Shilpa Gupta (1976) lives and works in Mumbai, India, where she studied sculpture at Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on ethnic conflicts, on the repression of individual freedoms in the name of national security, on global tensions and fears that exacerbate surveillance and constraint measures, on the existence of borders, revealing their arbitrary and at the same time repressive functions. Shilpa Gupta, through installations (often interactive), video and photography, tries to bring out the limits of the era of advanced capitalism, where technology is often used for control purposes, to set borders instead of to favor the free movement of ideas.

She had solo shows at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Arnolfini in Bristol, OK in Linz, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Voorlinden Museum and Gardens in Wassenaar, Kiosk in Ghent, Bielefelder Kunstverein, La synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Center and Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi. She presented a solo project at ‘My East is Your West’, a two-person joint India-Pakistan exhibition, by the Gujral Foundation in Venice in 2015.

Gupta’s work has been shown in leading international institutions and museums such as Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana Museum, Centre Pompidou, Serpentine Gallery, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Mori Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ZKM, Kiran Nadar Museum and Devi Art Foundation.

Shilpa Gupta has participated in Kochi Muziris Biennale (2018), NGV Triennale (2017), Berlin Biennale (2014), New Museum Triennale (2009), Sharjah Biennial curated by Yuko Hasegawa (2013), Lyon Biennale curated by Hou Hanru (2009), Gwangju Biennale directed by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Ranjit Hoskote (2008), Yokohama Triennale curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (2008) and Liverpool Biennial curated by Gerardo Mosquera (2006). She has shown in biennales at Auckland, Brisbane, Seoul, Havana, Sydney, Yogyakarta, Echigo-Tsumari, Shanghai, Houston and others. In 2017, she participated in Gothenburg Biennial curated by Nav Haq. In 2019, she participated in the 58thVenice Biennale curated by Ralph Rugoff.