Chanchal Banga was born in India and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv Jaffa, Israel.
His multidisciplinary practice, spanning painting, installation, and performance, explores themes of identity, mythology, and transformation.
Drawing from Indian cultural traditions and miniature painting, Banga creates a visual world inhabited by hybrid creatures, often part human, part animal.
His paintings evoke a mystical, dreamlike atmosphere, where foggy landscapes blur the line between the real and the surreal.
Banga balances minimalist forms with layered cultural references, and weaves humor, sexuality, and socio-political commentary into his work, reflecting on displacement, nature, and the evolving human condition.
Chanchal exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
Among them Ras Al Khaimah Art 24, United Arab Emirates (2024), Karpuchina Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2023), The Lab, TLV, Israel (2021); Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art & Studies, Israel (2008, 2020); Nova Scotia, Canada (2013), Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod Artist Village, Israel (2015, 2019); The NGMA Mumbai Museum, Mumbai, India (2015), Zadik Gallery Jaffa, Israel (2015, 2018), Tel Aviv Artists House, Israel (2011, 2014, 2016, 2022), Art Kino, Stockholm, Sweden (2010), Escape Gallery, New Delhi, India (2009), Jerusalem Artists House, Israel (2008),
His works are in private collections in Israel and around the world.
EDUCATION
2002 Post graduation in ‘Print Making’ Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Master Degree in fine arts ‘Printmaking’ from, MSU, Baroda, India
1997 Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts ‘Painting’, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India
1992 Junior Diploma in ‘Painting’ completed Sur Maya Sangit Samiti, Calcutta, India Fellowships
SCHOLARSHIP
2001-2002 Foreigner Minister Affairs, Israel Government, (Fine Arts)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Yellow immigration Room, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
Yellow Immigration Room, Artist House, Rishon LeZion, Israel (Curator: Sigal Manor)
2021
Beware! The Tiger is Coming, The Lab – Experimental Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Curator: Sharon Toval)
2018
Window display, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Tova Osman)
Tiles & Paper Wall, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
2016
Red Monkey 2, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
Red Monkey, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
2014
Urban Life, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
2011
Interchanges, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Arie Berkovich)
2006
Embryo, Jerusalem art Center, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Elizabeth Dor)
2003
Oxford Art Gallery, prints, Kolkata, India
2002
TATA Art Gallery, prints, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Unveiling Human Echoes, group exhibition, installation and video art, Ras Al Khaimah Fine Art Festival, United Arab Emirates (Curator: Sharon Toval)
Sensory Phenomena, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
What will you drink? - water, tea & coffee in Art & Archeology, Hashmonaim Muesum, Modiin (Curators: Sigal Manor & Meyrav Shay)
2023
Marina Abramovic Institute Southbank Centre, (guest audience performance) Southbank Centre, UK
Me and Me, Performance art, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Curators: Robert Charrithers, Shalom Neuman, Doron Pola)
2022
Trans Human, Kakdelart, Jaffa (Curator: Dasha Ilyashenko)
Chapati Hanger, PopUp Art Festival, Hamishlama, Jaffa (Curator: Oz Zloof)
2021
Hybrid Savage, Binyamin Gallery, TLV (Curator: Sigal Manor)
India. Here & There, Artura Gallery, Rupin Collage, Hefer Velley (Curator: Shimon Lev)
2020
Art has a smell, The Farm Gallery, Holon (Curators: Prof' Yehuda Roth & Doron Polak)
Portrait, Salon Hacobia, Jerusalem (Curators: Dan Orimian & Ella Cohen Vansover)
Indian Miniature contemporary glance, Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art & Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea (Curator: Shir Meller-Yamaguchi)
2019
C.O.L.D.A.S.S., Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod Artists Village, Israel (Curator: Raya Zomer-Tal)
Wonder, ND Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel (Curator: Jennifer Bloch)
2018
I will be back soon, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel (an exhibition without Curator)
