Introduction
- Zodiac sign
- Gemini
- Age
- 80
- Place of Birth
- Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Place of Death
- New Delhi, NCT of Delhi, India
- Spouse(s)
- Geeta kapur
- State Country of Birth
- Himachal Pradesh, India
- State Country of Death
- NCT of Delhi, India
1961
- BA Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India
1961 – 1965
1966
- Post Diploma, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (Commonwealth Scholarship)
1966 – 1968
1994
- One month Artist-in-Residence, Video workshop The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1971
- Secretary, Ad-hoc Committee for All India Artists' Protest
1972
- Retrospective exhibition on Amrita Sher-Gil, New Delhi and Monograph Published by Marg, Mumbai, India
1976
- All-India Artist Workshop, Kasauli Art Centre, Kasauli, India (Including Participants from UK, Germany and France)
1976 – 1984
1978
- Delegate to the World Youth Festival, Havana, Cuba
1982
- Founder Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Arts & Ideas, New Delhi, India
- Participated in the Indo-German Artists Workshop, Braunschweig, West Germany
- Participated in the Festival of India, Programme of illustrated lectures on Contemporary Indian art, at institutions in England and Scotland
1984
- Participant in a symposium on International Artists Exchange Programmes, Braunschweig, West Germany
1985
- Seven Young Sculptors, (As Secretary), Kasauli Art Centre, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
1986
- Visit to Paris and Hungary as Member of the Research Team for a Film on the Painter Amrita Sher-Gil
1987
- Collaboration with Film Director, Kumar Shahani, in Scripting the film on Amrita Sher-Gil
- Visit to Pakistan for the Sher-gil film, Illustrated talks on contemporary Indian art, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan
- Illustrated talks on Contemporary Indian art, in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland
- Participant in an International Syposium, Exotic Worlds and European Fantasies, Stuttgart, West Germany
- Theatre production, Shakuntalam, Directed by Prasanna for Ensemble 86, at Kasauli Art Centre, Kasauli, India
1988
- Visit to Baghdad, Iraq to participate in the International Festival of Art
- Artists Camp with Young Artists of Himachal Pradesh, and National Seminar, Critique of Contemporary Culture, as Secretary, Kasauli Art Centre, Kasauli, India
1989
- Founder Member and Trustee of Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
- Glass mural at Shah House, Mumbai, collectively done with Bhupen Khakhar and Nalini Malini
- Theatre Production of Ghar aur Bahar (based on Tagore's novel), Directed by Anuradha Kapur as Secrtetary, Kasauli Art Centre, Kasauli and Delhi, India
1990
- Janotsav, In collaboration with Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), at Mangolpuri, New Delhi, India
1991
- Curator of Artists Against Communalism, Images and Words, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) , New Delhi, India
1992
- Member of Design Collective for Anhad Garje, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
1993
- Talk on Amrita Sher-Gil, Nehru Centre, London, UK
- Member of Design Collective for Hum Sab Ayodhya, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) exhibition
1994
- Inter-relationship of Painting and Sculpture, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Talk: Recent Painting and Sculpture in India, Oboro, Montreal Talk plus workshop at Plug-in-Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
- Designed tent structure and stage for Manas Bana, a tribute to Gandhi, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
- House/Boat (installation with three monitors), 3 minutes
- Couples, Photo Album, Vancouver, Canada, 20 minutes
1995
- Visit to Erfurt, Berlin and Venice, Hospitality under the Indo-Hungarian Cultural Exchange Programme
- Presented Madhavi Mudgal and her troupe under Kasauli Art Centre, Kasauli, India
- Curator, Postcards for Gandhi, Travelling Exhibition, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
- Amrita Sher-Gil and the female subject (installation with two monitors), 4 minutes
1997
- Curated Exhibition, Gift for India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
- Visiting Professor Fine Arts Department, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India
1997 – 1998
2001
- Curated Exhibition, Art on the Move, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), New Delhi, India
2002
- Curated Exhibition, Ways of Resisting, for Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) , New Delhi, India
- Indira's Piano (installation with two projections), 10 minutes
2002 – 2003
2003
- Tracking (installation with two projections), 10 minutes 30 seconds
2003 – 2004
2004
