Tushar Waghela
Visual artist and filmmaker
Born : 1975, Durg (Chhattisgarh) India
Education : 2001 Master of Arts
www.tusharwaghela.in
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518742
Tushar Waghela is a visual artist and filmmaker, specializes in contemporary art. His extensive body
of work encompasses Hindi Feature film, Video art, experimental films, Paintings and Sculptures, all
of which have been showcased in a multitude of prestigious solo/group exhibitions and film festivals
worldwide
Filmography/Video Arts
2020 धूसरित - The Grey, Hindi, Fiction, Feature film ( 90Min.) 1 hr. 30Min
2020 Sutak, Experimental, 2:24 Min
2020 Chant for a Pandemic ( collective work )
2017 Fight of Bulls, 4:20 Min. Animation
2017 See You In The Future 1 Min. Fiction
2016 Lament of Sammy‟s forest, 7 Min. Experimental
2016 Eternal love in the Phantom ages , 2 Min.
2014 The Home, 5:45 min
2013 Prisoners of Moon , Short film /Fiction , 14 Min
2012 Dandakaranya- The Jungle of punishment, Video art 2:26 Min.
2012 The Ghost Taxonomy – Video art, 5 min.
2012 Shadow of thoughts – Short film /Fiction , 29 Min.
2011 Sneh Sampada – Documentary / 44 Min.
2009 Phantom of a fertile land – Experimental 8min. Short film
Solo Shows
2020 "What Lies Beneath Is The Soul", Project Cafe, Ahmedabad, India
2008 Gallery Archana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2005 Galerie Cupillard, Grenoble, France
2002 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999 Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 Makaushal Art Gallery, Raipur
Group Shows and Screenings
2024
1. Imagine Fest, PSOI Club, New Delhi, India
2023
1. Khushi Foundation, New Delhi, India
2. Art Magnum, New Delhi, India
3. Bougainvillea art gallery, Udaipur, India
4. Cinema on the Sound, BRONX, USA
5. La Nacional, BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, New York
2022
1. ArtLoot, Charity Art Show by Khushi Foundation New Delhi, India
2. The Wrong Biennale – Diaphragm Mixing culture
3. Chitram, State Gallery of Art. Hyderabad, India
4. “Locus of Control", House of creativity, Mumbai, India
5. Fields of Vision, VAICA , India International Centre, New Delhi, India
6. Synergy, NIFT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2021
7. Shrishti Art gallery, Hyderabad, India
8. ArtLoot, Charity Art Show by Khushi Foundation New Delhi, India
9. 'The Amalgamations' Art Show by Khushi Foundation New Delhi, India
10.Transborda III, Multimedia Gallery, Alcobaca , Portugal
11.VAICA festival , Mumbai , India
2020
12. Air Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
13. Bologna in Lettere 2020 - Il Festival online ( Collective work )
14. Chant for a Pandemic( Collective work ) ,Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
15. (Collective work ) GROUNDED FILM FESTIVAL, London, United Kingdom
16. New Media Fest 2020
17. ( Collective work ) Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin, Florida, USA
