Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator based in London and New Delhi. Born in New Delhi (1953) and educated at the Royal College of Art (London 1983,) he has been involved with a independent photography as a critical practice for many years. His last solo show, "Sun City and other stories" was at the Alliance Francaise Gallery, New Delhi 2012 and his last book, "Queer" was published by Prestel/Vadehra Art Gallery in 2011. His work has been seen in many important group shows including "Paris, Bombay, Delhi..." at the Pompidou Centre, Paris 2011. He is Visiting Faculty at NID, Ahmedabad and Visiting Professor at UCA, Farnham UK. His work is in many public collections including; George Eastman House (Rochester, USA), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tate Britain, Royal Ontario Museum and Harvard University. His work is represented by the Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi), SepiaEye (New York) and the Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto).

WORK

Untitled
by Sunil Gupta
From the series 'Country'
2006-2011

ESSAYS

Queer Cruising in a Time Capsule

by Ksenia M. Soboleva

The 1970s in the United States was a decade marked by conflict: the Vietnam War, the race riots, the debates over women’s equality, not to mention inflation and unemployment. Yet for some groups the decade was also marked by sexual liberation, as the Stonewall Riots of 1969 (incited by black drag queens,

In conversation with Sunil Gupta

by Radhika Singh

Born in New Delhi in 1953, Sunil Gupta left India when his family emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1969. He subsequently studied in New York, and finally settled in London to live and work. In 2004, Sunil came back to India with his first autobiographical exhibition and stayed in New Delhi for seven

Me, Myself and You

by Keith Wallace

For over four decades, Sunil Gupta has successfully weathered the often troubled terrain of what are possibly two of the most maligned genres in the fine arts -the photographic documentary and the portrait, the latter often embedded within the former. While exhibitions of documentary and portrait photography

Sunil Gupta

Queer Cruising in a Time Capsule

In conversation with Sunil Gupta

Me, Myself and You

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