Background
Jiten Thukral was born in 1976 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, India
Jiten Thukral earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Government College of Arts, Chandigarh in 1998.
Tilak Marg, Bhagwan Das Lane, Mandi House, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India
Jiten Thukral earned his Master of Fine Arts in 2000 at College of Art, Delhi.
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumer Tagra (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
2009
Via Vigevano, 8, 20144 Milano MI, Italy
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right) at the Persol event at Otto Zoo art Gallery on April 21, 2009 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto.
2018
From left to right: Sumir Tagra, Jiten Thukral and Prayas Abhinav at the India Art Fair 2018.
2018
From left to right: Sumir Tagra, Jiten Thukral and Prayas Abhinav at the India Art Fair 2018.
2018
From left to right: Sumir Tagra, Jiten Thukral and Prayas Abhinav at the India Art Fair 2018.
Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, India
Jiten Thukral earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Government College of Arts, Chandigarh in 1998.
Tilak Marg, Bhagwan Das Lane, Mandi House, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India
Jiten Thukral earned his Master of Fine Arts in 2000 at College of Art, Delhi.
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumer Tagra (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumer Tagra (right).
Jiten Thukral (left) and Sumir Tagra (right) standing outside YBCA San Francisco.
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
Sumir Tagra (left) and Jiten Thukral (right).
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Catalogue, documenting ten years of the artist's works, published in 2007.
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Jiten Thukral was born in 1976 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Jiten Thukral earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Government College of Arts, Chandigarh in 1998 and his Master of Fine Arts in 2000 at College of Art, Delhi.
Jiten Thukral has been creating art in collaboration with Sumir Tagra since 2000 under their nickname Thukral & Tagra. They produce a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, installations, interactive games, video, performance and design.
Thukral & Tagra work on new formats of public engagement and attempt to expand the scope of what art can do. They break out of the mediated and disciplinary world and create multi-modal sensory and immersive environments. Their earlier work dealt with tropes of migration and motifs of a globally manifested consumer culture. It questioned the provenance of Indian identity and its various articulations. Their recent work has dealt with the interpretation of Indian mythological narratives and symbols in ways that renew and enliven a largely pedantic and static area of cultural material.
Over the years they have had notable exhibitions at the sixth edition of the Asia Pacific Triennial, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Arken Museum in Denmark, Kunstmuseum in Bochum, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
Besides, in 2009 Thukral & Tagra were invited to do a residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute. In 2010 they held a solo show "Match Fixed" at the Ullens Centre of Contemporary Art in Beijing.
In 2011 they were invited for a residency at Edition Copenhagen and also at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory near Dresden, Germany. In 2015 they were invited to mount a solo show Games People Play at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.
Jiten Thukral is known as a visual artist who has been creating art in collaboration with Sumir Tagra since 2000. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions about the nature of Indian identity as it is articulated by Indians themselves and projected on to India by the rest of the world. Under the nickname Thukral & Tagra they created a number of well-known artworks, including "Swatuntar Kumar Sharma" (2011), "Yes I went to school" (2011) and "Meissen Somnium Genero 9" (2012).
(Catalogue, documenting ten years of the artist's works, p...)
2007Dominus Aeris - lux 2
2014Dominus Aeris - lux 3 (Detail)
2014Dominus Aeris - Lux 3
2014Yes I went to school
2011Swatuntar Kumar Sharma
2011Dominus Aeris - lux 1
2014Kirondy
2005Dominus Aeris - Facies
2011Pinball 01 (Windows of Opportunity)
2012Pinball 02 (Windows of Opportunity)
2012Pinball 03 (Windows of Opportunity)
2012Dominus Aeris Escape 5
2012Dominus Aeris Escape 3
2012Dominus Aeris Escape 6
2012Pinball 07 (Windows of Opportunity)
2012Through commenting the current situation in India, Thukral and Tagra are trying to show the state of consumerism in the entire world.
Quotes from others about the person
Georgina Maddox: "Art provocateurs or nerds with a gaming obsession - Thukral and Tagra continue to challenge the norms of fine art and pop culture with interactive works that question GST, water woes and more."
