Jignesh Panchal

Jignesh Panchal (b.1981, Ahmedabad, India) studied Diploma in Drawing & Painting at CNCollege of fine arts, Ahmedabad, 2006. His works have been exhibited in solo and groupshows in India and abroad with various galleries and art fair including The 9th Supper atStrumpfe, Germany, 2012, Fragments of Imagination, Palette Art Gallery, SHE - TheDivine, Ojas Art, Desolate, Museo camera, Shifting Seasons, Palette Art Gallery, India artfair,2018, 2019 & 2020.He has been an artist-in-residence at the glogauAIR, Berlin, 2014, 2015 &2016.Jignesh’s works are built up through layers of paper and sometimes overlapped with variousdrawing mediums. He tries to represent a layering and compression of time and place withthe cultural association and an act of moving and adopting from many contrastingconditions. It also represents a new perspective emerging from his previous art practiceusing juxtaposed abstracted images of urban settings. He notches to linear dimensions andthe multiple approaches of witnessing a space/object. Making an image of an image of animage of what was there. In this way, work is distortion, testimony, and manipulation in thesame frameJignesh lives and works in Ahmedabad, India

Solo shows
- Recent works a solo exhibition at gallery Struempfe, Mannheim Germany, Dec 2016.
- Re: built an exhibition at Le Corbusier building (mill owner’s building) Ahmedabad, March 2016.
- Open studio a solo exhibition of paintings at Glogauair Berlin, Sep 2015.
- After works Bei Trockles, a solo exhibition sponsored by Karin Trockles in Berlin, Sep 2015.
- Indian vocabulary a solo exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi sponsored by Zoca, Dec 2013.
- The 9th Supper, a solo exhibition of paintings at gallery Struempfe, Mannheim ­Germany, Oct 2012.
- Urban dialogues a solo exhibition of paintings at Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Sep 2012.
- Civic clutter a solo show of paintings at Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Feb 2011.
- From surroundings a solo show of paintings at Bajaj capital art house New Delhi, Jan 2010.
- City revisited a solo show of paintings at art maestros New Delhi, Apr 2009.

Selected Group Show

- Fragments of Imagination, a group show at Palette Art Gallery New Delhi. Oct 2021
- SHE - The Divine a group show at Ojas Art ( Delhi Art Week), New Delhi Apr 2021
- DESOLATE a group show at Museo Camera center for the photographic arts, Gurugram Feb 2021
- Shifting seasons a group show a...