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2020 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India

A gala celebration honoring the Asia Arts Game Changers

2020 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India

The 2020 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honorees Tiffany Chung, Vivan Sundaram and Prabhakar Pachpute

Vivan Sundaram and Bunty Chand

Vivan Sundaram and Bunty Chand

Preema John, Tiffany Chung and Prabhakar Pachpute

Preema John, Tiffany Chung and Prabhakar Pachpute

Jitish and Reena Kallat

Jitish and Reena Kallat

Bunty Chand with Nilima Sheikh and L.N. Tallur

Bunty Chand with Nilima Sheikh and L.N. Tallur

Christoph and Elisabeth Huerlimann, Birgid Uccia and Peter Nagy

Christoph and Elisabeth Huerlimann, Birgid Uccia and Peter Nagy

Gayatri Sinha

Gayatri Sinha, Founder, Critical Collective

Bunty Chand, Sanjana and Kalpana Shah, Geeti Sen and Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India 2020 Co-Chair Pheroza Godrej

Bunty Chand, Sanjana and Kalpana Shah, Geeti Sen and Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India 2020 Co-Chair Pheroza Godrej

Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India 2020 Co-Chair Sangita Jindal

Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India 2020 Co-Chair Sangita Jindal

Bunty Chand, Andreas Teoh, Sangita Jindal, Mukeeta Jhaveri and Vinita Jain

Bunty Chand, Andreas Teoh, Sangita Jindal, Mukeeta Jhaveri and Vinita Jain

Rimli Bhattacharya and Kumar Shahani

Rimli Bhattacharya and Kumar Shahani

Bunty Chand and Dhruvi Acharya

Bunty Chand and Dhruvi Acharya

Asia Art Archive’s Claire Hsu and Sneha Ragavan

Asia Art Archive’s Claire Hsu and Sneha Ragavan

Cindy and Edgard Kagan Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy

Cindy and Edgard Kagan, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy

Bunty Chand, Radhika Chopra and Rajan Anandam

Bunty Chand, Radhika Chopra and Rajan Anandam

Robert Oxnam and Vishakha Desai

Robert Oxnam and Vishakha Desai

Vidya Shivadas and Vivan Sundaram

Vidya Shivadas and Vivan Sundaram

Arianne Lovelace, Devika Singh and Shubigi Rao

Arianne Lovelace, Devika Singh and Shubigi Rao

Pramit Jhaveri and Rajiv Lall

Pramit Jhaveri and Rajiv Lall

Vivan Sundaram and Sangita Jindal

Vivan Sundaram and Sangita Jindal

Sivagami Natesan and Cindy Kagan

Sivagami Natesan and Cindy Kagan

Robert Oxnam and Saryu Doshi

Robert Oxnam and Saryu Doshi

Bunty Chand

Bunty Chand, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Society India Centre

Andreas Teoh

Andreas Teoh, Asia Society Global Arts Council and Asia Society Triennial Steering Committee member

Radhika Chopra

Radhika Chopra

Alexandra Munroe

Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur

Abhay Sardesai

Abhay Sardesai, Editor, ARTIndia, introduces Prabhakar Pachpute

Mukeeta Prabhakar

Mukeeta Jhaveri presents Prabhakar Pachpute with the Asia Arts Future Award

Prabhakar Pachpute

Prabhakar Pachpute, Asia Arts Future Award Winner

Gulammohammed Sheikh

Gulammohammed Sheikh

Tracy O'Brien

Tracy O'Brien

Ranbir Kaleka

Ranbir Kaleka

Shubigi Rao

Shubigi Rao, Curator, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020, introduces Tiffany Chung

Sangita Tiffany

Sangita Jindal presents Tiffany Chung with the Asia Arts Future Award

Tiffany Chung, Asia Arts Future Awardee

Tiffany Chung, Asia Arts Future Awardee

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Ratheesh T.

Ratheesh T.

Devika Daulet Singh

Devika Daulet Singh

Vishakha Desai

Vishakha Desai, Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and former Asia Society President, introduces Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram, Asia Arts Vanguard Awardee

Vivan Sundaram, Asia Arts Vanguard Awardee

Vivan Sundaram, Asia Arts Vanguard Awardee

Vivan Sundaram, Asia Arts Vanguard Awardee

Vivan Pheroza

Vivan Sundaram receives the Asia Arts Vanguard Award from Pheroza Godrej

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The 2020 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honorees Tiffany Chung, Vivan Sundaram and Prabhakar Pachpute

The 2020 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honorees Tiffany Chung, Vivan Sundaram and Prabhakar Pachpute

Group 1

Radhika Chopra, Sangita Jindal, Tiffany Chung, Vishakha Desai, Vivan Sundaram, Pheroza Godrej, Bunty Chand, Mukeeta Jhaveri and Prabhakar Pachpute

Andreas Teoh, Abhay Sardesai, Radhika Chopra, Sangita Jindal, Tiffany Chung, Vishakha Desai, Vivan Sundaram, Pheroza Godrej, Bunty Chand, Mukeeta Jhaveri, Prabhakar Pachpute and Shubigi Rao

