Biography

Paribartana Mohanty’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, performance-lecture, storytelling and writing. Mohanty also works with WALA, an artist collective based in Delhi that engages in public, community and site-specific art projects, public performances and guided tours in the city.

His work has been presented in a number of exhibitions, including Kino Is the Name of a Forest, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2012); Trace, School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, New Delhi (2017); Hangar for the passerby, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Noida, India (2017); ReFramed, 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination, Transart Triennale (2016) and Regained, 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016). As part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, he curated the Kochi Students’ Biennale along with 14 other young curators.
He is the recipient of the FICA Emerging Artist Award (2010) and 'City as Studio', Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Media Practices (2010). He was selected for the International Creator Residency at Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (2014), participated in the Art and Science residency at KHŌJ International Artist Association, New Delhi (2015) and was a studio resident at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, US (2016).

Mohanty earned a Bachelor in Fine Art (Printmaking) from the Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Odisha, India (2004) and a Master in the History of Art from the National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi (2006). Born in 1982 in Orissa, India, he currently lives and works in New Delhi.

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