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Jai Chuhan is a London-based Indian-born British artist.
Selected Awards
2023 Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice award
2020 Winner of the inaugural Manchester Open exhibition bOlder Award, one of five awards in different categories, at HOME arts centre, Manchester
2018 Arts Council England Grants for All Award for solo exhibitions by Jai Chuhan at Gallery Oldham and at HOME, for Asia Triennial Manchester
Paintings and drawings in selected public art collections
Arts Council Collection; Victoria gallery and Museum, Liverpool; Oldham Art Gallery; Tameside Museums and Art Galleries; Leicestershire Schools Collection; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Grosvenor Museum, Chester; New Hall Women’s Art Collection, University of Cambridge; Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Government Art Collection (UK); Tate Gallery.
Selected Current / Forthcoming
2025 Frieze London with Vadehra Art Gallery, London 15-19 Oct. Curated by Roshini Vadehra.
2025 Art Basel Paris with The Approach gallery, Paris 24-26 Oct. Curated by Jake Miller and Emma Robertson.
2025 Art Mumbai with Vadehra Art Gallery, Mumbai, 13-16 Nov. Curated by Roshini Vadehra and Anish Gawande.
2025-26 Repose, William Hine, London 13 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026. Curated by William Hine.
2025-26 Never Say Never Again, The Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton,
7 Nov 2025 – 10 Jan 2026. Curated by John Gillett.
2025 A Brief History of South Asian Art in Twentieth-century Britain book, by Alina Khakoo, due Sep 2025, Tate Publishing.
2026 Jai Chuhan, solo exhibition, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. Mar 2026.
Curated by Roshini Vadehra.
2026 Handpicked: Painting Flowers, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 25 Apr – 6 Sep 2026. Curated by Andrew Nairne.
2027 Many Stories, exhibition of figurative paintings by British South Asian women, Midlands Arts Centre, Jan 2027. Curated by Jai Chuhan, Jasmir Creed, Matt Price joined by Roma Piotrowska and Deborah Kermode.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Jai Chuhan, solo exhibition, The Approach, London. Curated by Jake Miller and
Emma Robertson.
2025 Dancer, solo exhibition, Harbour House, Kingsbridge, Devon. Curated by Amy Dickson and Elaine Sinclair.
2024 Jai Chuhan: Paintings, Champ Lacombe gallery, Biarritz, France.
2023 Jai Chuhan, Paris Internationale art fair, presented by Champ Lacombe gallery, France.
2023 Small Paintings, Qrystal Partners, London. Curated by Donald Ryan. Jai Chuhan: Small Paintings monograph, with texts by Hannah Marsh and Donald Ryan published by Hurtwood.
2018 Remodel: Painting Studio, HOME, Asia Triennial Manchester
2018 Refuge, Gallery Oldham, Asia Triennia Manchester
2014 Love, Imperial War Museum North, Asia Triennial Manchester
2014 Decanting Desire, St Bride’s Church, Liverpool Biennial
2013 J Chuhan: Recent Paintings, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
2011 Memories, People’s History Museum, Asia Triennial Manchester
2007 The Body Inside, New Hall, University of Cambridge
2005 Journeys, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2004-05 Parampara Portraits, Tameside Museum, Manchester. Tour: Watermans Arts Centre, London
2002 A long way from home... a painter’s journey, The Lowry, Salford
1992 Ragas, Drumcroon, Wigan
1987 J Chuhan – paintings, Commonwealth Institute, London
1987 J Chuhan, Horizon Gallery, London
1985 A Natural Sense, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Art Basel with The Approach gallery, Basel, following Jai Chuhan, solo exhibition at The Approach gallery, London 2025. Curated by Jake Miller and Emma Robertson.
2025 Air Force 2025, Lo Brutto Stahl gallery, Basel. Curated by Pablo Stahl and
Vincent Lo Brutto.
2025 In our idleness, in our dreams, group show, Niru Ratnam gallery, London.
Curated by Niru Ratnam.