Andreas Teoh, Abhay Sardesai, Radhika Chopra, Sangita Jindal, Tiffany Chung, Vishakha Desai, Vivan Sundaram, Pheroza Godrej, Bunty Chand, Mukeeta Jhaveri, Prabhakar Pachpute and Shubigi Rao

Abir Karmakar, Vibha Galhotra, Bose Krishnamachari, Sangita Jindal, Tiffany Chung, Vishakha Desai, Vivan Sundaram, Pheroza Godrej, Bunty Chand, Mukeeta Jhaveri, Shubigi Rao, Prabhakar Pachpute and Gulammohammed Sheikh

Abir Karmakar, Vibha Galhotra, Bose Krishnamachari, Sangita Jindal, Tiffany Chung, Vishakha Desai, Vivan Sundaram, Pheroza Godrej, Bunty Chand, Mukeeta Jhaveri, Shubigi Rao, Prabhakar Pachpute and Gulammohammed Sheikh

Prabhakar Pachpute with Priyanka and Prateek Raja

Prabhakar Pachpute with Priyanka and Prateek Raja

Pheroza Godrej and Naman Ahuja

Pheroza Godrej and Naman Ahuja

Shireen Gandhy and Mithu Sen

Shireen Gandhy and Mithu Sen

Vibha Galhotra and Ying Chen

Vibha Galhotra and Ying Chen

Vidya Shivadas, Roshini Vadehra and Atul Dodiya

Vidya Shivadas, Roshini Vadehra and Atul Dodiya

Shubigi Rao and Tom Tandio

Shubigi Rao and Tom Tandio

Umesh Gaur with Manu and Madhvi Parekh

Umesh Gaur with Manu and Madhvi Parekh

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For more than twenty years, Asia Society has been a pioneer in identifying and fostering the latest contemporary Asian artists and engaging new audiences with their work. Recognizing Asia’s rich cultural and artistic legacy, and a rising global focus on Asian contemporary art, the Asia Society India Centre and Asia Society Museum instituted the annual Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India. 

The fourth edition of the awards was held during the India Art Fair on February 1, 2020, at the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, and Co-chaired by Pheroza Godrej and Sangita Jindal. The signature gala honored Vivan Sundaram with the Asia Arts Vanguard Award, and Tiffany Chung and Prabhakar Pachpute with the Asia Arts Future Award.

The evening brought together 120 major artists, academics, dignitaries, collectors, gallerists, and curators to celebrate the occasion. Some of the notable attendees included the US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Edgard Kagan and spouse Cindy; eminent art historian Geeta Kapur; former Asia Society Presidents Vishakha Desai and Robert Oxnam; Asia Society Triennial Steering Committee member Andreas Teoh; Asia Art Archive’s Executive Director Claire Hsu; leading artists Atul Dodiya, Ranbir Kaleka, Gulammohammed and Nilima Sheikh, Manu and Madhvi Parekh, and Reena and Jitish Kallat, among others.


Honorees

Vivan Sundaram 180x180
Photo by Idris Ahmed

Vivan Sundaram - Asia Arts Vanguard Award

Vivan Sundaram works across the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. His work has long been informed by contemporary political events relating to anticolonial struggles, migration, exile, violence, and war. He has exhibited internationally including at the Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2018); the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008); Tate Modern, London (2007); the 7th Sharjah Biennale (2005); the 2nd Gwangju Biennale (1997); The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (1996); National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (1994); and Royal Academy of Arts, London (1967). He is a founding member of SAHMAT, a collective formed in 1989 to promote artistic freedom.

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Photo by Ketsiree Wongwan

Tiffany Chung - Asia Arts Future Award

Tiffany Chung is internationally renowned for her research-based multimedia installations and detailed cartographic works that examine conflict, migration, and urban transformation through the lens of geopolitical and environmental traumas. The artist was awarded the Sharjah Biennial Artist Prize in 2013. She has exhibited internationally, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2019); Asia Society Texas Center, Houston (2018); Gwangju Biennale (2018); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); and the 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013). Chung is a cofounder of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City.

Prabhakar Pachpute 180x180
Photo by Sachin Bonde

Prabhakar Pachpute - Asia Arts Future Award

Prabhakar Pachpute’s multidisciplinary practice includes drawing, stop-motion animation, installation, and sculpture. His choice of charcoal as a medium relates directly to his family’s history as coalminers. The artist combines personal experience with in-depth research to explore the complexity of socioeconomic and environmental transformations around the world. Pachpute’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2017); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2016); the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015); and the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014). He is a member of Shunya Collective, founded in Mumbai in 2012.


Co-Chairs

Pheroza Godrej & Sangita Jindal


All proceeds from Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India support Asia Society Arts & Culture initiatives worldwide. Asia Society’s Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India is co-organized by Asia Society Museum, New York, and Asia Society India Centre.

 

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