural show, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
Annual show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2006 Bronze, sculpture show, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Art on the Beach, Made by Indians, St Tropez, Gallery Enrico Navarra, Paris
On Difference #2 (represented Korea), Wurtt. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Maarkers, Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai
Red Earth And The Pouring Rain, Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda
Strangeness, Anant Art Gallery, Kolkatta
2005 KAAM, Aicon Gallery, New York and Palo Alto
Span, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Endless Terrain, Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Double Enders, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Cochin
Present Future, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Configurations, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
Are we like this only? Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Whose space is it anyway? Gallery Espace, New Delhi
Mannat Jali, Marine Drive, Mumbai
Public Art Project, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
World Social Forum, Brazil.
2004 Group show during VASL Residency, Karachi, Pakistan
Anticipations, Museum Gallery, Mumbai
Bombay Boys, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
A New Mediatic Realism, Bayer ABS Gallery, Baroda, India
Generation I, Saffron Art Gallery, Mumbai
RED, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Mumbai x 17, Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin, India
2003 Crossing Generations :Diverge, 40 years of Gallery Chemould, National Gallery of Modern Art,
Mumbai
Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2D/3D, Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Art for Art/ Switzerland Meets India, Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai
2002 Ways of Resisting 1992- 2002, Sahmat/ Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
Words and Images, The Guild Art Gallery/ National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery/ India Habitat Center, New Delhi
Crosscurrents, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Asian Art Festival, Singapore
Harmony Shows (2004-1999), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Debt, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Tribute to Picasso, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 The Human Factor, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Engendering Images of women, The Guild, Mumbai
Excerpts from my diary, Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 Mumbai Metaphor, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Exile Longings, Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
Memos of the New Millennium- Artists from the Moulting World, Birla Academy of Art
& Culture, Mumbai
Ideas and Images (Video installation), National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1999 Critic's Choice, Ideas and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
1998 'He used to believe that EMS planted coconut tree in Kerala', installation, Sir J.J. School of Art,
Mumbai
Essays in time- kinetic sculptures (Audio-Visual Installation), Nehru Centre, Mumbai
Hebbar foundation scholarship 1998-1999
Honors & Awards
1996 Hebbar Foundation Scholarship
Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai
1995 Maharashtra State Award
PETER DRAKE
Born 1957, Garden City, New York, USA
B.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (1979)
Lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 District & Co., Santo Domingo, DR
2005 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993 Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1992 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany
Kunst-Station Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1987 Bruce Vellick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
1983 Josef Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008 Group Exhibitin, Jack the pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Indiffernece and Apocrypha, FUEL Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Partisan, Artropolis, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Drake & Scott Musgrove, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2007 Other, Peter Drake & Riyas Komu, Aicon Gallery, London
Right to Print: Segura Publishing, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Peter Drake & Kim Keever: Surrealist Visions, Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, CCSU, New
Britain, CT
Wet, DFN Gallery, New York
The Beholders Eye, curated by Katherine Chapin, Salmagundi Club, New York
Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Contemporary Imaginings: The Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum, Mobile, AL
Conversations, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
I Love the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
What I did on My Summer Vacation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Confluence 2006, Gallery ArtsIndia, New York, NY
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Blanco & Negro, District & Co., Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Salon 2006, New York Academy or Art, New York, NY
2005 Visitors From the East, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, District & Co., Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
Fur, Feathers & Friends, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Future Perfect, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
The Other Mainstream, The Weithorn Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Group Exhibition, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004 Innocence & Insight, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Art on the Frontier, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL
Where, Dinaburg Fine Arts, New York, NY
Bullfight, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
Points of Muse, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003 People, Places, Things, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
From the Collection, Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC
Segura in Retrospect, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
the burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Selections, Dinaburg Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002 Snapshot, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
25th Anniversary, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Surface, Terrence Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
3M, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY
Spring Selections, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Take Heart, MPI, New York, NY
Italianate, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
2000 Imagined Landscapes: Dream, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999 New American Landscapes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Ex-capillary, Alan Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Small Works - The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Liars (III) Frightful Paint, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1997 Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Screen Memories, K&E Gallery, New York, NY
Myth & Magic, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Bodies Terrestrial, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA
New Paintings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Elementum, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, K&E Gallery, New York, NY
New York, NY Noir, Allez les Filles Gallery, Columbus, OH
1994 The Seer, O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY
Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Fallen Idylls, I.F.A.E., Art Miami, FL
Group Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Three From New York, NY Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 M' aidez/May Day, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
Twilight Intervals, Pat Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Paper Trail: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois
Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1992 John Bohman & Peter Drake, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
28th Annual Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of NC
Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
1991 A Horse of a Different Color, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, AZ
Water, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Provocative Images, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Parsons Design, NY
The Art of Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Group Show, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, New York, NY
Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Invitational, Sozialdienst Katholische Frauen, Stolberg, Germany
Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1988 New Figurative Drawing, Midtown Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1987 Black & White: Visual Sonatas, Aion Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Succinctly Stated, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Avant Garde In The 80's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
Made in New York, NY, Gianfranco Zani Gallery, Turino, Italy
Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
On Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1986 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC
Romanticism & Cynicism in Contemporary Art, Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
First Impressions, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Ten From The Drawing Center, Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York, NY
Senza Paura, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy
Inaugural Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Notes From the Underground, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
57th Between A & D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
EL Arte Narrativo, PS 1, Long Island University, New York, NY
Alumni Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
New Art, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New York, NY/Seattle, Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Outline, Cutout, Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Avenue C By The Sea, Tower Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY
East Village Collection, Palladium, New York, NY
Summer Pleasures, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1985 New York, NY's Finest, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Brave New World, A New Generation, Charlottenburg Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blue Condition, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
The Discovery of America, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy
Psycho-Pueblo, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
The Figure, An Interpretive Study, Tower Gallery, New York, NY
R.E.M., Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
The Best & The Brightest From the East Village & Soho, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL
1984 Invitational Group Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY Images / New Directions, The University Art Gallery, SUNY, Albany, NY
East Village Art in Berlin, Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
American Drawings From Neo-Classicism To The Avant Garde, Morris Museum,, NJ
Nueva Pintura Narrative, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Rediscovering Romanticism in New York, NY, New Math Gallery, New York, NY
Neo York, Barbara Art Gallery, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA Artitude, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
Fragments, A & P Gallery, New York, NY
1983 SEX!, Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
Overload, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1982 Selections Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Selections Show, Artist Space, New York, NY
Thirteen on Paper, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, TX
1981 Invitational Print Show, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
Heart Art Show, Forty Walls Gallery, Houston, TX
Landscape Installment, 3221 Milan, Houston, TX
Insiders/Outsiders, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
Awards
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - Painting
1997 Haystack Program, PSU
1989-90 Artist In Residence, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany
1987 National Endowment For The Arts
Collections
Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA
Arthur Anderson
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Centro Cultural Arte Comtemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Coopers & Lybrand Collection
Fredrick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Greenville County Museum, SC
Isla Center for the Arts, Guam
Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco, CA
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ
LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
McCrory Collection, New York, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
New School for Social Research Collection, New York, NY
Oakland County Museum, Oakland, CA
Phoenix Museum of Art, AZ
Post-Newsweek Cable, New York, NY
Progressive Collection
Prudential Collection
Readers Digest Collection, NY
RxArt Collection
Stafford Trading Inc., Chicago, IL
Twin Farms, Vt.
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY