Chelsea, New York/Albert Embankment, London

B. Fibicher and S. Gopinath (eds.), Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2007, p. 130 (illustrated)

G. Sinha and P. Sternberger (eds.), India: Public Places, Private Spaces, Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Marg Foundation, Mumbai, 2008, p. 144 (other edition illustrated)

Bern, Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art, Kunstmuseum, 9 September 2007 - 6 January 2008

Newark, India: Public Places, Private Spaces, Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Newark Museum, 19 September 2007 - 6 January 2008 (edition 3/5)

Minneapolis, India: Public Places, Private Spaces, Contemporary Photography and Video Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 26 October 2008 - 18 January 2009 (edition 3/5)

'...I have been engaged with a kind of cultural politics deliberately, highlighting issues of race and gender and sexuality. And trying to unpick the notion that there's a universal art, that is enshrined in the canon of art history, which seems to be genderless and colourless and so on. But we know that's not the case.'

As an artist, curator, writer, and cultural activist, Sunil Gupta has made a significant contribution to contemporary art practice and discourse around the globe. Through his work he challenges stereotypes and questions beliefs, by exploring issues of race, gender, and sexuality, and related issues of access, place, and identity.

Gupta's photographs are autobiographical, drawing on his experiences as a gay man of color living with HIV who moves fluidly within the landscapes, traditions, and cultures of his native India, and his adopted homes in Canada and England. The color and narrative of the Bollywood films of Gupta's childhood inform his photographs, which are usually presented in series. Images are combined with text or with other images, sometimes digitally, as in Homelands. His work has a characteristic insight and humanity.