Winners For 2014
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Young Collector of the Year
Anurag Khanna, Collector
Why he won
He is one of the few Indian art collectors whose collection includes primarily video works. Collecting Art since 2001, Mr Khanna efficiently devotes time for art, travels galleries, visits fairs and biennials. Some of the artists in his collection include: Nathalie Djuberg, Gerard Byrnes, Leigh Ledare, Tom Burr and Alejandro Cesarco.
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Contemporary Gallery of the Year (Exhibiting young artists)
EXPERIMENTER
Prateek & Priyanka Raja
Founders, Gallery ExperimenterWhy they won
Started by Prateek and Priyanka Raja, Experimenter highlights experimental and alternative artists from the entire South Asian sub continent and artists globally who have a South Asian connection to their practice. The gallery’s mission is to represent and support multidisciplinary work of young Indian and international artists.
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Gallery of the Year
Talwar Gallery
Deepak Talwar
Founder, Talwar Art galleryWhy they won
A contemporary gallery focusing on artists from the Indian subcontinent and its Diaspora. The ideological and visual spectra expressed through the gallery’s exhibitions in 2013 have been well received by the international media and major museums worldwide.
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Not-for-Profit Art Initiative of the Year
The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art
Vidya Shivadas
Director, Foundation of Indian Contemporary ArtWhy they won
Encouraging and promoting innovative work in the field of the visual arts, offering annual awards, grants and fellowship for Indian Artists, creative practitioners and researchers in the field of visual arts.
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Corporate Commitment to Art
GVK
Mr Sanjay Reddy
Founder Chairman & Managing Director of GVKWhy they won
Converting 4, 39,000 square meters of space at terminal 2 of the Mumbai International Airport into a large installation of art work of different mediums ornamenting it. The artists involved in the project are a mixture of local artisans and established artists.
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Auction of the Year
Christie's
Sonal Singh
Head of sales, Christies IndiaWhy they won
Collection of works by Ram Kumar, Jamini Roy, MF Husain, Nalini Malani, Nasreen Mohamedi, Anju Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Nandalal Bose and Amrita Sheer-Gil were showcased in the First auction in India which was a historical moment for Christies making a total of Rs 96,59,37,500.
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Emerging Curator of the Year
Zasha Colah & Sumesh Sharma, Curators
Why they won
Founding Directors and curators at the Clark house Initiative, Zasha and Sumesh have recently worked on projects “Arranging Chairs for Ai Weiwei”, “Experiments with the Magyars”and the “Workshop Model”.
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Exhibition of Indian art curated on an international stage
Ram Rahman & Jessica Moss
Ram Rahman
Photojournalist, artist, activist and curator
Jessica Moss, CuratorWhy they won
Curated “The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activisn in India since 1989” at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago which brought work of more than 60 artists showcasing two decades of contemporary Indian Art within the political sphere.
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Art Writer of the Year
Jyoti Dhar, Art writer
Why she won
An independent art writer and curator based in Delhi presently contributing editor for ArtAsiaPacifica and Harper’s Bazaar Art. Selected as a forum fellow of the Global Art Forum at Dubai in 2012.
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Solo Show of the year – Debut
Sahej Rahal, Artist
Why he won
A versatile artist, Rahal converts everything around him into a creative exploration. He is known to intersperse reality with illusion. He has collaborated and worked at international forums, both in India and abroad.
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Contemporary Artist of the Year (Senior)
Nasreen Mohamedi, Artist
Why she won
An artist best known for her line-based drawings, and considered one of the most essential modern artists from India. Mohamedi is considered one of the major figures of art of the 20th century
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Contemporary Artist of the Year (Senior)
Dr. Krishna Reddy, Artist
Why he won
Awarded the Padma Shree in 1972, Dr Reddy’s works can be found in several private and public collections, including the Victoria and Alber Museum, London, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Contemporary Artist of the Year (Mid Career)
Subodh Gupta, Artist
Why he won
Gupta’s works are littered with references to past and presen experiences. His constructions weave highly eccentric imagining with public myths and rituals. Drawing mainly from everyday objects and scenarios, his aesthetic delineates the complex inter-relations of India’s urban and rural communities
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Contemporary Artist of the Year (Young)
Rohini Devasher, Artist
Why she won
Born in 1978, Rohini Devasher lives and works in New Delhi. Devasher’s artistic practice explores the interface between the underlying laws and processes that governgrowth and form in biological and physical systems and their mirroring in the digital domain.
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Art Entrepreneur of the Year
Neha Kirpal, Founder, India Art Fair
Why she won
Neha Kirpal is the founder and fair director of the India Art Fair,which started in 2008. Under her direction, India Art Fair continues to be one of the worlds most attended art fairs, with over 300,000 people attending it over five editions.
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Art Initiative of the Year
Google Art Project
Amit Sood, Director, Google Cultural Institute and Founder Google Art ProjectWhy they won
An online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museum. Google launched the project on February 1, 2011, in cooperation with 17 museums.
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Special Commendations
Kochi Muziris Biennale
Bose Krishnamachar, Artistic Director, Kochi Muziris Biennale
Riyas Komu, Director of Programmes, Kochi Muziris BiennaleWhy they won
Kochi-Muziris Biennale explores the possibilities of blurring the boundaries, in a geographical region where boundaries are blurred in a local and cosmopolitan way, where the surroundings offer inspiration by way of the character of the place one can exhibit in.