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2023

An Indian Artist Questions Borders and the Limits on Free Speech
Aruna D’Souza, The New York Times, 20 October 2023

Shilpa Gupta Gives Voice to Silence and ResilienceAndy Battaglia, Art in America, 15 December 2023

Shilpa GuptaPaul Stephens, E-Flux, 7 December 2023

Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamtPriya Gandhi, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSeen, Dec 23 – Jan 24

Shilpa Gupta Memorializes the Language of DissidentsJasmine Liu, Frieze, 23 November 2023

Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Exhibitions in New YorkAnnikka Olsen, ArtNet, 9 November 2023

Shilpa Gupta Complicates Nation-state Notions in U.S. SurveyPallavi Surana, Ocula, 3 November 2023

Shilpa Gupta and Marisa Merz redefine ways of seeing and feelingUrvi Kothari, Stir World, 25 September 2023

Binaries that bindTrisha Mukherjee, The New Indian Express, 8 October 2023

Shilpa Gupta’s monograph in Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series is fiercely personalRadhika Iyengar, Architectural Digest, 4 July 2023

Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay CinemaCover, Pavitra Sundar, University of Michigan Press, July 2023

Marisa Merz e Shilpa Gupta, quando il vedere si confronta con il sentireNicoletta Orlandi, Libero, 29 May 2023

Alla ricerca di un’arte potente, gentile, eroica: intervista a Shilpa GuptaMaria Teresa Capacchione, Exibart, 18 April 2023

La labilità dei confini fra visibile e invisibileArianna Di Genova, Il Manifesto, 13 April 2023

Intervista a Shilpa Gupta, in mostra all’Aquila insieme a Marisa MerzManuela De Leonardis, Artribune, 5 April 2023

Verse Affairs: Writing Kites From the Prison to the WorldUttaran Das Gupta, The Wire, 5 March 2023

Marking TerritoryRahel Aima, Canvas Magazine, Issue 106, Pg 166 & 169, January-February 2023

‘For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit’ book review: The Melancholy of ResistanceSoumitra Das, The New Indian Express, 8 January 2023

‘Crycrycrycry…’Annie Zaidi, Frontline, 26 January 2023



2022

For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit
Indian Cultural Forum, 26 December 2022

Seven new non-fiction books that narrate histories, old and recent, of India and its people
Sayari Debnath, Scroll, 4 December 2022

Activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal on the children of imprisoned women in Tihar Jail
Devangana Kalita & Natasha Narwal, Scroll, 18 November 2022

Act of Resistance
Open The Magazine, Pg 58-59, 4 July 2022

Art India
Cover, Art India, Vol 25, Issue 4, Quarter 4 2022

Take On Art
Cover, Take On Art Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 27, April 2022

‘Drawing in the Dark’ Book Review
Kunal Ray, Take on Art Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 27, April 2022

Shilpa Gupta: Frith Street Gallery | Golden Square
Emily LaBarge, Artforum, March 2022

A non-scary close up: Shilpa Gupta and her “airport signs” at Barbican and Frith Street Gallery
Gely Gryntaki, EL Culture.GR, 7 February 2022

Interview: Shilpa Gupta’s Dialogue of Slowness
Maximiliane Leuschner, Ocula Magazine, 19 January 2022

Sun at Night: A Call for Hope
Mariana Baião Santos, Umbigo Magazine, 18 January 2022

Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican — voices of persecuted poetsRachel Spence, Financial Times, 13 January 2022



2021

Shilpa Gupta
Artists Feature, Tique, 25 January 2021

Shilpa Gupta’s new series articulates the stillness that entered people’s lives during lockdown
Georgina Maddox, Architectural Digest, Cover, Pg 216-235, 31 March 2021

Lichtvoetige poëzie die je voorbij je eigen grenzen dwingt
Koen Van Boxem, De Tijd, 21 May 2021

Shilpa Gupta opens at Antwerp’s M HKA
Georgina Maddox, The Hindu, 22 May 2021

Shilpa Gupta parle en poétesse de la violence du monde
Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, 30 May 2021

Shilpa Gupta and the art of infiltration
Anindita Ghose, Architectural Digest, Pg 160-169, 15 July 2021

Shilpa Gupta discusses her interactive art in public spaces and its social impact
Rahul Kumar, Stir World, 8 September 2021

Art: Conversation starter
Shaikh Ayaz, India Today, 16 July 2021

Interview: Shilpa Gupta, artist and author, Drawing in the Dark
Kunal Ray, Hindustan Times, 11 September 2021

