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EDUCATION:
MA Fine Art, Cardiff Institute, University of Wales, Cardiff
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2024 The Double Act, First Plinth Public Art Award, Royal Society of Sculptors
2024 Caught in the Act (solo) Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2024 I Dream a Palace (solo) The Lightbox, Woking
2022 Creek Dreams, Seager Gallery, London
2021 My life as a bird, (solo) Darl-e-and the Bear, Oxfordshire
2021 On The Road of Sea Stars, Zuzushii Art Laboratory, Hastings,
2021 Ornithologie hosted by Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford view video
2019 ‘I wish my hair was as long as yours’, (solo) Magdalen Art Space, Oxford
2018 ‘Dancing with the corporeal’ no format Gallery, London
2017 ‘Absent Beach’ (solo) Vinyl Deptford, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Fragments of our time’, British Textile Biennial 2023, The Whitaker, Blackburn
2023 The Stuff of Life The Life of Stuff, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2023 Hoarfrost on our lips, Paradise Works, Manchester
2023 ‘Zari Sona Moti’, Darl-e and the Bear, Oxfordshire
2022 ‘Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection’ The Whitworth, Manchester
2021 Ground Work, APT Gallery, London
2021 Displace, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, curated by Uthra Rajgopal
2021 Absent Authors, APT Gallery, London
2020 Groundwork_APT Open Day, APT Gallery, London
2019 Weave It! , Stour Space, London, curated by Decorating Dissidence
2019 Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, The Lightbox, Woking
2019 by the way Lewisham Arthouse, London
2018 ‘and the value of nothing’, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2018 Object, hARTslane, London
2017 Material World, An International Perspective, SJE Arts, Oxford
2016 Psychedelic Breakfast,Vinyl Deptford, Deptford X Fringe, London
2016 ‘Looking Up’, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2016 Material World, Ancien Musee de Peinture, Grenoble
2015 Unravelling Time,The Abbey at Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
2014 ‘Alps and Spires’ Museum of Oxford, Oxford
2013 ‘Sanctuary’ Home, Away and Common Ground, Part 2’, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
2011 ‘Sanctuary’ Home, Away and Common Ground, Part 1,National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi
Online Exhibitions
Topainterstoppaintings, curated by Althuis Holland Fine Arts
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 That Island Feeling,Terrace Gallery,London
2018 Objection, Angus Hughes Gallery, London
2009 Jam: Cultural Congestions in Contemporary Asian Art, artist-curator with Dr Outi Remes, South Hill Park, Bracknell (funded by ACE, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan)
PRIZES, AWARDS, OPEN SUBMISSIONS
2023 First Plinth Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2023 The Primary Residency Prize awarded following selection for New Art Exchange Open 2023
2023 New Art Exchange Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022-23 Selected for UAL Decolonising Art Institute 20/20 Program, Residency at Lightbox, Woking as part of this
2022 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter
2022 Black Swan Arts Open, Black Swan Arts, Frome
2022 This Years Model Part 3, Studio 1:1 Gallery, London
2022 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, Cromwell Place, London, selected by Isabel de Vasconcellos
2022 Habitat, Contemporary Six,Manchester
2021 Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England for the project ‘Developing ceramics as part of sculptural work in the context of museum collections’.
2021 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, selected by Sigrid Kirk
2020 RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2020 New Emergency Art Unity Award (shortlisted)
2020 Summer Exhibition Royal Society of Sculptors (selected by Nicky and Robert Wilson, founders of Jupitor Artland)
2019 Artcan Open, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018 Fe/Male, AIR Gallery, Manchester
2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (selected by Cathie Pilkington RA)
2015 ‘ This Year’s Model’, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London (selected by studio 1:1 with Marcus Cope and Robin Seir)
2012 Wells Art Contemporary,Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells, Somerset (selected by Roy Ackerman and Richard Wentworth)
COMMISSIONS
2022/2024 20/20 Project, Residency and Commission,
2020 ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ participatory project commissioned by Modern Art Oxford as part of the public program for Kiki Smith exhibition, ‘I am a Wanderer’.
2017 Oxford Festival for the Arts, commissioned to create wall based work for an Indian Tent (ACE Funded)
RESIDENCIES
2022-2023 20/ 20 Project, Residency and Commission, Decolonising Institute University of Arts, London
2020 Groundwork APT, APT Gallery, London
2011 Sanctuary, Neyri, Kenya
PRESENTATIONS
2024 Artist Talk, I Dream a Palace, The Lightbox
2023 Meet the Artist, in conversation with Sarah Brown, director of The Lightbox, Woking,
2020 and 2023 Visiting lecturer at Chichester University
2018 Walking through the forest, Searching for the sea, Finding, Collecting and Making as part of the symposium Modernism: Making, Place and Protest organised by Decorating Dissidence at Queen Mary College, London. View abstracts.
2018 Artist Talk for Warehouse Art School, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘If objects could speak what would they tell us?’ My blog about DYCP activity
I wish my hair was as long as yours, catalogue with essay by Stephanie Straine, Curator of Projects and Exhibitions, Modern Art Oxford
Artist of the month feature in Axisweb, 2018 https://www.axisweb.org/artist-of-the-month/2018/madi-acharya-baskerville/
Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2016, Exhibition Catalogue
‘Sanctuary Part 2’ Home, Away, Common Ground, Exhibition Catalogue , forward by John Hollingworth MBE, Director of Brunei Gallery, SOAS, 2013
‘Sanctuary Part 1’ Home, Away, Common Ground’, Exhibition Catalogue, 2011,
COLLECTIONS
Three ceramic works acquired by the Lightbox, Woking following 20/20 residency and commission supported by Decolonizing Institute, UAL, 2024
The sculpture ‘Here to stay’ has been acquired as part of the Art Fund New Collecting Award, as part of the permanent collection at the Whitworth, the University of Manchester, 2021
Work in private collections in London, Oxford and France