Founded in 1999, Art Musings is one of the earliest galleries to have been established in Mumbai’s vibrant and culturally rich Colaba area. Art Musings has been a trailblazer both in terms of the artists it represents and the exhibitions it has organised – both in its own space and at major venues in Mumbai including important city institutions like the NGMA, and the CSMVS museum. Art Musings has nurtured a spectrum of artistic practices, working across generations and choices of medium and vocabulary. It has presented the work of legendary Indian modernists SH Raza, MF Husain, FN Souza, KG Subramanyan, Ram Kumar and Satish Gujral, all members of the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists. The gallery has also enjoyed a long-term relationship of collegiality with stellar practitioners of distinctive approaches such as Anjolie Ela Menon, Sakti Burman, Baiju Parthan, Paresh Maity, Jayasri Burman and Nalini Malani. Other artists that the gallery represents are Nilofer Suleman, Shilo Shiv Suleman, Smriti Dixit, Gopikrishna, Maya Burman and Sheetal Mallar, their trajectories encompassing many diverse directions on the compass of contemporary art.
Landmark exhibitions of Art Musings include; ‘Zamin’, 2022, to celebrate the centenary year of Indian master SH Raza in association with the CSMVS, the Raza Foundation and the JNAF; in 2017 a retrospective of Sakti Burman at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai; and in 2019 Art Musings celebrated their 20th anniversary with an exhibition featuring works of an inter-generational ensemble of 20 artists. It is the endeavour of the gallery to take the works of the artists it represents to a global viewership and a collector base.
