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Mario d’Souza

Based in Paris, I live between India and Paris, born in 1973.

Atelier Mario D’souza, 10 bis avenue des Gobelins, Paris 75005.

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Solo Shows

2025 Centre d’art Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
2023 Kanoria Centre for Arts, Gujarat, India
2022 Alliance Française de Trivandrum, Kerala, India
2021 Maison nationale des artistes | Fondation des artistes, Paris
2020 MABA | Fondation Rothschild, Paris
2020 Home away from Home, Chapelle Saint -Jacques, St Gaudens
2019 Home away from Home, Centre d’Art Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
2019 Home away from Home, Gallery Untilthen, Paris
2019 Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Cognac
2018 Sense of power. Slowmade creations - Carte blanche, Mobilier National, Paris
2017 If you want to hear you have to listen, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine
2017 Flow, Château d’Oiron, Oiron
2017 Care, École du Breuil, Paris
2016 Portraits from Within, Alliance Française de Delhi, New Delhi, India
2015 Nuit Blanche, Point éphémère, Paris
2014 Coding the Real, POCTB, Orléans
2012 Comfort from all sides, POCTB, La Châtre
2012 La danse, Le Château d’eau, Bourges
2007 Nuit Blanche, Paris
2006 Nuit Blanche, Paris
2004 Bits of World’s, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris
2002 Requiem, Alliance Française de Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2002 The Dream, Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris
2001 Something Big and Something Small, Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2000 The Future, MSU de Bangalore, India

Group Shows

2025 Forever Young, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2024 Les 150 ans de l’Impressionisme, cur. by Nicolas Surlapierre, Musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen
2023 Sculpture Park | Les Natures Mortes Gallery, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
2023 À mains nues, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2022 A place at the table, TAOS Gallery | Devassy Jose and Sons Warehouse, Kochi Biennale, India
2019 Salon international du dessin contemporain, Marseille
2019 Beyrouth Art Fair, Gallery Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Beyrouth, Lebanon
2016 Salon de Montrouge, Paris
2016 Drawing room, Gallery Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Montpellier
2015 Bruit Blanc, POCTB | LAC&S, Limoges
2015 Triennale de Vendôme, Manège Rochambeau, Vendôme
2014 Deux pièces meublées, Galerie Municipal, Vitry-sur-Seine
2012 Comfort from All Sides, POCTB, La Châtre
2011 An Exchange with Sol Le Witt, MASS MoCA’s Prints and Drawings Gallery, North Adams, United States
2010 L’art de refaire, cur. by Bénédicte Ramade, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris
2009 Art Projects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2004 Premier regard, cur. by Michel Nuridsany, Passage de Retz, Paris
2004 Vanitas Vanitatum, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbaï, India
2001 Sculpture Installation Construction, Alliance Française de Bangalore | Sakshi Gallery, Karnataka, India
1999 Exhibition for the graduation of MFA, MSU, Baroda, India
1998 OJUS, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, India

Commissions | Projects

2022 MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2019 Home Away from Home, Auroville Foundation | Private collection, India
2019 The Flow | Private collection, Paris
2019 The Real Blue, Fondation Martell, Cognac
2018 The set of 6 drawings, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2016 Blessing, Jain Collection, Delhi, India
2013 Intérieur/Extérieur, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2013 La danse, City collection, L’étang de Farges, Menetou-Salon
2012 Celebration of Life, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2010 Come Party with me, Menetou-Salon
2009 Confidences sous abat-jour, Communauté de communes en Terres vives, Vasselay
2009 La bouteille vivante, Public procurement, Menetou-Salon
2008 Voir autrement, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2007 Stardust, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2007 Intérieur/Extérieur, Prison de Fresnes | MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2007 Kitty Kat, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine

Artist Residency

2023 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants Foundation, Jaipur, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, India
2022 Alliance Française de Trivandrum, Kerala, India
2022 Textiles of India : Indigo as an Identity, Research, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom
2021 Drawings of Albert Durer, Research, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2021 Residency Sqwlab, Bombay, India
2020 Residency MABA, Fondation Rothschild, Paris
2020 Residency Vesta Project, New Delhi, India
2019 La petite maison, Auroville, India
2019 La petite maison, Auroville, India
2016 -2018 Résidence Mobilier National, Les Gobelins, Paris
2017 Residency Château d’Oiron, Oiron
2016 Residency Institut Français, Chennai, India
2016 Residency Windmill, Delhi, India
2015 Residency Le Point éphémère, Paris
2014 Residency Space 118 Art Foundation, Mumbaï, India
2010 Djerassi Resident Artist, UNESCO, San Francisco, United States
2008 Residency Atelier 880, DRAC, Arques-la-Bataille
2007 Residency Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux
2002 Residency Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris

Scholarship & Funding

2020 Scholarship for the project Indigo as an identity, MABA, Rothschild Foundation, Paris
2019 Scholarship for the residency in arts and crafts in India, Martell Foundation, Cognac
2018 Scholarship for a textile study of the 18th century from the Collection of the Mobilier national, Paris
2017 Funding from the French Institute for the Gopuram project
2016 Funding from the French Institute for the production of the exhibition catalog | Catalog
2016 Support for creation, Centre-Val de Loire Région
2014 Individual support for creative projects, DRAC, Centre-Val de Loire Région
2009 Support for creation, Centre-Val de Loire Région
2008 Individual support for creative projects, DRAC Ile-de-France
2005 Support for Studio Development, DRAC Ile-de-France
2003 Scholarship from la Ville de Paris for Contemporary Art
2002-2003 Grant Holder, FIACRE Fund, CNAP, Paris
2000 Scholarship from the Inlaks Foundation, India
1998-2000 Scholarship Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
1998-2000 Scholarship Jindal iron and steel for MFA studies in MSU Baroda, India
1996 Scholarship from Lalit Kala Academy, India
1990 Scholarship from Dr. Hari Rao, India

Publications

2017 If You Want to Hear, You Have to Listen, Exhibition catalogue
2016 Salon Montrouge, Exhibition catalogue
2016 Portraits from Within, Exhibition catalogue
2015 La Triennale d’art contemporain de Vendôme, Exhibition catalogue
2015 Bruit blanc, POCTB, Galerie Lavitrine, Exhibition catalogue
2014 Coding the real, POCTB, Exhibition catalogue
2014 Deux pièces meublées, Exhibition catalogue
2012 Abondance, La Danse, Exhibition catalogue
2011-2012 365 jour d’art contemporain en Région Centre
2010 Rehab - L’Art de refaire, Fondation EDF, Exhibition catalogue
2001 Something big and Something small, Art India
2001 Something big and Something small, Exhibition catalogue

Education

2001/2003 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
2000 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, M.S. University, Baroda, Gujarat, India
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India