Pooja Iranna

About The Artist

Scholarships And Awards

• Junior Fellowship by Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India, 1998-99
• National Scholarship by Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India, 1992-95
• Charles Wallace India Trust Award,2002
• Outstanding Women Achievers Award by (YFLO), A wing of FICCI, India, 2009
• CELESTE Prize Finalist, 2010 for Video ‘ANOTHER NEW BEGINNING’
• SCODA Prize, First 20 Finalist, for 2010 & 2011.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2010 : ‘IN THE WAVES AND UNDERNEATH’, PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI
• 2009 : ‘OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR’, THE GUILD, MUMBAI, ESSAY BY DEEKSHA NATH
• 2003-2004 : ‘METAMORPHIC MATHEMATICS’, AT CHITRA KALA PARISHAT, B’LORE, THE GUILD ART GALLERY, MUMBAI AND AT SRIDHARANI GALLERY, DELHI, ESSAY BY PETER NAGY
• 2002 : ‘REFLECTIONS’, WIMBLEDON SCHOOL OF ART, LONDON
• 1999 : ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’, ART INC, NEW DELHI, ESSAY BY ROOBINA KARODE
• 1996 : ‘PAPER WORKS’, SHRIDHARANI GALLERY, NEW DELHI.

Selected Group Shows

• 2018: ‘NEGOTIATION IN CONTESTED SPACE’, THE GUILD ,MUMBAI AND ART HERITAGE,NEW DELHI,INDIA
• 2015-2016: ‘THE EYE AND THE MIND: NEW INTERVENTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ART’, GAUNGDONG MUSEUM OF ART,GUANGZHOU,CHINA AND NATIONAL GALLERY OF MORDERN ART, INDIA
• 2015 : RETINA-ROME VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, AT MACRO CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF ROME.
• 2015 : WORKING SPACE AROUND MEMORY AND PERCEPTION, CURATED BY ROOBINA KARODE, KIREN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, NEW DELHI.
• 2015 : ‘MY MEMORY,YOUR HISTORY:NARRATIVES ON THE NORTH’ CURATED BY PRIYA PALL, BIRLA ACADEMY OF ART AND CULTURE, KOLKATTA, INDIA
• 2014 :THE C(H)HROMA SHOW, ORGANISED BY MARIALAURA GHIDINI AND TARA KELTON (FOR T.A.J. RESIDENCY AND SKE PROJECTS, BANGALORE, INDIA
• 2014 : ARTCHIVING, CHAPTER 2 ,CURATED BY RANJITA CHANEY, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI, INDIA
• 2014 : ‘NOTHING, NO THING‘ CURATED BY BOSE KRISHNAMACHARI, INDIAN PLATFORM FOR ART STAGE SINGAPORE.
• 2014 : ‘ODE TO THE MONUMETAL’, BY SAFFRON ART, NEW DELHI.
• 2013 : ‘IMAGINING THE PAST, ENVISIONING THE FUTURE’ , CURATED BY PRIYA PALL, TRANSPORT MUSEUM, MANESAR, GURGAON
• 2013 : ‘CREATIVE RISING’, ARTWORK PROJECTED ON LINC LIC BUILDING AND SEE.ME GALLERY, NEW YORK
• 2013 : ‘UP ABOVE THE WORLD’, CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, AICON GALLERY, NEW YORK.
• 2013 : ‘TIME, SPACE, MEMORIES’, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI.
• 2013 : ‘ORGANIC DREAMS OF ELECTRIC SHEEP’, ‘FOCUS’ PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, THE GUILD, MUMBAI
• 2012-2013 : 15TH ASIAN ART BIENNALE, BANGLADESH
