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 a photography course at the New School, NY, USA (1976). He went on to receive: a Diploma from West Surrey College of Art & Design, 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.

Represented by

Hales Gallery, New York + London

Matèria Gallery, Rome

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

​Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

Current Exhibitions

Picture
I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies
Autograph
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA
10th October 2025 - 21st March, 2026


Jane Bown : Play Shadow
Newlands House Gallery
Pound Street, Petworth,
West Sussex,  GU28 0DX

1st November 2025 - 15th February, 2026

Camera and the City
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa ON K1N 9N4

11th December 2025 - 15th March, 2026

In Plain Sight: Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain
Materia Gallery
Via Tiburtina 149 
00185 Rome
4th December 2025  - 4th February 2026


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


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  • Home
  • Photography
    • Arrival
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part I
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part II
    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
    • Sun City
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Women in Love
    • Stockwell
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Love and Light
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Homelands
    • From Here to Eternity
    • Trespass 3
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 1
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Exiles
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians in Bradford
    • London 1982
    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • Friends & Lovers: Coming Out in Montréal in the 1970s
    • Social Security
  • Books
    • Tessa Boffin Ed. Sunil Gupta
    • London 1982
    • Lovers Ten Years On
    • Queer
    • Come Out
    • We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
    • From Here To Eternity
    • Christopher Street
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Pictures From Here
    • Disrupted Borders
    • Trespass 1
    • Wish You Were Here
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Sunil Gupta Monograph, Autograph,
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
  • 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