18. ( Collective work ) South Bend Museum of Art - Making A Way
19. ( Collective work ) Long Distance Film Festival
20. ( Collective work ) CÁPSULA
21. Connect 2020, University of Tampa, Florida, USA
22. Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos aires, Argentina
2019
1. La Nacional, New York, BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE
2. Espacio Enter, Tererife Space of Arts, Spain
3. Firehouse Cultural Center, Florida, USA
4. Galeria FOCO/ Ethi Collective, Lisbon, Portugal
5. Union Gallery, Edinburgh , Scotland
6. Proyector 2019 , Madrid , Spain
7. New Mills Festival, England
8. CONNECT, Reeves Theatre, The University of Tampa, Florida, USA
9. Festival International de Cine del Amazonas „FICAMAZONIA‟
10. The Wrong / New digital Art Biennale - In Absentia Pavilion, Foggia, Italy
11. Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2018
1. LILY AGIUS GALLERY, Malta
2. 21st International Film Festival ZOOM Jelenia Gora, Poland
3. Centre for Contemporary Arts, GLASGOW – UK
4. BIOBIOCINE International Film Festival, Concepción, Chile
5. CASABLANCA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, French Institute of
Casablanca, Casablanca – Morocco
6. AniFestROZAFA, SHKODRA, Tirana, Albania.
7. Cannes Film Festival,(Short film Corner) France
8. KINE International Short Films Exhibition, Puebla, México
9. MISTER VORKY, 5th International Festival Ruma, Serbia
10. 11th ISLANTILLA CINEFÓRUM, Spain
11. Nazim Hikmet Art Days, Izmir Architectural Center, Turky
12. Cartón International Animation Short Film Festival, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
13. Bronx World Film Cycle, Lincoln Hospital Plaza, BRONX,
NewYork,USA
14. My History Museum, Yakutsk, Russia
15. GALERIE TOOLBOX,BERLIN, Germany
16. Mulhouse Art Contemporary, MOTOCO, France
17. Usak International Winged Seahorse Short Film Festival, Turkey
2017
1. Guayaquil International Film Festival, Ecuador 2017
2. Intermediaciones - videoartey video experimental, Colombia 2017
3. Maipu Shorts / Comedy Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017
4. Anima-São - Festival Internacional de Animação da cidade de São
Gonçalo, Brazil 2017
5. Île Courts-International short film festival, Mauritius 2017
6. Internacional CINESPACIO, Colombia 2017
7. IX International Short Film Festival of Social Thematic 2017, Spain
8. International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital
Culture,ESPACIO ENTER 2017
9. The OU Gallery Canada 2017
10. XII Sardinia Film Festival 2017, Italy
11. FICICA, International Short Film Festival Cine a la Calle. Barranquilla,
Colombia
12. 8th Salón Internacional de la Luz, Bogotá, Colombia.2017
13. The Tenerife Space of Arts, SPAIN Espacio Enter
14. International video art Festival, Camagüey, 2017
15. FILMIDEO, INDEX ART CENTER, Newark, NJ,USA, 2017
16. 12MFF International Film Festival 2017, Romania
17. 3rd International Video art and Video dance Festival Mexico,2017
18. Ultra Cinema, mexico 2017
19. International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA)2017
20. Festival CINE ANIMAL Bogotá Bogotá“s ANIMAL CINEMA Fest
21. Magmart Festival, Scugnizzo Liberato, Naples 2017
22. Videoart.Ist, Izmir, Turkey 2017
23. Strangloscope festival, Florianopolis, Brazil 2017
24. International Video Art Festival «Now&After» 2017
25. Osmosis Audiovisual Media festival, Taipei, Taiwan 2017
26. 3rd International Video art and Video dance Festival Mexico,2017
27. African Smartphone International Film Festival 2017
28. Festival Enmut, Barcelona, Spain 2017
2016
1. VI International Festival of Screen and Media Arts, Siberia
2. Khajuraho International film festival, India 2016
3. Filmingo Short Film Festival, Mumbai, India
4. Tahoe Underground Film Festival, United States
5. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
6. Hors Pistes(Off Tracks)Tokyo, Japan 2016 organized by the Centre
Pompidou, France
7. Festival International de Cine and Architecture Cinetekton!2016, Mexico
8. Night of Museums Galeria BWA Jelenia Góra, Poland
9. RIFF 2016, India
10. [.BOX] Videoart project space, Milan, Italy
11. v11.4 Experiment in cinema, New Mexico, USA
12. Japan Media Art Festival, 2016, Japan
13. 19th International Film Festival Zoom – Zblizenia, Polend
14. MIFF 2016 Mumbai International Film Festival, India
15. Velcom Smartfilm film festival, Belarus 2016
16. Ghasidas Museum, Raipur, India 2016
17. Ghasidas Museum, Raipur, India 2016
18. Jaipur art summit, 2016 India
19. Ravindra Bhavan, Jaipur, India
20. CARDINAL POINTS,Gallery Space Segur, Art Mosaic Gallery, Paris,
France
21. FusionV, Space Segur, Art Mosaic Gallery, Paris, France
2015
1. III Festival Internacional de cine de la Naturaleza y el Hombre de la
Laguna, Spain 2015
2. Pulostav, Pune 2015
3. The Third Eye Mumbai Asian Film festival 2015
4. 2ND LITTLE CINEMA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MEDIA ARTS, 2015‟
