​DAVID DASHARATH KALAL        
www.davidkalal.com    Tel: (347) 445 0346    [email protected]

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Hannah Arendt Quits Smoking,"  Weiss Cinema, Bard College, NY
2024 QSA Space, January 2024. London, UK 
2022 CP Prologue, Hannah Arendt ... New York, NY. Weiss Cinem, Bard College, NY
2022, HAQS, Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, Toronto CA
2022 FACE, Ubique Gallery, New York, NY.
2022 Impact 2022: Art that Bears Witness, "Stop Shooting U.S./A.fghanistan", Bethany Arts, Ossining NY.
2022 PENUMBRA​, "Melanesia" Turlock, CA.
​2021 Hybrid Subjects: David Kalal’s Diasporic Art, ALA (അല), Kerala.
2021 Inaugural Summer Salon, Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art, Brooklyn NY.
2021 “There is a crack in everything ...” NY Breeze, Bronx NY.
2021 Immersion Site, Carrie Able Gallery curated by Sam Light, Brooklyn NY.
2020/21 16th Annual Small Works Show, Juried by Anäis Duplan, Brooklyn NY.
2020 Virtual Show, The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2020 Out of Character, The LIC Arts Gallery at The Factory NY.
2020 RENEWAL, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY.
​2019 Portrait, Art Room Gallery, NY.
2019 CONstitution, Con Artist Collective, NY.
2019 Words with Artists, 119 Ludlow, NY.
2017 Miximum Ca’ CanNY The Sabotage Manuals, Interference Archive, NY.
2015 Anatole Felde, un petit drama bural, Cornelia Street, NY.
2014 Joke on a Joke, Union Docs Center for Documentary Art, NY.
2009 Signal to Noise, Canada Gallery, NY.
2008 Rather Wild Chauffeur, Allmanna Galleriet, Stockholm.
2007 Transnationalism, Activism, Art, University of Toronto.
2007 Yellow Lounge, Grand Casino, Lucerne 
2006 Never Been to Hindustan, 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY.
2006 Julia Sets (Fractal mix) with Svante Henryson, Lydmar, Stockholm
2005 Kalalabad, Avanto, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
2005 The Blend, MTV, Los Angeles.
2005 Artwallah, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles.
2004 Obskur at Kaos World, Stockholm
2002 Mummy Series at Chashama Windows, NY.
2001 TrueMyth Blue Heron Arts Center, NY. Out on a Limb Series. ”One of the ten best theatrical events of 2001.” The Advocate 
2001 Wild PoNY. Ride, Universal Builders, Red Hook NY.
2000 of, for and by(Tradition), Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. 
2000 GigoMatic, Bakhtun, NY.
1999 First Annual Video Marathon, Art in General
1999 Five Minutes to Cloud Boundary, Hunter College Gallery, NY.
1999 Voyeurism, Felix Media Arts Journal, NY.
1999 Meters 1, Salon 300, Brooklyn & Beijing
1997 National Gallery of Art, Canada. “Making Scenes”
1997 Microwave Festival, Hong Kong
1997 Rochester Film Festival, Rochester, NY. “Perversions Conversions”
1997 Frameline Festival, San Francisco
1996 New Museum of Contemporary Art, “Making Waves”, NY.
1996 Inside Out Festival, Vienna/Innsbruck
1996 Chicago Asian American Film Festival, WINNER Best Performance Video
1996 New Festival, New York
1996 Bates College. Bates, ME
1996 Knitting Factory, New York
1996 Icons and Adversaries, Munroe, NY.
1996 Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Tokyo
1996 OutFest, Los Angeles
1996 Frameline Festival, Los Angeles
1996 Desh/Pardesh, Toronto


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Issue 43, January 2024 
SW Londoner, QSA Space, January 2024
'make a u-turn, if possible' Fifth Wheel Press, 2022
Beyond Words, Queer Anthology 4th edition; 2022
​Melanesia, Penumbra: Literary and Art Journal - Spring 2022 Issue
 അല ALA Kerala Studies, Issue 39, 30th November 2021
Journal of Asian Ethnology, by Hafsa Arain, 2020
Unruly Visions, Continuum by Tulasi Johnson, 2020
Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, 2019
Pink Cheeks, Brown Tones, Manifold by Cüneyt Çakırlar, 2019  
Unruly Visions, Duke University Press by Gayatri Gopinath, 2018
Embracing Policy And Politics, World Affairs:The Journal of International Issues by Mohammed Badrul Alam, 2018 
South Asian Migration: Remittances and Beyond by Zaara Zain Hussain,2015 
Mix Collection, APA Archives Survey Project, 2015
Crafting Community: South Asian American Arts and Activism by Jaishri Abichandani, 2013
The Constructed Autobiography: Performance & Memory as a Means of Contrivance in Autobiographical Cinema by Navzad Dabu, 2009
Re-Visioning Space & Sexuality in Transnational Times by G. Gopinath, 2007 
20th Anniversary Edition of Trikone Magazine, Cover," with love," March 2006
Mika Taanila and Anton Nikkilä: Kamerakynä/The camera-pen, 2005
Desai, Jigna, Beyond Bollywood:The Cultural Politics of Diasporic Film, 2004 
Shah, Tariq and Zhong, Yhueni, Hardboiled, May 2002
Krach, Aaron “Still Fresh at 15” LGNY., November 2001
Morris, Gary “Qfilmistan” Bright Lights Film Journal, October 2001
Oishi, Eve, COUNTERVISIONS: Asian American Film Criticism, ed., Darrell Hamamoto and Sandra Liu, Temple University Press 2000
Chopra, Sunnet ‘Patience Pays’ The Indian Express, March 26 2000
​Hamamoto, Darryl ‘Coming Into Focus” NAATA 1999.
Hamamoto, Darryl ‘New Independence ...” Journal of AA Studies Volume 1, Number 2, June 1998, Johns Hopkins University Press
Bailey, Cameron ‘Hijacked Musical’ Now Toronto, July 16 1998
Sorabji, Sunita “Rich Offering – Directors Look to the Future” 
India Today, April 1997 Obehas, Achy “After Hours” Chicago Tribune, May 1996
Verjee, Zain “From Behind the Scenes” Avec Pyar, March 1996 
Morris, Gary “Making Connections” Bay Area Reporter, March 1996


OTHER:
Grant Recipient Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award for 'Hannah Arendt Quits Smoking'  Boston, MA, 2022 
Winner Genny Full Circle Award, The Generations Project, NYC 2021
Artist in Residency, Crisis Residency, Creativity in Place, Charleston, SC, 2020.
Studio Residency, Con Artist Collective - NYC Resident Artist 2019.
Curator, MIX Festival,  a screening of experimental outsider, activist and transnational film and video, interactive, performance and animation, NYC, 2018. 
Curator, In-Between-Theories, 2017-present: an online art space presenting and discussing work that is practiced through experimentation and investigation and interactivity including work from artists including Phyllis Baldino, Luba Drozd, Yvette Choy, David Mramor, Parijat Desai and Shanna R. Polley.


EDUCATION
Brown University, Providence, RI. 
B.A. Semiotics, Modern Culture and Media Studies 
Bard College: Milton Avery School for the Arts, Annandale, NY.
M.F.A. Film/Video (Digital Arts)

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