• 2012-2013 : SPELL OF SPILL UTOPIA OF ECOLOGY, CURATED BY VEERANGANA SOLANKI, PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI
• 2012 : ‘VIDEO WEDNESDAY II’ CURATED BY GAYATRI SINHA, GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI.
• 2012 : ‘CYNICAL LOVE:LIFE IN THE EVERYDAY’, CURATED BY GAYATRI SINHA, KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, (KNMA), NOIDA, INDIA.
• 2012 : ‘2 +2 =5′. PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI.
• 2012 : ‘THE CONTEMPORARY SULTANATE’, CURATED BY VEERANGANA SOLANKI FOR EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI.
• 2011 : ‘FRAGILITY’ CURATED BY RAKHEE BALRAM, ART ALIVE, GURGAON, INDIA
• 2011 : ‘FRAGILE’, 1X1 GALLERY, DUBAI
• 2011 : ‘IN YOU IS THE ILLUSION OF EACH DAY’, CURATED BY MAYA KOVSKAYA, LATITUDE 28, NEW DELHI.
• 2011 : ‘FABULAR BODIES’, CURATED BY GAYATRI SINHA, HARMONY ART FOUNDATION, MUMBAI.
• 2011 : ‘PALIMPSEST’, EXPLORING COMPOUND IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART
• 2011 : ‘MINISCULE MARVEL’, PRESENTED BY CONTEMPLATE AT GALLERY BMB, MUMBAI
• 2011 : ‘TIME UNFOLDED’, KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART (KNMA), NEW DELHI
• 2011 : ‘THE INTUITIVE: LOGIC REVISTED’, FROM THE OSIANS COLLECTION AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
• 2011 : ‘MILANGE’, THE HARRINGTON STREET ARTS CENTRE,KOLKATA.
• 2011 : ‘WRITING VISUALS’, W + K EXP, NEW DELHI
• 2010 : ‘ART CELEBRATES 2010: SPORTS AND THE CITY’, CURATED BY ROOPIKA CHAWLA, FOR COMMONWEALTH GAMES, NEW DELHI.
• 2010 : INTERNATIONAL STREAMING FESTIVAL, 6TH EDITION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS.
• 2010 : LIQUID CITIES & TEMPORARY IDENTITIES, VIDEO ART & ARCHITECTURE EVENT, NETHERLANDS
• 2010 : FEMININE RECITALS , CURATED BY VEERANGANA SOLANKI, EXHIBIT 320, NEW DELHI
• 2010 : INVISIBLE CITIES, AICON, NEW YORK
• 2009-10 : ‘ON CANVAS -1′, GALLERY ART MOTIF, NEW DELHI.
• 2009 : ‘VICISSITUDES OF THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE’, TANGERINE ART SPACE, BANGALORE
• 2009 : LOST IN AN URBAN MAZE, PALETTE ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI.
• 2009 : THE LANDSCAPES OF WHERE CURATED BY NANCY ADAJANIA FOR GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUECKE, MUMBAI.
• 2009 : ‘THINK SMALL’, ART ALIVE GALLERY, NEW DELHI
• 2009 : ‘ART HK 09’, HONG KONG PRESENTED BY THE GUILD, MUMBAI
• 2009 : ‘THE MINIATURE FORMAT SHOW’, SANS TACHE GALLERY, MUMBAI
• 2009 : ‘ZIP FILES’, CURATED BY RANJIT HOUSKOTE AT RELIGERE,NEW DELHI AND TAO GALLERY, MUMBAI
• 2008 : ‘MIART 2008’, FIERA MILANO INTERNATIONAL SPA, MILAN REPRESENTED BY THE GUILD, MUMBAI
• 2008 : GROUP SHOW AT GALLERY 1X1, DUBAI.
• 2008 : ‘DAS MAHAVIDYAS:TEN CREATIVE FORCES’, FOUR GALLERIES ACROSS INDIA
• 2008 : RECENT WORKS BY POOJA IRANNA & SOJWAL SAWANT, GALLERY ESPACE, DELHI.
• 2008 : TRENDS & TRIVIA BY BHAVANA KAKKAR AT VISUAL ARTS CENTRE, HONG KONG.
