Nitin Mukul was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and based in Queens, NYC. In 2020 he was awarded an Artist Residency at the Caldera Arts Center in Sisters, Oregon, and is the recipient of a 2020 New Works Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. In 2019 he completed video installations at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn and Lincoln Center, NYC. He exhibits with Aicon Gallery, NYC and has shown at Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles; Nature Morte, New Delhi, and The Guild, Mumbai. His work was included in the 2013 Queens Biennial at the Queens Museum. Mukul was a studio assistant to the late artist Sol Lewitt, and a former creative director of the Indocenter of Art & Culture in Chelsea. His work was recently acquired by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi.
Education
UMASS Amherst BFA 1992
Exhibitions & Screenings (selected)
Rosebud Contemporary, New York | Vision of the Invisible | Exhibition of Drawings | March, 2024
Sunview Lunchnet | The Animist Cookbook | Brooklyn | January, 2020
Institute of Contemporary Art | Nitin Mukul and Ka Baird | Philadelphia | May, 2019
Rubin Museum | Out of the Woods | New York | March 28, 2019
Secret Project Robot | Nitin Mukul and Leyna Marika Papach | Brooklyn | December 11, 2018
Pioneer Works | Ragas Live | Brooklyn | October 6-7, 2018
Lincoln Center | Outside (In)dia | New York | April 13, 2018
Lalit Kala Akademi | New Delhi | First India Biennale of Printmaking | March – April 22, 2018
Aicon Gallery | Hyperreal | New York | March-April 2018, 2017
Lincoln Center | Outside (In)dia | New York | September 8, 2017
Aicon Gallery | Sown Together | New York | January, 2017
Poetic Research Bureau | @SEA | Los Angeles | Oct.. 4, 2015
Consulate General of India | Aerogramme | NYC | June – August, 2015
12 Gates Gallery | 12 Gates Film Festival | Philadelphia | Feb. 28, 2015
India Art Fair | New Delhi | Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2015
Art Stage Singapore | Jan. 22 – Jan. 25, 2015
Aicon Gallery | those that blossom and the blossomless | New York | Nov. 7 – Dec. 6, 2014
Aicon Gallery | India Art Fair | New Delhi | Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2014
UMASS, Amherst | Splintering Signals | Chitra Ganesh and Nitin Mukul | Oct. 30 – Nov. 22, 2013
Queens Museum of Art | “Queens International” | Nov. 9, 2013 – Jan. 19, 2014
Scope Art Fair, NYC, March, 2013
Aicon Gallery | NYC | Fact/Fission | December 6 – January 19, 2013
Aicon Gallery | Art Dubai | Dubai, UAE | March 16 – 19, 2011
Aicon Gallery | Reprise | New Delhi | January 13 – February 12, 2011
Aicon Gallery | India Art Summit | New Delhi | January 20 -23, 2011
Asian Arts Initiative | Of Filmi Love and Other Demons | Philadelphia, PA | October 1 – November 24, 2010
Monkeytown | Screening of ‘Red Raga’ and ‘Kali’ | Williamsburg, Brooklyn | January 17, 2010
Aicon Gallery | NYC | Malleable Memory | July 22 – September 8, 2010
Exit Art | NYC | What Matters Most | April 15 – 28, 2010
Aicon Gallery | NYC | Discerning Form | December 15 – January 15, 2010
India Art Summit (Gallery Espace) | Delhi | August, 2009
Scope Basel 2009 (Primo Marella Gallery)
Art Hong Kong 2009 (Primo Marella Gallery)
Asian Contemporary Art Week 2009 | Asia Society, NYC
Gallery Arts I | Delhi | The Nature of the City December 16, 2008 – January 15, 2009
Curated by Nitin Mukul & Alexander Keefe
Art Asia Miami (The Guild) | Miami, FL | December 4 – 7, 2008
Gallery Espace | Delhi | Video Wednesday | October 29, 2008
The Guild | NYC | I Woke Up Somewhere Else | June 19 – July 17, 2008
The Affordable Art Fair | NYC | June 11 – June 14, 2008
EnGendered | Lincoln Center | NYC | April, 2008
Nature Morte Annex | Delhi | January – February, 2008
India Habitat Centre | Delhi | House of the Rising Sun | December, 2007
Hampden Gallery | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Americaura | October – November, 2007
Red Earth India | Delhi | The Monsoon Show | August, 2007
SAHMAT | Delhi | Making History Our Own | March, 2007 curated by Ram Rahman
Arlington Arts Center | Virginia | Remix: East-West Currents in Contemporary Art | August – September, 2006
curated by Debra Diamond (The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Asian Arts Initiative | Philadelphia | Neither Here Nor There | Feb-March, 2006
Queens Museum of Art | NYC | Edge of Desire / Fatal Love | 2005
P.S. 122 | NYC | “Blow the Conch” | 2004 curated by Nitin Mukul
Media & Reviews (selected)
White Hot Magazine | by Susannah Edelbaum | February, 2013
Al Jazeera | by Dinesh Sharma | January 13, 2013
The New York Press | by Melissa Stern | June 13, 2012
The Philadelphia Inquirer | by Victoria Donohoe | June 24, 2011
The Wall Street Journal | Malleable Memory | by Vibhuti Patel | 2010
Asian Art News | I Woke Up Somewhere Else | by Priya Malhotra | September/October 2008
Platform magazine | January, 2008
Time Out magazine (Delhi edition) | by Sonal Shah | December, 2007
Fallonandrosof.com | February, 2006
New York Times | Art in Review | by Holland Cotter | March 27, 2005