TSOHIL BHATIA
they/them
b. New Delhi, India
based in Lenapehoking
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, MFA 2020
Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology , BFA 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 This Fire That Warms You | Blueprint12, New Delhi, IN
2019 Keeping Time | Powder Room, Pittsburgh, USA
2018 [ ] | Powder Room, Pittsburgh, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Visual Volumes: Contemporary Explorations in Book Arts | Center for Book Arts, NY USA
Closer to Nature, Deering Estate, FL USA
REST HARD | The One Minutes, Amsterdam NL (Curated by Party Office)
2022 Let no one mistake us for the Fruit of Violence | DaskhinChitra , Chennai IN (Curated by Vidisha-Fadescha)
Sites of Ruin | Twelve Gates Arts, PA USA
The Ever Given | Flotilla Flotilla, PA USA
2021 Blueprint 12 | India Art Fair, Delhi IN
Chautauqua Visual Art| Fowler Kellogg Art Centre, NY USA
Its Not Easy Being Green | Queer Arts Festival, BC CA
Swan Song | Phosphor Project Space, PA USA
CHILLER| Nightclub at Night, MN USA
Staycation @ Mobile Home, NY USA
MFA | Ivy League Galllery, USA
2020 RIGHT NOW | Hair+Nails, MN USA
Franconia Commons, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN USA
2019 Life is Better Here | Powercut, Bangalore, IN
Null Island | Phosphor Project Space, PA USA
TQ LIVE | Andy Warhol Museum, PA USA
Eighteen Wheeler Platform Shoes | Platform, PA USA
Movement: The Form in Motion | Jodee Harris Gallery, PA USA
2018 To J. Alfred Prufrock | Home Sweet Home, Bangalore IN
Documents of Passage | The Frame Gallery, PA USA
Spring1883 | The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne AUS
B-Side | BLINDSIDE, Melbourne AUS
2017 Open 12 | HH Art Spaces, Goa IN
2016 The Bathroom Project | NUMA, Bangalore IN
Final Review | G.159, Bangalore IN
2015 Uncircumcised | Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore IN
2014 7/7 | G.159, Bangalore, IN
2013 Orecomm Festival, Malmo Univerrsity SE
Komagata Maru | Rococo Art Gallery, Bangalore IN
Image(in)nation | #7 High Street, Bangalore IN
Portrayed | Galley G, Bangalore IN
2012 Ubiquitous Genetically Engineered Machine | India Art Fair (4th Edition), New Delhi IN
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
2021 Franconia Summer Solstice Festival, Minneapolis, USA
2020 Fail-Safe #3, PA USA
How Far? How Long?, Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, PA USA
2015 Double Bill, Scenography, Performance and Choreography, New Delhi, IN (Supported by Max Mueller Bhavan)
2015 Animal Connection, Curatorial and Sound design. Attakkalari Biennial, Bangalore, IN
2013 De Sidre (Nicolas Grandi & Lata Maini) Performance for short film, Bangalore, IN
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 Red Flower Collective (ongoing)
RESIDENCIES+AWARDS
2022 Mass MOCA Assets for Artists, MA USA (upcoming)
Flux Factory at Governor’s Island, NY, USA
21-22 Book Artist in Residence, Center for Book Arts, NY USA
2021 Chautauqua Visual Art Residency, NY USA
Oxbow Summer Residency, MI USA
2020 OxBow Winter Intensive Residency, MI USA
Franconia Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Residency, MN USA
Body in Isolation, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, IN
2019 Frank-Ratchye Fund for Arts @ the Frontier
Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier Microgrant
Graduate Small Project Help Research Grant
2018 Graduate Small Project Help Research Grant
2017 Graduate Small Project Help Research Grant
HH Art Spaces Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Residency, Goa, IN
2017-2020 Regina and Martin Miller Fellowship
2016 #1 Shanthi Road Sher-Gil Sunderam Arts Foundation Residency, Bangalore, IN
2015 Preet Nagar Residency, Amritsar, IN
2014 G.159 Artist in Residence, Bangalore, IN
2012 Memory Lab, Punjab, IN
Shadow Liberation (Forum Theatre Residency), Bangalore, IN
2011 Excellence in Human Practice, IGEM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
CONFERENCE + LECTURES
2021 A memory outside the body, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2020 Dinner and Discussion: Franconia Artists in Residence, USA
Imaging Liveness, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2019 Body as Site, Pratt Institute, New York City, USA
2018 Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Goat, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, IN
Sexuality, Law And Society Lecture Series, Jindal Law School, Sonepat, IN
2016 Artreach Children’s Workshop: Performance for Camera, Bangalore, IN
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Home is where the hearth is, The Hindu
Domesticity is a double-edged sword, shows artist Tsohil Bhatia, The Patriot
2023 Turning the Kitchen into an Art Studio, Hyperallergic
2022 The thing that happens when the thing that’s supposed to happen does not happen, Miller ICA Publication
2020 #1 Shanthi Road Cookbook
Rinse, Hamam Magazine Issue #3: Water
Untitled (Run), Emergency INDEX Vol.9
2019 I’ve made it as a Pornstar, Seeing Color Podcast
2016 Dialing Q for Queer, Arts Illustrated
2015 G.159 Signs Off at It’s Peak: Final Review, Temporary Art Review
2014 Deconstructing the Site with Performance Art, Emaho Magazine
2013 FREEZE, The Wall Art Magazine