Collectief zelfonderzoek: Een e-mailconversatie met Shilpa Gupta
Tamara Beheydt, Hart, No 216, Pg 76 – 79, September 2021

Shilpa Gupta at Barbican Curve review: a growing, devastating cacophony of oppression
Ben Luke, Evening Standard, 6 October 2021

Shilpa Gupta review – rousing reminder that free speech used to be a noble cause
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 7 October 2021

Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican: social injustice, censorship and poetry
Cleo Roberts-Komireddi, Wallpaper, 15 October 2021

How artist Shilpa Gupta is giving the word back its freedom
Avantika Bhuyan, Mint Lounge, 17 October 2021

Interview: Shilpa Gupta Combines Poetry, Sculpture & Audio In Her Major New Barbican Commission
Something Curated, 18 October 2021

Shilpa Gupta in conversation: lines, borders and injustice
Simon Coates, Flux, 29 October 2021

In the studio with… Shilpa Gupta
Apollo Magazine, 25 November 2021

Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
Kabir Jhala and Chloë Ashby, The Art Newspaper, 26 November 2021

Dallas Contemporary exhibitions show the dramatically different ways that art can speak to us
Matthew Bourbon, The Dallas Morning News, 10 December 2021

Exhibition: ‘Spiked’ verses’ poised resurrection
Morning Star, December 2021



2020

Artists in Residence: Shilpa Gupta
Adeline Chia, Art Review, 11 September 2020

Shilpa Gupta: ‘The current moment shows we are closer than we imagined’
Vandana Kalra, The Indian Express, 6 September 2020

In a Rebuke to Power Lists, Collecteurs Announces Substance 100
Sam Gaskin, Substance 100, Collecteurs, 10 April 2020

Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta’s Drawings
Parul Dave Mukherji, A Companion to Contemporary Drawing, Published by Wiley, 2020

Of all that is visible and the invisible?
Francisco OrtuñoMillán, 2020

Shilpa Gupta’s art practice illuminates the silenced history for an inclusive world
Dilpreet Bhullar, Stir, 25 June, 2020

Slow Listening
Helena Grehan, Performance Research, Pg 53-58, 2020



2019

Artist Shilpa Gupta conjures the Dead Poets Society at the Kochi Biennale
Sukanya Garg, Stir, 16 August 2019

‘Aliyah’ (Spanish)
Cover, Miguel Vale de Almeida, Published by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2019

‘Loophole: Figures de la boucle dans les pratiques contemporaines’ (French)
Cover, Séverine Cauchy (Author), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019

Shilpa Gupta and Zarina at Ishara Art Foundation
Osman Can Yerebakan, Critic’s Picks, Art Forum.com, April 2019

Shilpa Gupta: Poetry at the borderlines
Chaitanya Sambrani, The Tangible Trace, Tarawarra Museum of Art, Pg 60, 2019

Great Artists
Rebecca Morrill, Phaidon Press, Pg 166, September 2019

Shilpa Gupta
Rahila Haque, May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, Pg 252-253, 2019

Shilpa Gupta and Zarina’s “Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place”
Mahan Moalemi, Art-Agenda.com, 20 June 2019

Installations that aren’t aloof
Nonika Singh, The Tribune, 2 June 2019

Venice Biennale 2019 review: get past…
Mark Hudson, The Telegraph, 9 May 2019

58th Venice Biennale Review
Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, 9 May 2019

Venice Biennale 2019 – young artists, stark contrasts and visual drama
Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times, 10 May 2019

58th Venice Biennale review – confrontational, controversial, principled
Katherine Waters, TheArtsDesk.com, 14 May 2019

Back to the frontier
Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday, 2 June 2019

Trusting Eye Over Mind
Katrina Kufer, Folio, AlserkalAvenue.ae, 15 May 2019

Poetic Resistance
Chinki Sinha, India Today Magazine, 11 January 2019



2018

Words to Live By
Nadine Khalil, Canvas, Pg 94 – 97, November-December 2018

Shilpa Gupta: the artist bringing silenced poets back to life
Andrew Dickson, The Guardian – G2, 25 July 2018

Shilpa Gupta, la mia storia può essere la tua
Il Manifesto, Manela De Leonardis, 12 December 2018

A different kind of poets’ society
Salil Tripathi, Live Mint India, 20 August 2018

Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers
David Trigg, Phaidon Press, Pg 316-317, 1 June 2018

WheredoIendandyoubegin
Back Cover, Edited by Sylvie Fortin, Pass 1: Journal of International Biennial Association, Issue 1, February 2018

Splitting Differences
Barbara Bos, Brochure, Voorlinden Museum Solo, March 2018

Tomorrow Maybe They Will Kill Us
Katy Hastie, Map Journal, Issue 46, Review, August 2018

Giving Voice to Freedom
Archana Khare-Ghose, Blouin Modern Painters, Pg 89-98, August 2018

For, In Your Tongue, I Can Not Fit
Lesley Ann Gray, Arts Asia Pacific, Issue 110, Page 144, September-October 2018

Imprisoned poets’ voices to be heard among art festival works
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 26 July 2018

Powerful work unveiled at Edinburgh Art Festival launch
Kirsteen Paterson, The National, 26 July 2018

Five must-see shows and events at Edinburgh Art Festival
The Art Newspaper, 27 July 2018

Finding Freedom Through Art
Tina Daheley, The Cultural Frontline, BBC Radio, 29 October 2018

Light installation on Mumbai shore questions religion, gender, identity
Ornella D’Souza, DNA, 7 January 2018

Unpacking Voices
International Gallerie, Vol 21 No 2, Issue 43, Cover, Pg 32 – 33, 2018



2017

Shilpa Gupta: Drawing in the Dark
Laura Mudde, www.medium.com, 1 March 2017

Der Bielefelder Kunstverein zeigt Arbeiten der indischen Künstlerin Shilpa Gupta
Ralf Bittner, Neue Westfalsiche, 4 April 2017

Shilpa Gupta in KIOSK, Gent – Controle of niet,er is altijd een weg
Anne-Marie POELS, H ART Magazine, Cover, Pg 5, 23 February 2017

Shilpa Gupta, Possessing skies
Poorna Swami, Asymptote, January 2017

Everyday Partitions
Sonal Khullar, Third Text, extract, Pg 7-12, November 2017

The Art of Subterfuge: Slipping Past Borders
Nancy Adajania, Domus, Page 48 – 53, May 2017

A Rising Tide: An Interview with Shilpa Gupta
Simon Maidment, NGV Triennale Catalogue, 2017

Soliloquy of an Irrational Deportee
Avijna Bhattacharya, Hakara, Edition 07, July 2017

Shadow Lines
Vandana Kalra, The Indian Express, 11 September 2017

I am always playing with the idea of the location in the work
Skye Arundhati Thomas, Studio International, 13 September 2017

I Stood There Thinking, “Is This Art?”
Shireen Gandhy, Verve, 10 July 2017

Being on the edge has worked well for me
Benita Fernando, Mid-day, 1 January 2017

Studio
Suchismita Ukil, Reader’s Digest, Page 195, September 2017



2016

Verging: Conversation between Adwait Singh & Shilpa Gupta
Adwait Singh, Take On Art Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 2, Pg 118- 121, July-December 2016

My East is your West
Sophie Knezic, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, 1 October 2016

Nominare e orientarsi: Shilpa Gupta
Luca Cerizza, www.doppiozero.com, 10 April 2016

Of Place and Crossings: My East is your West at the 56th Venice Biennale
Natasha Ginwala, My East is Your West, Catalog Essay, Pg 16-18, 2016

Frayed Geographies and Fractured Selves: Shilpa Gupta’s Untitled (2014-15)
Iftikhar Dadi, My East is Your West, Catalog Essay, Pg 70-75, 2016

Blurred Lines: Lawrence Liang in Conversation with Shilpa Gupta
Lawrence Liang , My East is Your West, Catalog Essay, Pg 124-129, 2016

Things we sketched while waiting for the fence
Naeem Mohaiemen, My East is Your West, Catalog Essay, Pg 143-144, 2016

The Iconoclast installation artist you need to know about
Jessica Miranda, Bust Magazine, 3 March 2016

Interview with Shilpa Gupta – 1
Noopur Desai, Purogami Jangarjana, Issue 9, July 2016

Interview with Shilpa Gupta – 2
Noopur Desai, Purogami Jangarjana, Issue 10, August 2016

Shilpa Gupta
Meera Menezes, Critic’s Pick, Art Forum.com, February 2016

Caught between two countries
Jaideep Deo Bhanj, The Hindu, 18 February 2016

I’m interested in perception and with how definitions get stretched or trespassed
Vandana Kalra, The Indian Express, 17 January 2016



2015

The very best of the Venice Biennale
Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys, Apollo – The International Art Magazine, 11 May 2015

