Gautam Kansara

Gautam Kansara, born 1979 in London, is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Gautam's video and photographic work is part of prestigious private collections including The Burger Collection, Hong Kong, and The Shreya and Swapan Seth Collection, New Delhi. Since 2002 his work has been featured internationally in numerous exhibitions and screenings, including A nite with the Poizon Dartz, Secret Project Robot Art Experiment, Brooklyn, NY (2013); This is familiar, but I can't remember now?, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2012); Multiple, Unique, Limited: Selections from the Permanent Collection at The Center for Book Arts in New York City (2011); Don't Hurry, Don't Worry at Shrine Empire Gallery in New Delhi (2010); No Soul For Sale at X-Initiative in New York City (2009), us between us at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT (2008); Rencontres Internationales at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (2008); We Will Always Be There For You at Kunsthaus Dresden (2008); TV Dinners at LMAK Projects, New York City (2007); AIM 26 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City (2006). Gautam has been an artist-in-residence at Smack Mellon, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space, and the Center for Book Arts, all in New York City. Gautam is faculty at Manhattan College's Department of Fine Arts, and a adjunct professor at New York University's Department of Art and Art Professions.