Born in 1974, brought up in Mumbai, Payal received her first Art Scholarship at the National Board Level
in 1990.
She graduated with a Diploma in Fashion Design from SNDT University, Mumbai in 1994, with several
awards for Illustration, Design and Construction.
In 1995 Payal moved to New York City to pursue a degree on scholarship, at the Parsons School of
Design. She graduated in 1999 with honors, with a BFA in Fine Arts and Illustration.
After her return in 2002, she completed a diploma at Metafora, an international workshop for Contemporary
Art in Barcelona in 2005.
In 2007, she also received Society Magazine’s Young Achievers Award in the Fine Arts category.
Her works are currently on consignment in galleries in New York, Barcelona and Mumbai and in several
private collections in the US, India, France, England, South Africa and Belgium.
2011
Parallel, Abstracts
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007
Contour Drawings: The Female Nude
The Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006
Abstracts
Aicon Gallery, New York
2004
Drawings 1998 - 2004
The Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2003
Abstracts
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001
Abstracts
Fine Arts Company, Mumbai
2011
Anniversary Show
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010
The Art of Luck: Card-o-logy II
Samsara Art, Mumbai
2010
Coming of Age
Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010
Emami Chisel Art
Kolkata
2010
Evolve
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009
1 x 1 India
The Loft at Lower Parel, Mumbai
2009
Card-o-logy I
Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008
India Art Summit,
Delhi
2008
iWitness : The Fine Art Company,
The Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007
Call of the Peacock
IMC Ladies Wing, Johannesburg
2007
Embodied
Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai
2007
Imprints
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2007
Understanding Oneness
Kitab Mahal, Mumbai
2007
Power of Peace
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006
MYRRH
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006
Art for Concern
Auction, The Taj West End, Bangalore
2006
Essence
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2006
Indian Contemporary Art at the Triangle
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2006
The Indian Art Show
The Chapel Gallery, Singapore
2006
Evam
Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2005
Untitled
Metafora, Barcelona
2005
Present Future
NGMA, Mumbai
2005
Popular Prakashan
Art Camp for book on Contemporary Art in South Asia, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Auction for The Asiatic Library
Town Hall, Mumbai
2004
Auction for PASSAGES
Organization for Breast Cancer,
The Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai
2004
The Linear Show
Habitat Centre, Delhi
2004
Auction
ONE, Organization for children with HIV, Mumbai
2003
Ideas and Images
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2003
Modernism
Aicon Gallery, New York
2003
Harmony
Nehru Center, Mumbai
2003
RPG Art Camp
Marve, Mumbai
2002
Auction
SOS Children’s Villages of India, Mumbai
2002
Auction
SAAAIDS South Asian Aids Organization, Aicon Gallery, New York
2001
Excerpts from Diary Pages
Fine Arts Company, Mumbai
2001
Auction for SAKHI
South Asian Women’s Rights Organization,
Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1999
New School for Social Research
New York