• 2008 : WALK THE LINE, CURATED BY RANJITA CHANEY, AVANTHAY CONTEMPORARY, ZURICH.
• 2007 : ‘TELLING IT LIKE IT IS’, GROUP SHOW AT THE GALLERY, IN CORK STREET, LONDON BY GALLERY ESPACE.
• 2007 : ‘INDIA REVEALED’, CURATED BY ANTONIO MANFRED, AT CAM, CASORIA CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, NAPLES, ITALY.
• 2007 : ‘READING PAINT’, BY GALLERY SOULFLOWER, BANGKOK.
• 2007 : 2007 KOREA-INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART EXCHANGE EXHIBITION, SEOUL, KOREA.
• 2007 : ‘PAPER FLUTE’ CURATED BY JOHNY M.L. AT GALLERY ESPACE, DELHI.
• 2007 : ‘EMERGING INDIA’, BY ART ALIVE, AT THE HENRY MOORE GALLERY, LONDON.
• 2007 : ‘DOES SIZE MATTER I &II’,CURATED BY BHAVNA KAKAR, N.DELHI & MUMBAI.
• 2006 : ‘AVATARS OF THE OBJECT’, CURATED BY NANCY ADAJANIA, FOR THE GUILD ART GALLERY, MUMBAI
• 2006 : ‘MAKING OF DIVINITY’, CURATED BY INA PURI, FOR SAKSHI ART GALLERY, MUMBAI.
• 2006 : ‘AROUND ARCHITECTURE’, CURATED BY MARTA JAKIMOWICZ, FOR COLAB ART & ARCHITECTURE, B’LORE.
• 2006 : ‘NEW PARADIGMS III’ BY GALLERY THRESHOLD, N.DELHI.
  2005 : ‘BRIDGES, EXPLORING NEW PARADIGMS’, ART ALIVE GALLERY, N.DELHI.
• 2005 : ‘TOWARDS ABSTRACTION’, CURATED BY MARTA JAKIMOWICZ FOR GALLERY THRESHOLD, N.DELHI.
• 2005 : ‘NEGOTIATING MATTERS/S’ CURATED BY ROOBINA KARODE, FOR ANANT GALLERY, NEW DELHI.
• 2005 : ‘RESONANCE’, CURATED BY K.T.RAVINDRAN, FOR GOLDEN JUBILEE OF LALIT KALA ACADEMI.
• 2003-2004 : ‘DOTS AND PIXELS’ DIGITAL ART, AT GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI, & GALLERY SUMOKHA, B’LORE
• 2003 : ‘DREAMS: PROJECTS UNREALISED’, CURATED BY JOHNY M.L. AND MRINAL KULKARNI, NEW DELHI.
• 2003 : ‘MIGRATION, CITY, HOME’ CURATED BY AMIT MUKHOPADHAYA, KOLKATTA.
• 2002 : WORDS AND IMAGES, NATIONAL GALLERY OF MORDERN ART, MUMBAI.
• 2002 : ‘CLOSET/CLOSETS’ CURATED BY MRINAL KULKARNI, NEW DELHI.
• 2001 : TWO PAINTER’S SHOW WITH IRANNA G.R. AT APPARAO GALLERIES, CHENNAI.
• 2001 : ‘NORTH ZONE GROUP’ CURATED BY PROBIR GUPTA AT TAO ART GALLERY, MUMBAI.
• 2001 : ‘KALEIDOSCOPE’ – ISU INTERNATIONAL ART GALLERY, SINGAPORE
• 2001 : ‘ART IN HERIDITY’, HABIART GALLERY, NEW DELHI.
• 2001 : ‘ENGENDERING – IMAGES OF WOMEN’, AT THE GUILD ART GALLERY, MUMBAI.
• 1999 : ‘EDGE OF THE CENTURY’, CURATED BY AMIT MUKHOPADHAYA, NEW DELHI.
• 1999 : ‘TWO WOMEN ARTISTS’, THE GUILD, MUMBAI
• 1999 : ‘WOMEN FOR W.I.S.E., EXHIBITION AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART (NGMA) MUMBAI
• 1998 : GROUP SHOW BY FIVE ARTISTS, AT GALLERY ESPACE, NEW DELHI.
• 1995 : 16TH ALL INDIA EXHIBITION BY CHITRA KALA PARISHAD, BANGALORE
• 1993 : TWO WOMEN ARTIST SHOW, AT SHRIDHARANI GALLERY, NEW DELHI.
• 1992,98 : ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF ALL INDIA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY (A.I.F.A.C.S.), NEW DELHI
• 1994,97 : KALA MELA, NEW DELHI
• 1991 : ‘SEARCH FOR YOUNG TALENT’ BY VEDHERA ART GALLERY, NEW DELHI.