SUNIL GUPTA
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Sunil Gupta (b. 1953 New Delhi, India) moved to Canada as a teenager in the late 1960s, studying a Bachelor of Commerce at Concordia University, Montreal before moving to New York and enrolling in photography courses with Lisette Model, Philippe Halsman and George Tice at the New School, NY, USA (1976). He went on to receive: a Diploma from West Surrey College of Art & Design, (now UCA) Farnham, Surrey, UK (1981); an MA from Royal College of Art, London, UK (1983); and a PhD from the University of Westminster, London, UK (2019) with a thesis titled "Queer Migrations." Honorary Awards include an MA from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Fellowships from the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal College of Art, and a Doctorate from the University of York.
Gupta lives and works in London. He is a Professorial Fellow in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Represented by

Hales Gallery, New York + London

Matèria Gallery, Rome

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

​Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

Picture
Untitled #22, from the series, Christopher Street, New York 1976

Current Exhibitions

Families
FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerpen
Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerp

23rd March 2026 - 23rd May, 2026

Unruly Desires - Reframing the Past
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Leamington Spa

22rd May 2026 - 6th September, 2026

Nothing as our Ground
Humboldt Forum
Schlossplatz
10178 Berlin
​28th November 2025 - 3rd August, 2026

Ten.8 Afterimage
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Gallery Square
Walsall
WS2 8LG

1st May 2026 - 13th September, 2026

An Incomplete Survey of Portraiture 
Galerie Hussenot
Paris 75003
30th April — 20th June 2026

Highlights from the Collection
Vancouver Art Gallery
till— 6th January 2030


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  • Home
  • Photography
    • Friends & Lovers: Coming Out in Montréal in the 1970s
    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • Cruising 1960s Delhi
    • London 1977
    • London 1982
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians in Bradford
    • Exiles
    • Social Security
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Trespass 1
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 3
    • From Here to Eternity
    • The Body Positive
    • Love and Light
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Homelands
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • Anonymous Self Portraits
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Women in Love
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Sun City
    • Stockwell
    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
    • Dissent and Desire
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part I
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part II
    • Arrival
  • Books
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Disrupted Borders
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
    • Trespass 1
    • Sunil Gupta Monograph
    • Pictures From Here
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Queer
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Christopher Street
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • London 1982
    • From Here To Eternity
    • We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
    • Come Out
    • Tessa Boffin Ed. Sunil Gupta
    • Tate Photography: Sunil Gupta
  • Shop
    • Limited Edition Prints
    • Books For Sale
  • Video
  • Curating
    • Stevie Bezencenet
    • Joy Gregory
    • Same Difference
    • The New Republics
    • Simryn Gill
    • Divine Facades
    • Fernando Arias
  • Newsletters
    • 2025
    • 2024 Archive
    • 2023 Archive
  • Columns
    • A Return from Exile
    • Relative Values
    • The End of Marriage
    • A Laying on of Hands
    • City of Dreams
    • Oral History
    • Pride and Prejudice
  • Press
  • About
  • Contact