Set Free, 2025
Suchitra Mattai
Rajiv Menon Contemporary
Jaipur’s City Palace has an illustrious history: a royal residence and former administrative headquarters for the Indian region. Now, for the first time, a single gallery—Los Angeles’s Rajiv Menon Contemporary—is curating an entire show in the Palace. “Non-Residency,” a group exhibition at the Jaipur Center of Art, is based in the Palace and will explore what it means to be part of the Indian diaspora.
The presentation, which opens August 9th and runs through September 8th, marks the first time the Jaipur Centre for Art (JCA) has partnered with a single gallery on a full exhibition. It is also Rajiv Menon Contemporary’s first project in India and the first show at the palace curated by an American. Menon, who launched the Hollywood location of his gallery earlier this year, focuses on contemporary perspectives from South Asia and the diaspora.
The People Under The Sea, 2025
Sahana Ramakrishnan
Rajiv Menon Contemporary
“This collaboration is an opportunity to create an international dialogue around Indian contemporary art that isn’t tangled in the logistics of authenticity, but rather meditates on evolution and fluidity, to put forward a new understanding of our shared culture,” said founder Rajiv Menon.
Works in “Non-Residency” will examine the cultural divide between those living in the homeland and those in the diaspora. It brings together 16 artists to reflect on experiences of immigration, exile, and cultural hybridization. Some names include Artsy Vanguard 2025 alum Melissa Joseph, New York–based Baseera Khan, and Indo-Caribbean artist Suchitra Mattai. Artists Anoushka Mirchandani and Nibha Akireddy will also participate in JCA’s artist residency program. In the show, they will present new work, created in response to Jaipur’s culture and history.
What We Leave Behind, 2025
Melissa Joseph
Rajiv Menon Contemporary
“Through ‘Non-Residency’ and this collaboration with Rajiv Menon Contemporary, we are further opening Jaipur to the world, and nurturing a spirit of creative collaboration and cross-cultural exchange,” HH Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur, co-founder of JCA, said in a statement. Previous exhibitions at JCA have featured Anish Kapoor, Shilpa Gupta, and Jitish Kallat. It’s a time of rapid growth for India’s art scene, with growing collector and institutional interest in the region.
Founded in 2024 by HH Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh and Noelle Kadar, JCA aims to establish Jaipur as a global cultural hub. “We are linking the art of India’s past to its future, to demonstrate to the world the excellent work that is being made by Indian artists today, ” JCA co-founder Noelle Kadar said in a statement.
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