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Amshu Chukki

Amshu graduated with MVA (Painting) in 2014 and BVA (Painting) in 2012 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University Baroda.

Amshu was listed in the 'Forbes India 30 under 30, 2016', in 2016. He was awarded the INLAKS Fine Arts Award in 2014. The Kalpana Reddy Memorial Award in Photography for the final year Bachelors of Visual Arts display in the year 2012, The Nasreen Mohammadi Award for best display for the year 2010-2011 and In 2010 he was awarded the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Award for Painting in the 'Fine Art Students' category in the 50th State Art Exhibition.

Some of the group exhibitions he was part of are, 'Home', at Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai (2015); Videos by Amshu Chukki and Chinmoyi Patel, a curated exhibition by Dominic Nurre, Helpers Projects, Brooklyn, New York (2015); 'India: Maximum City', curated by Birgid Uccia at Chesa Planta, Zuoz, St.Moritz Art Masters 2014, St.Moritz, Switzerland (2014); Art for young collectors III at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai (2014); Indian Vocabulary, ZOCA, The Gallery Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad (2013). 

The residencies and workshops he was part of are, The Darling Foundry, India - Quebec Residency (2015); 'Coriolis Effect: Currents across India and Africa', KHOJ, New Delhi (2015); Refracting Rooms, KHOJ International Workshop, Pune (2015); The St. Moritz Art Masters Residency Programme, St.Moritz, Switzerland (2014); The KHOJ peers, KHOJ New Delhi (2014).

He is represented by Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

Amshu Chukki's practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and sculpture. In his ongoing engagements with the notion of fictionalized spaces and narratives of dystopias, he is interested in the manner in which the boundaries between the real and illusory can fold into one another, keeping in mind an understanding of the filmic and in particular, the tropes of film noir. Further, questioning the ideas of the 'site', 'site specificity' and 'site informativity', his work tries to invite and involve audiences to speculate on the meaning and nature of the fictionalized worlds brought to life.