2025 Summer, group exhibition, Frestonian Gallery, London. Curated by Matt Price.
2025 Domestic Flights, Frestonian Gallery, London.
2025 Auguries of Innocence, Cedric Bardawil Gallery, London. Curated by Cedric Bardawil. Catalogue text by Matthew Holman.
2024 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant for 2024 exhibition, Annely Juda gallery, London Sep 2024. Curated by Peter Doig.
2024-25 Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery touring show, featuring works by over 60 artists including Jai Chuhan, Tracey Emin, Celia Paul, Paula Rego. Arnolfini, Bristol: Mar – Jun 2024; Midlands Art Centre (MAC), Birmingham: Jun – Sep 2024; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield: Oct 2024 – Jan 2025; Dundee Contemporary Arts: Apr – Jul 2025. Curated by Hettie Judah.
2024 Standing Ground, Thameside Gallery, London, with artists including Frank Bowling.
Curated by Raksha Patel and Trevor Burgess.
2024 BRHD Grand Exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Ankara, Turkey, hosted by Birlesmis Ressmlar Ve Heykeltraslar Dernegi (United Painters and Sculptors).
2022-23 An index of being alive, Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, USA.
Curated by Paul Soto.
2022 Where is Home? Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Tour: Wolverhampton Art Gallery;
Museum of Migration, London; Leicester Museum and Gallery; Midlands Arts Centre
2022 ReContact, Baskent Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey
2021 I-Solated Contact, Art Contact Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Turkey
2020 Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2020 Liv-ing in Contrast, ArtANKARA Contemporary Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2020 Everyone’s an Artist: Manchester Open, HOME, Manchester
2019 She’s Eclectic: Women Artists of the VG&M Collection, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
2017 Right Here, Right Now: 21st-Century Art, Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2017 Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool
2016 Open, Southwark Park Gallery, London
2013 Tate Liverpool is 25, Tate Liverpool
2011 Global Echo: International Artists in Print, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. Tour: Brigham Young University, USA; Edith Cowan University, Austrlia; Kwantlen Polytechnic, Canada
2010 Modern Painters: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2008 Characters: The People Behind the Portraits, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, for Liverpool Capital of Culture
2004 See What You Can Do group exhibition, Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore
2002 Simpatico, Shanghai University, China
2001 Vernisage, Gallery 20/60 Vision, Antwerp, Belgium
2000 Synergy, Orebro Castle, Sweden
1998-99 Lines of Desire, Oldham Art Gallery. Tour: Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London, Wrexham Arts Centre; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; The City Gallery, Leicester
1998 Inside Out: works from the Arts Council Collection, East London University Art Gallery
1997 Independent Spaces, Harris Museum, Preston
1996-97 In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Self Portraits by Women Artists, Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Tour: Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; The City Gallery, Leicester
1995 Indian Winter, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
1993-94 Transition of Riches, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. Tour: Southampton City Art Gallery; Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Stirling
1993-94 Reclaiming the Madonna, Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Tour: Oriel Gallery, Mostyn; Museum of Womens Art, London; St David’s Hall, Cardiff; Christchurch Museum, Ipswich; Wolverhampton Art Gallery
1991-92 The Circular Dance, Arnolfini, Bristol. Tour: Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery;
The Minories, Colchester
1990-91 The South of the World, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy, organised by UNESCO. Tour: Palermo civic gallery
1990-91 New North, Tate Liverpool. Tour: Laing Gallery, Newcastle; Tramway, Glasgow; Orchard Gallery, Derry; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 1990 In Focus, Horizon Gallery, London
1990 In Focus, Horizon Gallery, London
1988-89 Through Imagination, Ikon Gallery Touring, Birmingham
Selected Publications
2024 Jai Chuhan: Small Paintings by Kathryn Lloyd features in The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3. Published by Anomie.
2023 Jai Chuhan: Small Paintings with texts by Donald Ryan and Hannah Marsh.
Published by Hurtwood.