Thukral & Tagra is an artist team made up of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. T&T, as they are commonly called, work in a wide variety of media including, but not limited to, graphics, videos, music, interiors, product design and paintings.

Based in New Delhi the pair are one of the highest profile artists of the young delhi art scene. Their style is heavily graphics influenced and has a pop sensibility to it. The pair met while working in a commercial graphics studio.

Artwork

Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between Fine Art and Popular Culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. Their works comment on the globalization of consumer culture and the repercussions of this as it is being experienced in India today. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions about the nature of Indian identity as it is articulated by Indians themselves and projected on to India by the rest of the world.

Jiten Thukral

Jiten Thukral was born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He studied art at Chandigarh Art College where he received a BFA in 1998 and New Delhi College of Art where he received his MFA in 2000.

Sumir Tagra

Sumir Tagra was born 1979, New Delhi, India.
He received his BFA in 2002 from New Delhi College of Art and conducted post graduate work at the Indian National Institute of Design in 2006.

Solo Exhibitions

2011

• “Put It On, Again!”- Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , New Delhi
• “Thukral & Tagra Foundation”- Project Booth, Art Summit
  India Art Summit
  India Art Summit is an Indian modern and contemporary art fair held in New Delhi, India. The fair include paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, prints, drawings and video art. The fair is organized at Pragati Maidan, one of India's largest and oldest exhibitions ground. It is usually...
  
  , New Delhi
• “Solo Show”- Btap Gallery and Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo

2010

• “Middle Class Dreams”- Arario Gallery, Seoul
• “Low-Tech Family Vacations”- Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
• “Match Fixed/Fixed Match”- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2009

• “Nouveau Riche”- Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , Berlin
• “Thukral & Tagra, 315 Sector 23, Opp Bosedk Mall”- Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

2008

• “New Improved Bosedk”- Gallery Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai
• “Somnium Genero 02” - Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
• “Somnium Genero Cafe”- Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo

2007

• “Adolescere-Domus”- Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia
• “Put it On”- Bose Pacia
  Bose Pacia Gallery
  Bose Pacia is an art gallery located in New York City, with partners in New Delhi, Gallery Nature Morte, and Berlin, .Established in 1994, Bose Pacia was the first gallery in the West to specialize in contemporary art from South Asia. During the past decade Bose Pacia has held over 70 exhibitions...
  
  , New York
• “Everyday Bosedk”- Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , New Delhi

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2006

• “Vector Classics”- Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai
• “Vector Classics”- Alliance Francaise, New Delhi

2005

• “Iconography” bosedkdesigns.com - Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , New Delhi

Group Exhibitions

2011

• "FUTURE PASS", 54th Venice Biennale, venice
• "Indian Highway" Maxxi Museum, Roma, Italy (september)
• “Paris-Delhi-Bombay" Centre Georges Pompidou – France”
• “Indian Highway IV” Museé d'art contemporain de Lyon, France
• “Maximum India”- Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.

2010

• Bosedk project, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver
• “Urban Matters 2” - SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo
• “Khoj-in-Context” - Public Art.Ecology, New Delhi
• “11th Hour” - Tang Contemporary, Beijing
• “Inside India” - Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin
• Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademie, New Delhi

2009

• “Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Essl Museum, Vienna
• “Escape for the Dream Land”- Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Arts 06 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

2008

• “The Audience & the Eavesdropper”- Philips de Pury, London and New York
• “Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art”- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• “Make Art Stop AIDS”- UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
• “Imaginary Realities”- Max Wigram Gallery, London
• “Face East”- Wedel Fine Art, London

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2007

• “Animamix Biennial”- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
• “New Delhi New Wave”- Marella Gallery, Milan
• “Size Matters”- Art Consult, New Delhi; Galerie Mirchandani & Steinruecke, Mumbai
• Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai

2006

• “Global Edit 06”- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan

2005

• “New Paintings”- Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte
  Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art. It currenty has three locations, galleries in New Delhi, Gurgaon , and Berlin . Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.- History :The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally...
  
  , New Delhi

2004

• “Visual Dialogue”- Hype Gallery, London

Awards

• 101 Emerging Designers of the World – Wallpaper Magazine, Global Edit 2006
• D&AD 2005
• One Show Interactive 2005
• Limca Book of Records 2004
• One Show (New York) 2004, 2003
• One Show Design (New York) 2004, 2003
• Red Hot Ogilvy 2003
• Graphis International Awards 2003
• London international Awards 2003

Commissioned Projects

Conde Nast India,
United Colors of Benetton,
Ogilvy & Mather,
Nokia,
Pepsi

Works

Links

• Thukral & Tagra's Website
• Thukral & Tagra at Nature Morte