CHANCHAL BANGA - CV
Chanchal Banga was born in India. He currently lives and works in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israel.
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
Scholarships
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", 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
Selected Group Exhibition
2024 "Unveiling Human Echoes", group exhibition, installation and video art, Ras Al Khaimah Fine Art Festival, United Arab Emirates (Curator: Sharon Toval)
2024 "Sensory Phenomena" video art, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2024 "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
2003 "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", 110 Jaffa - 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 Couidn'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 event, 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", 110 Jaffa - 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", 110 Jaffa - 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", "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", Shoes Fair "Shofoni", Tel Aviv, Israel
"Immigration", Dudu Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Residence Programs
2021-2022 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,
Loving Art Making Art – TLV Open Studio Artists Fair,
2008 Jerusalem Art Fair, Russian Square, Jerusalem, Israel,
Press & Articles
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