Shilpa Gupta
Alessandra Alliata Nobili, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 92, March-April 2015

Finding Common Threads
Chitra Balasubramaniam, Sculpture Magazine, Vol 34, Issue 7, Cover, Pg 24-29, September 2015

Interview
Shruti Kapur Malhotra, Platform Magazine, 2015

Encountering Shilpa Gupta
Quddus Mirza, ArtNow Magazine, May 2015

Venice Biennale
Phil Miller, Herald Scotland, 10 May 2015

My East Is Your West
Domus, 9 May 2015

My East is your West: India and Pakistan at 56th Venice Biennale
Jyoti Dhar, Art Asia PAcific, 12 May 2015

East, West, Home’s Best: At China’s Pavilion, and the collaboration
between India & Pakistan

Barbara Pollack, ArtNews, 05 August 2015

Light Women Ahead
Myna Mukherjee, Mondo Arc India, Issue 3, 2015

Interview
Charu Maithani, Art Review Asia, Summer 2015

The Haggerty Museum explores ‘States of Uncertainty’
Louise Schumacher, Journal Sentinel, 3 April 2015



2014

Famous last names
Gayatri Jayaraman, India Today Magazine, 4 August 2014

A Maker of Narratives
Uma Prakash, Asian Art News, Vol 24, Issue 5, Pg 61-65, September-October 2014

Like a seesaw
Francesca Lombardi Firenze, N 31 Autumn 2014

Q&A with Shilpa Gupta On Art and Neon Interpretations
Anita Mahadevanl, Art Illustrated, Vol 1, Issue 6, Pg 38-43, April-May 2014

The fragility of fences
Moeena Halim, Sunday Mid-day, 18 May 2014

AI Art List
Art Illustrated Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 1, Pg 118-119, June- July 2014



2013

Shilpa Gupta
Deepanjana Pal, Art Varta Magazine, Issue 1, Pg 48-53, 2013

Indian Artist Highlights Absurdities of Our Time
Gayatri Rangachari Shah, International Herald Tribune, 11 June 2013

Shilpa Gupta writes Across Night Sky
Noelle Bodick, ArtsAsiaPacific Magazine Online, 22 February 2013

Interview with Shilpa Gupta
Quddus Mirza, ArtNow, ArtNow Magazine, May 2013

‘I Live Under Your SkyToo’
Sanjukta Sharma, Mint, 23 February 2013

Shilpa Gupta: Breaking through the Invisible Boundary
Gwen Kuo, Gwen Kuo’s Art blog, 19 April 2013

Shilpa Gupta
Artists and their art, First City Magazine, New Delhi, June 2013

Straight Talk
Aarti Dua, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 9 June 20133

Shilpa Gupta | I live under your sky too
Ornell D’souza, artUmbrella, 4 March 2013

Twinkle, twinkle: Shilpa Gupta’s art lights up Carter Road
Deepanjana Pal, DNA, Mumbai, 24 February 2013

Carter Rd lights up for unity
Riddhi Doshi, Live, Hindustan Times, Mumbai, 17 February 2013

Shilpa Gupta Lights Up Bandra’s Night Sky
Editors, Culture, Mumbai Boss, 18 February 2013

Shilpa Gupta | Will we ever be able to mark enough?
Stephanie Brandauer, Art and Signature, July 2013

Shilpa Gupta on Folly, Form and her Free Time.
By Varsha Reshamwala, The Fuschia Tree, Issue 21, Folly: A wise fool, March 2013

Angst lässt sich nicht einfach abwaschen
Tereza Kotyk, De Standart, 23 May 2013

Articulating everyday phenomenon: The distance of a shout
Shai Venkatraman / Creative: Amna Iqbal, The Express Tribune, 18 August 2013



2012

Shilpa Gupta in conversation with
Rob Webster, Aesthetica Magazine, 1 February 2012

Apocalypse art
Ramya Sarma, The Crest Edition, Times of India, Mumbai, 17 November 2012

Lives on the Line – Can Borders be Bridges?
Amrita Gupta Singh, Lalit Kala Contemporary Magazine, Exhibition Review, Issue 53, June 2012

Shilpa Gupta
Review in Metropolis M, Art, July 2012

Shilpa Gupta
Ronald Jones, Frieze Magazine, Issue 146, April 2012

Line of control
Zeenat Nagree, Mumbai Local, Timeout Magazine, August 2012

Shilpa Gupta
Dishina Uttamchandani, Verve Magazine, 50 Power Women, Pg 110, June 2012

