27/05/2026
Now on view in Pittsburgh, the 59th Carnegie International, "If the word we", features a significant presentation by Mohit Shelare. Curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park, it marks an important institutional milestone ahead of his first solo exhibition with the gallery this September. Stay tuned for more information!
If the word we | 59th Carnegie International
May 2, 2026 –January 3, 2027
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
Mohit Shelare (b. 1992, Nagpur, India) develops his work from a rethinking of impurity as a philosophical ground. His work engages waste and toxins as an emergent commons of the contemporary world and situates these materials not as excess but as constitutive of an ontological shift. Moving across drawing, performance, text, moving image, objects, and conversational settings, Shelare’s practice unfolds beyond conventional notions of environment, elaborating nonsensory modes of living that unsettle historical fictions of impurity while reconfiguring the very systems of thought through which the world is imagined.
Shelare has exhibited at Watermans, London; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; F**A, Delhi; Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland; CAMP Studio, Mumbai; and the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale, Kerala, India. He has received the Prince Claus Seed Award (Netherlands) and Inlaks Fine Art Award (India) and support from the Regional Art Assembly (Australia), Five Million Incidents (India), Generator Experimenter (Kolkata), and India Foundation for the Arts (Bengaluru). He currently teaches as visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Kurukshetra.
Pictured:
Mohit Shelare
Installation views, "If the word we", 59th Carnegie International
May 2, 2026 –January 3, 2027
Photo courtesy to the artist