Gopa Trivedi
October 20, 2023 2024-09-17 13:07Gopa Trivedi
Gopa Trivedi
Born in 1987 Gopa Trivedi is a Delhi-based Artist and Educator. Her works are attempts to address social and individual concerns by creating subversive idioms using seemingly insignificant spaces or objects. As an artist her sensibilities are deeply rooted in the Indian Miniaturist traditions, where she attempts to re-infuse and often re-contextualize miniature court styles by fusing traditional painting methods with new media.
Apart from her own practice, she has been actively engaged with art education since 2016. She completed her BFA in Painting (2010) and MFA with a specialization in Painting (2012) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. She was shortlisted for the Lepsien Foundation Emerging Artist Award in 2015 and has been a recipient of the UMISSA Scholarship from S.A.F India in 2013.
Recent participations include Art Dubai with LATITUDE 28, Dubai (2023 and 2022); Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023 and 2022); India Art Fair with LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2023 and 2022); ‘Multitudes & Assemblages’ with LATITUDE 28, Artissima (Hub India) curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Italy (2021); ‘Playhouse of Her Mind’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2021); ‘Telling Tales: A journey into narrative forms’, Anant Art (2020); ‘Visions in the Making’ by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, Italian Embassy (2020); India Art Fair 2020 with Italian Embassy, New Delhi (2020).
Gopa Trivedi’s practice weaves the rhizomatic connections between her lived and intangible experiences—conversations, daily encounters, travels and so on. This practice of constantly drawing parallels has brought forth a porosity in the borders between what is considered personal or individualistic, and all that is culturally shared—be it visual, literary, or oral.
Collective knowledge systems that take the form of histories, stories, myths, and fables, then seem to blur the distinctions between “Us” and “Them.” Her visual vocabulary often refers to nature, domestic spaces, and mundane objects, in an attempt to capture the transient essence of things by incorporating the ubiquitous cyclical aspects of degeneration, transformation, and mutations through sequential images, repetition, and patterns.
Coming from Lucknow (known for being one of the cultural hubs in India), literature for her has always been an integral part of growing up. Owing to this, her experiences and observations often manifest as visual counterparts to figures of speech—analogies, metaphors, puns and so on—which then allow for something in between a ‘viewing’ and ‘reading’ of the works.
Authored
- “Magical World of Wild: Visual Learning Series 1” for Art1st Publication 2017
- “People and Places: Visual Learning Series 2” for Art1st Publication 2017.
- Mumbai Art Fair Mumbai 2023 with Latitude 28 “Echos Fragiles” curated by Shifting Frames, Marseille, France, 2023
- Art SG, Singapore, 2023 with Latitude 28
- Art Dubai 2023 with Latitude 28
- Art Dubai 2022 with Latitude 28
- India Art Fair 2022 with Latitude 28
- “ Hub India – Classical Radical” Artissima, at Accademia Albertina , Tirino, Italy, 2021
- India Art Fair 2020 with Italian Embassy, 2020
- India Art Fair 2019 with Anant Art, 2019.
- Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi 2023
- “Echoes of the Land”, Sarmaya X Ojas Art, New Delhi 2022
- Delhi Contemporary Art Week, New Delhi 2022
- “World awaits you like a Garden” Latitude 28, New Delhi 2022
- “ Play House of her Mind” Latitude 28 New Delhi, 2021
- “Telling Tales: A Journey into narrative forms” with Anant Art, 2020
- “ The constitution of India at 70” by Aban Raza, at Sahmat, 2020
- “Visions in the Making” by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, at Italian Embassy, 2020
- “Ijtema”, curated by Sundas Azfer, Lahore, Pakistan, 2017.
- “Studio 7”, curated by Sundas Azfer, Dubai, 2016
- “Reconstructing home” Serena Gallery, curated by Sundas Azfer, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2015 Lahore Literary Fest, Lahore, Pakistan, 2015
- “The Making Of Meaning” curated by- Mrs.Salima Hashmi, Zahoor ul Akhlak Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan, 2014.
- ‘The Other side of the Wall’ by Meenakshi Sengupta as a part of her Doctoral research, Shantiniketan, 2019
- “And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie..” with Anant Art, 2019 Dialogue en route Puri’ at Art Konsult, New Delhi, 2019
- “ME WE” curated by Maina Mukharjee, American center, New Delhi, 2018
- “LUMINOUSLY BETWEEN ETERNITIES” curated by Waswo x Waswo , at Gallery Ark, Vadodara, 2018
- “Contraband” New Delhi , 2017
- “ Unwinding” Nazar Art Gallery, Vadodara, 2016.
- “Back to college” Vad Fest, Vadodara, India 2015
- “Baroda Nexus” Art Konsoult, New Delhi, 2015
- “ A4” Priyashi Gallery, Vadodara, 2015
- “We have some Stardust” NIV , New Delhi, 2015
- “Metonymies/ Synecdoches” , curated by – Mario DSouza, At Read Earth, Vadodara 2014.
- Break out, at Read Earth, Vadodara 2013
- Allegories, at Art Konsoult, New Delhi. 2012 United Art Fair, New Delhi 2012
- Art bull India auction, New Delhi 2011
- Strand art room, Mumbai 2010
Introduction to painting. Introduction to printmaking. 2d Study
- UMISSA Scholarship from S.A.F India, to research and study the contemporary Miniatures in Pakistan 2013
- Nasreen Muhammadi Scholarship, 2011
- Jairam Patel award , 2010. Residency in Orissa Organised by Matti India, 2017
- Residency at B.N.U Lahore, Pakistan, 12th march to 30th June 2014
- Residency at Indian Atelier Goa India, 9th sept. to 25th sept. 2013