5. Festival of Creativity, ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS,Spain
6. Mutoscopio Festival de videoarte, Puebla, México
7. FIVA 05 International Festival of Video Art Argentina 2015
8. The Arlington Film Festival 2015, USA
9. Collectif Jeune Cinema - 17th Paris Festival for Different Cinema, France
2015
10. Australian Video art Festival 2015, Australia
11. Museum of Moscow, Project - Moscow art community 2015
12. Sax International Film Festival, Spain 2015
13. The Quarantine film festival, Bulgaria 2015
14. Cannes film Festival (Short film Corner 2015)
15. International Video Art Festival«Now&After» Moscow 2015
16. TENRI - Japanese Cultural Centre Cologne, Germany 2015
17. FILMIDEO,Index Art Center', New Jersey 2015
18. Urban Trail, Space Segur, Art Mosaic Gallery, Paris, France
19. India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2014
1. Cannes Short film corner 2014 (Cannes film festival 2014)
2. British Film Institute (FUTURE FILMS RAW SHORTS)2014
3. London Asian Film Festival 2014
4. Govt.V.Y.T.PG. Autonomous College, Durg, India
5. Art And Dynamic Process, Nitanjali Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2013
1. Cannes Short film corner 2013 (Cannes film festival 2013)
2. Festival Miden, Greece, 2013
3. Channels Festival : the Australian video art festival 2013
4. 5th International video art Festival, Camagüey, 2013
5. 2nd Motion International Festival Cyprus, 2013
6. 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, 2013
2012
1. Cannes Short film corner 2012 (Cannes film festival 2012)
2. FIERI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ALBANIA, 2012
3. Budapest Short film festival 2012, Hungry. section :The Best of
CologneoFF VIII - Continental Drift
4. A Virtual Memorial 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Cologne Off VIII
2012 video art festival
5. 2nd Guwahati international film festival 2012 India
6. Art Chennai, 2012 , India
7. Jaipur International Film Festival,Jaipur, India2012
8. Art Mosaic Gallery, Paris, France
2011
1. Ability Fest, Chennai, India 2011
2. Forum Images de l'Inde Centre Pompidou, Paris 2011
3. Gallerie Angel Arts, Mumbai, India
4. Looking Back to Look forward, Nitanjali Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010
1. Who Has seen Gandhi? Tangerine Art Gallery, Banglore, India
2. Harvest, Arushi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
3. Emami Cheasel art gallery Kolkata, India
4. 3Emerging Artist, Coromondel Art gallery, Pondicherry, India
2009
1. Far and Wide, Chawala Art Gallery, New Delhi
2. The Opening Show,Coromondel Art gallery, Pondicherry
3. Paris Town Hall / Hotel De Ville De, Paris, France
4. Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
5. Variations The Epicentre, Gurgaon, India
2008
1. Intensity in Diversity, Travencore art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2. Rhapsody, The Epicentre, Gurgaon, India
3. Art Singapore 2008, (Arushi Art Gallery, Mumbai), India
4. Gen Next III, Akriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
5. Harvest 2008, Arushi Art gallery, New Delhi, India
6. Indian Escapades, Sunjin Galleries, Singapore
7. Mystique India habitat centre, New Delhi, India
8. Larasati Auctioneer:Pictures of Asia fine art auction“Modern &
Contemporary art” Singapore
9. Fusion, Travancore Gallery, New Delhi, India
10. Indian Kaleidoscope, Ki Gallery (Gallery Archana), Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
11. Aspirations, The Epicentre, Gurgaon, India
12. Rainbow in the Sun, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
13. Suchitra Arts, Mumbai, India
2006
Shrishti Art gallery, Hyderabad, India
Lokayata: Mulk Raj Anand Centre , New Delhi, India
2005
Nehru Art Gallery, Bhilai, India
2003
1. Town Hall, Raipur, India
2. 12th INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNIAL VARNA 2003,
BULGARIA
2002
1. Organized by'Reflection Of Another Day'Pegsas Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2. Find Your Home Organized by Aorta Cultural Association, Germany
3. Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa, India
2001
1. Sadhana - Shanti (India Festival, Germany), Stiff Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Museum, Duisburg
2. 'Artist from Chhattisgarh',Raipur, Organized by Fine Art Society
2000
Mahakaushal Art Gallery Raipur. India
1999
1. Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
2. Artist from M.P at Moksh Art Gallery, Mumbai
3. Mahakaushal Art Gallery, Raipur
1998
Mahakaushal Art Gallery, Raipur
1997
Mahakaushal Art Gallery, Raipur
Participation
1997 Raza Award Exhibition Bhopal
1998 All India Art Exhibition Mahakausal Kala Parisad
1999 South Central Zone Art Exhibition, Nagpur
2000 South Central Zone Art Exhibition, Nagpur
2001 State workshop,Department of Culture, Chhattisgarh
2001'Madhya Pradesh Kala Prdarshani'Devlalikar Kala Vithika,Indore
200312th INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNIAL VARNA, BULGARIA