Shilpa Gupta at Arnolfini
Rowan Lear, this is tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine, 18 April 2012

Indian artist steals the show in Paris
Riddhi Doshi, Hindustan Times, Think, Mosaic, 27 May 2012

Troubling Borders
Renee Baert, Shilpa Gupta: Will We Ever Be Able to Mark Enough, 2011-2012

Metallic library, books ablaze — Gupta shows art needs to be free
Deepanjana Pal, ArtBeat, The Sunday Guardian, February 15 2012

Where the books have no name
Gayatri Jayaraman, Culture, Mint, January 20 2012

Shilpa Gupta
Formally Speaking, Haifa Museum Catalogue, 2012

Not another brick in the wall
Dhamini Ratnam, Living, Mid-Day, January 29 2012

Get A Shilpa Gupta Art Work (Well, A Piece Of It) For Free
Editor, Culture, Mumbai Boss, 3 February 2012

Listen, someone else is speaking
Ramya Sarma, The Crest Edition,The Times of India, 11 February 2012

An art show on hiding identities
Riddhi Doshi, Mumbai, Hindustan Times, 21 January 2012

At home with Shilpa Gupta
Homesetc, Livingetc, Pg 118, February 2012

Someone Else
Art, Inside Outside, Pg 42 & 44, February 2012



2011

Contemporary Art In Asia
Melissa Chiu, Contemporary Art in Asia, Cover, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0262516235

How We Think, Who We Are?
Asian POINT Contemporary Art Magazine, Vol 02, Cover, Pg 61-67, 2011

Shilpa Gupta: A Cutting Edge
Leon Tan, Artetc Magazine, Feature, Vol 4 No 4, Pg 14-16, December 2011

Shilpa Gupta- Will we ever be able to mark enough?
Yaniya Lee, M-KOS, November 2011

Contested Territories: The Art of Shilpa Gupta
Avni Doshi, Art Fair Magazine, Cover, Vol 1, Issue 2, Pg 26-30, 2011

One giant step for man
Smadar Sheffi, Haaretz Guide, Pg 20, 16 September 2011

Shilpa Gupta
Shahnaz Singaporia, Platform Magazine, The Artist Powerlist 2011, Pg 49, January-February 2011

Shilpa Gupta
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, Part II: On Artists, New Museum, Pg 103-105 & Pg 254, 2011



2010

OK| Offens Kulturhaus
e-flux, ‘Half a Sky’, Solo Show, OK Center, November 2010

Crossing Borders Because There Are No Borders Between You and Me
Matt Morris, AEQAI, Review, Contemporary Arts Center, May 2010

Interview 
Amar Kanwar, Khoj Book By Collins, Pg 244-249, 2010

Shilpa Gupta
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Vol 2, Pg 846-857, 2010
ISBN: 9788881587315

Shilpa Gupta @ Blandy-les-Tours
Franck Barthelemy, Art Etc. Magazine, Vol 02 No 02, Pg 106-108, 2010

Recent Works of Shilpa Gupta, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
Ami Barak, Take On Art Magazine, Review, International Reviews, Vol 1, Issue 01,
Pg 142, New Delhi, January-March 2010

4th Auckland Triennial
Jonathan Griffin, Frieze Magazine, Pg 173, June-August 2010

Shilpa Gupta: 2,652 Steps in Jerusalem
Smadar Sheffi, Haaretz Newspaper Hebrew Newspaper, English Translation, 21 May 2010

Shilpa Gupta
Leila Hasham, Indian Highway Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, 2010

Shilpa Gupta
Nancy Adajania, India Perspectives, NGMA, 2010

Shilpa Gupta: Stained by the Abandoned Voices of History
Nancy Adajania, Take On Art Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 01, Pg 70-72, New Delhi,
January- March 2010

Playing With Senses
Shailaja Tripathi, The Hindu, Arts, Books, 5 August 2010

Like A Star
Chinmayee Manjunath, Elle, ellewomen2010, Pg 95, January 2010

Don’t just look, talk to me
Sanjukta Sharma, Live Mint Lounge, Profile, Culture L17, Saturday 2 January 2010

Shilpa Gupta
International Gallerie, Poetry in Art/ Art in Poetry, Vol 13 No 2, Pg 61, 2010

Shilpa Gupta
Mister Motley 25, Kunstenaars over angst, Pg 45, 2010

Leading Ladies. 25 Power Women Who Run The Show
Sumaiya Khan, Gunjeet Sra and Chitra Subramanyam, India Today Woman,
Cover, Pg 18, March 2010

French Connection
Prabhjot Sohal, The Indian Express, Mumbai Newsline, Pg 6, Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Taking India Places
Riddhi Doshi, DNA, After hrs, Pg 4, Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Get Back to the Drawing Board
Sharmistha Ray, The Economic Times on Sunday, Globetrotting, Mumbai, Pg 9, 24 January 2010



2009

I Support Piracy
Abhay Sardesai, Art India, Interview, Vol 8, Issue 8+6, Cover, Pg 36-38, 2008-2009

Vidya Shivdas in conversation with Shilpa Gupta
Vidya Shivadas, Art & Deal, Interview, Vol 6 No 3, Issue 29, Cover, Pg 22-28, July 2009

Shilpa Gupta
Georgina Maddox, Art & Deal, Interview, Vol 6 No 3, Issue 29, Pg 34-36, July 2009

From Bollywood to the Emergency
By Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Published by Tulika Books, Cover, Pg 50 & 99, 2009

Verve’s 50 Powerful Women 2009
Verve, People, Vol 17, Issue 6, June 2009

L’Inde Nouvelle De Shilpa Gupta
Damien Sausset, Connaissance des ARTS, Pg 48-53, January 2009

En Stemme Fra Indien
Lisbeth Bonde, Kultur, Kunst, Pg 07, 23 October 2009

While I Sleep
Le Laboratoire, www.e-flux.com, 14 February 2009

Ou l’inconscient Artistique
Fabrice Bousteau, Beaux Arts, Entretien, Pg 82-85, March 2009

Se Intet Ondt, Hor Intet Ondt, Tal Intet Ondt…
Thomas Harder, Louisiana Magasin, Abningstale, #31, 48KR, Pg 64-68, November 2009

Un Sommeil Lourd
Julie Portier, Le Journal Des Arts, 20 February-5 March 2009

Our Sleeping Mind
Natalie Hegert, Artslant Paris, 13 February 2009

Art of Democracy
Shailaja Tripathi, The Hindu (New Delhi), Pg 3, 20 March 2009

Talking about India, Pakistan and Kashmir through Art
www.jansamachar.net, Online Newspaper, 14 March 2009

An Everyday Look Behind National Headlines
Karanjeet Kaur, Mail Today (New Delhi), Pg 24, 20 March 2009

Media Messages
Avantika Bhuyan, Open Magazine, Arts, Pg 55-60, 24 April 2009

ARCO’09
El Cultural, Pg 22-23, 13 February 2009

Shilpa Gupta – Installation
E- Democratie, Panoramiques, Pg 14-15, December 2009

Shilpa Gupta
Livraison Magazine #12, Third Text, Pg 60-63, 2009

Pictures of a Global Imagination
Fatima Salim, Gulf News Supplement (U.A.E), Pg 1,13-18, 3 April 2009

Shilpa Recent Works Gupta
Johan Pijnappel, ART IT, Art It Picks, Pg 22-23, Spring 2009

Krew Nie Ma Rasy
Karolina Damagalska, Wysokie Obacasy, 2009



2008

Shilpa Gupta 
Suman Gopinath, Flash Art, Vol 41 No258, Cover, Pg 108-109, 2008

Freie Kostumwahl
Gerrit Gohlke, Artnet Magazine, Reviews, 03 July 2008

Schau Nicht Hin
Von Daniel Volzke, www.tagesspiegel.de, Kultur, 05 July 2008

Sicheres Gepack
Jennifer Allen, Tage Kunst, Pg 92, 2008

Stars and Strikes… The Imagination of an Artist
Shaheen Merali, Affair, Pg 196-221, First Edition 2008

Verve’s 50 Powerful Women 2008
Verve, People, Vol 16, Issue 6, June 2008

Artist without Artifice
Mori Journal, Mori Museum, Japan, Pg 6-9, November 2008

Shilpa Gupta 
Ana Finel Honigman, Critic’s Picks, Art Forum.com, July 2008

Bridging the Gap: the work of Shilpa Gupta 
Ann Huber-Sigwart, n. paradoxa ‘ violence’, Vol 21, Pg 16-24, 2008

Where to Draw The Line?
Nancy Adajania, Shilpa Gupta. BlindStars StarBlind, 2008

Interview
Sasha Altaf, Young Artists, Bodhi Book

Wir stehen alle in der Warteschlange 
Thea Herold, Berliner Zeitung, 24 June 2008

In ständiger Alarmbereitschaft 
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider, Taz Berlin, 26 June 08



2007

Interview with Shilpa Gupta 
Johan Pijnappel, ART IT, Vol 5 No 1, Cover, Pg 44-51, W
inter/ Spring 2007

A Shadow In Search Of A Body 
Nancy Adajania, Shilpa Gupta 02|07, Catalogue Essay, Pg 13-33
2007

Lyon Biennial 2007 – Shilpa Gupta 
Micheal O’Connell, Interface, Review, November 2007

Shilpa Gupta 
Pooja Sood, Lyon Biennial 07, Catalogue, Pg 251-252, 2007

Shilpa Gupta 
Artco, Vol 9 No 180, Pg 136-137, 2007

The Shadow on the Border 
Gayatri Sinha, ArtIndia, Vol 12, Issue 1, Pg 122-123, 2007

Blessed Bandwidths in the Times of Pogroms
Amrita Gupta Singh, ArtConcerns, Interview, April 2007

Art, Space and Public Art 
Sreejata Roy, Matters of Art, Exhibition Reviews, 2007

There is No Border Here 
Johny ML, Art Concerns, Review, Feb 2007

Shilpa Gupta 
Asian Art City, Vol 6, Pg 6-8, 2007

Deflagranti Contraddiziono 
Marco Masciaga, Ventiquattroi, Pg 174-180, 2007

Un Jaccuse dall India
Giada Tinelli, Impackt [Contenitori E Contenuti], Back Cover, Pg 76-84, 2007

Fresh Life Worlds And Operational Contexts 
Nancy Adajania, Metropolis M, Issue 6, 2007



2006

Shilpa Gupta
Gerardo Mosquera, Liverpool Biennale, Catalogue, Pg 26-29, 2006

A Note on Shilpa Gupta
Abhay Sardesai, 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, Catalogue, Pg 72-75, 2006

Shilpa Gupta
John Pijnappel, Crossing Currents Video art & Cultural Identity
Catalogue, Pg 52-56, 2006

Critics Top 100 Artists
Flash Art online.com, November-December 2006

Critics Pick: Turin: Subcontingent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Cecilia Alemani, Art Forum online, July 2006

Critique of Mediation through Art as Polycontexturality
Axel Roch, Shilpa Gupta, Catalogue Essay, Bose Pacia, Pg 23-36, 2006

Lipstick and Camouflage: The ‘Gupta Shilpa’ of Shilpa Gupta
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Shilpa Gupta, Catalogue, Bose Pacia, Pg 23-36, 2006

Shilpa Gupta
Gayatri Sinha, Contemporary Annual 2006 – 50
International Emerging Artists, Pg 62–63, January 2006

Shilpa Gupta draws attention in Sydney
Shivangi Ambani, DNA, Saturday, 15 July 2006

Reviews
AM, Art Krush, Issue 34, 2006

Estrecho Dudoso
Lisa Varghese, Catalogue, Published by Teoretica, San Jose, 2006

Shilpa Gupta – Subcontingent
Subcontinigent, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Catalogue, 2006

Materialising New Media
Anna Munster, Embodiment in Information Aesthetics, Pg 22,105,168,169-70, 2006

The Grim Reaper Offers Edible Kidneys
Abhay Sardesai, Profile, Arre!, Vol 1, Issue 1, Pg 90-92, Oct-Dec 2006

Ninth Havana Biennial
Jacob Korczynski, C Magazine, 9I, Autumn 2006], Pg 49, 2006

Shilpa Gupta
Johan Pijnappel, Sydney Biennale, Catalogue, Pg 142-143, 2006

War on Terror
Johan Pijnappel, Leonardo, Journal of the International Society of Arts,
Sciences and Technology, Vol 39, Pg 298-299&329, November 2006



2005

Holding onto her Conscience 
Abhay Sardesai, Art News Magazine of India, Vol 10, Issue 1, Quater 1 2005

Global Crossings Prize – Runner Up
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac Magazine, Published by The MIT Press, 2005

Your Kidney Supermarket
Feminist Review, Bodily Interventions, Issue 81, November 2005

How to Play the Blame Game
Farida Haryanawala, Sunday Mid day, 10 July 2005



2004

Activism through Art: Take a Ride in a Peace Taxi
Bo Wen Chan, Catch da Flava, Winter 2004 Issue

