The Village GalleryHauz Khas Village · est. 1989

The Gallery

A record, year by year

The Village Gallery opened in Hauz Khas Village in 1989 and has kept its exhibition record since. What follows is that record.

  1. 1989

    Dolly Narang opens The Village Gallery in Hauz Khas Village.

    M.F. Husain shows "Husain Graphis Eighty Nine" in the first year.

  2. 1990

    Satyajit Ray, "The Other Ray."

    Ganesh Pyne, "Jottings."

  3. 1991

    Paritosh Sen, "Instant Images."

  4. 1994

    First exhibition of monoprints by the women inmates of Tihar Jail.

  5. 1995

    Sunil Das, "This, Too, is Art."

  6. 1997

    Haku Shah.

  7. 2006

    Veena Bhargava, "Cities, Ideas & Icons."

  8. 2007

    M.F. Husain returns: "India in the Era of Moghals."

  9. 2013

    "Ideas in Line": Dinkar Kowshik and Ganesh Pyne, curated by Dolly Narang.

  10. 2015

    Anupam Sud.

  11. Today

    A Brush With Hope continues.

    The archive is being digitized.

    The gallery enters its next chapter.

Every exhibition

The complete exhibition record

32 exhibitions, as held in the gallery's own archive.

  1. 1989

    • Husain Graphis Eighty Nine

      M.F. Husain

    • Exhibition of Self Portraits

  2. 1990

    • Drawings

      Manu Parekh

    • The Other Ray

      Satyajit Ray

    • Jottings

      Ganesh Pyne

      Preliminary drawings for paintings.

  3. 1991

    • Instant Images

      Paritosh Sen

    • Sculpture Exploring Light, and Ink & Kerosene Drawings

      Atul Sinha

  4. 1992

    • Works on Paper

      Malati Shah

  5. 1993

    • Watercolours

      Ganesh Pyne

    • Paintings

      Maria de Schachinger

  6. 1994

    • Monoprints by Women Inmates of Tihar Jail

      The first year of the programme that became A Brush With Hope.

  7. 1995

    • Recent Paintings, Reliefs and Sculpture

      Shakti Maira

    • This, Too, is Art

      Sunil Das

  8. 1995–96

    • A Tree in My Life

  9. 1996

    • The Watercolour Show

      Kaushik Das, Sourav Jana, Bimal Poddar, Somnath Roy, Sudip Roy, Prodip Sengupta, Shantanu Shome, Jaspal Singh

      Presented with Rakesh Sahni.

    • Maya

      Gopal Sanyal

      Drawings and paintings.

    • Jottings in Mixed Media

      Ganesh Pyne

    • The Light Show

      Vanessa Hedwig Smith

    • The Spirit of Basohli

  10. 1997

    • The Watercolour Show II

      Kaushik Das, Dibyangshu Dasgupta, Sourav Jana, Uday Shankar Hazra, Bimal Poddar, Prodip Kr. Sengupta

    • Noor — Gandhi Ka Meri Nazar Mein / Gandhi Through My Eyes

      Haku Shah

      Works in mixed media.

  11. 1999

    • Escape of the Spirit — Monoprints

    • Works in Mixed Media

      Neeraj Bakshi

  12. 2004

    • Celebration of Life

      Paintings by 21 eminent artists, in collaboration with the UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme and Sahara.

  13. 2005

    • An Afternoon of Art, Wine & Cheese

      Works by prominent artists, at Citibank, Gurgaon.

  14. 2006

    • Cities, Ideas & Icons

      Veena Bhargava

      Paintings, works on paper, mixed media. New Delhi.

  15. 2007

    • India in the Era of Moghals

      M.F. Husain

      Signed limited edition graphics.

  16. 2013

    • Ideas in Line

      Dinkar Kowshik and Ganesh Pyne

      Preliminary sketches and drawings leading to complete compositions. Curated by Dolly Narang and Vijay Kowshik.

  17. 2015

    • What's Not To Like? Art: From Then and Now

      Emerging and contemporary artists.

    • Printmaking and Anupam Sud

      Anupam Sud

      Prints, to celebrate the work of Anupam Sud.

  18. Undated in the archive

    • Art by Women Inmates of Tihar Jail

      A Brush With Hope.

    • The Needle Reverence