Exhibitions

 [at the Peabody Essex Museum unless noted]

Modern and Contemporary Art from India

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence, presenting three generations of painters between independence and the 1990s, drawn principally from the Peabody Essex Museum’s Herwitz Collection, 2013

 

Painting the Modern in India, featuring works by leading painters who came to prominence around the time of independence: Bal Chhabda, M. F. Husain, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, S. H. Raza, Paritosh Sen, F. N. Souza, 2010.

 

 

 

ReVisions: Indian Artists Engaging Traditions, co-curated with Kimberly Masteller in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum, pairing painting and sculpture by 14 of India’s leading artists with examples of traditional Indian art they used as resources for their work, 2009.

 

 

 

 

Gateway Bombay, presenting work of 13 painters and photographers in response to India’s largest city, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

Epic India:  M. F. Husain’s Mahabharata Project, a selection of the artist’s Mahabharata-themed work from the 1970s to the 1990s, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exposing the Source: Paintings by Nalini Malani, a mini-retrospective from the Herwitz Collection with key loans from private collections, 2005.

Visions of India, opening exhibition in the new Herwitz Gallery for Contemporary Indian Art, 2003.

 

 

Timeless Visions: Contemporary Art of India from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection,1999, at the Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, 2000.

A Tribute to Mother Teresa: Paintings and Prints by M. F. Husain from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 1997.

 

Traditional Art of India in the Modern Era

Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection, guest curated by Cathleen Cummings, 2010.

Of Gods and Mortals: Traditional Art of India, opening exhibition in the expanded and newly named Fadia Deshpande Gallery, 2006.

Heroes, Guardians, and Saviors, inaugural exhibition in the new gallery for Indian art, 2003.

Kalighat: On the Sublime and the Ridiculous, Popular Painting in 19^th Century Calcutta from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2001.

 

 

The Goddess in Indian Art, 1996.

Yankee Traders and Calcutta Merchants, exhibition from the Peabody Essex Museum collection at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta; mounted as the official United States exhibition in honor of Calcutta’s tercentenary, 1990.

From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan. Opened November 1994 at the Peabody Essex Museum, traveled in 1995-96 to the Textile Museum in Washington, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Exhibition award from American Association of Museums; video award from Chicago International Film Festival,1994.

Yankee Traders and Indian Merchants, 1785-1865, 1985.

 

Korean Art

Auspicious Wishes and Natural Beauty in Korean Art, 2007.

Auspicious Exuberance: Art of 19^th Century Korea, inaugural exhibition in the  Yu Kil-Chun Gallery for Korean art established by the Korea Foundation at the Peabody Essex Museum, 2003.

Profusion of Color: Korean Costumes and Wrapping Cloths of the Chosŏn Dynasty. Organized by the Asian Art Museum; curated by Kumja Paik Kim, 1996.

Paper and Pearl: Arts of Korea, 1996.

 

Other

Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350 – 1800. Organized by the Asian Art Museum; curated by Forrest McGill, 2006.

Tales from the Vault: From A to Z, hidden treasures of the Peabody Essex Museum, 1998

Friends of the House: Furniture from China’s Towns and Villages. Guest curated by Nancy Berliner, 1996.

The Collection of the Ota Borough Museum of Folk History,1992.

Bark Cloth from Polynesia, 1988.