2017
Banana Bunker, Zadik gallery, Tel Aviv Yaffa (Curator: Hana Coman)
Art provocative lite, Office Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel, (Curator: Rachel Sukman)
2015
On the Face, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel (Curator: Hana Coman)
Red Sea, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod Artists Village, Israel (Curator: Raya Zomer-Tal)
Story Tellers, The Edge Gallery, Naharia, Israel (Curator: Lee Rimon)
Bridges - a Duo exhibition, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel (Curator: Hana Coman)
Devils & Ghosts, The New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem Israel (Curator: Hedva Shemesh)
Immigration, Video Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
Earth, Art Gallery, Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, India
2014
Katamona show, Jerusalem (Curator: Meydad Eliyaho)
Money, Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel (Curator: Hana Coman)
2013
And I Couldn't Say, Ross Creek-Center for the Arts, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sari-Timeless Tradition, Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art Department, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Indian Embassy
2010
Fricative Familiarities - Video art, Art Kino, Stockholm
2009
Video Wednesdays, Escape Gallery, New Delhi (Curator: Johny ML)
Good Stuff – Katamonim Artists, Jerusalem House of Quality, Israel
2008
Immigration, video art, Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Ruth Zadka)
When the Gods Reveal Themselves, Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art & Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea (Curators: Shir Meller-Yamaguchi & Anat Turbowicz)
PERFORMANCE ART
2024
Ganga water, performance art, closing event at the exhibition
What will you drink? - water,tea & coffee in art & archeology, Hashmonaim Muesum, Modiin
Between Cloud and Rain, performance art, Hexxyduxxybox International Behavioral Art Festival Delhi and Dehradun, India
Sensory phenomena ,screening the performances of the visual artist Artcore Gallery,Uk
My Yellow, PopUp Art Festival, Hamishlama, Jaffa (Curator: Iris Elhnani,Doron Polak)
2023
Marina Abramovic Institute The Southbank Centre (guest audience performance) Southbank Center, UK
My Yellow, performance art, 110 Jaffa – Pop Up Art Festival, Jaffa, Hamishlama (Curator: Oz Zloof)
My Red, PopUp Art Festival, Hamishlama, Jaffa (Curator: Oz Zloof)
Me and Me, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Curators: Robert Carrithers, Shalom Neuman, Doron Polak)
2022
Break-In, Amiad Center, Hamishlama, Jaffa (Curators: Tal Kronkop & Uri Shafir)
Sensory Phenomemas, Amiad Center, Jaffa (Curators: Prof' Yehuda Roth & Doron Polak)
Ami Basta Chai, Kakdelart, Jaffa (Curator: Dasha Ilyashenko)
Trans Human, Kakdelart, Jaffa (Curator: Dasha Ilyashenko)
Yellow, Artist House, Rishon LeZion, Israel
2021
Taj Mahal, The Lab, Tel Aviv
Beware! The Tiger is coming, The Lab, Tel Aviv
O Ra Majhi, The Lab, Tel Aviv with collaboration of Dr. Igal Myrtenbaum
Yatra, The Lab, Tel Aviv
Red Carpet, The Water Institute, Giv'atayim, Israel
2010
Traditional, Performing art, Artist workshops Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Israel
2009
Light, Shofoni, Tel Aviv, Israel
Immigration, Dudu Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
RESIDENCES
2021 - The Lab – Experimental Art Space Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 - Khoj - International Artists Association, Kolkata, India
ART FAIRS
2020 Loving Art Making Art – TLV Artists fair
2010 Loving Art Making Art – TLA Artists fair
2009 "Fresh Paint"– the Israeli Fair for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2009 Loving Art Making Art – TLV Open Studio Artists Fair,
2008 Jerusalem Art Fair, Russian Square, Jerusalem, Israel,
PRESS
2024 Sharon Toval, THE LAB What is experimental Art? The First Five years
2023 "Chanchal Banga - Gandhi", in Ktzia Alon, Reading in Israeli Art, Gama Publication, pp. 140-142 (Hebrew)
2023 Brushes with style: fashion at London's Frieze Art Fair, The Guardian, UK
2021 Lalit Kala Akademi, 2nd Print Biennale India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai , New Delhi, p. 89.
2016 Rachel Myerson, An authentic taste of India , Jerusalem Post
2015 קציעה עלון, " הודו ואפריקה כאתגר לישראל", העוקץ
2011 Suruchi Gupta, "Homeward bonds?", Hindustantimes.com
2008 תמר רותם, ירושלים עיר שפוצלה לה יחדיו, הארץ, 27.5 Lili Eylon, The Welt, Germany