Biography
Dipali Gupta’s art practice is an exploration of societal constructs from the domain of the feminine. Influenced by Foucauldian biopolitics, religious habituations, socio-political constructs, and its psychosomatic effects, Dipali’s experimental works question the normative and strive to reclaim space and meaning. Her concepts usually defy myths of domestication, reproduction, spectatorship, self, and identity. Set amongst Deleuzian societies of control, her practice subverts notions of patriarchy, androcentricity and binarism. Her multi-disciplinary approach re-appropriate less significant genres by layering concepts with artistic and social canons. Her research interests include feminist theory, post humanism, the body and identity politics.
Dipali was nominated finalist for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 2022 and winner of the prestigious Chan Davies Art Prize in 2018. Her series titled ‘Her Pleasure’ examine contemporary notions of female sexuality and explore the concept of the assemblage and Donna Haraway’s cyborg.
Dipali Gupta divides her time between Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur. Her work has been exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur with expositions and symposium in Portugal, London, Miami, Paris, and New Delhi. A graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and Goldsmith’s University, London, Dipali was nominated for the Young Master’s Art Prize 2019 and The Wells Art Contemporary Award 2020, London. She was selected for the Drawing Research Residency 2020 by L’AIR Arts, Paris and co-moderates the reading group, ‘Constructing the Body’ for Malaysia Design Archive. Her work is included in The Ilham Art Show, 2022, Singapore Art Week 2021 and NAFAS, Maybank Emerging Women Artists of 2021. She has taught Cinema and Sociology as a parttime instructor at Multimedia University (MMU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mumbai, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong
Exhibitions
2024 – Group Exhibition – Lost In Translation, CIMB Hotel Art Fair 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2023 – Group Exhibition – Leaving Traces, Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia
2023 – Group Exhibition – Favoritism is my Favorite ism, The Backroom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022 – Solo Exhibition – Desire Lines, The Backroom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022 – Freedom Film Festival, Pandemik Dua Darjat, Malaysia
2022 – The ILHAM Art Show, 2022, Ilham Gallery, Malaysia
2022 – The Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Finalist), 2022, Art Central, Hongkong
2022 – Group Exhibition – The BackRoom Show, Art for All- ArtExpo, GMBB, KL, Malaysia
2021 – Open Studio – Japan Foundation, Japan Festival @ The Zongshan Building, KL, Malaysia
2021 – Group Exhibition – Artists of SEA, 1000 Tiny Artworks, KL, Malaysia
2021 – Curatorial Selection – ROMBAK, Multi Media University, KL, Malaysia
2021 – Group Exhibition – NAFAS, Maybank Show for Emerging Women Artists, Malaysia
2021 – Group Exhibition – International Festival of Manuports, Helsinki
2021 – Group Exhibition – Resituating Home (Making): Hyper-material Domesticity, Singapore Art Week
2021 – Public space Installation – Artwalk Little India, Singapore, Singapore Art Week
2020 – Solo Exhibition – Uncertain Relaxation, Mutual Aids Project, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
2020 – Group Exhibition – Wells Art Contemporary Awards 2020, London, UK
2020 – Group Exhibition – In Spite Of…, An Initiative of Tropical Lab, Lasalle College, Singapore
2020 – Group Exhibition – Drawing Us In II, The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, USA
2020 – 5 minutos de Desenho, Belas-Artes Ulisboa (National Academy of Fine Arts – Lisbon), Portugal
2020 – Group Exhibition – iPreciation, Singapore, cancelled to 2021 due to Covid 19
2020 – Group Exhibition – Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore, cancelled due to Covid 19
2019 – Group Exhibition – Young Master’s Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
2019 – Group Exhibition – I Am, But Also, Ultra Super New. Singapore
2019 – Experimental Exhibition – Apotheca, Suma Orientalis, Kuala Lumpur
2019 – Permanent Installation – Did They Live Happily Ever After? ChinaHouse, Penang, Malaysia
2019 – Group Exhibition – Open Studios Penang, Penang, Malaysia
2019 – Group Exhibition – Bedroom Zine Club at Bedroom TKT, Hong Kong
2019 – Group Exhibition – Artwalk Little India at Ultra Super New in collaboration with Singapore Art Week (SG)
2018 – Group Exhibition – TCC Art Moves, Singapore
2018 – Group Exhibition – Sound Reasons, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi
2018 – Group Exhibition – Fan Death in Bedroom, Hong Kong – The Little Death
2018 – Solo Exhibition – Chan Davies Art Prize 2018, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore – O Her!
2018 – Group Exhibition – MeshMinds 1.0, Art Science Museum, Singapore – Singapore Sound Sculptures
2018 – Group Exhibition – ASEAN Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, High Commission of India, Singapore
2017 – Group Exhibition – One Night Only, McNally School of Fine Arts – #HerPleasure Performance
2017 – Collaboration with BA (Hons) Musical Theatre, McNally School of Fine Arts – Picasso’s Women
2016 – Group Exhibition – One Night Only, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2015 – Group Exhibition – Collective Consciousness, The Arts House, Singapore
Writing, Seminars & Symposiums
2022 – Docent – Ilham Art Gallery, Malaysia for the Ilham Art Show
2022 – Residency – L’AIR Arts, Intercultural exchange, Paris
2021 – Essay Writing – Carrier Bag: Gathering as Collecting, Women Collectors of Malaysia
2021 – Reading Group, Co-Moderator – Constructing the Body, Malaysia Design Archive, Kuala Lumpur
2020 – Podcast – Shangri-La ART Podcast by Chan + Hori Contemporary
2020 – Residency – L’Air Paris, postponed to October 2021 due to Covid 19
2019 – Speaker – FEMeeting 2019, Portugal
2019 – Panel Discussion – Panelist S.E.A. Focus – Art Making in Singapore, Opportunities and Challenges
2019 – Writer – Art & Market – artandmarket.net
2018 – Dissertation Presentation Seminar – Trans/Missions 2018 – McNally School of Fine Arts
2018 – Writer – Praxis Press – Review of MA Symposium 2018
2017 – Writer – Praxis Press – Review of Singapore Biennale 2017
Education and Work Experience
August 2015 – 2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts, McNally School of Fine Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts & Goldsmith University London, Singapore
2014
Certificate in Western Art, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Certificate in Abstract Art, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2013
Docent – Singapore Art Museum
Certificate in Modern Art History, LaSalle
College of the Arts, Singapore
Certificate in Drawing Using the Right Side of the Brain, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
Assistant Curator, Redress, a non-profit art show for Bamboo Networks, Singapore
2012
Counselor, Anonymous Testing Clinic, Action for Aids
2011 – 2002: Marketing & Advertising
Manager – Marketing and Brand – Kalpataru Retail Ventures Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai
Group Brand Director – Bates Asia, Mumbai
Deputy Manager, Marketing – Future Group, Mumbai
Strategic Planner – Lowe Lintas, Mumbai
Account Manager – Lowe Scanad, Nairobi, Kenya
Senior Account Executive – Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
2001: Higher Education
Master’s in Commerce & Economics, University of Mumbai, 2001
Post Graduate in Management and Business Administration, Mumbai Educational Trust,
Specialization – Marketing, 2001
Certified Bartender, Movie Buff and Yoga fan
Press Mentions / Interviews:
BBC Click, UK – January 13, 2018 – Singapore Sound sculptures
The Straits Times, Singapore – July 24, 2018 – O Her! Chan Davies Art Prize 2018,
Zaobao.sg – August 5, 2018 – Chan Davies Art Prize 2018.
S.E.A. Focus (2019) Panel Discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnR4DGqNyZI&list=PLle7gOTOd__GOEaqDnLG373YAQXTi97MJ&index=4
Interview on IGTV with Belas-Artes Ulisboa (National Academy of Fine Arts – Lisbon), Portugal, 2020
http://5md.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/2020/06/04/dipali_gupta/
https://www.a-list.sg/the-art-of-adapting-to-change/
https://www.cendana.com.my/library/our-library/lensa-seni/hypnotherapy-and-video-images-in-dipali-guptas-uncertain-relaxation-installation-provoke-thoughts-about-man-machine-and-the-in-between
CNA 938 Singapore Stories
https://www.tamilmurasu.com.sg/tabla/singapore/drawing-attention-feminine-issues?fbclid=IwAR1pSR7MA4tj1kkPZssFh_diLFWZG3AnxI7wiN_TninJgbPyITHsmVWWMII
Mumbai, India, 1977. Lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Instagram: @dipalianurag
www.dipaligupta.net
Research/Reading References
Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. | New York: Routledge, 1991. | Jones, Amelia. Body Art Performing the Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. | Mitchell, W J T. “What Do Pictures Really Want?” Visual Culture, Modernity, and Art History (1996): 71-82. Preciado, Paul B. | Testo Junkie, Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era,. | New York: the Feminist Press, 2013. Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari. | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Comella, Lynn. Vibrator Nation. | Durham and London: Duke University Press, n.d. Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari. | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. | Yen, Yuehping. Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. | Pocius, Genevieve. “Temporality, Spatiality and Looking in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962).” 2015. http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/fll_etds. | MUSAC. Lexcture Performance, New Artistic Formats. 2017. <http://conferenciaperformativa.org/en/project/>. | Milder, Patricia. Teaching As Art The Contemporary Lecture Performance. 2010. <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/PAJJ_a_00019>.