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Recent Exhibitions
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Jeram Patel: Fire and Void
10 September - 10 October 2026Zero degree printing by Dr. Emilia Terracciano A scorched onion emerges from the soil in the manner of a hot-air-ballon. A little further is a charred, trunkless tree or is... -
Life is Movement: Jivya Soma Mashe
13 - 30 August 2026One is far more likely to encounter Warli painting out and about today than in a gallery or museum. It appears on “beautified” city walls, the sides of bridges, notebooks... -
Bombay Blooms: Lady Winifred Stangman (1874-1955)
Curated by Ruta Waghmare Baptista 30 May - 10 July 2026Subcontinent presents Bombay Blooms , an exhibition showcasing works by British painter Lady Winifred Warneford Strangman (1874-1955) who arrived in Bombay at the turn of the 20th century and made... -
Strangers in a Strange Land
Drawings by Anjana Mehra and VR Patel 12 March - 18 April 2026Strangers in a Strange Land brings together works by Anjana Mehra and Vinod Ray Patel, from the 1970s and 1980s – two artists who used drawing to imagine worlds that... -
A Painter with a Camera: Jyoti Bhatt
8 January - 21 February 2026A Painter with a Camera brings together a focused selection of photographic works by Jyoti Bhatt that foreground an essential dimension of his practice: photography as a site of sustained... -
Energy Fields: Jangarh Singh Shyam
9 October - 29 November 2025Jangarh Singh Shyam’s images are electric and pulsate like energy fields. To enter Jangarh’s world, you have to play along, peel off reality and believe in the aural world. We... -
Where The Light Falls Gently: Hemali Vadalia
14 August - 13 September 2025Hemali Vadalia is part of an underground cult of painters - the kind that gathers around nude bodies for months at a time, looking closely at every dimple, curve, sinew,... -
Fifty Years of Magical Thinking
1960s to 2000s 12 June - 19 July 2025In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion explores the space between grief and reason, where the mind clings to impossible possibilities and reality becomes porous. Magical thinking, in this... -
Haku Shah: Ya Ghat Bheetar | Rediscovering Form
Curated by Jesal Thacker 13 March - 10 May 2025In his paintings, the feminine form carries an intuitive function - embodying a holistic renewal. He correlates the form of a woman to that of an earthen pot, as a...
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In The News
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Our Land. Our Art.
Jivya Soma Mashe at Subcontinent 13 August 2026 -
Rare exhibition revives the legacy of artist who painted Bombay in bloom
An exhibition brings to light a woman artist who captured the floral beauty of the city in the early 20th Century, and her love for its green acres 30 May 2026It was the sight of the familiar flowers in a permanent gallery dedicated to Marianne North in London’s Kew Gardens that caught the attention of gallerists Dhwani Gudka and Keshav... -
India’s art market is fast growing—is it also maturing?
Taking part in the fair this year was Subcontinent, a Mumbai gallery that opened in March, and which largely focuses on the secondary market and overlooked historic practices. 25 November 2025The third edition of Art Mumbai (13-16 November) was held as confidence in the South Asian art market reached an all-time high. Another stellar year of auctions has garnered records... -
Artist Hemali Vadalia’s debut solo in Mumbai takes you through the unhurried pace of life
12 August 2025You would see life unfold in front of your as you pass from canvas to canvas painted by Hemali Vadalia. The artist whose solo show begins from tomorrow in the... -
A Painter with a Camera: How Jyoti Bhatt Rewrote the Rules of Photography
16 February 2026Long before Photoshop, there was Jyoti Bhatt. The year was 1971. India’s premier art institution, the Lalit Kala Akademi, did not yet recognise photography as a fine art category. Artists... -
Rich Legacies
A. new art gallery in Mumbai aims to complete the narrative of South asian art history, kicking off with a selection of Haku Shah's works 12 April 2025I n Mumbai’s Fort district—home to many art galleries—Subcontinent is a new entrant dedicated to exploring South Asia’s imprint on visual and material culture. Founded by Dhwani Gudka and Keshav...
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