Sunil Gupta Charan Singh - Eric, Venezuela
from the series, "Arrival", Birmingham 2022.
Collaboration : Sunil Gupta+Charan SIngh. Portraits of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to the UK, commissioned by Fierce, Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games 2022
Charan Singh (b. New Delhi, India 1978) MFA (UCA), PhD (RCA) uses the mediums of photography, video and text to explore his 'pre-English language' gay life and his close involvement with HIV/AIDS work and ‘queer’ community activism in India. His first institutional solo was commissioned by The Art House, Wakefield. Previously his work and writing has been shown at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, New Art Gallery, Walsall, Camden Art Centre, Photo South Asia, TAP Review, and On Curating. Singh has been commissioned by Visual Aids, Arcus Foundation (NYC), and Fierce (Birmingham). His work is in several private collections.
Sunil Gupta is a British/Canadian citizen, (b. New Delhi 1953) MA (RCA) PhD (Westminster) who lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues. A retrospective was shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2020/21) and The Image Center, Toronto. He is a Professorial Fellow at UCA, Farnham. His recent book is “We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference, Selected Writings by Sunil Gupta”, Aperture New York 2022. His work is in many private and public collections including; the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is represented by Hales Gallery (New York, London), Materià Gallery (Rome), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi).
Sunil Gupta Charan Singh - Eric, Venezuela
from the series, "Arrival", Birmingham 2022.
Collaboration : Sunil Gupta+Charan SIngh. Portraits of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to the UK, commissioned by Fierce, Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games 2022
Charan Singh (b. New Delhi, India 1978) MFA (UCA), PhD (RCA) uses the mediums of photography, video and text to explore his 'pre-English language' gay life and his close involvement with HIV/AIDS work and ‘queer’ community activism in India. His first institutional solo was commissioned by The Art House, Wakefield. Previously his work and writing has been shown at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, New Art Gallery, Walsall, Camden Art Centre, Photo South Asia, TAP Review, and On Curating. Singh has been commissioned by Visual Aids, Arcus Foundation (NYC), and Fierce (Birmingham). His work is in several private collections.
Sunil Gupta is a British/Canadian citizen, (b. New Delhi 1953) MA (RCA) PhD (Westminster) who lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues. A retrospective was shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2020/21) and The Image Center, Toronto. He is a Professorial Fellow at UCA, Farnham. His recent book is “We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference, Selected Writings by Sunil Gupta”, Aperture New York 2022. His work is in many private and public collections including; the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is represented by Hales Gallery (New York, London), Materià Gallery (Rome), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi).