Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta (b. 1953, New Delhi, India) was educated at the Royal College of Art, London, England, and received a PhD from the University of Westminster. As a photographer, curator, writer and activist, Gupta has used photography as a critical practice to focus on issues such as family, race, migration, and the complexities and taboos of sexuality and homosexual life since the 1970s. Gupta’s recent show (with Charan Singh) Dissent and Desire was presented at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (2018) and his project Christopher Street 1976, published in 2018 (Stanley Barker) was presented at Hales Gallery in New York (2019). More recently, his publication Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity won the Kraszna-Krausz Photobook Award (2021).

Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta, Sunil with New York Review of Books, from the series Friends and Lovers: Coming Out in Montreal in the 1970s, 1975 (printed 2018). Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto; and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. © Sunil Gupta. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022

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