Monday - October 05, 2026
ART MUMBAI Writes
October brings with it a full roster of art shows and exhibitions from India and beyond. From ‘untimely’ Indian modernists to emerging contemporary artists, here is our curation of the exhibitions worth visiting across India and around the world.
I am within you (2020) by Dhananjay Singh. Image Courtesy of Sculpted India and Black Cube Gallery.
Between Presence and Absence
Dhananjay Singh
October 12 - 15
Travancore Palace
Presented by Sculpted India, in association with Black Cube Gallery
Artwork by V. Ramesh. Image Courtesy of Gallery Threshold.
Sacred Spaces
V. Ramesh
October 9 - 17
Bikaner House
Presented by Gallery Threshold
Artwork by Jamini Roy. Image Courtesy of Akar Prakar.
Untimely Modernists
Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore
Ongoing until October 30
Akar Prakar
After That Day (2026) by Ritika Sharma. Image Courtesy of Shrine Empire.
Kanchana Gupta, Ratna Gupta, Ritika Sharma
Ongoing until November 7
Shrine Empire
Artwork by Anupam Sud. Image Courtesy of Dhoomimal Gallery.
In the Etched Trace of Time: Six Decades of Anupam Sud
October 17 - November 9
Lalit Kala Akademi
Presented by Dhoomimal Gallery
RESIDUE
Rohit Raj Mehndiratta
Ongoing until November 14
Blueprint 12
Artwork by S H Raza. Image Courtesy of Art Alive Gallery.
A Moment in the Monumental
Various Artists
October 15 - November 15
Art Alive Gallery
Untitled (2026) by Riddhi Shah. Image Courtesy of Gallerie Nvya.
What Light Remembers
Riddhi Shah
Ongoing until 15 November
Gallerie Nvya
Untitled (1996) by Archana Shastri. Image Courtesy of Shridharani Gallery & Gallerie Splash.
Archana Shastri: The body as habitat
Ongoing until October 8
Shridharani Gallery
Presented by Gallerie Splash
The Anatomy of Wonder
Group Show
Ongoing until October 31
Anant Art
Parikrama
Ganesh Gohain
Ongoing until October 10
Archer Art Gallery
Artwork by Pinaki Ranjan Mohanty. Image Courtesy of Art Centrix Space.
Counter Poetry
Pinaki Ranjan Mohanty
Ongoing until October 31
Art Centrix Space
Continuum : 30 years retrospective
Asit Kumar Patnaik
October 14 - 18
Bikaner House
Presented by Chawla Art Gallery
The Windmills of the Earth (1991) by Rekha Rodwittiya. Image Courtesy of DAG.
Freedom to Form
Baroda Modern
Ongoing until October 24
DAG
Approach without your preoccupied knowledge by Ganesh Selvaraj. Image Courtesy of KYNKYNY.
Visual Disobedience
Yuvan Bothysathuvar, S Ravi Shankar, Saravanan Parasuraman, & Ganesh Selvaraj
Ongoing until October 17
KYNKYNY
निश्चल - 11 (2023) by Narendra Kumar Sain. Image Courtesy of Art Incept.
For the Love of It: Contemporary Expressions in Printmaking
Group Exhibition
Ongoing until October 24
Art Incept
Friends
Vivan Sundaram, Tapan Bhattacharyya
Ongoing until October 31
Akar Prakar
Thalum, Thakarayum, Ratti (2025) by Rahul Buski. Image Courtesy of Art Exposure.
Flowing Like a River Undammed
Rahul Buski
Ongoing until November 17
Art Exposure
Madras: Between Tradition and Modernity (Art from the 19th and 20th centuries)
October 8 Onwards
Ashvita’s
A Moment’s Reprieve
Pulkit Prajapati
Ongoing
079 | Stories
Tempo Manifesto
Laura Carralero
Ongoing until 10 January, 2027
Galleria Continua
Echoes of Day and Night
Qi Lei
Ongoing until October 24
Ben Brown Fine Arts
Suitcase Portraits
Mike Cloud
Ongoing until October 24
Thomas Erben Gallery
Let's Go Higher (1952) by Cossette Zeno. Image Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery.
San Juan to Paris
Cossette Zeno
Ongoing until October 30
Richard Saltoun Gallery
Blue Painting (1959) by Avinash Chandra. Image Courtesy of AINA Gallery.
Other Stories—A Genealogy for the Present
Various Artists
Ongoing until December 1
AINA Gallery
Artwork by Oliver Lee Jackson. Image Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.
Form Follows Feeling
Oliver Lee Jackson
Ongoing until November 7
Lisson Gallery
Chun Kwang Young: Aggregation | The Memory of Paper and Time
October 9 - December 5
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Amal Ghosh
October 8 - December 12
Niru Ratnam
Leaking Lines (Rhine River) (2019-2020) by Reena Saini Kallat. Image Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery.
Elsewhere is Already Here
Reena Saini Kallat
October 13 - December 19
Richard Saltoun Gallery
THE WEIGHT OF THINGS
Ruchika Wason Singh
1x1 Gallery
Ongoing until October 24
Unseen Script
Various Artists
Ongoing until October 28
Rizq Art Gallery
