Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta (b. 1953 New Delhi, India) has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist’s diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity – his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. In the mid-1990s, Gupta was diagnosed as HIV positive, which caused the artist’s focus to shift - although his practice had always had a level of introspection, this was brought to the fore in works using his body as subject matter. Most recently, Gupta has been developing a project centring around the topic of queer migration in Canada. He continues to forge his own cultural history, fusing the public and the personal through photographs that highlight those marginalised in society.

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