- Designed set for Theatre Production of Gidhare and Baby, Directed by Anuradha Kapur, National School of Drama, New Delhi, India
- Visiting Professor, The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
2005
- The Brief Ascension of Marian Hussain (installation with single projection), 2 minutes 30 seconds
- Secretary, The Biennale Society, New Delhi, India
- Co-ordinator: Talk about Curating. Organised an International symposium, The making of intemational exhibitions: Siting biennales, Constitution Club, New Delhi, India
2007
- Organised international conference as Secretary of the Biennale Society, Elective Affinities Constitutive Differences: Contemporary Art in Asia, at Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, India
Exhibitions
Chronicled Highlights
Economics of Art
Research Centre
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- ArchivedOpening PreviewProject 82SWARAJ - Revisualising India's Political HistoryAn Exhibition of Modern & Contemporary Fine & Popular Arts, Photography, Film Memorabilia and Visual-Textual-Audio Archive12th August 20266:00 PM - 9:00 PMVisual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi,The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) announces its seventh exhibition. “Swaraj – Revisualising India's Political History” -- An exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Fine and Popular Arts, Photography, Film Memorabilia and Visual-Textual-Audio Archives. Swaraj will open at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at the Visual Arts Gallery and will remain open till 7 p.m. Sunday, 16 August 2026. Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) presents SWARAJ | Revisualising India's Political History, a pioneering inter-disciplinary offline-online exhibition conceptualised and curated by Neville Tuli with Team T.R.I.S.. SWARAJ explores India's journey towards political self-rule and self-discovery through a remarkable collection of rare modern and contemporary fine and popular arts, albums, photographs, books, prints, propaganda, cartoons, film publicity artworks and other "text-visual-audio" archives contextualised within a clear historical framework, which defines T.R.I.S.' pedagogic approach to learning. The Exhibition will be of particular interest to students and scholars of India & Cultural Studies, and India's political and modern histories as well as those interested in the passage of events and ideas from the mid-1850s leading up to the turn of the 21st century. Unique to the Tuli Research Centre for India Studies is the richness of visual material that not only exhorts a deeper understanding of the art and archival materials on display but also brings alive the multi-layered narratives of the exhibition and naturally India's journey in being ad searching for herself.Read More →
- ArchivedExhibitionProject 81SWARAJ - Revisualising India's Political HistoryAn Exhibition of Modern & Contemporary Fine & Popular Arts, Photography, Film Memorabilia and Visual-Textual-Audio Archive12th - 19th August 202610:00 AM - 7:00 PMVisual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi,19The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) announces its seventh exhibition. “Swaraj – Revisualising India's Political History” -- An exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Fine and Popular Arts, Photography, Film Memorabilia and Visual-Textual-Audio Archives. Swaraj will open at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at the Visual Arts Gallery and will remain open till 7 p.m. Sunday, 16 August 2026. Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) presents SWARAJ | Revisualising India's Political History, a pioneering inter-disciplinary offline-online exhibition conceptualised and curated by Neville Tuli with Team T.R.I.S.. SWARAJ explores India's journey towards political self-rule and self-discovery through a remarkable collection of rare modern and contemporary fine and popular arts, albums, photographs, books, prints, propaganda, cartoons, film publicity artworks and other "text-visual-audio" archives contextualised within a clear historical framework, which defines T.R.I.S.' pedagogic approach to learning. The Exhibition will be of particular interest to students and scholars of India & Cultural Studies, and India's political and modern histories as well as those interested in the passage of events and ideas from the mid-1850s leading up to the turn of the 21st century. Unique to the Tuli Research Centre for India Studies is the richness of visual material that not only exhorts a deeper understanding of the art and archival materials on display but also brings alive the multi-layered narratives of the exhibition and naturally India's journey in being ad searching for herself.Read More →
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