Need Kidney? Visit Kidneyvakkam
Times News Network, Jan 2004

Sweet Nothings
The Mumbai Age, January 2004

Mutrapind ani Kalecha Pind
Abhijeet Tamhane, Mumbai Times, January 2004

Sampurn Bhartachech ‘Kidneyvakkam’ hau naye mahnun
Prakakta Khosle and Anuja Chawthe, Loksatta, January 2004

Shock Value
Shweta Nair, The Asian Age, January 2004

Kidneys on Sale !
Staff Reporter, Afternoon Dispatch and Courier, January 2004

Nieren fur das Global Village
Von Sebatian Preuss, Berliner Zeitung, January 2004

Nier Fur das Global Village
Von Sebastian Preuss, Berliner Zeitung, February 2004

The Faceless Muse
Shweta Nair, The Asian Age, March 2004

Travelling Canvas
Shilpa Gupta, The Sunday Express, May 2004

The Chamber of Secrets
Georgina Maddox, The Indian Express, May 2004

In McWorld, and of it also – The ways of the postmodern activist 
Hans Varghese Mathews, Frontline, Vol 21, Issue 04, February 2004

Dharam ani Kalet Farak Ka?
Chaya Dhodas, Mumbai Times, September 2004

Mumbai
Shez Dawood, Contemporary, Issue 61, 2004

Shilpa Gupta: Default by Accident
Johan Pijnappel, Photofile, Vol 72, Spring 2004

DiamondsandYou.com
Video Art in India, Pooja Sood and Johan Pijnappel, 2004

Very New Art 2004
100 artists, 20 Curators BT, Vol 56, 2004

Historical Styles in Western Art
Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher, The Art of Seeing, 2004

The Icon and the Residue, Journeying with Rekha Rodwittiya and Shilpa Gupta
Nancy Adajania, International Gallerie, Vol 7 No 1, 2004



2003

Video Art in the Open
Jasmine Shah Varma, Mid-day, 23 April 2003

Video Art Road Show
Mid-day Metro, Bandra 25 April-1 May 2003

Cabbies give art a chance
Rebecca Caldwell, The Globe and Mail, 9 August 2003 – Pg R12

When the medium is the Mouse
Georgina Maddox, The Sunday Magazine, The Indian Express, 14 September 2003

sub Terrain: artists dig the contemporary
Geeta Kapur, body.city, September 2003

Blessed-bandwidth.net: it’s super authentic
Johan Pijnappel, Tate Online, 2003

God, Prayer and Politics: The Work of Shilpa Gupta
Heidi Reitmaier, Tate Online, 2003

Get Blessed Online
Jasmine Shah Varma, Mid-day, 25 November 2003

Love-letters from the Internet 
Ulrich Clewing, Culturebase.net, 2003



2002

Shilpa Gupta – Please Dispose After Use
Johan Pijnappel, Arts Asia Pacific, Issue 35, 2002

When the personal becomes political 
Manujula Narayan, Mid-day Metro, April 2002

Rethinking Female Experience
Nina Czegledy, N.Paradoxa, Vol 10, 2002



2001

Log for art’s future
Georgina Maddox, Express Newsline, 7 July 2001

Memories of Underdevelopment
Robert Atkins, Media Arts Editor, Media Channel.org, 2001

Century City
Chandra Sonic, Tate Online, 2001

What Art Thou?
Lindsay Pereira, Rediff Guide to the Net, July 2001

Bombay/Mumbai 1992-2001
Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Century City, Art and Culture in the Metropolis, April 2001

Shilpa Gupta: to view or not to view is the question
Jan White, Moving Image Website, 2001

Further thoughts on Curating
Geeta Kapur, The Art India, 3 October 2001

Red Letter Day
Jim Buck, Interrupt #683 17 October 2001

What’s Love to do with IT
Felicity Allen, Herald Sub, Tuesday 23 October 2001

Ideas Of Self And The Other: Jitish Kallat and Shilpa Gupta
Anupa Mehta, Asian Arts News, 2001



1999

A bit wrapped in a whole
Nancy Adajania, Bombay Times, 24 June 1999

Spectres of the Real
Geeta Kapur, The Art India, Jul-Sep, 1999



1998

Piecing it Together
Mahesh Ramchandani, Bombay Times, August 1998

Alternate Art
Ksama Rao, Mid-day, 6 August 1998

New Blood Calling
Anu Kumar, The Indian Express, August 1998

Status quo art gets a kick in the pants as cutting edge installations get under way
Meenakshi Shedde, The Sunday Times of India, 23 August 1998

Strange Metaphors 
Anu Kumar, Indian Architect & Builder, 1998