Description
Artist Atul Bhalla and curator Carol Huh invite you to join them in the special exhibition Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India. In this gallery talk, hear from the artist about his works Piaus I and Yamuna Morning IV, now on view at the National Museum of Asian Art.
Atul Bhalla (India, b. 1964) received his BFA from the University of New Delhi and MFA from Northern Illinois University. Across diverse media and especially photography, his artistic production is shaped by interest in the relationship between water and the urban environment. The artist lives and works in New Delhi, where he is a professor in the Department of Art & Performing Art at Shiv Nadar University. He is represented by sepiaEYE in New York and Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi
Carol Huh is associate curator of contemporary Asian art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Huh focuses on current artistic production related to Asia through exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs.
Image credit: Yamuna Morning IV, Atul Bhalla (b. 1964, India), 2007, inkjet print on archival Hahnemüle paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Gift of Drs. Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, S2019.6.6, courtesy of the Artist and sepiaEYE